Latest USA Headlines
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Latest Death Linked to Takata Air Bag Exposes Recall System Flaw
Dec 27 2015 // From 2010 to 2012, Honda Motor Co. said it made multiple attempts to notify the owner of a 2001 Accord that the car’s air bag was faulty and needed replacing. Last July, with the car sold to another person and...
Obamacare Sign-Ups Reach 8.3 Million in 2015
Dec 23 2015 // About 8.3 million people have signed up for health coverage through Obamacare’s U.S.-run shopping markets this year, the U.S. said Tuesday, surpassing last year’s total and signaling good news for hospital and...
Largest U.S. Electric Company On Alert for Cyberattacks
Dec 23 2015 // The country’s largest electricity company is on alert for cyberattacks that aim to hamper the critical flow of power and is listening to U.S. intelligence agencies about potential threats, the Duke Energy Corp....
Warm 2016 May Help Put Climate Change on The Map – Even Higher That Is
Dec 23 2015 // If you think you heard a lot about climate change in 2015, wait till next year – or next week depending on how you want to look at it. Next year may be on track to the be warmest year on record, according to the...
Lac Megantic Train Crash Victims’ Fund to Begin Payments without CP Rail
Dec 23 2015 // A C$460 million (US$330.46 million) settlement fund for victims of the 2013 Lac-Megantic crude-by-rail disaster will begin disbursements this week without the participation of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd [CP], the monitor...
U.S. Spending Bill to End Oil Export Ban
Dec 21 2015 // Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that averts a U.S. government shutdown and ends a 40- year-old ban on crude oil exports, a plan that ensures fiscal peace in Congress through most of 2016. The Senate passed...
A Look at the Highest Paid U.S. Corporate Director Posts
Dec 21 2015 // Outsize pay for chief executive officers has been a bone of contention among shareholder activists for years. What’s less known is that the directors on board-compensation committees — the very people who...
People – Southeast
Dec 21 2015 // Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak was elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). She joins the other 2016 NAIC officers...
People – South Central
Dec 21 2015 // The Texas Surplus Lines Association Inc. has elected new officers and directors, including President Shawn Fabors, managing director, AmWINS Program Underwriters Inc. in Dallas. He takes over from outgoing President Penny...
Regulators Focused on Product Innovation, Emerging Trends
Dec 21 2015 // State-based insurance regulation has a 145-year history of effectively and successfully protecting consumers and fostering competitive insurance markets. As the 2016 president of the National Association of Insurance...
Disruptive Change
Dec 21 2015 // U.S. property/casualty insurers should expect disruptive changes in a number of areas in 2016, including technology, pricing, customer demand and “heightened regulatory creep,” consultant Ernst & Young...
Business Moves
Dec 21 2015 // Associates of Glens Falls, Loomis & LaPann Associates of Glens Falls Insurance, an independent agency in Glens Falls, N.Y., announced that it has acquired Loomis & LaPann Inc., an insurance brokerage unit of...
Supreme Court Hears Liberty Mutual Case Against Vermont Data Law
Dec 21 2015 // Members of the U.S. Supreme Court indicated on Dec. 2 that Vermont and 17 other states could be prevented from collecting healthcare information from certain employee health plan administrators. The nine justices heard a...
Ohio AG: Identity Theft Complaints in Ohio Up over 2014
Dec 18 2015 // Identity theft complaints in Ohio have already surpassed the number received last year by about 300, according to the state attorney general’s office. Kate Hanson, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Mike DeWine, said...
Zurich Insurance to Buy Wells Fargo Crop Insurance Unit
Dec 18 2015 // Zurich Insurance Group AG agreed to buy a Wells Fargo & Co. crop insurance business for as much as $1.05 billion as the Swiss company puts to work excess cash left over from a separate takeover bid that it abandoned...
After San Bernardino Shooting, Businesses Review How to Handle Workplace Violence
Dec 18 2015 // The terror attack at a social services facility in California has become a sobering reminder to companies of how vulnerable workplaces can be when employees are confronted with active shooters. Since a gun-wielding...
Chinese Drones Perform Well in Analyzing Tianjin Damage Estimates
Dec 18 2015 // When an explosion devastated parts of China’s Tianjin port in August, one insurance company turned to Chinese-made drones to help analyze the rubble and estimate the damages. Comparing satellite photographs of the...
Mass. Lawmakers Weigh 2-Tiered Driver’s License Identification System
Dec 17 2015 // Among the many issues that Massachusetts lawmakers may deal with after returning from recess in January is whether to bring the state into compliance with REAL ID, a federal program that sets new requirements for...
Buyers of Expiring Patents See Profit in Infringement Claims
Dec 17 2015 // The 1990s may be over but patents from that era live on. U.S. courts are seeing a rash of lawsuits involving old and sometimes expired patents as companies try to squeeze the last bit of profits from their 20-year-old...
How to Make U.S. Traffic Safety Programs More Effective: RAND Study
Dec 17 2015 // Following a national approach to adopting traffic safety laws is more cost effective than following a state-by-state approach, according to a new RAND Corp. study. Boosting traffic safety funding by 10 percent and...
