All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2015 // While forecasters haven’t ruled out a U.S. East Coast strike by the Category 4 hurricane pounding the Bahamas with heavy rains and raging surf, more projections are showing Joaquin will miss, the National Hurricane...
Oct 2 2015 // London-based Endeavour Insurance Services* has appointed David Price as divisional director to drive further growth of the company’s specialist business across its U.S. and Canadian accounts.Price’s role will...
Oct 1 2015 // U.S. energy companies said on Wednesday they were preparing for the possibility that Hurricane Joaquin could hit the New York City area early next week, potentially following the destructive course of Hurricane Sandy in...
Oct 1 2015 // The weather outlook for the eastern U.S. is starting to resemble the plot of a 1970s disaster movie in which everything that could go wrong did.From the mid-Atlantic to the Northeast, the coastal states have been soaked by...
Oct 1 2015 // Joaquin became a major hurricane as it tears toward the Bahamas and government forecasters said they can’t rule out a strike on the U.S. East Coast as early as Sunday.The 10th storm of the Atlantic season had top...
Oct 1 2015 // With a median rate index of 2.35 per $100 of payroll, Illinois has the seventh highest average workers’ comp premium rate of all U.S. states, according to the 2014 Oregon Workers’ Compensation Premium Ranking...
Sep 30 2015 // Joaquin is forecast to become a major hurricane by Saturday as it strengthens in the Atlantic, triggering hurricane warnings and watches for the Bahamas. Its course after crossing the island chain is still uncertain, the...
Sep 30 2015 // The European Union will ease capital rules it has imposed on banks and insurers since the financial crisis to help markets raise more funds for reviving sluggish economic growth.The bloc’s financial services chief,...
Sep 30 2015 // Mutual property/casualty insurers tend to underperform the property/casualty insurance industry as a whole in several areas of performance, a new report says.However, the A.M. Best report notes, the mission of a mutual...
Sep 30 2015 // Tropical Storm Joaquin jumped in strength and is forecast to become a Category 1 hurricane by Wednesday, even as computer models disagree on where it will end up.Joaquin’s top winds reached 65 miles (105 kilometers)...
Sep 30 2015 // New auto safety technologies such as automatic braking and sensors that keep a car in its lane could prevent almost 10,000 U.S. road deaths a year and save $251 billion if they were more widely available, according to a...
Sep 30 2015 // While the number of watercraft thefts continued on a downward trend in 2014, Texas remains one of the five top states in which such thefts are likely to occur.Texas ranks third for watercraft thefts, behind Florida and...
Sep 29 2015 // Forecasters are watching Tropical Storm Joaquin as it churns in the Atlantic near the Bahamas to see if it will become a threat to the U.S. East Coast later this week.Joaquin was about 385 miles (620 kilometers) northeast...
Sep 29 2015 // Privately-held insurance broker Lockton announced expanded leadership roles for Mike Hammond, Glenn Spencer and Neil Nimmo.Spencer has been named chief operating officer of Lockton Inc. and president of Lockton Companies...
Sep 28 2015 // Zurich Canada has released a new white paper on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Canada Conference in Québec City.Entitled,...
Sep 28 2015 // Volkswagen AG was accused in a lawsuit of scheming to defraud U.S. investors who paid artificially inflated prices for the company’s foreign shares while it cheated on vehicle emissions tests.In what may be the first...
Sep 28 2015 // A sanitation company at the center of a major U.S. labor board ruling that could force companies like McDonald’s Corp. to negotiate directly with franchise and contract workers has refused to bargain with workers...
Sep 28 2015 // The U.S. and China announced agreement on broad anti-hacking principles aimed at stopping the theft of corporate trade secrets though President Barack Obama pointedly said he has not ruled out invoking sanctions for...
Sep 28 2015 // Health Republic Insurance of New York, the Affordable Care Act insurer that got $265 million in U.S. loans, will stop selling policies and eventually cease operations under orders from New York and federal regulators.The...
Sep 25 2015 // Pope Francis’ two-day visit to Philadelphia this weekend, which will close the Holy Father’s six-day apostolic journey to the U.S., has a special event policy in place with W.R. Berkley Corp. and OneBeacon...