All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 9 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, released the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide...
Apr 8 2015 // A federal judge in Iowa should consider the “widespread harm” done by a major 2010 salmonella outbreak and the food safety lapses that preceded it in sentencing two egg industry executives whose company was...
Apr 8 2015 // Two more insurers have received approval to test the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for their business.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved requests from USAA and American...
Apr 8 2015 // It’s again the time of year when a mix of cool air from Canada, warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico and a touch of energy off the Pacific can all wrap together to unleash storms across the U.S. Midwest and...
Apr 8 2015 // The Canadian government would like to finalize specifications for a new version of the tank cars used to transport crude oil by rail by the end of this month, Canadian Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said on Tuesday.In the...
Apr 7 2015 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. has hired John B. Daum as executive vice president for the New York City office. Daum brings with him over 35 years of experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry. He started his...
Apr 7 2015 // Uber asked a U.S. court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by an alleged rape victim in India’s capital, saying the ridesharing company could not be held legally responsible for the driver’s acts.The passenger, who...
Apr 7 2015 // Hacking attacks that destroy rather than steal data or that manipulate equipment are far more prevalent than widely believed, according to a survey of critical infrastructure organizations throughout North and South...
Apr 7 2015 // The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday called for the faster replacement of rail cars that carry flammable liquids like crude oil or ethanol, one of four urgent recommendations stemming from an investigation of...
Apr 6 2015 // Lawyers are seeking what could be millions of dollars in damages for people who worked at the Jackson County Courthouse during an asbestos removal project in the early 1980s.Attorney Lou Accurso says the employees should...
Apr 6 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked President Barack Obama’s administration to weigh in on an appeal over whether Iran’s central bank must pay $1.75 billion to relatives of American troops killed in the 1983...
Apr 6 2015 // Jim Bishop has joined Southwest Risk LP as a vice president and property broker.Bishop has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance industry with extensive knowledge of the marketplace in the central United...
Apr 6 2015 // When Google stepped into the insurance ring last month, the industry took note. Some said agents and the insurance industry should be concerned. Others said Google Compare, as the new service is named, is nothing new in...
Apr 2 2015 // As the people of New Orleans, New Jersey and New York know all too well, much of the death and damage caused by hurricanes isn’t from the wind. It’s from the storm surge.When the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season...
Apr 2 2015 // President Barack Obama signed an executive order Wednesday allowing the use of economic sanctions for the first time against perpetrators of destructive cyber-attacks and online corporate espionage.That will let the...
Apr 2 2015 // Families of those killed aboard the Germanwings flight are likely to receive vastly different payouts depending on their nationality, where they bought the ticket, and how much they earned, even though they all shared the...
Apr 1 2015 // Colorado-based natural disaster recovery specialist ICAT announced that Lloyd’s of London has granted approval of Special Purpose Syndicate 6123 to further expand ICAT’s per risk capacity.Subject to completion...
Mar 31 2015 // It was almost midnight when Walter Price eased his 18-wheeler into the right lane on Interstate 75 near Atlanta. As he began to bank onto the exit ramp he’d been taking for the past 10 years, Price had no idea he was...
Mar 30 2015 // W. R. Berkley Corp. said it has combined its U.S. broker market reinsurance units, Berkley Re America and Facultative ReSources, into a single operating unit that will trade under the Berkley Re America (BRAM) name.Berkley...
Mar 30 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a “death panel” because it...