All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2022 // A big group of U.S. states, led by New York, argued to an appeals court Monday that it should reinstate an antitrust lawsuit against Meta’s Facebook because of ongoing harm from the company’s actions and...
Sep 19 2022 // U.S. traffic deaths rose 0.5% in the first half of 2022 to 20,175, the highest number killed in the period since 2006, according to an early estimate released by U.S. regulators.Traffic deaths have jumped after pandemic...
Sep 19 2022 // Hurricane Katrina will miss Florida and the East Coast, but has left catastrophic flooding and widespread power outages in Puerto Rico and battered the Dominican Republic with 90 mph winds, according to news reports.The...
Sep 19 2022 // Teva Pharmaceutical Industries expects to finalize an opioid settlement in the United States by year-end and start paying in 2023, its chief executive said on Sunday, while confirming he was unlikely to renew his contract...
Sep 19 2022 // Growth in net premiums and a decline in policyholder dividends were eclipsed by losses and expenses to result in a $6.3 billion net underwriting loss for the U.S. property/casualty industry at the half-way mark of...
Sep 19 2022 // Total U.S. surplus lines direct premiums written (DPW) reached a record $82.6 billion in 2021, with momentum continuing through mid-year 2022, according to a new AM Best report.In the first six months of 2022, premiums...
Sep 16 2022 // The Justice Department said Wednesday that three Iranian citizens have been charged in the United States with ransomware attacks that targeted power companies, local governments and small businesses and nonprofits,...
Sep 16 2022 // OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program targets employers who repeatedly disregard workers’ safety and health. In order to strengthen enforcement and improve compliance with workplace safety standards and...
Sep 15 2022 // The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday that it wants to reverse some Trump administration rollbacks of offshore safety rules to prevent blowouts like the BP catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of...
Sep 14 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling June 24, 2022, in the case of Dobbs vs. Jackson, overturned five decades of abortion legal precedent established by the same court...
Sep 13 2022 // The Biden administration on Monday proposed offshore drilling safety measures that it said would help prevent oil spills and protect workers and the environment.The proposal aims to restore safety provisions put in place...
Sep 13 2022 // Flood maps used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency are out of date and understate the risks to homes and businesses from flooding and extreme rain triggered by climate change, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell...
Sep 12 2022 // U.S. commercial insurance prices increased again during the second quarter 2022, according to WTW’s latest Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS).The aggregate commercial price change reported by carriers...
Sep 9 2022 // AM Best said it held the belief that the U.S. personal auto line would right the ship following weakening performance in 2021, but headwinds such as inflation remain too strong and the rating agency revised its outlook for...
Sep 7 2022 // Total U.S. surplus lines direct premiums written (DPW) reached a record $82.6 billion in 2021, with momentum continuing through mid-year 2022, according to a new AM Best report.In the first six months of 2022, premiums...
Sep 6 2022 // Growth in net premiums and a decline in policyholder dividends were eclipsed by losses and expenses to result in a $6.3 billion net underwriting loss for the U.S. property/casualty industry at the half-way mark of...
Sep 6 2022 // Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, and Colorado are all places where your car is most likely to be gone in 60 seconds.Vehicle thefts have skyrocketed in many areas of the U.S., according to the recently released...
Sep 5 2022 // The number of U.S. products recalled this year has already surpassed 1 billion, according to the U.S. product recall index released by Sedgwick’s brand protection division. Only two other years on record have seen...
Sep 2 2022 // Three years of soaring directors and officers liability insurance prices pushed combined ratios down to the mid-to-high 90s, but new entrants and potential claims volatility may spell trouble for underwriters in the years...
Sep 2 2022 // There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S....