All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 6 2011 // A Bomb on Every Floor“It truly was like a bomb went off almost on every floor.” —Gary Pulsipher, chief executive at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., describes the damage caused to the...
Jun 6 2011 // Devastating tornadoes, floods, earthquakes overseas and a busier-than-usual hurricane season have U.S. insurance companies bracing for record losses in 2011.Insurers could suffer as much as $10 billion from weather-related...
Jun 6 2011 // The tornado that raked Joplin, Mo., was the deadliest single twister in the United States since 1953, putting 2011 on pace for a possible record year for tornado fatalities, U.S. weather experts said. As of May 25, this is...
Jun 3 2011 // From the satellite pictures on Google Earth, Jinan looks like any other Chinese city — sprawling construction sites, massive factory blocks, apartment buildings, a university, dozens of railway lines and wide-open...
Jun 3 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has revised the outlook to positive from stable and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit ratings (ICR) of “a-” of the Tower US Pool and...
Jun 3 2011 // Hackers broke into Sony Corp.’s computer networks and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers to show the vulnerability of the electronic giant’s systems, the latest of several security...
Jun 3 2011 // More than 1,600 people have been infected by a toxic strain of E.coli bacteria that has killed at least 17 and may be the deadliest yet in human history, health officials said on Friday.Germany is at the center of the...
Jun 3 2011 // A federal judge has declined to reduce the $1 million fine and $2 million in restitution he ordered paid by a Colorado company that admitted partial responsibility for the death of a Baton Rouge plant worker.Chief U.S....
Jun 2 2011 // The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the fate of litigation against cell phone makers over safety risks, just as the industry comes under more scrutiny in the wake of a health report from the World Health Organization.A...
Jun 2 2011 // The owners of North America’s tallest building, formerly known as the Sears Tower, are looking for an investor to help recapitalize the building that is an integral part of the Chicago skyline, a spokesman for the...
Jun 2 2011 // The Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued a statement urging G20 leaders to “keep markets open to trade, following worrying results from a recently released WTO-OECD-UNCTAD report that G20...
Jun 1 2011 // Angelo Mozilo, the former Countrywide Financial Corp. chief executive, urged a federal judge to throw out Allstate Corp.’s lawsuit seeking to hold him responsible for losses on toxic mortgage debt it bought.The...
Jun 1 2011 // Premiums for new federal health insurance plans that cover high-risk people with pre-existing conditions will drop by as much as 40 percent, federal health regulators said Tuesday.The government also will begin paying...
Jun 1 2011 // Intact Financial Corp has agreed to buy the Canadian arm of AXA Group for C$2.6 billion ($2.684 billion) in cash in a move that will boost its premiums by more than 40 percent and diversify its product mix.The deal to...
May 31 2011 // A U.S. senator from Mississippi is introducing a bill that tries to resolve wind-versus-water insurance disputes for structures wiped out by hurricanes.Republican Roger Wicker said that his bill would establish a formula...
May 31 2011 // Global warming will likely open up coastal areas in the Arctic to development but close vast regions of the northern interior to forestry and mining by mid-century as ice and frozen soil under temporary winter roads melt,...
May 27 2011 // The people of Ireland cheered up a bit following the back to back visits of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, and the President of the United States, Barack Obama, or O’bama as the name appeared in...
May 26 2011 // Property and casualty insurers craving respite from a long-running drop in prices are eyeing the start of the U.S. hurricane season next week in the hope that summer windstorms will finally turn the market.The June 1 to...
May 26 2011 // Bayer AG has been hit with a wider U.S. lawsuit, accusing Germany’s largest drugmaker of discriminating against women in pay, promotions and pregnancy leave and fostering a hostile work environment.As it did when the...
May 26 2011 // Corporate whistleblowers could score multi-million-dollar payouts for reporting financial wrongdoing under a new program approved by U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday.A divided U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...