All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 16 2012 // In recent years, the United States has been impacted by devastating weather events, many unprecedented and unexpected. According to the Environment America Research and Policy Center, more than 15 million Americans live in...
Apr 16 2012 // March was a deadly and costly month in parts of the U.S.A significant severe weather outbreak affected parts of the U.S. Midwest, the Tennessee Valley and the Southeast during the first week of March, killing at least 41...
Apr 16 2012 // Marsh & McLennan Companies’ CEO Brian Duperreault has been named chairman of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI). His appointment was confirmed by Federal Insurance Office (FIO) Director Michael...
Apr 16 2012 // Jeff Menary has been named as vice president of direct underwriting and production at Iowa-based Grinnell Mutual.During Menary’s 32-year career at Grinnell Mutual he has served in a variety of roles including...
Apr 16 2012 // Elizabeth Warren, the former chair of a congressional oversight panel and currently a U.S. Senate candidate from Massachusetts, is criticizing the government for granting American International Group billions of dollars...
Apr 16 2012 // Marsh & McLennan Companies’ CEO Brian Duperreault has been named chairman of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI). His appointment was confirmed in late March by Federal Insurance Office (FIO)...
Apr 16 2012 // With the national 2010 healthcare reform law being scrutinized by the U.S. Supreme Court and the country trying to figure out if the spiraling costs for health care can ever be reined in, it turns out there’s one...
Apr 13 2012 // DriveFactor, previously known as Crimson Informatics, is offering new auto insurance programs that enable insurers to effectively rate driver performance based on safety and driving habits through mobile technology and...
Apr 13 2012 // A cap on crop insurance premium subsidies could save the federal government up to $1 billion a year, according to a government report.If a limit of $40,000 had been applied to individual farmers’ crop insurance...
Apr 13 2012 // An Obama administration task force established to investigate misconduct that fueled the financial crisis is turning to a little-used statute that may make such cases easier to bring, according to people familiar with the...
Apr 13 2012 // U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday announced a proposal that would require brake override systems on all new passenger cars and trucks, likely by the 2015 model year.The U.S. Department of Transportation safety...
Apr 13 2012 // The trustee liquidating MF Global’s broker-dealer said he may bring civil lawsuits against some of the company’s employees in connection with a massive shortfall in customer funds created in the days leading up...
Apr 12 2012 // More than 200 years after Benjamin Franklin declared the only things certain in life are death and taxes, Canadian researchers have discovered a grimmer connection: U.S. auto fatalities spike on the deadline day for filing...
Apr 12 2012 // U.S. movie studios, drug manufacturers and other companies that depend heavily on copyrights, patents and trademarks to protect their creative works support 40 million jobs, or about 28 percent of the U.S. workforce, a...
Apr 12 2012 // BP Plc will gain access to U.S. government documents that may shed light on the size of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a crucial issue in determining the oil company’s liability.According...
Apr 11 2012 // A New York federal appellate court ruling yesterday could allow more asbestos liability suits to proceed against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.The appellate court’s decision affirms the previous ruling last year from...
Apr 11 2012 // Ship owners covered by Japan P&I club must alert the maritime insurer in advance of any plans to transport Iranian oil and petrochemicals that could fall foul of Western sanctions, the insurer said.The United States...
Apr 11 2012 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Ltd. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” of Lloyd’s Syndicate 958, which is managed...
Apr 10 2012 // A U.S. appeals court rejected the government’s broad reading of a computer fraud law to prosecute workers who steal from company computers, saying it could expose millions of Americans to prosecution for harmless...
Apr 10 2012 // Reebok International Ltd. agreed to settle a lawsuit by rival Nike Inc. and will stop selling New York Jets football apparel with the name of the team’s popular new quarterback, Tim Tebow.According to settlement...