All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 3 2011 // U.S. movie, music, software and other industries heavily dependent on copyright protections added nearly $932 billion to the U.S. economy in 2010, or about 6.4 percent of total gross domestic product, according to new...
Nov 3 2011 // The Directors of the London-based Steamship Mutual P&I Club “recently reviewed the Club’s open policy years, as well as claims in earlier years, and considered the premium ratings required for the 2012...
Nov 2 2011 // The U.S. Treasury Department said it received an additional repayment of $972 million from American International Group (AIG).The payment came mostly from the scheduled release of the escrow from AIG’s sale of its...
Nov 2 2011 // Money manager AXA Rosenberg and co-founder Barr Rosenberg agreed to pay $65 million to settle a lawsuit by investors who said they lost money after a computer coding glitch impeded the firm’s ability to manage...
Nov 2 2011 // A federal judge threw out most of a $19.9 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co and a $2 billion case against UBS AG by the trustee seeking money for victims of epic swindler Bernard Madoff’s fraud.The...
Nov 1 2011 // The U.S. Department of Justice sued Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corp and two top executives over fraudulent lending practices that have cost the government more than $834 million of insurance claims.In a complaint filed...
Nov 1 2011 // The widow of a tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax mailings has reached a settlement in her lawsuit against the U.S. government.Maureen Stevens of Lake Worth, Florida, and the government have reached a...
Nov 1 2011 // A string of courtroom victories by drugmakers in key product liability trials could be a signal that these and other companies can beat back claims in upcoming cases against them.AstraZeneca Plc, Merck & Co. and Pfizer...
Nov 1 2011 // The U.S. insurance industry, already bruised by one of the most devastating weather years in history, appears to have suffered another blow from Saturday’s unprecedented northeastern snowstorm.Early data from some of...
Nov 1 2011 // The United States criticized China on Monday for failing to fulfill World Trade Organization commitments to open its financial services market, while the European Union and Japan pressed for answers on specific areas of...
Oct 31 2011 // A U.S. judge has blocked most of a San Francisco ordinance that required warnings about cell phone safety risks, saying it violated the First Amendment.Health questions about cell phone use grew this year after a group of...
Oct 28 2011 // Louisiana must quickly turn over documents requested by oil giant BP, or else face dismissal of its lawsuit against the company for losses caused by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a judge ruled Thursday.Louisiana faces...
Oct 28 2011 // Women pursuing discrimination claims against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed a reformulated lawsuit against the world’s largest retailer, their first since a massive nationwide class action collapsed earlier this year.The...
Oct 28 2011 // U.S. prosecutors charged 11 people Thursday in connection with an alleged $1 billion fraud involving hundreds of railroad workers filing false disability claims.In some cases, workers claimed they were unable to work even...
Oct 27 2011 // A third man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money in a scam involving the sale of bogus insurance to a New York tour operator whose boat capsized in 2005 killing 20 elderly tourists, federal officials...
Oct 27 2011 // Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month.The system-wide failure of the service had left...
Oct 26 2011 // Rice farmers have nearly a month to file for part of a $750 million settlement to claims that they lost money because Bayer CropScience mistakenly sold genetically modified seed in the United States.The original deadline...
Oct 26 2011 // One of seven oil companies charged with killing migratory birds during drilling operations in North Dakota has agreed to plead guilty and pay $12,000.Slawson Exploration Co. Inc., of Wichita, Kan., was charged under the...
Oct 26 2011 // Americans peg the value of coral reefs around the main Hawaiian Islands at $33.57 billion, a study commissioned by the federal government said last week.Officials frequently cite coral reefs as being vital to tourism and...
Oct 26 2011 // The death toll linked to listeria-contaminated cantaloupes in the United States has climbed to 28, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.Whole or pre-cut Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupe from...