All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Aug 26 2021 // A former United States Golf Association employee has been charged in a scheme to embezzle funds from the unauthorized sale of U.S. Open Championship tickets, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams...
Aug 25 2021 // Insurtech Joyn Adds Schoberth as Chief Distribution OfficerInsurance technology company Joyn Insurance announced the addition of Uwe Schoberth as chief distribution officer. The role will focus on developing broker...
Aug 25 2021 // This edition of International/Reinsurance People Moves details appointments at three brokers: Howden, BMS Re and Aon with roles in the Netherlands and the U.S.A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden Appoints...
Aug 16 2021 // The U.S. deployed search and rescue teams to help find survivors among the debris of collapsed buildings in Haiti as the death toll soars from Saturday’s massive earthquake.At least 1,297 people were killed after the...
Aug 13 2021 // Estimated insured losses from natural catastrophes reached US$40 billion during the first half – driven by a deep winter freeze, hailstorms and wildfires, while man-made disasters triggered another estimated US$2 billion...
Aug 13 2021 // Florencio Gueta Vargas showed up for his usual shift at a hops farm in Toppenish, Washington, on Thursday, July 29. The father of six would never make it home.It was a sweltering day with temperatures topping 100 degrees...
Aug 12 2021 // Six insurers have ruled out Arctic refuge drilling, according to a report out this week from the Gwich’in Steering Committee.The Gwich’in are the northernmost Indian Nation living in 15 villages scattered...
Aug 12 2021 // As a longtime Florida resident, I have witnessed the destructive power of hurricanes on the lives and properties of countless Floridians and others across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.Hurricanes can pack such enormous...
Aug 12 2021 // The resurgence of COVID-19 cases in the United States due to the Delta variant and the new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that requires fully vaccinated individuals to wear masks...
Aug 9 2021 // An oil company that waited more than five months to investigate and report a 2014 pipeline spill in North Dakota that discharged more than 29 million gallons of drilling wastewater has agreed to pay more than $35 million...
Aug 5 2021 // Most residents of the wildfire-plagued Western U.S. believe in mitigation efforts, but fewer are actually taking such steps – while more than 40% have never spoken to their insurer about wildfire risk, according to a...
Aug 5 2021 // A semi truck with driverless technology successfully completed a demonstration in busy traffic on a highway in an economic center in China, according to the California firm, Plus, that provided the driverless...
Aug 4 2021 // Mexico sued several gun makers in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday, accusing them of reckless business practices that supply what it called a “torrent” of illegal arms to violent Mexican drug cartels, leading...
Aug 3 2021 // Rokstone, an international specialty re/insurance MGA, part of the Aventum Group, has launched a specialist agriculture division for the U.S. market.The new division, Rokstone Agriculture Risk Underwriters, will be led by...