All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2014 // Texas accounted for about 40 percent of the 663 workers the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said were killed nationwide in oil field-related industries between 2007 and 2012, according to a Houston Chronicle investigation...
Mar 10 2014 // For insurance companies, now is a good time to buy reinsurance. Prices are down and terms and conditions are favorable, according to Mathew Wulf, vice president, state relations and assistant general counsel, for the...
Mar 10 2014 // Many oil-by-rail shipments will slow down through urban areas and track inspections will increase on high-traffic areas in response to a string of fiery derailments in the last several months, the American Association of...
Mar 10 2014 // Safety researchers expressed concern a decade ago that traffic accidents would increase as the nation’s aging population swelled the number of older drivers on the road. Now, they say they’ve been proved...
Mar 10 2014 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has appointed Tracey Caffrey Ant as senior vice president of field sales and execution for the company’s middle market segment. She will report to David Carter, head of The...
Mar 10 2014 // Safety researchers expressed concern a decade ago that traffic accidents would increase as the nation’s aging population swelled the number of older drivers on the road. Now, they say they’ve been proved...
Mar 7 2014 // Many breaches in data security may be going unreported by American businesses.That’s according to Kirk Arthur, supervisory special agent for the U.S. Secret Service’s San Francisco field office....
Mar 7 2014 // The National Weather Service is set to start repairing 70 towering buoys used to track El Nino and La Nina patterns, whose damage has led scientists to warn the accuracy of forecasts is in danger.The Tropical Atmospheric...
Mar 7 2014 // The much-feared El Nino phenomenon, the warming of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific which can trigger drought in Southeast Asia and Australia and floods in South America, could strike the Northern Hemisphere as...
Mar 6 2014 // Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, has released its latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that...
Mar 6 2014 // Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyber attacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet.While some attackers are diehard activists, criminal gangs or nation states...
Mar 6 2014 // Closer cooperation between China and the United States, the top two greenhouse gas emitters, on combating global warming is boosting prospects for a U.N. deal meant to be agreed next year, the U.N.’s climate chief...
Mar 5 2014 // A U.S. Congresswoman from Michigan wants her state to opt out of the National Flood Insurance Program, saying it’s not good for Michigan homeowners.U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) voted against H.R. 3370,...
Mar 4 2014 // There’s a whole lot of shakin’ going on at the University of Nevada, Reno.UNR’s seismic-simulation facility became the largest in the United States and second largest in the world this week with an...
Mar 3 2014 // BP Plc must abide by terms of a $9.2 billion settlement it reached with victims of the 2010 oil spill, a federal appeals court ruled in rejecting the company’s objections that the deal is being misinterpreted by the...
Mar 3 2014 // Insurance operations contributed $5.7 billion to total operating income of $15.1 billion for Berkshire Hathaway in 2013—with an underwriting profit of $2.0 billion (after taxes) representing the 11th year in a row with...
Feb 28 2014 // Two brothers who operated a North Dakota potato farm pleaded not guilty to charges they intentionally spoiled their spud crop after the 2006 harvest in order to collect federal disaster payments.Aaron Johnson, 50, and...
Feb 28 2014 // A.M. Best has maintained the under review with negative implications status on the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a” of certain indirect...
Feb 28 2014 // Zurich Insurance Group AG’s CEO Martin Senn said an above-average dividend is no longer enough for investors and that now is the time to expand his business as the economy rebounds.“The world is a bit more...
Feb 28 2014 // A quarter-century after the U.S. Supreme Court opened the era of class action shareholder litigation, the justices may be poised to shut it down.The court will hear arguments March 5 on a Halliburton Co. appeal targeting...