All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 19 2010 // Big Rig Giveaway“I like Volvos. … I really like the style of the new ones.” —Ron Terrill, a truck driver from Oklahoma, said he entered Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group’s...
Apr 19 2010 // The Hanover, Campania GroupMassachusetts-based The Hanover has completed its acquisition of Virginia-based Campania Group, which provides professional and general liability solutions for durable medical equipment suppliers...
Apr 19 2010 // Big Rig Giveaway“I like Volvos. … I really like the style of the new ones.” —Ron Terrill, an Oklahoma truck driver, said he entered Great American Insurance Group’s “Big Rig Giveaway,” for...
Apr 19 2010 // Things are heating up in the world of Chinese drywall. Courts are issuing opinions, a U.S. consumer products safety agency is recommending gutting homes with the product, and a consumer watchdog group is insisting that...
Apr 19 2010 // Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it will pay a record $16.4 million fine to U.S. safety regulators to settle a complaint that the company delayed a recall over defective accelerator pedals.Toyota, however, said it made a...
Apr 19 2010 // Nearly 250 Colombians who say they and relatives were victims of violence by Colombian right-wing paramilitaries have filed a lawsuit seeking more than $1 billion in damages from the Chiquita banana company, which has...
Apr 19 2010 // Some of the largest U.S. health insurers are changing their accounting practices to book administration costs as medical costs in an attempt to circumvent new industry reforms, according to a recent U.S. Senate...
Apr 19 2010 // Things are heating up in the world of Chinese drywall.Courts are issuing opinions, a U.S. consumer products safety agency is recommending gutting homes with the product, and a consumer watchdog group is insisting that...
Apr 19 2010 // Northern CapitalFlorida insurance officials have moved to shut down Northern Capital Insurance Co. after concluding that the firm is insolvent. Agents and the company’s 70,000 policyholders are being advised to...
Apr 19 2010 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has named Wayne Marchant as senior vice president and Southeast region healthcare practice leader. He will be based in Savannah.Prior to joining Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Marchant was...
Apr 19 2010 // $30.8 MillionThe amount from its surplus that Kentucky’s major workers’ compensation insurance carrier, Kentucky Employers’ Mutual Insurance, has decided to return to policyholders. Earlier this month,...
Apr 16 2010 // Jeffery Stone and his wife Janette Diller Stone, one-time operators of a now-defunct New York investment firm called Crescent Fund, are not on any government most wanted list. And they aren’t exactly hiding, either....
Apr 16 2010 // A federal appeals court has ruled that an insurance company has no duty to defend against class action lawsuits filed in Illinois targeting the company’s insured, a Chinese manufacturer of toys sold in the United...
Apr 16 2010 // MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. insurer, has agreed to pay $13.5 million to resolve a federal government investigation into improper payments made to a San Diego-based insurance broker, the U.S. Justice Department said on...
Apr 16 2010 // QBE Americas has agreed to acquire NAU Country Insurance Co., a writer of crop insurance business based in Ramsey, Minn. Completion is expected in July 2010, subject to regulatory approvals.The acquisition supports...
Apr 15 2010 // A federal judge refused to immediately reinstate Louisiana State University hurricane and coastal researcher Ivor van Heerden, who was stripped of most of his duties last year. Van Heerden claims he is losing his job...
Apr 15 2010 // The U.S. property/casualty industry’s profitability as measured by their rate of return on average policyholders’ surplus (or statutory net worth) increased by 5.8 percent in 2009, while private P/C...
Apr 15 2010 // A major eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius could result in 8,000 fatalities, 13,000 serious injuries and total economic losses of more than $24 billion, says a new study.According to the Willis Research Network...
Apr 14 2010 // Georgia is joining a Florida-led group of states in a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, Florida’s attorney general said Tuesday.Bill McCollum, who is seeking...
Apr 14 2010 // U.S President Barack Obama will try to turn up the pressure for an overhaul of Wall Street regulations as he meets Wednesday with top Democratic and Republican lawmakers to discuss a sweeping package of reforms.Republicans...