All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 26 2012 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide today revised up its industrywide Sandy insured loss estimates to the $16 billion-$22 billion range.AIR Worldwide had previously estimated on Oct. 30 — the day after Sandy made...
Nov 26 2012 // David Huffman has helped thousands of military veterans seeking disability benefits navigate the complex, often slow and at times frustrating claims process. The Wood County, West Virginia lawyer can relate: he was a...
Nov 26 2012 // ANV Holdings BV, the Dutch-headquartered specialty insurance business and owner of Lloyd’s Syndicate 1861, announced that Sean Fitzpatrick has joined its executive team as chief operating officer of the ANV Group, as...
Nov 26 2012 // Swiss Re announced that its estimates of claims from Hurricane Sandy are around $900 million, net of retrocession and before tax. The bulletin warned, however, that “this estimate is subject to a higher than usual...
Nov 26 2012 // Alterra Capital Holdings Limited’s subsidiary Alterra America Insurance Co. has entered into a long-term partnership with Ullico Casualty Group, Inc. (UCG), a subsidiary of Ullico Inc., that will allow Alterra to...
Nov 23 2012 // United Airlines bears no responsibility for suspected security lapses at a Maine airport, which allowed hijackers to board the American Airlines plane that crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11,...
Nov 21 2012 // The average New Jersey beach is 30 to 40 feet narrower after Superstorm Sandy, according to a survey that is sure to intensify a long-running debate on whether federal dollars should be used to replenish stretches of sand...
Nov 20 2012 // A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday is expected to hear arguments on whether to freeze nearly $500 million in assets, including luxury homes, related to New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy linked to a deadly U.S....
Nov 20 2012 // A coalition of the world’s largest investors called on governments on Tuesday to ramp up action on climate change and boost clean-energy investment or risk trillions of dollars in investments and disruption to...
Nov 19 2012 // The Federal Reserve Bank of New York won the dismissal of former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s $25 billion lawsuit accusing it of unlawfully bailing out the...
Nov 16 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a” to Talanx Reinsurance (Ireland) Ltd., both with stable...
Nov 16 2012 // U.S. droughts, floods and heat waves likely fueled by climate change in the last two years hit the people who can afford it the least – the poor and middle class, a report published on Friday said.In affected areas...
Nov 16 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a+” of UK-based QBE Insurance (Europe)...
Nov 16 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Ratings Services Limited has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a” of Aspen Insurance UK Limited (AIUK) and Aspen...
Nov 16 2012 // Beazley, an insurer of event cancellation and other forms of contingency business at Lloyd’s, will begin underwriting contingency business locally in the United States at the beginning of 2013. The focus will be...
Nov 15 2012 // President Barack Obama said he plans to work with Congress in his second term to curb human-aggravated climate change, but not at the expense of the U.S. economy.“I am a firm believer that climate change is real,...
Nov 15 2012 // BP Plc will pay $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to felony misconduct in the Deepwater Horizon disaster that caused the worst offshore oil spill in the country’s history, the company said on Thursday.The...
Nov 15 2012 // A ban on European Union insurers covering Iranian oil exports has forced ship owners to fall back on new, untested insurance providers, raising fears that governments may have to pay in the event of an oil spill.The July...
Nov 14 2012 // The Connecticut insurance sector plays a vital role in the global insurance landscape and the state’s economy — and the state is well-positioned to remain as the U.S. insurance capital, a new report...
Nov 14 2012 // U.S. and state health regulators called on Congress on Tuesday to strengthen federal oversight of compounding pharmacies as lawmakers prepared for two days of hearings on a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a...