All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 2015 // Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion deal to buy smaller health insurer Humana Inc. will face rigorous scrutiny from U.S. regulators, which antitrust experts said could also make other large-scale mergers in the sector more...
Jul 2 2015 // Ahead of December’s big and much-talked about United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21 or CMP11, it seems there’s been an information ramp up of sorts.I’m not just talking about Pope Francis’...
Jul 2 2015 // BP Plc has agreed to a preliminary deal in which it will pay a record $18.7 billion to settle claims by five Gulf states and the U.S. government for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the worst oil spill in the...
Jul 1 2015 // U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said he hopes to wrap up a trade deal with 11 other Pacific Rim nations soon and send it to the U.S. Congress for approval before the end of the year.Lawmakers last week granted the...
Jul 1 2015 // The state of Arizona has settled a lawsuit brought by a dozen families who lost loved ones when a Hotshot firefighting crew was overcome by a wildfire near the small community of Yarnell.The settlement announced by state...
Jul 1 2015 // In a major transaction, ACE Limited has agreed to acquire The Chubb Corp. for $28.3 billion in cash and stock.The two firms said the combined company will have complementary businesses, skills and distribution and greater...
Jul 1 2015 // The loss of at least 150 lives in the crash of an Indonesian cargo plane raises fresh questions about the military’s reliance on old aircraft and on spending that has prioritized the army over the air force.The...
Jun 30 2015 // MetLife asked a federal judge on Monday to force the U.S. government to hand over 500 pages of confidential records that relate to financial regulators’ decision to designate the insurance giant as systemically...
Jun 30 2015 // A judge will let federal prosecutors keep working on a criminal case over a chemical spill last year in West Virginia, shooting down arguments that prosecutors should be recused from the case because they were among the...
Jun 29 2015 // More than 1,300 damage claims were filed in a northeast Ohio court on behalf of the heirs of Akron-area rubber and auto workers who died or developed serious illnesses from exposure to asbestos.The claims in Summit County...
Jun 29 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected bids by BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. to avoid penalties under federal pollution law in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.The high court left in place a June...
Jun 29 2015 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide has updated its hurricane model for the U.S. to help insurers and reinsurers better understand and quantify the risk from hurricanes.The update features a hydrodynamic storm...
Jun 26 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the tax subsidies for health insureds across the country including those in states without their own health exchanges that use the federal health insurance exchange. The following...
Jun 26 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court may have written the most consequential words in the history of gay rights with its recognition of same-sex marriage. But those words won’t be the last.While same-sex marriage was already legal...
Jun 26 2015 // Delaware’s governor has signed into law a ban on companies adopting rules that could force investors who bring and lose certain lawsuits to pay the company’s legal costs, disappointing business groups.The U.S....
Jun 26 2015 // Maurice “Hank” Greenberg said that his partial victory in a lawsuit tied to American International Group Inc.’s bailout isn’t enough, and that he’s seeking financial damages to hold the...
Jun 26 2015 // A U.S. appeals court has ruled a decades-old pollution case over nuclear weapons production in Colorado should be sent back to the district court that in 2006 ordered companies that ran the facility to pay damages of $353...
Jun 25 2015 // Today’s Supreme Court opinion upholding current tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will not have any impact on rated U.S. not-for-profit and for-profit health insurance firms since it continues the...
Jun 25 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court said people who file housing-discrimination suits don’t have to show they were victims of intentional bias, in a blow to lenders and insurers and a surprise legal victory for the Obama...
Jun 25 2015 // Legislation vital to securing the largest U.S. trade deal in decades was passed by the Senate on Wednesday by a comfortable margin, advancing President Barack Obama’s efforts to strengthen U.S. economic ties around...