All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 23 2013 // The U.S. Senate has approved a bill that includes funding aimed at improving Topeka’s levee system along the Kansas River.The bill approved in the Senate would provide about $15.7 million in federal matching funds...
May 23 2013 // U.S. bankers and insurers are trying to use trade deals, which can trump existing legislation, to weaken parts of the Dodd-Frank Act designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.While the companies say they...
May 23 2013 // A group of U.S. accounting professors is backing BP’s fight to rein in compensation it has to pay for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which is threatening to add billions of dollars to its growing bill for the...
May 23 2013 // The Moore, Oklahoma tornado, which killed 24 people, was the deadliest to touch down during a nearly weeklong outbreak across the U.S. Midwest. The states hardest hit have been Kansas, Missouri, Texas and Oklahoma,...
May 23 2013 // “A large solar storm could leave tens of millions of people in North America without electrical power for several months, if not years, potentially costing trillions of dollars,” according to Lloyd’s...
May 22 2013 // The property insurance market remained relatively stable and competitive in the first quarter of 2013, with few changes to limits purchased and deductibles, according to a benchmarking report from broker Marsh.Superstorm...
May 22 2013 // U.S. prosecutors are considering charging Steven A. Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors as a criminal enterprise engaged in a long pattern of insider trading in stocks, according to a person familiar with the...
May 22 2013 // Spending in the U.S. on specialty drugs used to treat serious diseases is projected to increase 67 percent by the end of 2015, according to a forecast by pharmacy benefit management firm Express Scripts.Specialty medicines...
May 22 2013 // The U.S. law requiring employers to provide health insurance coverage for birth control is set to come before an appeals court in cases brought by two businesses whose owners say they operate according to Catholic...
May 21 2013 // An estimated EF4 tornado with a wind range of up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, Okla., on May 20, leaving behind massive devastation and at least 24 confirmed dead. Earlier media reports...
May 21 2013 // Federal wage and hour lawsuits have reached a surprise record high, according to a report by law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP.Cases filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in have continued to skyrocket in 2013, despite...
May 21 2013 // Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history.The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in...
May 20 2013 // New York City tops the list of U.S. cities with the highest number of questionable insurance claims, according to the latest analysis by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB).The NICB’s annual look at...
May 20 2013 // In a case involving whistleblowers at Fidelity Investments, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether mutual fund employees are subject to the same whistleblower protections as workers at publicly traded...
May 20 2013 // A divided U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would force federal securities regulators to conduct more economic analysis before adopting rules for Wall Street.The bill, which is...
May 20 2013 // A federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and landowners who alleged that emissions by energy companies contributed to global warming, which...
May 20 2013 // The series of cyber attacks that repeatedly knocked major U.S. banking websites offline in the past nine months has been more powerful than the general public realizes, government officials and security experts told the...
May 20 2013 // Texas law enforcement officials said on May 10 that they are beginning a criminal investigation into the fertilizer plant fire and explosion that occurred on April 17 in West, Texas.Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)...
May 20 2013 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) named Jeremy Johnson as president and chief executive officer of its excess and surplus lines unit, Lexington Insurance Co. in Boston. Johnson replaces David Bresnahan, who left with...
May 17 2013 // Editor’s Note: This is part of a team report on opioid use by injured workers. For stories focused on particular regions click on the respective links below.The national “epidemic” of opioid usage has...