All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 20 2016 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak has been elected by her fellow members of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) to serve as vice chair of the...
Jun 20 2016 // Death claims are the most common hospital liability claims, according to an insurance company study released after researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported that medical errors are the third...
Jun 20 2016 // A recent analysis of the workers’ compensation “opt-out” system in Oklahoma concludes that employer-run plans for injured workers may offer benefits that are equal to or better than those provided by...
Jun 20 2016 // Brightway Insurance, a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of franchised independent agencies throughout the country, has added new agency owners in North Carolina and Florida.New owners...
Jun 20 2016 // Global sales of autonomous vehicles will reach nearly 21 million vehicles by 2035, a substantial increase from previous estimates, according to a forecast from auto industry information firm IHS Automotive.Roughly 600,000...
Jun 20 2016 // Good news alert: the U.S. property/casualty insurance sector “has been dealt a good hand” and remains stable due to smart choices and a little bit of luck, Standard & Poor’s said in a new...
Jun 17 2016 // MillerCoors LLC won the dismissal of a proposed class action lawsuit by a self-described beer aficionado who said the brewing giant tricked consumers into paying premium prices for Blue Moon by falsely portraying it as...
Jun 17 2016 // California’s insurance commissioner wants the U.S. Department of Justice to block health insurer Anthem Inc.’s acquisition of Cigna Corp, saying he is concerned it will raise premiums in the state.California...
Jun 17 2016 // Video-sharing website Vimeo LLC cannot be held liable for copyright infringement for unknowingly hosting older music uploaded by its users, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday, dealing a blow to record labels seeking...
Jun 17 2016 // The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants you to believe it is looking out for the little guy in its fight against new government regulation of the retirement investment advice industry.But that is a facade – as one...
Jun 16 2016 // A federal judge said he’ll probably dismiss a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. by the widow of a man killed at a police training center in Jordan that accused the social network of knowingly allowing the Islamic State to...
Jun 16 2016 // Activist investors Carl Icahn and John Paulson are making American International Group (AIG) more transparent through their representation on its board, the U.S. insurer’s president and chief executive Peter Hancock...
Jun 16 2016 // Citigroup Inc. sued AT&T Inc. on Friday, saying the phone company’s use of “thanks” and “AT&T thanks” in a new customer loyalty program infringed its trademark rights to the phrase...
Jun 15 2016 // Pro Global Insurance Solutions plc announced that it has become the first company to file an application for a new domestic insurer in Rhode Island to facilitate insurance business transfers (IBT) under the August 2015...
Jun 14 2016 // The internet domain extension reserved for the global insurance industry— .insurance — will become available starting today, June 14, at 8 p.m. ET.The new extension means an independent agency at...
Jun 14 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court eased the way for larger damage awards when a company intentionally copies a patented invention.Voting unanimously, the justices said a key federal appeals court had placed overly rigid limits on the...
Jun 13 2016 // XL Catlin has appointed Stephen S. Oh to lead its Excess & Surplus (E&S) business. As president of XL Catlin’s multi-line E&S operation in the U.S., he will direct regional underwriting operations,...
Jun 13 2016 // Proving to jurors that FedEx Corp. is a criminal because it delivered illegal prescriptions from Internet drug stores was never going to be easy. Convincing a federal judge who questioned the “novel...
Jun 10 2016 // A week into June and two tropical storms have drenched the U.S. South. Perhaps it would be a good time to stock up on duct tape, plywood and sandbags.Unfortunately, using the first few weeks to predict the rest of the...
Jun 10 2016 // An American Olympian is searching for his 1992 gold medal after he says it was stolen by thieves who broke into his car in Atlanta.Joe Jacobi won a gold medal for the U.S. in the two-man canoe slalom event in Barcelona,...