All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 6 2013 // U.S. Transportation Department regulations to ensure drivers get more rest were mostly upheld by a federal appeals court, a defeat for trucking companies that said the rules would add cost without improving highway...
Aug 5 2013 // The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) designated AIG as a Systemically Important Financial Institution (SIFI) after determining that “material financial distress at AIG could pose a threat to U.S....
Aug 5 2013 // The settlement BP Plc reached last year with most private parties over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill could be scuttled if a U.S. appeals court doesn’t throw out the interpretation of payments being used by the...
Aug 5 2013 // Former Oklahoma Insurance Agent SentencedA former Bixby, Okla., insurance agent has been sentenced to 10 months home confinement after pleading guilty to wire fraud that allowed him to illegally take commissions earned by...
Aug 2 2013 // American International Group Inc. announced its first capital return since its 2008 bailout, through a dividend and share buyback, sending its shares up 6 percent after the bell.The insurer, which was almost wiped out by...
Aug 1 2013 // A lawsuit by 11 states and a Texas bank challenging the Dodd-Frank law’s financial regulation overhaul was dismissed by a federal judge.U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in Washington Thursday ruled that the...
Aug 1 2013 // Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor Aon Benfield, has issued it latest report – The Insurance-Linked Securities Second Quarter 2013 Update...
Aug 1 2013 // The detention by Chinese authorities of a British corporate investigator and his American wife in the wake of a corruption probe into pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has had a chilling effect on other risk consultants...
Jul 31 2013 // Insurance rates in most major regions including Latin America, Asia-Pacific, the UK and continental Europe declined modestly in the second quarter of 2013, while rates in the U.S. rose moderately, according to insurance...
Jul 31 2013 // Florida and Georgia, two states where politicians oppose U.S. President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, said this week that insurance rates for individuals would rise sharply in 2014 under the reform.The remarks are...
Jul 31 2013 // The Obama administration has delayed by nearly a year a plan to boost safety standards for the type of rail car involved in a fiery explosion that killed at least 47 people in Canada this month.Officials began work on the...
Jul 31 2013 // Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz vehicles were the most sought-after luxury brand among U.S. car thieves from 2009 through 2012 as the New York City region had the greatest number of thefts, an insurance industry group...
Jul 31 2013 // U.S. fuel logistics company World Fuel Services Corp said on Tuesday it has “serious objections” to being ordered by the Quebec government to help pay for the cleanup of the devastating railway crash in...
Jul 31 2013 // Toronto-Dominion Bank, Canada’s second-largest lender, said it will take a third-quarter charge after tax of C$418 million (US$406 million) due to recent severe weather in Alberta and Ontario and to boost its...
Jul 31 2013 // Sustained high prices for corn, soybeans and wheat combined with record U.S. crop-insurance payouts are encouraging farmers to plow fragile lands and put ecosystems at risk, an environmental advocacy group said.Northern...
Jul 30 2013 // Flood maps aren’t due out for Alabama until next December, but the specter of rising flood insurance premiums is undeniable.Congress, seeking to undo the damage done to the National Flood Insurance Program after...
Jul 29 2013 // A U.S. judge said Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be required to testify in the lawsuit by the former chief of American International Group Inc., Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, against the United States...
Jul 29 2013 // Victims in Tennessee of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak won the right to pursue a new avenue of litigation against healthcare facilities and doctors there, after a ruling by a U.S. bankruptcy judge this week.Tennessee...
Jul 29 2013 // P Plc appeared to gain an edge in the battle over liability for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill on Friday, after Halliburton abandoned one of its arguments that tried to paint the British oil company as unconcerned about...
Jul 28 2013 // A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected a Pennsylvania cabinet maker’s religion-based challenge to the 2010 healthcare law’s requirement that larger companies provide workers with health insurance...