All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 18 2012 // Ocean temperatures may enter a weak El Nino pattern this winter, which could affect U.S. weather in coming months, government forecasters said on Thursday.The El Nino weather pattern, which is usually associated with...
Oct 18 2012 // Auto lender Ally Financial, which is 74 percent-owned by the U.S. government, will sell its Mexican insurance business to insurance and reinsurance company ACE Ltd for $865 million in cash as it looks to focus on its U.S....
Oct 16 2012 // Lloyd’s of London Chairman John Nelson knew when he acceded to his post one year ago that his predecessor, Lord Peter Levene, would be a hard act to follow. Levene served for nine years and oversaw significant...
Oct 15 2012 // A new text-to-give campaign as part of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Week of Giving will generate donations for four well-known national nonprofits. During October, insurance employees can donate $5...
Oct 15 2012 // As U.S. authorities seek to make Wall Street pay for its role in triggering the financial crisis more than four years ago, banks are starting to fight back, frustrated that they are being asked to pay more than once for...
Oct 15 2012 // Carrollton, TX, 10/15/12 – Insurance Technologies Corporation (ITC), a leading provider of marketing, rating and management software and services, announced that more than 2,000 agencies are currently using Insurance...
Oct 15 2012 // London’s Sunday Times said it may take legal action against cyclist Lance Armstrong, including pursuing him for alleged fraud over a libel settlement, in the wake of the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s...
Oct 14 2012 // The family of a 32-year-old mother of five shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as he rode on her car’s hood in suburban San Diego has filed a wrongful death claim against the agency, saying the agent had a...
Oct 12 2012 // To counter the growing threat of an attack by an individual on healthcare institutions, Hiscox has launched a dedicated solo strike liability insurance product for the US healthcare market. In the event of an attack,...
Oct 12 2012 // Four business groups on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rule requiring oil, mining and gas companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments.The...
Oct 12 2012 // Two European insurers have withdrawn cover for tankers involved in the Iranian oil trade, the first such move since tough new sanctions were imposed in July, documents obtained by Reuters show.The tankers, operated by Hong...
Oct 11 2012 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is offering its U.S. employees and their families free heart and spine surgeries at six major health centers at no cost to the retailer’s workers, as it tries to find better ways to cover costly,...
Oct 11 2012 // America’s top agricultural negotiator, speaking in Stuttgart, Akr., said that he expects farm exports to be down between $1 billion and $2 billion this year because of the drought.The tighter supply of grains, and...
Oct 11 2012 // A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved a $71.5 million settlement on Tuesday between former partners of Dewey & LeBoeuf and the estate of the law firm whose demise in May constituted the largest law-firm bankruptcy in U.S....
Oct 10 2012 // The U.S. safety regulator issued a warning on Wednesday to consumers with repaired vehicles that they may have air bags that don’t inflate in an accident.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said...
Oct 10 2012 // The U.S. government filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit on Tuesday against Wells Fargo & Co, the latest legal volley against big banks for their lending during the housing boom.The complaint, brought by the U.S....
Oct 9 2012 // The H.W. Kaufman Financial Group announced the acquisition of Mertens Enterprises Inc. (DBA Tracz & Associates), a provider of premium insurance audit services headquartered in Lockport, Ill. The transaction closed on...
Oct 9 2012 // Forty-five percent of insurers estimated that insurance fraud costs represent 5-10 percent of their claims volume, while 32 percent said the ratio is as high as 20 percent.This is according to a survey of U.S. insurers...
Oct 9 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to consider a challenge to a 2008 federal law granting immunity to AT&T Inc and other telecommunications companies for helping the government eavesdrop on customers’...
Oct 9 2012 // Despite catastrophic events in 2011, low investment yields and competitive pressures, surplus lines specialists — especially market leaders — generated healthy operating profits and returns on both revenue and...