All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 11 2008 // Marsh’s London office has issued a new “global benchmarking report,” which examines the use of captive insurance companies by today’s global firms. The report -“Next Generation Captives...
Apr 11 2008 // U.S. law offices plan a hiring spree as they ready a new volley of lawsuits for consumers who lost houses and investments in the mortgage industry meltdown.But new legal rules make it tougher to win than in the days of...
Apr 11 2008 // The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has invalidated Nevada’s insurance producer countersignature law in what could be the final nail in the coffin for these requirements on nonresident producers.U.S. District Judge...
Apr 10 2008 // Underground coal mines lack stockpiles of breathable air and communications gear for trapped workers, according to a federal report released this week, nearly two years after a series of mine fatalities led to Congress...
Apr 10 2008 // The rate of obesity in the United States has doubled in the last 30 years, and those extra pounds weigh on companies’ bottom lines, according to a new report from The Conference Board. Today, 34 percent of American...
Apr 10 2008 // Louisiana’s attorney general has withdrawn a multimillion-dollar antitrust lawsuit his predecessor filed on his final day in office against drug-maker Amgen Inc.Former Attorney General Charles Foti hired several...
Apr 10 2008 // A “well above-average” Atlantic hurricane season with eight hurricanes and 15 named storms entering the basin is predicted for 2008, according to forecasters at Colorado State University’s Department of...
Apr 9 2008 // A Montgomery, Ala. insurance executive indicted by a federal grand jury is blaming his legal problems on political retaliation by Republicans, including the governor, a politician the executive once supported but later...
Apr 9 2008 // Towboats in single file slowly negotiated their line of barges past a Mississippi River bridge in Vicksburg Monday, a safety measure ordered after weekend accidents scattered barges in the swift current of the swollen...
Apr 9 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services announced that it has lowered its counterparty credit rating on four U.S. Mortgage insurers as follows: MGIC Investment Corp. to ‘BBB’ from ‘A-‘ and its...
Apr 9 2008 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services Tuesday downgraded four U.S. mortgage insurers, including MGIC Investment Corp’s arm, citing a worse-than-expected housing slump.The credit agency said most companies...
Apr 7 2008 // Lloyd’s has welcomed the focus given to international issues in the US Treasury Blueprint for modernizing the US financial regulatory structure. The report sets out how the US Treasury believes financial regulation,...
Apr 7 2008 // America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy.We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the...
Apr 7 2008 // Gov. John Baldacci recently swore in Mila Kofman as superintendent of the Maine Insurance Bureau, Kofman has been an associate research professor at the Georgetown University, where she led health-related research projects...
Apr 7 2008 // Flood Concerns“Within the time constraints available to us, we exhausted our legal options.” —Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon comments on two lost attempts to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from...
Apr 7 2008 // America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy.We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the...
Apr 7 2008 // Patrick G. Ryan, founder and executive chairman of the largest insurance intermediary, Aon Corp., said he intends to retire from Aon effective Aug. 1, 2008.“After 41 years as CEO and three years as executive...
Apr 7 2008 // America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy.We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the...
Apr 7 2008 // America is in the midst of a significant financial crisis. A meltdown in the subprime mortgage sector and the resulting credit crunch are threatening to drag down our economy.We applaud the aggressive steps taken by the...
Apr 4 2008 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency is better prepared for the next disaster but still is not ready for another catastrophe on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, the agency’s internal investigators say.FEMA has made...