All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 24 2015 // The restaurants and doughnut shops that consumers pass on their commute would love to predict when they’ll be driving by. Their auto insurer may already know, and could be looking for a way to profit from that...
Jul 24 2015 // Anthem Inc. said on Friday it would buy Cigna Corp in a deal valued at $54.2 billion, creating the largest U.S. health insurer by membership.The deal – the biggest ever in the health insurance industry – comes...
Jul 24 2015 // Beazley plc, the first Lloyd’s of London insurer to report earnings, had a 16 percent increase in first-half profit, helped by growth in its U.S. business.Pretax profit rose to $154.5 million from $132.9 million a...
Jul 23 2015 // Dan Daniel Crawford & Company has named Dan Daniel as vice president, U.S. Property & Casualty client development. He formerly served as vice president of Catastrophe Services for U.S. Property & Casualty for...
Jul 22 2015 // Former New York Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos faces new charges he demanded illegal payments be made to his son Adam from the head of an insurance administrator seeking favorable legislation in Albany.The case stems...
Jul 22 2015 // Texas had the most catastrophe losses in the United States during the first half of 2015, according to a new report on North American cat losses during the first six months of the year.Seventeen second-quarter catastrophe...
Jul 22 2015 // Property/casualty insurers catastrophe losses in North America for the first-half of this year were down 36 percent to $8.1 billion from 2014’s total of $12.6 billion, making it the lightest catastrophe first half...
Jul 22 2015 // A three-hour shutdown of the New York Stock Exchange on the same day that a network failure halted all United Airlines flights in the U.S. had people across the country thinking one thing: cyber-attack.It wasn’t, but...
Jul 22 2015 // In its latest report Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team states: “Global natural disaster losses during the first half of 2015, from both an economic and insured loss...
Jul 20 2015 // An Arkansas water utility has expressed objection to the Justice Department’s proposed settlement with Exxon Mobil over a 2013 pipeline spill in the Mayflower neighborhood.Central Arkansas Water’s opposition to...
Jul 20 2015 // A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit by soccer players and parents seeking to force FIFA and other governing bodies to change the sport’s rules to limit the risk of concussions and other head injuries, especially for...
Jul 20 2015 // Liability costs involving food contamination are soaring, and a globalized supply chain has made risk management much more challenging.In a new report, Swiss Re says that the number of annual food recalls have nearly...
Jul 20 2015 // Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings plc, has made a series of senior appointments to its business.Hiram Marrero has been appointed national partner of Willis’s South Region. He will be responsible...
Jul 20 2015 // A cyber attack on the U.S. power grid in the Northeast would have far-reaching implications including the loss of lives, economic losses of as much as a trillion dollars, the disruption of water supplies and...
Jul 20 2015 // Alliant, Preferred ConceptsSpecialty insurance brokerage Alliant Insurance Services has expanded its managing general agent (MGA) practice through the acquisition of Preferred Concepts, an insurance program underwriter and...
Jul 20 2015 // Just a little over six months ago, ACE announced a deal to acquire the high-net-worth personal lines business of Fireman’s Fund from Allianz, competing against Chubb, which holds the leading position in the space.The...
Jul 20 2015 // Amtrak recently reached a settlement with its primary insurers in a lawsuit in which the railroad operator sought to recoup additional proceeds for Superstorm Sandy losses from its insurers, according to court documents....
Jul 17 2015 // FedEx has lost a round in employment practices litigation over whether or not its drivers are employees of the company under Kansas labor statutes.On July 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit agreed with the...
Jul 17 2015 // Benjamin Lawsky’s bank-busting reputation may have earned him his own tribute in this week’s landmark Iran nuclear agreement.Lawsky was the first superintendent of New York’s beefed-up banking and...
Jul 17 2015 // Progressive Corp., the fourth-largest U.S. auto insurer, said second-quarter profit rose 24 percent after an acquisition that pushed the company into homeowners coverage.Net income climbed to $363.3 million, or 62 cents a...