All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 5 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 5 2011 // Cyber criminals are outwitting national and international legal systems that fail to embrace technological advances, a top U.S. official said on Friday, demanding a cross-border campaign to combat the security...
Jul 5 2011 // The protection of critical information and intellectual property (IP) can determine the success or failure of even the most established firms. The advent of cloud computing, social networking, outsourcing, and other modern...
Jul 4 2011 // Barely a day goes by without news of another data breach at a major corporation or institution. From Sony to Citicorp and the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate, systems have proved vulnerable to hackers with...
Jul 4 2011 // Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes dropped to $7.8 billion in first-quarter 2011 from $8.9 billion in first-quarter 2010, with insurers’ annualized rate of return on average...
Jul 4 2011 // Barely a day goes by without news of another data breach at a major corporation or institution. From Sony to Citicorp, and the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate, systems have proved vulnerable to hackers with...
Jul 4 2011 // Barely a day goes by without news of another data breach at a major corporation or institution. From Sony to Citicorp, and the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate, systems have proved vulnerable to hackers with...
Jul 4 2011 // Insured severe weather losses have already topped $15.5 billion in the United States this year, three times the full-year average of the past 20 years, insurance brokerage Aon Corp. said.Almost all of that comes from the...
Jul 4 2011 // Barely a day goes by without news of another data breach at a major corporation or institution. From Sony to Citicorp, and the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate, systems have proved vulnerable to hackers with...
Jul 4 2011 // A new study says a big Southern California earthquake would rattle the region’s economy and its buildings.The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said a magnitude-7.8 quake in the southern segment of the San Andreas...
Jul 1 2011 // Cyber criminals are outwitting national and international legal systems that fail to embrace technological advances, a top U.S. official said on Friday, demanding a cross-border campaign to combat the security...
Jul 1 2011 // In the first ruling by a federal appeals court on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a panel in Cincinnati affirmed that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage.A conservative...
Jul 1 2011 // Record-breaking tornadoes devastated parts of the United States in April and May, generating substantial losses for insurance companies. Following is a list of maximum losses reported by some insurers and reinsurers for...
Jul 1 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 Thursday.The fund is not sufficiently transparent...
Jun 30 2011 // The world’s largest container firm suspended operations at several Iranian ports on Thursday, potentially disrupting critical food shipments as it complies with tightening U.S. sanctions.Maersk line, a unit of A.P....
Jun 30 2011 // Congressional auditors have faulted U.S. health regulators for failing to track unsafe medical devices after they are recalled, opening the door to further risks to patients.The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found...
Jun 30 2011 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has announced 10 winners of its Bring Back the 4th contest, which – from May 4 to June 14, 2011 – encouraged U.S. cities and towns to compete for ten $10,000 grants to help fund local Fourth of...
Jun 30 2011 // The blast that killed 29 men in a West Virginia coal mine last year was probably caused by coal dust ignition, compounded by safety failings, intimidation and deception by the mine’s owner, the U.S. mine regulator...
Jun 29 2011 // Catastrophe risk modeler Eqecat has scheduled July 15 as the date to release three significant revisions to its Worldcatenterprise 3.16 platform. The updates cover Eqecat’s North Atlantic hurricane model, its Canada...
Jun 29 2011 // A U.S. appeals court sided with BP Plc in a securities fraud lawsuit arising from a 2006 Alaska oil spill, but the case isn’t over.BP discovered two oil spills in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in 2006, and a corporate...