All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 11 2009 // The debate over reforming the U.S. health care system has zeroed in on one main target: insurance companies.Democrats and the Obama administration plan to spend August battling to win popular support to expand health care...
Aug 10 2009 // Leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada gather today to present a united front to try to limit the spread of the H1N1 swine flu, but there is less unity on simmering trade issues.U.S. President Barack Obama,...
Aug 10 2009 // As investigators try to piece together how a small plane and tourist helicopter came to enter each other’s airspace over the Hudson River on a clear summer day, divers were to search for clues to the crash believed...
Aug 6 2009 // Newark, Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS) has unveiled its next-generation models for North America earthquake risks, covering the United States and Alaska, Canada and Mexico. The new models are likely to lead...
Aug 5 2009 // Insurance broker Marsh announced the appointment of Gary Grose as U.S. marketing director. Grose joins Marsh with 20 years of insurance industry marketing and sales experience. He reports to Jack Butcher, U.S. sales and...
Aug 5 2009 // The Ohio Insurance Institute (OII) recently reported that premiums for homeowners and auto insurance in that state remain lower than the U.S. average. On its Web site, www.ohioinsurance.org, the OII released the following...
Aug 5 2009 // The Colorado State University storm research team cut its 2009 Atlantic hurricane season forecast Tuesday, predicting that El Nino would trim the tally to 10 tropical storms, with four becoming hurricanes.The noted...
Aug 4 2009 // U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced a September summit to address the dangers of text-messaging and other distractions behind the wheel.In late September, senior transportation officials, elected...
Aug 3 2009 // U.S. captive insurers’ net income declined approximately 66 percent in 2008 for a composite of 186 captive companies represented in an A.M. Best Co. special report. This reflects realized losses of $1.2 billion for...
Aug 3 2009 // Lawyers for a Louisiana couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a jury’s award for allegations that an insurance company acted in bad faith when it denied...
Aug 3 2009 // Troubled insurer American International Group Inc. has chosen former MetLife chief Robert Benmosche as its new CEO, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.The AIG board approved the choice...
Aug 3 2009 // In a previous edition of Insurance Journal (July 20, 2009, “Tackling Client Bankruptcy: How to Help Clients Work Through the Challenges of Business Bankruptcy”), Dean Mortilla, president of NIP Specialty...
Aug 3 2009 // In what may prove to be boon for the U.S. auto industry and, by extension, Midwest states that have been adversely affected by auto manufacturer bankruptcies, the U.S. government launched its $1 billion cash incentive...
Aug 3 2009 // Across America, home sales and values are down. But the costs to repair and rebuild homes have not followed. Rising reconstruction prices are contrary to the economic news of recent months and perhaps contrary to...
Aug 3 2009 // Met LifeMetLife Inc. is combining its institutional and individual businesses, as well as its auto and home insurance unit, into a single U.S. business organization. William J. Mullaney, who has served as president of...
Aug 3 2009 // In a previous edition of Insurance Journal (July 20, 2009, “Tackling Client Bankruptcy: How to Help Clients Work Through the Challenges of Business Bankruptcy”), Dean Mortilla, president of NIP Specialty...
Aug 3 2009 // Twenty-four percent of agents and brokers have had business customers go into bankruptcy in the past two years; another 24 percent have had customers file for personal bankruptcy, according to a recent online poll by...
Aug 3 2009 // SureTecHouston, Texas-based SureTec Insurance Co. announced that Greg Faulx has joined the company as vice president and will head its new regional office in Denver. Faulx was a key member of the original management team...
Aug 3 2009 // Willis has been named in a second lawsuit stemming from its relation with indicted financier Allen Stanford. A Venezuelan investor, Reinaldo Ranni, filed a class action in U.S. federal court in Miami on July 17, accusing...
Jul 30 2009 // Willis Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: WSH) reported the company’s total second quarter revenues were up by 19 percent, an increase due primarily to the HRH acquisition.Total reported revenues for the quarter ended...