All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 11 2015 // Washington is getting a new task force focused on insurance regulation.The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is launching the task force to assess the impact of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on...
Mar 10 2015 // Financial companies routinely use mandatory arbitration to block class-action lawsuits, making it difficult for consumers to win big payouts in disputes over credit cards and other products, a U.S. regulator found.When...
Mar 10 2015 // Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York.“This is huge,” Chi Chi Wu, an attorney at...
Mar 9 2015 // Ignore anyone who tells you snow is free.Every workday lost during New England’s winter has meant millions of dollars taken out of the regional economy. IHS Global Insight, an economic analysis firm, estimates...
Mar 9 2015 // When a suburban Kansas City couple bought two Clarion hotels, they systematically replaced lawfully employed workers with immigrants not authorized to work in the United States, cutting labor costs by 40 percent.Not only...
Mar 9 2015 // February storms in the U.S. are expected to cost insurers more than $1 billion, according to the latest Global Catastrophe Recap from Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting.Five separate storm systems hit the U.S. during...
Mar 9 2015 // The Oklahoma Geological Survey reported fewer than half the number of 4.0 magnitude and higher earthquakes in Oklahoma last year as the U.S. Geological Survey, according to agency records.While OGS reported six earthquakes...
Mar 9 2015 // In the Western United States there are nearly 900,000 homes representing an estimated reconstruction cost of more than $237 billion considered at “very high” or “high” risk from wildfires, a report...
Mar 9 2015 // The nonstandard auto market is characterized by substandard operating performance. Since 2007, carriers writing nonstandard auto policies have reported deteriorating operating performance and many are struggling to...
Mar 9 2015 // Those now running comparison insurance shopping websites believe that they could be helped if Google enters into the business because the giant search engine could draw more attention to buying insurance online.However,...
Mar 8 2015 // BP has abruptly switched legal strategies—again—in the multi-billion-dollar liability fight stemming from the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The company dropped a campaign to oust a settlement administrator it...
Mar 6 2015 // A second Los Angeles hospital is reporting that patients have been infected with an antibiotic-resistant “superbug” linked to a type of widely used medical scope.The latest cases came at Cedars-Sinai Medical...
Mar 6 2015 // Researchers with the Liberty Mutual Research Institute’s Center for Injury Epidemiology have concluded that individuals who work multiple jobs — approximately 14 million U.S. residents – have a greater...
Mar 6 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has released the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that...
Mar 5 2015 // Alliant Insurance Services, a nationwide specialty insurance brokerage firm, has added Charlotte Smith-Wilkes to its Construction Services Group as senior vice president/wrap-up director to lead the expansion of its...
Mar 4 2015 // The trucking industry’s overseer is giving little ground to critics who asked Congress to loosen U.S. regulations and revise a rating system designed to root out unsafe carriers.The Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
Mar 4 2015 // Mike Caputo, one of the top Democrats in the West Virginia legislature, began working in the state’s coal mines at age 19. It helped put his kids through school, he said, and helped him pay for his family home.Now...
Mar 4 2015 // Chicago’s Willis Tower, once the world’s tallest building and one of the city’s top tourist attractions, is up for sale.The owners, which include New York-based investors Joseph Chetrit and Joseph...
Mar 4 2015 // U.S. hospital companies and health insurers face the highest corporate stakes when the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday to decide the fate of Obamacare’s subsidies that help people buy health coverage.Since...
Mar 4 2015 // Crop insurance price guarantees for U.S. corn, soybeans and spring wheat in 2015 will fall 10 percent or more based on futures settlement prices for February, grain analysts said on Friday.The U.S. Department of...