All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2016 // The maker of the assault rifle used in the 2012 massacre of more than two dozen students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School was ordered to allow its executives to be questioned ahead of a trial of a lawsuit by...
Apr 20 2016 // Liberty International Underwriters, part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has appointed Robert Capicchioni to vice president of its U.S. Railroad product line.Previously, Capicchioni was underwriting manager in LIU’s...
Apr 19 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with the question of when federal contractors can be sued for defrauding the government in a case involving a 19-year-old Massachusetts woman who suffered a fatal 2009 seizure at...
Apr 19 2016 // The National Football League’s $765 million concussion settlement was found by a federal appeals court to be fair, if imperfect.The decision sets in motion the resolution of thousands of lawsuits covering more than...
Apr 18 2016 // Swiss Re Americas announced a new structure and leaders for the company’s U.S. property/casualty markets.The changes follow Bill Donnell’s departure as president of Swiss Re Americas’ U.S....
Apr 18 2016 // The European Commission has agreed to contribute €14 million ($15.8 million) so the governments of Central American countries and the Dominican Republic can access to “low cost, high quality catastrophe risk...
Apr 18 2016 // The Obama administration last Thursday unveiled new oil well control rules to prevent the kind of blowout that happened six years ago on a BP Plc rig in the Gulf of Mexico.The Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety...
Apr 18 2016 // The U.S. is less capable of managing security issues within its borders than 32 other nations, including France and Belgium, according to a new global ranking.Singapore is the most capable of maintaining domestic security...
Apr 15 2016 // Spending on medicines increased by double digits for a second year in 2015 and reached $425 billion based on invoice prices. After adjusting for rebates and other price concessions by manufacturers, net spending was $310...
Apr 15 2016 // The U.S. government is bringing together top airline and auto company executives to discuss aviation industry practices such as safety data sharing that automakers could adapt to help reduce car accidents, a leading cause...
Apr 15 2016 // Many risk professionals believe that forecasting risk will not get any easier in the next three years and emerging risks will most likely arise in the areas of cyber attacks, regulation and human resources.According to a...
Apr 14 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court got a mixed reaction from the Obama administration and religious groups to its unusual proposal to resolve a clash over employee insurance coverage for contraceptives.In a court filing Tuesday, U.S....
Apr 14 2016 // Internet-connected and driverless cars could be targets for hackers — potentially including terrorists and hostile nations — so the automotive industry must ensure vehicles have built-in cybersecurity...
Apr 14 2016 // The U.S. branch of Generali’s Global Corporate & Commercial business unit has launched a property insurance product for U.S.-based multinational corporations.GC&C is a relative new kid on the block in...
Apr 13 2016 // Despite dire predictions that the Zika virus could affect much of the United States including large cities this summer, two public health law experts warn that the country is unprepared, and the financial and moral...
Apr 13 2016 // Major carmakers want U.S. auto insurance companies to help persuade millions of American car owners to get recalled vehicles fixed.The new push comes as a U.S. House panel will hold a hearing Thursday on efforts by the...
Apr 13 2016 // Robert Benmosche, the former American International Group Inc. chief executive officer who repaid a U.S. bailout, left behind criticism for Wall Street after his death.“The commissions being charged on the auctions...
Apr 12 2016 // Led Zeppelin founders Jimmy Page and Robert Plant lost their bid to avoid a trial that may rewrite the history of rock n’ roll over song-writing credit for the 1971 classic “Stairway to Heaven.”A federal...
Apr 12 2016 // In January, BAE Systems Plc got a routine call from a new client: The health-care company’s computer systems were mysteriously crashing. BAE’s sleuths soon discovered a dangerous new strain of a virus called...
Apr 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Virginia has upheld a lower federal court in ruling that a commercial general liability policy (CGL) may cover a data breach. In a case involving the publication of private medical records on the...