All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 14 2007 // The U.S. government has agreed with China to improve information-sharing on auto safety in the aftermath of a recall of thousands of defective Chinese-made tires over the last several months.The “memorandum of...
Sep 14 2007 // Insurance 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 the northeastern...
Sep 14 2007 // A Louisiana state appeals court is weighing whether an insurance company must pay for damage from the failure of levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, a case that could affect thousands of property owners in the...
Sep 13 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 13 2007 // When Jim Johnson turned 65 last spring, the executive vice president at Securian Financial Group could have joined several colleagues who decided to retire. But when the company asked him to stay in charge of its group...
Sep 12 2007 // Alabama and Florida officials started a jointly funded project this week that will provide a four-lane hurricane evacuation route from the Florida Panhandle to Interstate 65 in Alabama.It’s a rare case in which a...
Sep 11 2007 // Six years after September 11, 2001, the threat of terrorist attack remains a source of tremendous uncertainty for the United States economy, with potentially negative consequences for both business interests and...
Sep 11 2007 // Fire departments in the United States responded to an estimated 1.6 million fires during 2006. These fires caused 3,245 civilian deaths and 16,400 injuries, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).The...
Sep 11 2007 // The flow of products imported into the U.S. each year is so vast that simply increasing inspections would not adequately improve safety. Instead, the government should do more to ensure products are safe before they reach...
Sep 11 2007 // Two senators want to ban Mexican trucks from U.S. roads, saying not enough has been done to make sure they are safe.Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., want to strip funding for a program launched last...
Sep 10 2007 // Standard & Poor’s Rating Services has issued a series of reports on the global reinsurance industry, timed to appear as the annual Reinsurance Rendezvous opens its doors in Monte Carlo. The meeting, which...
Sep 10 2007 // Two south Mississippi men will be sentenced in December for making false claims for Hurricane Katrina relief, officials said.Danny Gene Hale will be sentenced Dec. 4 on six counts of fraud. Hale was convicted on Sept. 5 in...
Sep 7 2007 // The Bermuda – based Catlin Group Limited announced from its London offices that income before tax for the first half of 2007 was $190 million after acquisition effects. Net income was $162 million.The earnings...
Sep 6 2007 // Federal agents arrested and charged 11 New Jersey local public officials with taking bribes in exchange for giving public contracts to an insurance brokerage set up by investigators.The public corruption investigation —...
Sep 5 2007 // Dallas-based U.S. Risk Insurance Group Inc. named Quinton Goss a broker and inland marine underwriter at U.S. Risk Brokers, the company’s wholesale excess and surplus lines insurance brokerage operations. He will be...
Sep 4 2007 // The lack of familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulations and government immunities can leave U.S. government contractors exposed to costly lawsuits from customers and business partners, says Chubb Group of Insurance...
Sep 4 2007 // An appeals court in San Francisco threw out a decision that would have given $52 million to the parents of a toddler killed by a rolling pickup truck, and asked for a new jury to set punitive damages in the case.This is...
Sep 4 2007 // U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters announced that 17 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and four territories will receive more than $109 million under a federal program to encourage and enforce seat...
Sep 3 2007 // Marsh UK has issued a warning to the European financial services sector, including insurance companies, hedge funds, banks and ratings agencies, that “they may be exposed to greater directors’ and...
Sep 3 2007 // As the Latino population continues to grow, marketers are directing more efforts to reach this segment. Every company in the United States has asked itself the question: how do we attract Latino consumers? And many are now...