All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2012 // Marsh & McLennan Cos. appointed J. Michael Bischoff as chief financial officer. Bischoff has been serving as interim CFO since March 2012 when then-CFO Vanessa Wittman resigned to join Google as its Motorola Mobility...
Sep 24 2012 // ACE American Insurance Co. recently filed a lawsuit against OneBeacon U.S. Holdings Inc. In its lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania, ACE alleges that OneBeacon poached the entire eight member-team that made up ACE’s East...
Sep 24 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic.CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Sep 23 2012 // Three U.S. states have joined a lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that overhauled U.S. financial oversight and created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.The attorneys general...
Sep 21 2012 // Argo Group International Holdings Ltd. has promoted Josh Betz to president of Argo Surety, Argo Group’s Houston, Texas-based U.S. surety operation. He reports to Chief Financial Officer Jay Bullock. Betz previously...
Sep 21 2012 // The worst drought to hit the United States in a half century expanded in the upper Midwest and northern Plains states in the past week due to warmer- and drier-than-normal weather, but loosened its grip on some central and...
Sep 20 2012 // A report out Thursday urges the insurance industry to act to protect itself and the community against the increasing frequency of extreme weather due to climate change.In short, the report, its authors and those endorsing...
Sep 20 2012 // Privately-owned U.S. computer networks remain vulnerable to cyber attacks, and many U.S. companies are not doing enough to protect them, Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Wednesday.“I hope this...
Sep 20 2012 // John Hancock Life Insurance Co. and its law firm, Edwards Wildman Palmer, must face a class action accusing them of violating racketeering laws by marketing a tax shelter, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.The 6th...
Sep 20 2012 // A financial services industry group warned U.S. banks, brokerages and insurers on Wednesday to be on heightened alert for cyber attacks after Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase experienced unexplained outages on their...
Sep 20 2012 // A proposed international agreement to reduce barriers to trade in service sectors ranging from banking to telecommunications [including insurance] would give the global economy a much-needed boost, top trade officials said...
Sep 19 2012 // A former co-owner of auto service contract seller US Fidelis has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.Cory Atkinson of Lake St. Louis, Mo., was sentenced Sept. 18 in St. Louis. He pleaded guilty in...
Sep 19 2012 // US Bank is rejecting allegations in a lawsuit that claims one of its employees helped Peregrine Financial Group CEO Russ Wasendorf Sr. mislead regulators about his misuse of customer funds.Wasendorf, the founder of the...
Sep 19 2012 // Don’t tell Toby Esser, Cooper Gay Swett & Crawford’s CEO, that the global economy is in the doldrums. “We’ve had substantial organic growth over the last 12 months with property up around 20...
Sep 19 2012 // An explosion and fire killed at least 26 people at a Pemex natural gas facility in northern Mexico near the U.S. border on Tuesday, one of the deadliest accidents in the oil and gas industry in recent years.Television...
Sep 18 2012 // Federal prosecutors have appealed a judge’s order that would free a disgraced U.S. businessman while he awaits sentencing for a $200 million fraud scheme at his brokerage.The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Cedar...
Sep 18 2012 // U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. named Tim Troester vice president and branch manager for the newly formed Portland, Ore. branch of U.S. Risk Brokers Inc. Troester’s focus at U.S. Risk will be to develop relationships...
Sep 17 2012 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named Nathaniel F. Wienecke its senior vice president, federal government relations. Wienecke comes to PCI after three years at JPMorgan Chase & Co.,...
Sep 17 2012 // A Nevada judge has fined Las Vegas Sands Corp. $25,000, citing its failure to disclose important information in a lawsuit filed by a fired executive against the casino company.Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzales...
Sep 17 2012 // The heralded former superintendent of New Jersey’s fourth-largest school district was sentenced last Friday to 11 years in prison in a corruption case that the judge called the worst case of public corruption...