Latest USA Headlines
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Ridehailing Blamed for Rise in Traffic Congestion, Deaths
Jul 9 2019 // Blame Uber. While the era of app-based ridehailing services, such as Uber and Lyft, has been credited with everything from keeping impaired drivers off the road to increasing job opportunities to adding new levels of...
EU Judges Face Another Major Facebook Privacy Case from Activist Schrems
Jul 9 2019 // Five years ago, when activist Max Schrems took Facebook Inc. to the European Union’s top court no one knew what to call the case. The controversy, which led to judges scrapping a key trans-Atlantic data-transfer...
Research Shows Suburban Population Near Natural Gas Storage in 6 States
Jul 9 2019 // About 65% of active natural gas storage (UGS) wells in the United States are located in suburban residential areas and not in more sparsely populated commercial, industrial, or even rural areas like many new unconventional...
Court Halts Trump Plan to Require Drug Prices in TV Ads
Jul 9 2019 // A federal judge on Monday dealt a blow to the Trump administration by striking down a new rule that would have forced pharmaceutical companies to include the wholesale prices of their drugs in television advertising. U.S....
Brit Global Adds AIG, NAS Cyber Specialists to U.S. Cyber & Technology Practice
Jul 8 2019 // James Patterson and Ryan Mimmo have been appointed vice presidents of Cyber & Technology for Brit Global Specialty USA. They are based in San Francisco and New York, respectively, and are responsible for underwriting...
Affordable Care Act’s Fate Could Rest with Appellate Court’s View on Technical Matters
Jul 8 2019 // The fate of Obamacare, the law that President Donald Trump campaigned on repealing and replacing, could hinge on several technical points of law as a federal appeals court prepares to decide whether it’s...
The Mounting Cost of Piracy off Coast of West Africa: Opinion
Jul 3 2019 // Remember those Somali pirates? Earlier this decade, they brazenly hijacked giant oil tankers, demanded ransoms in the millions of dollars, and gave Tom Hanks yet another chance to play the everyman overcoming a...
USI Insurance Services Acquisition of U.S. Risk Finalized
Jul 3 2019 // The acquisition of Dallas-based property/casualty program and specialty brokerage, U.S. Risk Insurance Group (U.S. Risk), by USI Insurance Services (USI), has been finalized. Terms of the previously announced transaction...
Reinsurers Offering Better Prices, Capacity for Preferred Trading Partners: Willis Re
Jul 2 2019 // Strengthening primary insurance market conditions underpinned improvements to reinsurance prices, terms and conditions at the June 1 and July 1, 2019 renewals, according to the latest 1st View renewals report from Willis...
Liberty Mutual Completes $240 Million Limestone Re Transaction
Jul 2 2019 // For the fourth time, Liberty Mutual has utilized capital markets’ reinsurance capacity via the Bermuda collateralized reinsurance sidecar, Limestone Re Ltd. The Boston-based insurer said it has completed a new...
New Jersey Framing Contractor Cited for Exposing Employees to Fall Hazards
Jul 2 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Navy Contractors Inc. for exposing employees to fall hazards at a work site in Lakewood, N.J. The company faces $84,183 in...
New York Governor Cuomo Orders Probe into Facebook’s Advertising Platform
Jul 2 2019 // New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Financial Services to investigate reports that state-regulated advertisers were using Facebook Inc’s advertising platform in a discriminatory...
China to End Limits on Foreign Ownership in Financial Sector One Year Early
Jul 2 2019 // China will end ownership limits for foreign investors in its financial sector in 2020, a year earlier than scheduled, to show the world it will keep opening up its markets, Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday. China will...
U.S. Risk Insurance Group Finalizes Sale to USI Insurance Services
Jul 2 2019 // Dallas, TX, July 2, 2019 – U.S. Risk Insurance Group (U.S. Risk), one of the nation’s largest property and casualty program and specialty brokerage firms, today announced the completion of its previously announced...
US Government Wants Some of Oklahoma’s $270M Purdue Pharma Settlement Money
Jul 1 2019 // The U.S. government wants a portion of Oklahoma’s $270 million settlement with Purdue Pharma that stemmed from the state’s ongoing lawsuit against opioid makers. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Motel 6 Settles Another Class Action Over Giving Guest Lists to Immigration Agents
Jul 1 2019 // Motel 6 has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over claims the budget chain routinely provided guest lists from properties in Arizona to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, court...
Delaware Chemical Manufacturer Fined $262K for Exposing Workers to Toxic Gas
Jul 1 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Croda Inc. after a chemical release at the New Castle, Del., manufacturing plant exposed workers to ethylene oxide. The...
Supreme Court Offs Ban on Foul Language Trademarks
Jul 1 2019 // The Supreme Court in late June struck down a longstanding U.S. ban on trademarks on “immoral” or “scandalous” words and symbols, ruling in a case involving a clothing brand with an indelicate name...
How Insys Bankruptcy Case Could Alter Fate of Thousands of Opioid Lawsuits
Jun 28 2019 // The fate of thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic hinges in part on a thorny legal question: Can a company can use a bankruptcy to stop lawsuits from cities and...
U.S. Jury Finds Huawei Stole Silicon Valley Startup’s Trade Secrets
Jun 28 2019 // A federal jury in Texas has ruled that Huawei stole trade secrets from a Silicon Valley startup, but it didn’t award any damages. After a three-week trial, jurors in U.S. District Court in Sherman, Texas, determined...
