All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 18 2014 // The U.S. Justice Department said it will file no criminal charges following a four-year investigation into the April 2010 explosion that killed seven workers at the Tesoro Corp. refinery in Anacortes, Wash.The decision was...
Aug 18 2014 // National Australia Bank Ltd., the nation’s largest lender by assets, will set aside more than £245 million ($410 million) in its full-year result for compensation related to U.K. insurance and hedging products.The...
Aug 18 2014 // A new report this month from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) showed a downward trend for the estimated percentage of uninsured motorists (UM) across the U.S. in 2010, 2011 and 2012.In the new study, “Uninsured...
Aug 17 2014 // Insurer American International Group is ramping up its lobbying team in Washington, almost six years after it halted such efforts following its rescue by the U.S. government during the financial crisis.Many large companies...
Aug 15 2014 // Catlin Group Limited (CGL) announced that Andrew McMellin, currently CEO of the Group’s US underwriting hub, will become CEO of the London hub during the first half of 2015.The bulletin also explained that Paul...
Aug 13 2014 // Idaho farmers may feel a small sting from the new Russian ban on food and agricultural imports from the West.Russia was the 14th largest export market for Idaho agriculture as of last year, according to the Idaho...
Aug 12 2014 // Reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank was left off a list of items that the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives expects his party to take up in September, raising new questions about the bank’s...
Aug 12 2014 // XL Group announced that it is addressing “businesses’ growing interest in Trade Receivables Insurance (TRI),” with the addition of “underwriting resources with the appointments of Jennifer...
Aug 11 2014 // Alarmed by mounting cyber threats around the world and across industries, a growing number of security experts see aggressive government action as the best hope for averting disaster.Even though some experts are outraged...
Aug 11 2014 // Hurricane Julio weakened Sunday night as it neared Hawaii, where a rural swath of the Big Island was still coping with power outages and downed trees in the wake of Tropical Storm Iselle.On the island of Kauai, rescuers...
Aug 11 2014 // Jurors at the nation’s first federal criminal trial stemming from a deadly outbreak of food-borne illness are learning a disconcerting fact: America’s food safety largely depends on the honor system.Witnesses...
Aug 11 2014 // Fresh Unlimited Inc. won’t have to provide contraceptive coverage for its employees under the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law, in what may be the first exemption granted since a June U.S. Supreme...
Aug 8 2014 // A new wildfire pushed by gusting winds threatens the small Columbia River Gorge community of Rowena, Ore., where residents of 275 homes had been told to evacuate.The fire made a run along the river in the evening on Aug....
Aug 8 2014 // The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to scale back some projects designed to help prevent wildfires so that it can meet the expenses of fighting this summer’s round of fires.Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said...
Aug 8 2014 // Hawaii escaped its first hurricane strike in 22 years as Iselle was downgraded to a tropical storm just before making landfall at the Big Island.Iselle, bearing winds of 60 miles (96 kilometers) per hour, was 80 miles...
Aug 8 2014 // The Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited posted strong increases in pretax profits and net income. The Group’s report for the first half of 2014 featured the following highlights in what it described as...
Aug 7 2014 // A U.S. weather forecaster scaled down its estimate for the chances of the El Nino weather phenomenon occurring during autumn and early winter in the Northern Hemisphere to 65 percent, from an earlier estimate of 80...
Aug 7 2014 // Residents and officials in major U.S. cities know it doesn’t take a fierce storm or menacing hurricane to cause flooding as they increasingly have to deal with so-called “nuisance flooding” caused by...
Aug 7 2014 // U.S. parents often ignore warnings from their teenage children by driving while texting or under the influence of marijuana, according to a survey released today by Liberty Mutual Holding Co.Forty-two percent of teen...
Aug 7 2014 // The latest edition of Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting’s Global Catastrophe Recap report concludes that Super Typhoon Rammasun, which made separate landfalls in the Philippines and China, caused widespread...