All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 20 2011 // President Barack Obama’s administration on Tuesday fired back at World Bank President Robert Zoellick’s criticism that it has not done enough to bring the nearly decade-old Doha round of world trade talks to a...
Jul 20 2011 // U.S. authorities Tuesday arrested 16 people on charges they participated in major cyber attacks, including an attempt to cripple eBay’s PayPal web site as retribution for dropping Wiki Leaks as a client.FBI agents...
Jul 19 2011 // Ratings agency A.M. Best may lower its outlook on the U.S. life insurance and annuity sector to “negative” from “stable,” it warned Tuesday, as American and European sovereign debt concerns continue...
Jul 19 2011 // French reinsurer SCOR announced that it has finalized the sale of its subsidiary Investors Insurance Corporation (IIC) to Athene Holding Ltd., as initially announced on February 16, 2011.SCOR said the sale, for $55...
Jul 19 2011 // A Florida building supply company is suing a German conglomerate for $100 million over defective Chinese drywall installed in tens of thousands of homes. Banner Supply Co. charged in the lawsuit that Knauf Gips made false...
Jul 19 2011 // DuPont was sued last Friday by a Michigan golf club that alleges its widely used Imprelis herbicide kills trees, reflecting a growing nationwide problem being investigated by a top U.S. regulator.Imprelis, conditionally...
Jul 18 2011 // A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has revised the outlook to negative from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating of “a-” of...
Jul 18 2011 // BP Plc won two legal victories Friday, as a federal judge threw out racketeering claims made by the lead plaintiffs suing over last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and also set aside a lawsuit by partner Anadarko...
Jul 18 2011 // Standard & Poor’s Friday raised the pressure on debt negotiators in Washington, saying it could downgrade insurers, securities clearinghouses, mortgage agencies and a laundry list of other firms without a deal...
Jul 18 2011 // With Cuba preparing to explore for oil 60 miles from Florida, the complicated politics of U.S.-Cuba relations are impeding U.S. efforts to get ready in case of a BP-style accident, analysts and oil experts said.The Obama...
Jul 18 2011 // The fund oil firm BP set up to deal with compensation claims after last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill is working too slowly, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said recently.The fund is not sufficiently transparent...
Jul 18 2011 // With Cuba preparing to explore for oil 60 miles from Florida, the complicated politics of U.S.-Cuba relations are impeding U.S. efforts to get ready in case of a BP-style accident, analysts and oil experts said.The Obama...
Jul 18 2011 // Agreements resolving the dispute over long-haul, cross-border trucking services between the United States and Mexico have been signed, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.Mexico will lift retaliatory...
Jul 18 2011 // Hank Watkins, president of Lloyd’s America Inc., smiles like he has a big secret he wants to spill.The history of Lloyd’s of London is no secret: originated in Edward Lloyd’s coffee shop in London;...
Jul 18 2011 // While South Central states suffer from drought, the Midwest is paddling upstream against too much water and the flooding has once again put the spotlight on the National Flood Insurance Program with all its faults and...
Jul 18 2011 // A settlement of up to $750 million has been reached with the German conglomerate Bayer CropScience on behalf of U.S. rice farmers in a series of rice contamination lawsuits, according to Don Downing, an attorney with Gray,...
Jul 18 2011 // While South Central states suffer from drought, the Midwest is paddling upstream against too much water and the flooding has once again put the spotlight on the National Flood Insurance Program with all its faults and...
Jul 15 2011 // A top accounting rules setter said on Thursday it was well on the way to becoming the global standard in a veiled hint that the United States should get on board or risk being isolated.In roughly a decade, adoption of the...
Jul 15 2011 // The island of Guernsey’s Chief Minister, Lyndon Trott, met with officials in Washington this week as part of a series of discussions that have been conducted for a number of years. The dialogue between U.S. officials...
Jul 15 2011 // Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has estimated that the total net financial impact of the June 2011 aftershock in New Zealand and the series of severe weather events that occurred in the U.S. in April and May...