All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2009 // Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and AIG are forging new employment contracts that let them void compensation agreements if they are challenged by the U.S. government, according to a person familiar with some recent...
Aug 24 2009 // Consumers and companies are vulnerable to hackers and identity thieves even after U.S. authorities arrested a man they said was a master hacker who stole 170 million credit and debit card numbers.Estimates on the total...
Aug 24 2009 // Hurricane Bill brought rain and heavy winds to eastern Canada Sunday after pounding the U.S. East Coast with heavy seas that killed two people.A seven-year-old girl died in a hospital after she was pulled unresponsive from...
Aug 24 2009 // One of the most widely accepted arguments against a government medical plan for the middle class is that it would quash competition — just what private insurers seem to be doing themselves in many parts of the...
Aug 24 2009 // A federal appeals court invalidated a California law Thursday that allowed heirs of Armenians killed in the Turkish Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago to seek payment on the life insurance policies of dead relatives.The...
Aug 21 2009 // Australia’s Macquarie Group Ltd. is in talks to acquire Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller, a small investment bank owned by its management and private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co LLC, a person familiar...
Aug 21 2009 // Hurricane Bill became less organized Friday as it pursued a path that would take it between Bermuda and the eastern United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Bill, a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson...
Aug 20 2009 // Powerful Hurricane Bill, a dangerous Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds, raged across the open Atlantic Wednesday, days from land but on a path that could menace Canada’s eastern provinces next week.Sweeping past...
Aug 20 2009 // Robert Benmosche, the newly appointed chief executive officer of American International Group Inc., says he expects the bailed-out insurer to be able to repay its federal debts and to boost value for shareholders,...
Aug 19 2009 // Robert Benmosche, the newly appointed chief executive of AIG, has started to cut up the insurer’s restructuring plan, deciding it is better to hold on to an investment advisory unit that is part of the...
Aug 19 2009 // Hurricane Bill, the first of the 2009 Atlantic season, gathered strength and grew into a dangerous Category 4 storm with sustained winds of up to 135 mph (215 kph) on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Bill...
Aug 19 2009 // Attention all you insurance industry golfers filling out your gift lists: the birthplace of American golf is up for sale.Lewis Keller, the owner of West Virginia’s Oakhurst Links, says that after 50 years, it’s...
Aug 18 2009 // American International Group Inc., the insurer that received billions of dollars in a U.S. bailout, said on Monday that it will pay newly-appointed Chief Executive Robert Benmosche an annual salary of $7 million.In a...
Aug 18 2009 // Hurricane Bill, the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season, revved up quickly Monday as it headed toward Bermuda, while the remnants of Tropical Storm Ana dissipated without threatening the U.S. Gulf oil patch.Bill...
Aug 17 2009 // The Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) has issued a bulletin expressing concerns over a new ruling in the US state of Illinois that allows brokers to resume taking contingent commissions.The...
Aug 17 2009 // Tropical Storm Claudette, the third of the Atlantic hurricane season, moved ashore along the U.S. Gulf coast early Monday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Claudette formed early Sunday morning. The storm hit the...
Aug 17 2009 // Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration’s pay czar, said on Sunday he has broad and “binding” authority over executive compensation, including the ability to “claw back” money already paid,...
Aug 17 2009 // Hurricane Bill, the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season, gained strength quickly as it churned across open ocean Monday in the direction of Bermuda, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.Two other tropical...
Aug 17 2009 // Federal officials announced the indictment of a Miami man in what they say is the largest identity theft ring ever exposed in the U.S.Albert Gonzales, 28, was indicted for conspiring to hack into computer networks...
Aug 12 2009 // The Atlantic could get its first named storm of the hurricane season later Wednesday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.The basin’s second tropical depression is remaining just below tropical storm...