All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 6 2014 // A Georgia peanut plant linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak cut corners and sent fake lab results to customers, endangering consumers nationwide, federal prosecutors said last Friday as they opened a rare case seeking...
Aug 6 2014 // The United States spends a lot of money responding to natural disasters but comparatively little trying to limit the costs of disasters before they happen.As the costs to the government and the insurance industry mount,...
Aug 6 2014 // The U.S. Treasury Department is examining unilateral actions to curb corporate inversions, reversing its position that only Congress has the authority to stop or slow the deals.About three weeks after Secretary Jacob J....
Aug 6 2014 // The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Rockefeller Foundation are starting a $100 million project to prepare vulnerable communities for climate- caused humanitarian disasters before they happen.The...
Aug 6 2014 // The Panama Canal is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary, accompanied by warnings from insurers are warning of the increased risks that will arise from its plan to double the cargo-carrying capacity of ships...
Aug 6 2014 // Dallas, TX, 8/6/14 — U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the ninth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that the HealthcarePros division of U.S. Risk...
Aug 4 2014 // Bertha, which became the second hurricane of the 2014 Atlantic season today, made its way through the Caribbean as a weak and disorganized tropical storm this past weekend. Bertha is heading north and is expected to pass...
Aug 4 2014 // Colorado State University (CSU) researchers continue to predict a below-average hurricane season for the Atlantic basin in 2014, citing exceptionally unfavorable hurricane formation conditions in the tropical Atlantic...
Aug 4 2014 // BOULDER, CO – (August 4, 2014) – ICAT, a leading provider of property insurance to businesses and residences in hurricane and earthquake exposed regions of the United States, is pleased to announce the launch of its...
Aug 4 2014 // The latest bulletin from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, issued at 5:00 A.M. EDT, locates the center of Tropical Storm Bertha approximately 220 miles – 350 km –east of Great Abaco Island in the...
Aug 4 2014 // A Memphis, Tenn., business owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a cargo theft scheme that included a theft in West Plains, Mo.Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,...
Aug 4 2014 // The expansion of shale resource extraction encompasses several interrelated elements, including exploration risk, infrastructure project risk, and the risks associated with new or enlarged trade flows and the significant...