All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 12 2014 // As millions of cars are under recall for potentially lethal air bags, designers are trying to reduce the need for the device – using sensors, radar, cameras and lasers to prevent collisions in the first place.With...
Nov 12 2014 // Wounded U.S. veterans and family members of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq sued five European banks on Monday, seeking to hold them responsible for shootings and roadside bombings because they allegedly processed Iranian...
Nov 11 2014 // The U.S. administration on Monday dramatically cut expectations for 2015 Obamacare enrollment, saying it aims to have a total of 9.1 million people enrolled in government-backed federal and state health insurance...
Nov 11 2014 // BP Plc lost a bid to remove Patrick Juneau, the claims administrator overseeing payouts for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill, according to a New Orleans federal court ruling Monday.Juneau is in charge of the London-based...
Nov 10 2014 // General Motors Co. told a judge that claims in a $10 billion customer class-action over ignition flaws are “misleading” and should be dismissed.The 68 named plaintiffs in the group lawsuit argue that the design...
Nov 10 2014 // Republican critics of the U.S. Export-Import Bank moved on Friday to force the export lender to reveal full details of board discussions about potential deals, restarting a battle over the bank’s long-term...
Nov 9 2014 // For years, high-profile guests at New York City’s landmark Waldorf Astoria hotel could be assured their private conversations wouldn’t be overheard by anyone — except, perhaps, by U.S. spies.That may be...
Nov 7 2014 // The University of Minnesota sued the four largest wireless carriers in the United States over alleged patent infringement.Complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota contend that AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and...
Nov 7 2014 // American International Group Inc. said the company plans to close its Shared Service Center located in Alpharetta, Georgia next year. The move is expected to affect approximately 420 employees, AIG told Insurance...
Nov 6 2014 // American International Group Inc.’s former chief executive officer said regulators didn’t tell him about a potential Chinese investment before the U.S. government’s 2008 bailout of the insurer.Robert...
Nov 6 2014 // Hurricane Katrina generated more than 30,000 fraud complaints and agencies still receive complaint calls relating to the 2005 storm, according to Walter Green, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana.Green,...
Nov 6 2014 // Aspen US Insurance, part of the insurance segment of Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, unveiled a realignment of its Casualty business, shifting from a general casualty model to a specialty one.The announcement said that...
Nov 6 2014 // Munich Re, the world’s biggest reinsurer, posted third-quarter profit that missed analyst estimates as low interest rates eroded returns from its fixed- income investments.Net income rose 16 percent from the...
Nov 6 2014 // Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, released the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that...
Nov 6 2014 // Jesse Salazar III says an ignition- switch flaw in his 2008 Chevrolet HHR has depressed its value, and he wants manufacturer General Motors Co. to make it up to him. GM will argue in court filings later today that it...
Nov 6 2014 // American International Group Inc.’s bailout by the U.S. in 2008 was seen by the company’s board as its only rescue option at the time, former Chief Executive Officer Robert Willumstad testified.The...
Nov 5 2014 // The composite rate for U.S. commercial insurance was plus 1 percent in October 2014 while the composite rate for U.S. personal lines was plus 3 percent for the month, according to MarketScout’s monthly analysis of...
Nov 5 2014 // U.S. highway safety officials defended a widely used guardrail system’s crash-worthiness even as they worried whether its design had been altered in a potentially deadly way, according to internal e-mails.Starting in...
Nov 4 2014 // Honeywell International Inc. defeated the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s bid for a court order preventing it from penalizing workers who don’t participate in a corporate wellness program.After...
Nov 4 2014 // International investors are overtaking Danish pension funds and insurers as the biggest buyers of the Nordic country’s covered mortgage bonds, creating new risks for the $500 billion market.The institutional...