All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 6 2012 // Web search giant Google Inc. has been granted tentative approval from the Department of Labor to form a captive insurance company in Hawaii to cover employee benefits for thousands of the Mountain View, Calif.-based web...
Feb 6 2012 // Oil giant BP has lost its attempt to shift more than $15 billion of costs related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill onto contractor Transocean, increasing the possibility BP may have to foot the entire $42 billion cleanup...
Feb 6 2012 // Marsh & McLennan Companies has appointed AIG executive Julio Portalatin as CEO of Mercer, MMC’s human resource consulting unit. Portalatin succeeds M. Michele Burns who left the firm last October. Portalatin...
Feb 6 2012 // Defying two recessions, the nonprofit sector posted a remarkable 10-year record of job growth, achieving an average annual growth rate of 2.1 percent from 2000 to 2010, while for-profit jobs declined by an average of minus...
Feb 6 2012 // IMAC, Specialty Service SolutionsRandolph, Mass.-based International Marketing and Administration Co. (IMAC) purchased Specialty Service Solutions LLC, an insurance brokerage headquartered in Chicago. Specialty Service...
Feb 5 2012 // A U.S. law protecting whistleblowers at publicly traded companies does not cover employees of mutual funds, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday in a case involving two former Fidelity Investments employees.The U.S....
Feb 3 2012 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was ordered by a federal judge to face a securities class-action lawsuit accusing it of defrauding investors about a 2006 offering of securities backed by risky mortgage loans from a now-defunct...
Feb 3 2012 // Aon has expanded availability to new states for its Aon Rent Protect product that reimburses landlords for lost income when tenants default on rent payments.The product was initially launched in California, Colorado, D.C.,...
Feb 3 2012 // The family of a slain U.S. Border Patrol agent filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against the federal government on Wednesday.The 65-page document that’s a precursor to a lawsuit was filed in Phoenix and claims...
Feb 3 2012 // Coal operators across the country are changing the way they work, and mines are becoming safer, but the head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said Thursday there are still too many who...
Feb 3 2012 // In June 2000, when American medical regulators posted a warning letter on the Internet about problems at a breast-implant maker in southern France, French authorities didn’t pay much attention.A U.S. Food and Drug...
Feb 3 2012 // Banking transactions with Iran and financing for its oil shipments could come under tougher scrutiny after a bipartisan sanctions bill easily passed a key U.S. Senate Committee on Thursday.The Senate Banking Committee...
Feb 2 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stall payment of a $93 million judgment against Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort, a decision that could get money within six months to policyholders who won the...
Feb 2 2012 // The Treasury Department’s Federal Insurance Office was expected to complete and send its highly anticipated report on modernization of insurance regulation to Congress in January. But now, it looks like it may take a...
Feb 2 2012 // An Eastman Kodak employee filed a civil lawsuit against Kodak’s board members and other fiduciaries of the photography companies’ retirement plans, saying they breached their duties as the company was spiraling...
Feb 2 2012 // At least a half-dozen major U.S. companies whose computers have been infiltrated by cyber criminals or international spies have not admitted to the incidents despite new guidance from securities regulators urging such...
Feb 2 2012 // The risk to public health from a severe nuclear power plant accident in the United States is “very small” because reactor operators should have time to prevent core damage and reduce the release of radioactive...
Feb 1 2012 // The governing board of Louisiana’s property insurer of last resort held a special meeting on Jan. 31 to discuss how to deal with a judge’s order that lifted a freeze on more than $100 million at issue in a...
Jan 31 2012 // A federal judge on Tuesday said Halliburton Co. is not liable for some pollution claims arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, setting back BP Plc’s effort to hold other companies responsible for part of the...
Jan 31 2012 // U.S. communications, media, and technology (CMT) companies can expect their insurance market conditions to further deteriorate in 2012, continuing a trend that began in the second half of 2011, according to a report...