All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 8 2010 // Anya Kutsina has been named managing director of U.S. RE Analytics LLC, a subsidiary of U.S. RE Companies Inc., an international financial services and reinsurance brokerage group.Kutsina has served as head of sales and...
Sep 8 2010 // Fitch has revised its sector outlook on the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry to stable from negative for both the commercial lines and personal lines sectors. The ratings agency says that a stable outlook for the...
Sep 7 2010 // Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into northeastern Mexico near the Texas border Monday, dumping heavy rain on a region still recovering from Hurricane Alex’s visit in June.Hermine, the eighth named storm of the...
Sep 7 2010 // Oil giant BP said it is providing $10 million to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a study of potential public health issues relating to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and other spill-related health...
Sep 6 2010 // Better Protection Against Insolvency“We’ve long had the ability to intervene when a company is insolvent. … But to protect policyholders, we need to step in much sooner than that. This new law lets insurers...
Sep 3 2010 // Hurricane Earl battered North Carolina’s coast with rain, winds and waves Friday and swirled up the U.S. eastern seaboard toward New England and Canada as a weakened but still dangerous storm.The impact of the...
Sep 2 2010 // As Hurricane Earl prepares to approach North Carolina tonight, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says it is preparing for the storm and supporting state and local officials along the East Coast as they work to...
Sep 1 2010 // Visitors and some residents evacuated from low-lying vacation islands off the North Carolina coast Wednesday as Hurricane Earl bore down on the U.S. eastern seaboard, churning up dangerous swells.Earl, still a major...
Sep 1 2010 // The parents of six deceased U.S. soldiers are suing Prudential Financial, saying it paid paltry interest on military life insurance benefits while keeping more generous interest earnings for itself.Five plaintiffs joined...
Sep 1 2010 // A group of 19 U.S.-based property/casualty reinsurers wrote $12.3 billion of net premiums during the six-months ended June 30, 2010, a decrease from the $12.8 billion net premiums written in the first six months of...
Sep 1 2010 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has joined a pending consumer fraud lawsuit filed by Attorney General Chris Koster against service contract seller US Fidelis. US Fidelis sold motor vehicle extended service contracts,...
Aug 31 2010 // Specialty lines underwriting manager and wholesale broker U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. has taken over Florida-located Unisource Program Administrators, a wholesaler of workers’ compensation, for an undisclosed...
Aug 30 2010 // Hurricane Earl has strengthened into a major Category 3 storm Monday and could arrive off the East Coast of the U.S. by the end of this week.It is currently rocking the Caribbean’s Northern Leeward Islands. The...
Aug 30 2010 // A Manhattan federal judge refused to dismiss shareholder lawsuits against Bank of America Corp and various executives and directors over the purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co. during the 2008 financial crisis and...
Aug 30 2010 // Texas. U.S. Risk, a privately owned specialty lines underwriting manager and wholesale broker headquartered in Dallas, Texas, today announces the acquisition of Sarasota Florida based Unisource Program Administrators. The...
Aug 27 2010 // Recent surprise inspections show that increased enforcement isn’t preventing U.S. coal mines from continuing to violate safety laws, the federal Mine Safety & Health Administration said.MSHA inspectors found...
Aug 26 2010 // First-half 2010 operating profits declined for most publicly traded property/casualty insurance companies that Fitch Rating follows, according to a new report. However, the $16.2 billion of aggregate net earnings reported...
Aug 25 2010 // Indiana-based K&K Insurance has added a regional sales force to develop new agent relationships while supporting existing K&K relationships with more than 6,000 agents and brokers across the United States.The new...
Aug 23 2010 // Bailed-out insurer American International Group Inc. said Monday it paid back nearly $4 billion in U.S. loans in its single largest cash payment so far to reduce its debt to taxpayers.The payment reduces the size of the...
Aug 23 2010 // The slump in the U.S. commercial property market didn’t quite plumb the depths of the downturn in residential real estate, but although there are signs that home prices are nearing the bottom, commercial real estate...