All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 13 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by two Shelby, Mississippi, police officers who said they were fired for refusing to ignore an alderman’s criminal activity.The ruling...
Nov 13 2014 // Monsanto Co. said on Wednesday it reached a settlement with U.S. wheat farmers who sued the seed company over market disruption after unapproved genetically engineered wheat was discovered growing without oversight in...
Nov 13 2014 // Whether Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, plaintiffs’ lawyers, or both are responsible for suppressing evidence related to asbestos claims against an EnPro Industries Inc. unit is a question to be decided Dec. 4 at a...
Nov 13 2014 // Catlin Group Limited, the Bermuda-based specialty property & casualty insurer and reinsurer, has issued its interim management statement for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2014, which shows premiums reported...
Nov 13 2014 // ING Groep NV plans to sell shares of its former U.S. insurance unit, Voya Financial Inc., reducing the bank’s stake to 19 percent from about 32.5 percent.ING, the biggest Dutch bank, is selling 34.5 million shares in...
Nov 13 2014 // Honda Motor Co said on Thursday that a driver in Malaysia died in July after being hit by shrapnel from an air bag supplied by Takata Corp – the fifth such fatality and the first outside the United States.The...
Nov 12 2014 // The world’s top 15 insurance brokers write more than 43 percent of the commercial lines property/casualty business globally, according to a new ranking by London research firm Finaccord.The same report says that the...
Nov 12 2014 // Insurers from Europe, Asia and the United States are among some 20 potential bidders in the sale by Turkey’s state-run Halkbank of its pension and insurance arms, three sources close to the process said on...
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...