All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Nov 3 2014 // Property/casualty insurer trade groups won a court victory Monday when a federal judge ruled in their favor that the U.S. Fair Housing Act does not prohibit housing practices including the pricing of homeowners insurance...
Nov 3 2014 // Lawyer David Boies has a shot at an upset win in the trial of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s $25 billion bailout case against the U.S. government, a turnaround from the weak odds he was given just a month...
Nov 3 2014 // Insurance broker Marsh has named Christian Ryan, a real estate, gaming and hospitality insurance broker, as its U.S. Gaming Practice leader.Ryan joins Marsh from Willis North America where he has spent the last nine years,...
Nov 3 2014 // There’s no shortage of accountants in the United States today, and the growth of this industry is not expected to slow anytime soon.In 2013, there were 1.17 million accountants and auditors and 1.59 million...
Nov 3 2014 // Marsh, TorrentInsurance broker Marsh has agreed to acquire Torrent Technologies Inc., which serves write-your-own insurers participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Torrent’s approximately 100...
Nov 3 2014 // There were 1.3 million active licensed lawyers in the United States in 2013. —American Bar Association In 2012, the probability of a plaintiff receiving a favorable verdict in a jury trial involving an employment...
Nov 2 2014 // U.S. small businesses are dropping health insurance for their workers, as Obamacare lets them send employees to new marketplaces where they can often get subsidies from the government to buy coverage.WellPoint Inc.’s...
Nov 2 2014 // American International Group Inc. is stripping a claims adjuster in Syria from a list given to shipping-industry clients after a U.S. regulator questioned a rival about relationships in blacklisted nations.“The...
Oct 31 2014 // Michigan-based Whirlpool Corp has been found not liable by a U.S. jury in the first lawsuit to go to trial accusing the company of selling front-loading washing machines containing a design flaw that made them prone to...
Oct 31 2014 // A hurricane may lose its name, its structure and even its place on National Hurricane Center tracking maps. None of that is a guarantee the storm’s meteorological energy won’t keep making mischief.While still...
Oct 30 2014 // The owner of a Houston bus company who was charged after a 2008 crash that killed 17 passengers on their way to a religious retreat has avoided prison after a federal judge sentenced him to three years of probation in a...
Oct 30 2014 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should bear the full $2.9 billion cost of restoring wetland damage blamed on poor maintenance of the now-closed Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, Louisiana coastal restoration officials say in...