All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 19 2015 // In early March a 30,000-pound mat of oily gunk washed up on East Grand Terre, a barrier island in the mouth of Louisiana’s Barataria Bay. It was an ugly reminder of the blowout at BP’s Macondo well, a disaster...
Apr 17 2015 // The White House would get its desired clarity of authority to negotiate a Pacific trade agreement while lawmakers would get the right to set negotiating parameters and to have a yes-or-no-vote on such pacts under a...
Apr 16 2015 // U.S. employers can reward workers with as much 30 percent of the cost of their health insurance benefits in return for participation in programs to monitor weight, cholesterol and other “wellness” measures, the...
Apr 16 2015 // General Motors Co. will not have to face dozens of lawsuits accusing it of concealing an ignition-switch defect that led to the recall of 2.6 million vehicles, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled on Wednesday.GM had argued it...
Apr 16 2015 // Duke Energy received a delay Tuesday in pleading guilty to environmental crimes after the company raised the specter that bureaucratic red tape could result in power being cut to military bases across North Carolina.U.S....
Apr 15 2015 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has signed a multi-year sponsorship with the U.S. Soccer Federation, the national governing body for soccer in the U.S.The sponsorship, which extends through 2018, designates Liberty Mutual as the...
Apr 15 2015 // Lloyd’s of London has named Richard Magrath regional director for its Western U.S. region. Magrath will be based in Los Angeles, Calif. with responsibility for market development activities in California, Oregon,...
Apr 15 2015 // When it comes to taxes, corporate America is getting a bit less corporate. And a bit less American.Fueled by a wave of inversions, a record 54 companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of leading U.S. firms...
Apr 15 2015 // Validus Reinsurance, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Validus Holdings, Ltd. has announced a number of underwriting promotions in its Bermuda office, “strengthening the capabilities and breadth of its global...
Apr 14 2015 // This year’s “Hot Markets” report for property/casualty insurance agents and brokers includes some not-so-usual suspects along with tried-and-true markets enjoying growth. Insurance Journal examined...
Apr 13 2015 // A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Arab Bank Plc’s bid to overturn a jury verdict finding it liable for knowingly supporting terrorism efforts related to a series of attacks in the Middle East.The Jordan-based bank...
Apr 13 2015 // Companies are finding a way to minimize the repercussions when their digital security is violated. Unfortunately, they’re turning to the same safeguards that protect the guitar-strumming hands of Keith Richards, the...
Apr 12 2015 // Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship was given a three-month reprieve to prepare for a criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners.The blast at the Upper Big Branch Mine...
Apr 9 2015 // Tim Grafton, chief executive of the Insurance Council of New Zealand, lives in a country surrounded by risk on all sides, and he’s unabashed in his efforts to use flooding events, frequent storms or other...
Apr 9 2015 // The Atlantic Ocean may have one of its quietest hurricane seasons in decades because of cooler water in the Atlantic and an El Nino in the Pacific, Colorado State University forecasters said.William Gray and Phil Klotzbach...
Apr 9 2015 // With more severe thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes in the forecast for portions of the central U.S. today, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) says a recent survey conducted by Harris Poll on...
Apr 9 2015 // A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday raised its forecast for the chance of El Nino conditions during the Northern Hemisphere summer to 70 percent, up from a 60 percent chance last month, with a 60 percent...
Apr 9 2015 // Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship, facing criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners, said the year before that he feared a disaster with 100 deaths.“I...
Apr 9 2015 // AXA Strategic Ventures* has made a $1 million investment in the French tech startup company Evercontact, a cloud service that extracts contact information in emails and shares and updates them automatically.With more than...
Apr 9 2015 // The federal government has the backs of insurers and their clients as they seek to protect themselves from, and adapt to, the fast-evolving threat of cyber attacks, Federal Insurance Office Director Michael McRaith assured...