All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 30 2020 // Russia is stepping up work on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline before the U.S. tightens sanctions against the controversial project designed to feed more natural gas into Germany.Construction of the 1,230-kilometer (764-mile)...
Dec 29 2020 // Commercial drone use for deliveries and services cleared a major hurdle in the U.S. with new rules allowing the devices to fly over populated areas for the first time and requirements for tracking them to address safety...
Dec 29 2020 // Lost in the U.S. launch of the coronavirus vaccine is a fact most don’t know when they roll up their sleeves: In rare cases of serious illness from the shots, the injured are blocked from suing and steered instead to...
Dec 23 2020 // The U.S. Justice Department sued Walmart Inc. on Tuesday, accusing the world’s biggest retailer of fueling the opioid crisis in the United States, ignoring warning signs from its pharmacists and filling thousands of...
Dec 22 2020 // The northeastern U.S. is one of the key areas of the country at risk for flooding, as evidenced by the billions in losses from Superstorm Sandy, which saw more than $8.1 billion in 144,000 NFIP (National Flood Insurance...
Dec 21 2020 // Dale Underwriting Partners and DUAL announced a new joint venture, Dale DUAL MGU Ltd. (DDML), in collaboration with Aviva with immediate effect. This partnership has been brought together by Howden Reinsurance Broking led...
Dec 21 2020 // Russian hackers who broke into U.S. government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and...
Dec 21 2020 // The suspected Russian hack of U.S. government agencies has led to heated rhetoric from lawmakers, with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin calling it “virtually a declaration of war” and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio saying...
Dec 21 2020 // For the second quarter in a row, U.S. commercial lines insurers enjoyed average rate hikes that neared 10% but the rocket ship rate hike trend might be moderating.“While commercial insurance prices continued to rise...
Dec 17 2020 // Latest RMS estimate includes loss from new fires that started and spread following the previous RMS loss estimate in SeptemberNewark, CA – December 15, 2020 – RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk solutions...
Dec 16 2020 // On an earnings call two months ago, SolarWinds Chief Executive Kevin Thompson touted how far the company had gone during his 11 years at the helm.There was not a database or an IT deployment model out there to which his...
Dec 16 2020 // Insurance industry losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters across the globe amounted to US$83 billion in 2020, making it the fifth-costliest year for the industry since 1970, according to the Swiss Re...
Dec 15 2020 // RMS estimates insured losses from the record-breaking western U.S. wildfires this season will be between $7 and $13 billion.These losses reflect estimates as of Dec. 1. The ignition of the highly damaging Glass Fire and...
Dec 15 2020 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and thousands of businesses scrambled Monday to investigate and respond to a sweeping hacking campaign that officials suspect was directed by the Russian government.Emails sent by...
Dec 14 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic could result in net losses from $3.2 trillion and up to $4.8 trillion in U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) over the course of two years, a new University of Southern California (USC) study...
Dec 11 2020 // UK startup battleface Inc., a company that specializes in tech-enabled global travel insurance, announced a $12-million Series A financing round from Drive Capital, a Columbus, Ohio-based venture capital firm. The...
Dec 11 2020 // Zurich Insurance and Farmers Exchanges have agreed to buy MetLife’s U.S. property and casualty business for $3.94 billion, the insurers said on Friday, after the COVID-19 pandemic made motor and home insurers more...
Dec 10 2020 // A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is meeting on Thursday to weigh whether to recommend that the agency authorize Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, one of the last...
Dec 9 2020 // The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from Louisiana State University, which spent years arguing that it should be immune from a lawsuit filed by the parents of a fraternity pledge from Georgia who died of acute...
Dec 9 2020 // Sirius International Insurance Group Ltd. announced its new U.S.-based excess & surplus lines (E&S) platform, called Sirius Specialty Insurance Co. (SSIC), will begin underwriting business produced by the...