All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 15 2015 // President Barack Obama’s bid to get Congress to pass stalled cybersecurity legislation is seen as having an uphill fight amid differences between Republicans and the administration over privacy safeguards and other...
Jan 14 2015 // President Barack Obama sought to rally Congress to pass stalled U.S. cybersecurity legislation, an effort that may face obstacles as tensions with key Republicans quickly began to surface.Obama announced Tuesday revised...
Jan 14 2015 // MetLife Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Kandarian, who is suing to reverse a U.S. finding that subjects the insurer to greater oversight, said his company’s performance in the financial crisis shows its ability to...
Jan 13 2015 // MetLife Inc. said it will sue in federal court as part of Chief Executive Officer Steve Kandarian’s effort to overturn a finding that the insurer is systemically important.A complaint will be filed today in...
Jan 13 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has released its Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide...
Jan 13 2015 // Allianz SE hired Zurich Insurance Group AG’s Paul Schiavone to oversee financial products in the U.S. and Canada as Europe’s largest insurer builds its commercial business in North America.Schiavone, 46, was...
Jan 12 2015 // A fire that started after an explosion on Jan. 10 at Husky Energy Inc.’s 155,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude oil refinery in Lima, Ohio, has caused extensive damage to a unit at the plant, a fire official said.No...
Jan 12 2015 // Washington state officials are seeking to redesign the state’s driver’s licenses and ID cards in order to comply with tougher federal requirements for proof of U.S. residency for government-sanctioned...
Jan 12 2015 // A report released in December 2014 by federal transportation officials shows that motor vehicle crash fatalities decreased in the United States in 2013 compared with the previous year.The report issued by the U.S....
Jan 12 2015 // A report released in December 2014 by federal transportation officials shows that motor vehicle crash fatalities decreased in the United States in 2013 compared with the previous year.The report issued by the U.S....
Jan 12 2015 // On Dec. 18, Allianz Group announced that it would sell the U.S. personal lines business of its Fireman’s Fund unit to ACE for $365 million by means of renewal rights arrangement.The merger of the personal lines...
Jan 12 2015 // All in all, 2014 was not as bad as it could have been for natural disasters in the United States. Last year closed with fewer tornadoes, a mild hurricane season, lower acreage lost to wildfires, and an overall decline in...
Jan 12 2015 // Brown & Brown, Global Benefit StrategiesFlorida-based national insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. announced that its New Jersey-based subsidiary Brown & Brown Metro Inc. has acquired certain assets of...
Jan 12 2015 // While casualty insurance rates are stable and new capacity continues to enter the market, certain classes of business continue to be difficult to place, according to Marsh’s U.S. Casualty Practice. Following are 10...
Jan 11 2015 // Private mortgage insurers in the United States may have to cut premiums to better compete with the Federal Housing Administration, which plans to reduce premiums in the government’s latest attempt to encourage...
Jan 11 2015 // BP Plc and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. narrowly failed to persuade a U.S appeals court to reconsider its 2014 ruling that they could face civil fines under federal pollution laws over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.By a...
Jan 9 2015 // The owner of a New Jersey-based insurance adjusting company was sentenced on Thursday to 32 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the N.J. Turnpike Authority (NJTA) and various insurance companies of at...
Jan 9 2015 // Giant search engine Google, which already offers auto insurance online in the United Kingdom, could soon be selling auto insurance online in the U.S.Google Compare Auto Insurance Services Inc., its online auto insurance...
Jan 9 2015 // The U.K. government is one step ahead of hackers trying to turn off the country’s lights — for now.The prospect of cyber-attacks on the nation’s power network is major threat to the country’s...
Jan 8 2015 // The nation’s coal mines set a record for the lowest number of on-the-job fatalities last year, with 16. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration reported there were two fewer deaths...