All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 12 2011 // The U.S. government is intensifying its use of consumer complaint websites with two new outlets for customer gripes that have trade groups for manufacturers and financial firms concerned about smear campaigns and lawsuits....
Jan 12 2011 // New York-based Confie Seguros, a provider of auto insurance with an emphasis on serving Hispanic consumers, has acquired Los Angeles-based Seguros Sin Barreras, an insurance broker that serves Hispanic customers in 49...
Jan 12 2011 // A decline in both real and nominal GDP, a rising unemployment rate and decreasing tort activity as a result of a lower level of economic activity helped drive tort costs down by 2.7 percent, or $6.8 billion, in the United...
Jan 11 2011 // The top U.S. product safety official said on Monday the agency has failed to persuade Chinese makers of defective drywall to compensate American homeowners, in a dispute that threatens to mar strained trade ties.The...
Jan 11 2011 // The total economic cost of an overweight and obese population in the U.S. and Canada approaches $300 billion per year, with 90 percent of the total – $270 billion – attributed to the U.S.A new study the Society...
Jan 11 2011 // Marsh appointed Jill Sulkes as head of its U.S. Financial Institutions Practice. Sulkes has more than 15 years of experience in risk management for financial institutions, most recently as a managing director in...
Jan 11 2011 // White House panel probing BP’s massive oil spill called for an overhaul of a regulatory system that was “entirely unprepared” for disaster and outlined stringent, new oversight, a plan sure to face...
Jan 10 2011 // The year 2010 was an important one for employment-related class action litigation and 2011 could see even more far-reaching judgments and changes to class action law.The value of employment discrimination class action...
Jan 10 2011 // Every state has been impacted by Arizona’s immigration law, as there is now a cry for immigration reform. Employers who hire a questionable workforce due to the “dirty” or menial nature of certain jobs...
Jan 10 2011 // A federal judge in Louisiana in mid-December let 10 insurance companies being sued by Louisiana homeowners over property damage resulting from the installation of defective drywall from China off the hook for coverage from...
Jan 10 2011 // Todd Teitell, executive vice president and branch leader of AmWINS Brokerage of Texas in Dallas, has been elected president of the Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc.Other elected TSLA officers for the coming year...
Jan 10 2011 // Soft market conditions with unabated price competition and a slow economy with reduced payrolls continued to affect commercial lines including the workers’ compensation industry in 2010, as they did in 2009.Robert...
Jan 10 2011 // The world’s top three insurance brokers have joined reinsurer Munich Re to promote a major expansion in risk coverage for deepwater drilling in the wake of BP’s disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill last April.Their...
Jan 10 2011 // Authorities have been escalating their campaign against corruption in the last few years, resulting in a sharp spike in enforcement actions in the United States and the enactment of a new anti-bribery law in the United...
Jan 10 2011 // Record reinsurer capital levels, strong reinsurer capacity, an absence of major catastrophe losses in the U.S. and competitive pressures helped push down January 1 renewal rates for U.S. property/ casualty reinsurance...
Jan 6 2011 // Air bags and the economic recession have contributed to the biggest drop in road deaths in the United States since World War II, U.S. researchers said Tuesday.Changes in driving patterns and safety features both...
Jan 5 2011 // Air bags and the economic recession have contributed to the biggest drop in road deaths in the United States since World War II, U.S. researchers said Tuesday.Changes in driving patterns and safety features both...
Jan 5 2011 // Cunningham Lindsey has acquired the U.S. loss adjusting business of GAB Robins North America Inc.The global loss adjusting and claims management services company said the addition of the GAB Robins loss adjusting business...
Jan 4 2011 // Soft market conditions with unabated price competition and a slow economy with reduced payrolls continued to affect commercial liens including the the workers’ compensation industry in 2010, as they did in...
Jan 4 2011 // The U.S. coal industry had its deadliest year in nearly two decades in 2010, with much of the death toll stemming from a single explosion.As of last week, 48 miners had died in the nation’s 1,500 coal mines over the...