All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2007 // The federal government may be overpaying private insurers for their operating costs associated with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a recent report said.The government’s payments to insurance companies...
Sep 24 2007 // 65New U.S. census figures show that the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul rank fourth in the nation in the percentage of seniors working past age 65. Of Twin Cities residents in their late 60s and early 70s, more than...
Sep 24 2007 // Companies moving into international markets could be exposed to risks not insured under domestic policiesIn the past 10 years, it has become much easier for U.S. companies to venture into the global marketplace. Advances...
Sep 24 2007 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices has named its officers and directors for the 2007-2008 term. The new NAPSLO president is Mary Ellen Rozzell, who is with Continental/Marmorstein & Malone...
Sep 24 2007 // Another Katrina levee failure case heard by La. appeals courtOral arguments in a lawsuit over whether an insurance company must pay for damage from the failure of levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina were heard by...
Sep 24 2007 // Endurance Specialty, ARMTechEndurance Specialty Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, reported that one of its U.S. based holding companies is buying out ARMtech...
Sep 24 2007 // The National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices selected officers and directors for the trade association’s 2007-2008 term.The new officers are: President – Mary Ellen Rozzell,...
Sep 24 2007 // Everett man gets three years for arsonA man who admitted torching a friend’s grocery store in Everett, Wash., in a plan by the two to collect insurance has been sentenced to three years in prison. Naveed Khan, 25, of...
Sep 24 2007 // HRH, Bank of AmericaInsurance broker Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. has agreed to purchase Banc of America Corporate Insurance Agency, L.L.C., a segment of Bank of America, N.A., and a middle market insurance intermediary in...
Sep 24 2007 // The federal government may be overpaying private insurers for their operating costs associated with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a recent report said.The government’s payments to insurance companies...
Sep 24 2007 // While global warming may ultimately prove to be the biggest crisis the world’s people have ever faced, it’s not as immediate a threat as that posed by global terrorism. After Sept. 11 and the Madrid and London...
Sep 24 2007 // Oral arguments in a lawsuit over whether an insurance company must pay for damage from the failure of levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina were heard by Louisiana’s 4th Circuit Court of Appeal on Sept. 12.In...
Sep 24 2007 // At rail stations and shopping malls around the world, reports are popping up of people, particularly young children, getting their toes caught in escalators. The one common theme seems to be the clunky, soft-soled clogs...
Sep 20 2007 // Bermuda-based Ariel Holdings Ltd. reports it will acquire Valiant Insurance Co. from Zurich North America Commercial Group. Ariel Holdings Ltd. said it has established a U.S. based insurance holding company, Valiant...
Sep 20 2007 // A package of Dole salad mix that tested positive for E. coli has triggered a recall in at least nine states, prompting new produce fears almost exactly a year after a nationwide spinach scare.The tainted bag of...
Sep 19 2007 // The leader of an arson ring that collected more than $400,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for fires in three New York counties is scheduled to surrender Sept. 18 to serve a 10-year federal prison sentence, according to...
Sep 19 2007 // Swiss Re’s Chief US economist, Kurt Karl, issued a comment following the decision by the Federal Reserve to lower the target fed funds rate 50 basis points to 4.75 percent. He described the move as a “strong...
Sep 18 2007 // The Bush Administration believes that the federal backup for terrorism reinsurance should be phased out in favor of a private market for terrorism insurance and “strongly opposes efforts to expand the federal...
Sep 18 2007 // The vast majority of U.S. insurers have little or no exposure to the volatility in the subprime mortgage market because a substantial percentage of their investments are in the highest-rated bonds or stocks with no direct...
Sep 17 2007 // Farmers across North Carolina are now eligible for low-interest emergency loans from the federal government to help them recover from sizable crop losses sustained in the state’s ongoing drought, Gov. Mike Easley...