All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 7 2025 // The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to halt key parts of a judge’s order requiring Alphabet’s Google to make major changes to its app store Play, as the company prepares to appeal a decision in a lawsuit...
Oct 7 2025 // CFC, with U.S. headquarters in New York City, created a new U.S.-based cyber development team and appointed leadership.John Keebler joins the business as its new national cyber development leader, USA, based in Chicago,...
Oct 7 2025 // President Donald Trump said 25% duties on medium- and heavy-duty trucks would begin Nov. 1, the latest expansion of his tariff regime aimed at protecting domestic industries.The proposal has been subject to an intense...
Oct 6 2025 // Direct written premiums saw double-digit growth for the seventh straight year for U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) insurers, according to Fitch Ratings’ latest annual property/casualty market review.Per a Fitch...
Oct 2 2025 // Neptune Insurance Holdings Inc. shares jumped 24% after the flood insurance company’s shareholders raised $368.4 million in a US initial public offering.Shares of the St. Petersburg, Florida-based firm closed at...
Oct 2 2025 // Howden US announced the appointment of Carol Murphy as head of US Casualty.Murphy will join CEO Mike Parrish’s leadership team and partner with Howden’s global specialty leaders to build a US casualty offering...
Oct 2 2025 // Specialist transactional risk insurer Icen Risk announced it is expanding to the United States to meet strong demand.London-based Icen said minority owner Zurich Insurance Group is providing $50 million of capacity,...
Oct 1 2025 // September turned out to be a slumber for hurricane watchers.For the first time in a decade, the month of September produced no hurricane landfalls in the United States. Seven of the previous eight years this occurred, no...
Oct 1 2025 // The closure of the federal government will curtail or halt some US climate disaster preparedness and environmental programs — and even potentially delay real estate transactions within the nation’s flood...
Sep 30 2025 // Hackers compromised firewall devices within the US government, according to a senior federal official, amid broader warnings of cyberattacks on widely-used devices manufactured by Cisco Systems, Inc.The US Cybersecurity...
Sep 29 2025 // Two Democratic lawmakers are pressing the Trump administration about its management of the National Flood Insurance Program after cuts at the agency that runs it, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.In a letter to...
Sep 29 2025 // Christine Palomba Howden US appointed Christine Palomba as deputy head, natural resources, Howden US, headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina. Palomba has 29 years of industry experience, most recently at Aon, where her...
Sep 29 2025 // U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would impose a 100% tariff on all foreign-made movies, an unprecedented move that threatens to upend Hollywood’s global business model.The step signals Trump’s...
Sep 29 2025 // Hurricane Humberto will likely bulldoze a path for Tropical Storm Imelda to veer away from the coastal US Southeast, sparing the region from a direct strike.Category 4 Humberto’s winds rose to 145 miles (233...
Sep 26 2025 // South Korea’s DB Insurance Co. agreed to buy US specialty insurer Fortegra Group for $1.65 billion, in what would be the biggest US acquisition by a non-life insurer from the country.The Seoul-based company will...
Sep 25 2025 // Pine Walk Capital Ltd., the specialist MGA platform and wholly owned subsidiary of The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), announced it has launched a new managing general agent, Imala Re.TFP also announced it will be opening a...
Sep 25 2025 // The U.S. Department of Energy intends to cancel more than $13 billion in funds that the Biden administration had pledged to subsidize wind, solar, batteries and electric vehicles, it said on Wednesday.It was not...
Sep 25 2025 // Howden US, headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, appointed Mark Peterson as head of its construction, infrastructure and surety practice. Peterson joins Mike Parrish’s Howden US team and works closely with...
Sep 22 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry recorded a net underwriting gain of $11.5 billion and net income of $49.1 billion for the first half of 2025, according to a new report.“The lack of any significant...
Sep 22 2025 // U.S. commercial insurance rates increased 3.8% in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest WTW Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS).WTW said the price increase has been very close to 6% over the...