All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 18 2013 // Midwesterners accustomed to generous government aid after ice storms, floods and tornadoes may soon have to look somewhere else for help when disaster strikes.Even as the U.S. House on Jan. 15 passed a $50.7 billion aid...
Jan 18 2013 // Labor Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced a final rule to strengthen safety in the nation’s most dangerous mines.Solis said that the rule, which revises the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s...
Jan 18 2013 // Dry weather should continue through at least the end of January in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and a blast of Arctic cold air in the Midwest early next week poses a threat to unprotected livestock and possibly some...
Jan 18 2013 // At least 22 foreign hostages were unaccounted for on Friday and their al-Qaeda-linked captors threatened to attack other energy installations after Algerian forces stormed a desert gas complex to free hundreds of captives,...
Jan 18 2013 // Ryan Specialty Group’s (RSG) ThinkRisk Underwriting Agency and Aspen US Insurance have entered into a new underwriting partnership. ThinkRisk will transition its existing converging risk program –specialized errors...
Jan 17 2013 // Leaders of the property/casualty insurance industry believe Washington’s ongoing budget fracas will have a negative impact on the U.S. economy, according to a survey conducted by the Insurance Information Institute...
Jan 17 2013 // Major U.S. news organizations have urged a federal appeals court to prevent Delaware from allowing sitting judges to arbitrate business disputes in private, saying the system raised suspicions of preferential treatment for...
Jan 17 2013 // Genworth Financial Inc. on Wednesday said it was reorganizing itself to separate its mortgage insurance business from the rest of the company, reducing the risk of default on its bonds and sending its shares up 9...
Jan 17 2013 // Islamist gunmen holding dozens of Western hostages and scores of Algerians at a gas plant deep in the Sahara desert let some them speak to the media on Thursday to warn that they would be blown up if the site is...
Jan 16 2013 // In a heavily guarded store just southwest of Houston, twin .50-caliber “Ma Deuce” machine guns rise up side by side from a mount that could be bolted to the deck of a warship or truck bed.The guns can fire...
Jan 16 2013 // A Hong Kong arbitration panel has ruled that China MediaExpress Holdings Inc. was a “fraudulent enterprise” and awarded $77 million to Starr Investments, a firm run by former AIG chief Maurice Greenberg, a U.S....
Jan 16 2013 // In its latest report on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, which reviews the key trends witnessed during the fourth quarter of 2012, Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance...
Jan 16 2013 // Japan’s two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns...
Jan 16 2013 // The United States said on Tuesday it plans to negotiate an agreement with the European Union, Japan and 18 other economies to remove trade and investment barriers in services ranging from finance to express...
Jan 16 2013 // A U.S. judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter in one of the first big tests of intellectual property law involving social media.Agence France-Presse...
Jan 15 2013 // A loophole in an Indian insurance scheme has allowed Iran’s state-run tanker company NITC to bolster oil exports by chartering a vessel insured by India’s state-run firms, industry and shipping sources said on...
Jan 15 2013 // Congress should reform U.S. farm subsidies, and end a $5 billion a year “direct payment,” as part of delivering an overdue overhaul of the farm program this year, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on...
Jan 15 2013 // The U.S. Trade Representative’s office is expected to notify Congress soon of its plan to enter into talks with the European Union and more than a dozen other countries on a pact to tear down barriers to trade in...
Jan 14 2013 // When it comes to complex employment-related legal disputes, 2012 will be considered a landmark year, according to a new report on employment class action litigation.Many of the key rulings of 2012 in class action cases...
Jan 14 2013 // U.S. farmers want a new reform-minded farm law even if it means the end of a popular $5 billion-a-year subsidy that is paid regardless of need, the president of the largest U.S. farm group said on...