All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Sep 25 2015 // A macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs should be declared the copyright owner of the photos, rather than the nature photographer who positioned the camera, animal-rights activists contend in a novel...
Sep 25 2015 // Independent car dealerships sued Volkswagen AG in California on Thursday over losses they say they will incur following revelations that the company fitted some diesel models with software to cheat on U.S. vehicle...
Sep 25 2015 // The confession of cheating that’s embroiled Volkswagen AG in one of the biggest scandals in auto industry history came on a cool California morning, on the sidelines of an academic conference focused on green...
Sep 25 2015 // CoreLogic, a residential property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, has released an expanded version of its natural catastrophe risk management program, which features a probabilistic flood model...
Sep 24 2015 // The tropical Pacific is sending a big dollop of rain into the U.S. Southwest. While it won’t help much in drought-ridden California, it’s another step in the right direction for Arizona and New Mexico.The...
Sep 23 2015 // Across eastern Texas, parts of Louisiana and Mississippi the land went from moist to parched in a matter of weeks.Drought, which had been eradicated in Texas last spring, returned and spread across the South, reaching as...
Sep 23 2015 // The growth in Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States is outstripping that of companies in general and the fastest growth has been in Midwest states, according to a study released Sept. 21.The number of...