All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2021 // U.S. motorists drove 11.5% more miles in July as driving nearly matched pre-COVID levels and more Americans returned to offices and took leisure trips.The Federal Highway Administration said Thursday motorists drove 290.1...
Sep 23 2021 // A report from the Mortgage Bankers Association says there’s little doubt that climate change will impact housing and the housing finance industry, and while just how great that impact will be is as of yet unknown,...
Sep 22 2021 // BOXX, the Toronto-based cyber insurer for small businesses, individuals and families, announced it has closed its oversubscribed US$10 million (C$12.7 million) Series A-round in a bid to accelerate growth and expand its...
Sep 22 2021 // Karen Clark & Co. (KCC), the Boston-based catastrophe modeling company, announced it has released Version 1.0 of its high-resolution U.S. Wildfire Model.This advanced and fully probabilistic model provides exceedance...
Sep 20 2021 // Foxquilt, a Toronto-based insurtech, announced it has raised an $8 million financing round led by Luge Capital with participation from AmTrust Financial, Extreme Venture Partners and Side Door Ventures.The new capital will...
Sep 17 2021 // The U.S. government should be prepared to fire “cyber bullets” in response to significant hacking attacks as part of a comprehensive strategy to dissuade adversaries, National Cyber Director Chris Inglis...
Sep 17 2021 // Estimates reflect insured wind, storm surge, and inland flooding impacts in the U.S., including losses to the National Flood Insurance Program and the private flood market.Newark, CA – September 17, 2021 – RMS®, the...
Sep 16 2021 // The U.S. surplus lines market experienced direct premium growth of 17.5% in 2020, the largest year-over-year premium increase since 2003, according to an AM Best report.The 2020 increase in direct premium written comes on...
Sep 14 2021 // Lockton’s Reese Joins Cowbell CyberA former Lockton executive has joined Cowbell Cyber as its new head of Insurance. Chris Reese will focus on the company’s business . Reese brings more than 35 years of...
Sep 13 2021 // Hurricane Ida will likely become one of the costliest U.S. mainland hurricanes on record both on a nominal and inflation-adjusted basis, according to Aon’s monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluated the...
Sep 10 2021 // FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into German insurer Allianz is looking at possible misconduct by fund managers and misrepresentation of risk to investors, three people with...
Sep 9 2021 // President Joe Biden on Thursday said he will require all federal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and the U.S. Department of Labor will issue a rule requiring that businesses with more than 100 employees have...
Sep 8 2021 // First came the roughnecks and other oil field workers, almost all men.Lured by steady wages as the nation climbed out of the Great Recession, they filled McKenzie County’s few motel rooms, then began sleeping in...
Sep 7 2021 // The U.S. Coast Guard said on Sept. 6 it was investigating nearly 350 reports of oil spills in and along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in the wake of Hurricane Ida.Ida’s 150 mile-per-hour (240 kph) winds wreaked havoc on...
Sep 7 2021 // German regulators have launched an investigation into the country’s biggest financial company, Allianz, after the demise of some of its U.S. investment funds last year, people with direct knowledge of the matter told...
Sep 6 2021 // Bermuda’s Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. is introducing new product offerings in healthcare and excess casualty.Vantage was established in late 2020 and began writing reinsurance risk on January 1, 2021, through its...
Aug 31 2021 // With more than 1 million customers in Louisiana and Mississippi having lost power, Hurricane Ida is sure to take a toll on the energy, chemical and shipping industries that have major hubs along the Gulf Coast. But the...
Aug 31 2021 // An Oklahoma court has approved Sentry Insurance Co.’s (Sentry) Insurance Business Transfer (IBT) Plan, insurance regulators say.This is the second IBT completed in the United States, according to the Oklahoma...
Aug 31 2021 // The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced that the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) is requesting information and soliciting public comment on the insurance sector and climate-related financial risks.FIO said the...
Aug 26 2021 // It’s counterintuitive to run toward a fire, or any risk for that matter, but that mindest doesn’t seem to always hold.U.S. counties with the biggest proportions of homes facing high heat, drought, fire, flood...