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AM Best: US P/C Industry in 2024 Posts First Underwriting Profit in Four Years
Mar 18 2025 // For the first time in four years, the U.S. property/casualty industry will finish a year with an underwriting profit. AM Best today in a “First Look” at US P/C financial results said the industry left 2024 with...
US Court Allows Trump to Enforce Ban on DEI Programs, For Now
Mar 16 2025 // A U.S. appeals court on Friday said the Trump administration could temporarily implement a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs at federal agencies and businesses with government contracts, which had been...
US Property/Catastrophe Reinsurance Rates Likely to Stabilize During Midyear Renewals
Mar 14 2025 // Reinsurance renewal rates continued dropping during this year’s January renewals, but US property/catastrophe reinsurance pricing is likely to stabilize during the coming midyear renewals, according to a report from...
Delaware Aims to Remain Top US Corporate Home; Texas Marshals a Challenge
Mar 13 2025 // A year after Elon Musk urged U.S. companies to abandon Delaware as their legal home and follow Tesla to Texas, legislators in the two states on Wednesday considered bills in an unusual battle over corporate law that...
J.P. Morgan Economist Sees 40% Chance of US Recession
Mar 12 2025 // There is about a 40% chance of a U.S. recession this year and a risk of lasting damage to the country’s standing as an investment destination if the administration undermines trust in U.S. governance, according to...
Potent Storm System Threatens Central US
Mar 12 2025 // A potent storm system is expected to pour heavy rain on western states later this week before rumbling into the central United States, where it could spawn tornadoes in the South and dump heavy snow across the parts of the...
Missouri Threatens to Seize Chinese Assets Across US in $24 Billion Lawsuit
Mar 12 2025 // Missouri’s attorney general is threatening to seize Chinese assets across the U.S. to collect $24.5 billion awarded in a lawsuit against China stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, but experts were skeptical Monday,...
US Labor Board Drops Defense of Law Barring Trump From Firing Democratic Member
Mar 11 2025 // The U.S. agency that enforces the labor rights of private-sector workers is abandoning its defense of a law barring the president from removing appointees at will, as President Donald Trump seeks to oust a Democratic...
US Commercial Lines Prices Up 5.6% With Signs of Moderation: WTW CLIPS
Mar 11 2025 // U.S. commercial insurance rates showed a continued upward trend with signs of moderation in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the latest findings from WTW’s Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey...
Bayer Threatens to Stop Roundup Weedkiller Sales in US Over Litigation Costs
Mar 10 2025 // Bayer has told U.S. lawmakers it could stop selling Roundup weedkiller unless they can strengthen legal protection against product liability litigation, according to a financial analyst and a person close to the...
US P/C Industry Improves Despite 2024 Underwriting Loss: Changes in Personal Lines Segment Driver of Expected Improvement
Mar 10 2025 // The U.S. property/casualty industry took another underwriting loss in 2024, but results improved thanks to rate increases and changes in risk selection, most notably in the personal lines sector. A report from industry...
Sedgwick: U.S. Product Recalls Reached High Level Again Last Year
Mar 10 2025 // The number of U.S. product recalls remained high in 2024 with more than 3,200 events recorded for the second consecutive year, a new report shows. Sedgwick brand protection’s 2025 U.S. State of the Nation Recall...
World Must Prepare to Fight Climate Change Without US, UK Says
Mar 7 2025 // The world needs to prepare to fight global warming without the help of the US as the Trump administration pulls billions of dollars pledged to initiatives funding the green transition, the UK’s climate envoy said....
US Indicts Slew of Alleged Chinese Hackers, Sanctions Company Over Spy Campaign
Mar 6 2025 // The U.S. on Wednesday announced indictments against a slew of alleged Chinese hackers, sanctioned a Chinese tech company and offered a $10 million bounty over what Washington called a years-long spy campaign that stole...
US Anger Grows Over Global Reach of EU’s ‘Hostile’ ESG Rules
Mar 6 2025 // As trans-Atlantic relations grow increasingly fraught, Europe’s ESG regulations are becoming yet another flashpoint that threatens to sour ties. The American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AmCham EU) says...
Australia’s Insured Losses From Cyclone Alfred Could Top US$1.3 Billion: S&P
Mar 5 2025 // Australia’s largest property and casualty (P/C) insurers should be well placed to manage claims stemming from tropical cyclone Alfred, which could top A$2billion (US$1.3 billion), according to a report published by...
CFPB Drops Suit Against US Banks Over Alleged Fraud on Zelle
Mar 5 2025 // The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismissed another Biden-era lawsuit, this one targeting some of the world’s largest banks for allegedly rushing out a peer-to-peer payment network that then allowed fraud to...
US GDP Could Take a Big Hit From Climate Change by 2100, Study Shows
Feb 28 2025 // A working paper from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office recently estimated the distribution of changes in gross domestic product in the year 2100 resulting from changes in temperature. And it could be bad, really...
ZestyAI: More Than $2 Trillion in US Homes at High Risk of Wildfires
Feb 28 2025 // While Western wildfires have dominated disaster news for decades, new analysis using artificial intelligence shows millions of homes across the country—even in the swampy Southeast—are at risk for wildfires. New data...
US Soldier Linked to AT&T Hack Accused of Contacting Spy Agency
Feb 27 2025 // A 21-year-old US soldier accused of trying to sell AT&T call records of Donald Trump’s family members also attempted to pawn off sensitive data to a foreign intelligence organization, according to court...
