All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 23 2013 // Two U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Monday to give companies another tool to fight lawsuits brought by companies that specialize in patent litigation.Their bill would broaden the power of the U.S. Patent and...
Jul 23 2013 // Canadian P&C insurer Intact Financial said it expected quarterly results would be hurt by losses from a train derailment and fiery explosion in a Quebec town and storm and flood damage in Canada’s oil capital,...
Jul 23 2013 // Folsom, CA, 07/23/13 – In an effort to gain valuable insight about their company and vendor members, CIWA has elected to revise their bylaws and allow for more associate members. “CIWA is adapting to the...
Jul 23 2013 // A federal judge in Mississippi has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Woody Allen’s 2011 film “Midnight in Paris” improperly used one of William Faulkner’s most famous lines.Faulkner Literary Rights...
Jul 22 2013 // A U.S. judge on Friday gave final approval to the settlement of a class action lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp. by plaintiffs who claimed design defects caused some of the company’s vehicles to accelerate without...
Jul 22 2013 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corp. (LWCC) promoted Angie Risley to manager of financial reporting and Shelly Vige to premium audit manager.Risley has been with LWCC since 2003 when she was hired as a senior...
Jul 22 2013 // When a veteran of CNA joined Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance to lead the new venture’s professional liability division a few weeks ago, the news did not receive the press that followed the first four recruits...
Jul 19 2013 // The state of Vermont is telling a U.S. House panel that it has every right to set up a state health insurance marketplace and require individuals and small businesses to purchase coverage through it.State officials wrote...
Jul 18 2013 // The Army Corps of Engineers is spending $1.3 million to raise about 4,000 feet of earthen levee in easternmost New Orleans that has subsided so low it wouldn’t be able to withstand a storm surge caused by a so-called...
Jul 18 2013 // Berkley Life Sciences, a global life sciences underwriter, has been accredited as a Coverholder, in conjunction with Berkley Global Underwriters, LLC, on behalf of Lloyd’s of London. As a Coverholder, Berkley Life...
Jul 18 2013 // Clive Cowdery, who earned a fortune cutting deals that consolidated the U.K. life insurance industry, is making a foray into the U.S. by buying a business from Allstate Corp. for $600 million (394 million...
Jul 18 2013 // India has extended a temporary approval to Iranian underwriters Kish P&I Club and Moallem Insurance Co for covering container and tanker vessels calling at Indian ports, in a move that should clear a backlog of...
Jul 17 2013 // BP has set up a hotline for people to report alleged fraud involving claims arising from the company’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The July 15 launch of the hotline comes a week after a federal...
Jul 17 2013 // U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said he is “stepping on the accelerator” to implement the Dodd-Frank Act and warned lawmakers against trying to change the financial rules overhaul.“Members of...
Jul 17 2013 // The United States and China have agreed to restart stalled negotiations on an investment treaty, with Beijing dropping previous efforts to protect certain sectors of its economy from the start.The agreement to resume...
Jul 17 2013 // U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be required to testify in Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s lawsuit over the bailout of American International Group Inc., Greenberg’s lawyers...
Jul 16 2013 // A federal judge is days away from deciding if New York developer Larry Silverstein can recover as much as $3.5 billion from airlines for damages to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, on top of more than $4 billion...
Jul 16 2013 // BP Plc’s $8.2 billion settlement of most private economic-damage claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is unfair and should be rejected, victims opposed to the deal told a federal appeals court.The agreement...
Jul 16 2013 // Investigators are looking into whether a fire on a Boeing Dreamliner in London last week was caused by the battery of an emergency locator transmitter built by Honeywell International Inc, according to a source familiar...
Jul 16 2013 // A surge in sports-related brain injuries among the youth is pushing U.S. health officials to call for public policy changes after similar safety efforts helped reduce head-trauma deaths from motor vehicle accidents.A 40...