All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 21 2014 // Honda Motor Co. wants regulators to make U.S. motorists comply with carmakers’ recall notices.Amid reports of people killed because they didn’t know their cars had a defect, an executive with the Japan-based...
Nov 21 2014 // Former Massey Energy chief Donald Blankenship pleaded not guilty to charges linked to the West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 workers in the worst U.S. coal industry disaster in almost 40 years.The former...
Nov 21 2014 // What does it take to Ebola-proof a hospital?Over the past few months, U.S. medical centers have spent millions of dollars putting together a plan to treat patients with the scary, but extremely rare disease. To a large...
Nov 20 2014 // U.S. farmers are about to reap a bumper harvest not just in corn and soybeans but also in new subsidies that could soar to $10 billion, blowing a hole in the government’s promise that its new five-year farm bill...
Nov 20 2014 // Three of the largest U.S. wholesale firms — CRC, AmWINS Brokerage, and Swett & Crawford — have launched a $25 million public directors and officers insurance program at Lloyd’s of London called the CAS...
Nov 19 2014 // The U.S. auto safety regulator has told Japanese supplier Takata Corp. and five automakers to expand nationwide a regional recall of potentially lethal air bags, increasing pressure on the industry to move faster in a...
Nov 19 2014 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says it “fought hard to overcome extraordinary fiscal constraints and operational challenges” during the 2014 fiscal year because of sequestration and the...
Nov 18 2014 // A Maryland-based environmental remediation services contractor will pay $415,000 and provide comprehensive equitable relief to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) race, gender discrimination and...
Nov 18 2014 // The U.S. government’s ability to regulate drones was upheld today by a federal safety board, which overturned a judge’s decision that aviation regulations don’t apply to small unmanned aircraft.The...
Nov 18 2014 // The former Massey Energy chief, scorned by regulators and a U.S. senator, may face three decades in prison if convicted of charges stemming from a West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 workers, the worst U.S. coal...
Nov 17 2014 // MetLife Inc.’s support for gay rights in the U.S. is drawing criticism to the insurer’s partner in Malaysia. A group in the nation called for a boycott of AMMB Holdings Bhd.’s AmBank, citing...
Nov 17 2014 // Underserved populations and market niches are ripe with potential for insurance innovators who are willing to take on the challenge of creating opportunities in areas that may seem unprofitable at first glance, says the...
Nov 17 2014 // Some 991,000 total housing starts are forecast for 2014. That’s up 6.6 percent from 930,000 units last year. – National Association of Home Builders Single-family housing production is expected to rise 26 percent...
Nov 17 2014 // With its aging infrastructure, growing population and successful bids for mega-sports events like the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, Latin America is offering the construction industry billions of dollars of opportunities...
Nov 14 2014 // Managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler, U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc., has named Keith Doan a vice president in the Dallas office of U.S. Risk Brokers Inc. Keith Doan Doan has more than 24 years of...
Nov 14 2014 // The author Michael Lewis did not libel a money manager in his 2010 best-seller “The Big Short,” a divided federal appeals court ruled on Friday.By a 2-1 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York...
Nov 14 2014 // The U.S. government has grounds to demand that American International Group Inc. pay any significant damages should Maurice “Hank” Greenberg win his $25 billion claim that federal officials shortchanged...
Nov 13 2014 // Maria Makara didn’t hesitate to insure her two new dogs. That’s because they’re family.Her previous pet, a Yorkshire terrier, died in 2013 after contracting pancreatitis and Cushing’s disease....
Nov 13 2014 // You can still shake your climate moneymaker.Climate change certainly didn’t carry the day in the November elections. It shouldn’t be news to anyone that the topic ushered in few if any victories for those who...
Nov 13 2014 // Located hundreds of miles inland from the nearest ocean, the Midwest is unaffected by North Atlantic hurricanes.Or is it? With the Nov. 30 end of the 2014 hurricane season just weeks away, a University of Iowa researcher...