All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 26 2015 // The massive Chelan wildfire in Washington poses a significant risk to roughly 634 homes with a total reconstruction cost of more than $198 million, an analysis of the ongoing fire issued Wednesday shows.The analysis by...
Aug 26 2015 // Aspen Insurance announced today that Dominick Tassone has been appointed executive vice president, Programs, for its U.S. business. Tassone’s appointment will be effective from Oct. 1, 2015 when Tom Muller, the...
Aug 26 2015 // A 38-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for mail fraud connected to an insurance commissions scam in Iowa.Brian Henton, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in...
Aug 26 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. will be able to pick up and drop off passengers at Los Angeles International Airport within weeks, after the City Council made it the largest U.S. city to permit the companies at its...
Aug 26 2015 // The Canadian-based adultery website AshleyMadison.com faces a U.S. backlash — led by the always- litigious “John Doe” — over a data breach that exposed more than 37 million formerly anonymous...
Aug 26 2015 // Hudson Insurance Co. has added Total Revenue Coverage (TRC) to Hudson Crop’s suite of private products. TRC is a supplemental insurance policy to multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) that offers farmers a single, firm,...
Aug 25 2015 // A U.S. appeals court said the Federal Trade Commission has authority to regulate corporate cyber security, and may pursue a lawsuit accusing hotel operator Wyndham Worldwide Corp. of failing to properly safeguard...
Aug 24 2015 // FedEx Corp. drivers will have to start over in a fight over their employee status in Missouri.A federal appeals court said Friday that a trial judge should have let a jury decide whether the drivers were independent...
Aug 24 2015 // This spring, traders and analysts working deep in the global swaps markets began picking up peculiar readings: Hundreds of billions of dollars of trades by U.S. banks had seemingly vanished.“We saw strange things in...
Aug 24 2015 // MetLife Inc.’s fight to free itself from a costly government label is increasingly focusing on a bold argument: The giant insurer isn’t actually a U.S. financial company.In court papers filed in Washington on...
Aug 21 2015 // Among the lessons to be learned from Hurricane Katrina are that communities and all stakeholders should prioritize flooding as the greatest risk, devote more resources to preventive measures rather than post-event disaster...
Aug 21 2015 // Post-World War II, the United States experienced a simultaneous boom of babies and buildings. To keep pace with the need for new development, homes literally could be ordered out of a Sears catalogue.The true expense of...
Aug 21 2015 // Rightscorp Inc., the company that identifies infringers to copyright holders, said in a company filing that it now has contracts covering about 208,000 copyrights.That’s more than twice the 100,000 copyrights the...
Aug 20 2015 // Allied American Underwriters, a subsidiary of USG Insurance Services Inc., announced that it acquired the renewal rights on several books of business from Jacksonville, Florida-based US Assure.The terms of the acquisition...
Aug 20 2015 // Hurricanes hold lots of secrets.Unlocking them can help forecasters predict the next steps the deadly storms will take. That, in turn, will help improve computer forecast models and give meteorologists a better...
Aug 20 2015 // Costco Wholesale Corp. was sued for selling farmed shrimp from Thailand, where slave labor and human trafficking in the fishing industry are widespread, and allegedly misleading U.S. consumers about it.A California woman...
Aug 19 2015 // Thousands of new full-time workers would spring into existence if Uber is forced to stop treating some of its drivers like contract workers, and the benefits that come with that employee status may entice part-time...
Aug 19 2015 // Janesville, Wis.-based Hufcor Inc., which manufactures operable and accordion partitions, will pay $120,000 and furnish other relief under a consent decree entered in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by...
Aug 19 2015 // Everest Re Group, Ltd. announced two leadership appointments to its U.S. Insurance Specialty Casualty Operation. Connie Germano has been appointed leader of the U.S. Specialty Casualty Operation, responsible for the...
Aug 19 2015 // A decade after Hurricane Katrina caused $41 billion in property/casualty insurance losses, the most expensive catastrophe for the global insurance industry, rising sea levels are driving up expected economic and insurance...