All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 10 2008 // The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a new comprehensive disaster plan for the country that officials say promises a response more like what occurred after California’s recent wildfires and...
Feb 10 2008 // 30A jury in New Mexico returned 30 guilty verdicts against former state Insurance Superintendent Joe Ruiz, in a case in which Ruiz was accused of trying to coerce insurance companies to donate money to charity in exchange...
Feb 7 2008 // More than two dozen tornadoes tore through the mid-South late Tuesday night, destroying homes, barns, and industrial buildings from Texas to Ohio. The severe thunderstorm outbreak, which included tornadoes, hail, heavy...
Feb 6 2008 // Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited will release its fourth quarter and year-end 2007 financial results today, Wednesday, February 6, 2008, following the closing of the U.S. markets. The Company will hold a conference call to...
Feb 6 2008 // Dallas-based managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. announced it has named Jeff Hicks a senior underwriter in its Commercial Underwriting department.In this position, Hicks will...
Feb 5 2008 // The last few years have been good ones for the property casualty insurance industry in terms of profitability. But it’s been a long time coming, according to Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information...
Feb 4 2008 // A government safety agency is pushing to require all home furnishings sold in the U.S. to be nonflammable.The Consumer Product Safety Commission advanced a proposal Friday that would require consumer upholstered furniture...
Feb 4 2008 // The Oregon Supreme Court for a third time has allowed a $79.5 million punitive-damages judgment against Philip Morris, an award twice struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, which suggested it was excessive.The award was...
Feb 4 2008 // There’s silence in John Brunoff’s Washington dairy farm, except for the sound of a lone worker hosing an empty 5,000-gallon milk tank.Just nine weeks ago, more than 270 cows filled this organic dairy farm with...
Feb 4 2008 // Southfield, Mich-based Meadowbrook Insurance Group, Inc. announced today its termination of the Management Agreement associated with its acquisition of the business of U.S. Specialty Underwriters, Inc. (USS).As previously...
Feb 4 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a+” and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of ‘A’ (Excellent) of Madison Wis.-based CUNA Mutual Insurance Society, the lead...
Feb 1 2008 // Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge in New Orleans dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to...
Feb 1 2008 // A federal appeals court panel has upheld a lower court’s decision ordering the U.S. Forest Service and a snowmobiler to pay nearly $10.2 million to a Michigan man who suffered severe brain injuries when he was struck...
Feb 1 2008 // A group of insurers says it hopes U.S. lawmakers will continue to focus on the need for affordable property insurance, an optional federal charter for the insurance regulatory system in America, and comprehensive flood...
Jan 31 2008 // Aon has released its “2008 Marine Insurance Market Review,” which concludes that the “marine industry is set for a continued run of favorable insurance premiums in 2008, despite facing higher risks. The...
Jan 30 2008 // The Chubb Corp. reported that net income in the fourth quarter of 2007 was $650 million or $1.68 per share, compared to $654 million or $1.56 per share in the fourth quarter of 2006.Operating income increased to $620...
Jan 28 2008 // A Georgia doctor accused of treating patients with a chemical used in pesticides was sentenced to five years probation for health care fraud. Sentenced on Jan. 24, Dr. Totada Shanthaveerappa pleaded guilty Oct. 30 to...
Jan 28 2008 // Addressing rollover safety, the government last week proposed that new cars and trucks undergo new tests to measure the strength of their roofs.With more than 10,000 people dying every year in rollovers, transportation...
Jan 27 2008 // New research on the link between the formation of hurricanes in the Atlantic basin and U.S. landfall activity suggests that using Atlantic basin hurricane activity as a proxy for landfall activity can lead to erroneous...
Jan 27 2008 // Lighthouse Underwriters, Cooley and DarlingCooley and Darling Insurance Agency Inc., a new retail agency based in Haymarket, Va., has acquired the retail book of non-profit business from Lighthouse Underwriters LLC, a...