Latest USA Headlines
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FAA Creates Drone Advisory Panel, Lifts Barrier to Education
May 9 2016 // The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is establishing a broad-based advisory committee to provide advice on key unmanned aircraft integration issues. Also, under a new policy, the agency will also make it easier for...
How P/C Insurers Fared in 2015
May 9 2016 // The U.S. property/casualty (P/C) industry marked a third consecutive year of underwriting profitability, with $6.2 billion in underwriting income in 2015. However, the lower level of underwriting income and an 11.2 percent...
U.S. Justice Dept. to North Carolina: LGBT Law Violates Federal Civil Rights Act
May 6 2016 // A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights laws and can’t be enforced, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday, putting the state on notice that it is in danger of being...
JLT Re Enters U.S Mortgage Insurance Market
May 5 2016 // Reinsurance broker JLT Re has launched a new operation in North America – JLT Re Global Mortgage Solutions — to offer insurance and reinsurance to government-sponsored entities, mortgage insurers, mortgage lenders and...
Natural Disaster Losses Hit Five-Year High in April: Aon Catastrophe Report
May 5 2016 // The global economy suffered the worst April natural disaster losses for five years, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team. Earthquakes, convective storms and flooding...
U.S. Insured Catastrophe Losses from 13 Events in Q1 Add Up to Worst in Decade
May 5 2016 // Catastrophe activity in the U.S. led to $3.8 billion in insured losses in 29 states during the 2016 first quarter, with much of the damage hitting Texas. Those events were the worst in a decade in terms of frequency and...
Judge Rejects Uber’s Independent Contractors Claim in Sex Attacks Suit
May 5 2016 // Uber Technologies Inc.’s denial of responsibility for sexual assaults by drivers failed to derail a lawsuit brought by two women who say they were attacked last year. A San Francisco federal judge on Wednesday...
Takata Ordered to Expand Recall in U.S. to 40 Million Air Bags
May 5 2016 // Takata Corp. has been ordered to replace as many as 40 million additional air bags linked to deadly malfunctions, more than doubling what was already the biggest auto recall in U.S. history and putting more pressure on the...
U.S. Consumer Rules Would End Mandatory Arbitration Clauses That Limit Class Actions
May 5 2016 // A U.S. consumer watchdog on Thursday proposed new rules to block credit card companies, banks and other companies from forcing customers to waive their rights to join class action lawsuits and only settle disputes through...
Health Insurers Next on Justice Department’s Antitrust Agenda
May 5 2016 // Bill Baer was the ultimate Washington antitrust insider when he came to the Justice Department in 2013: At law firm Arnold & Porter LLP, he’d counseled the biggest U.S. companies, including deal machine General...
MAPFRE Appoints Tamayo as CEO of International; Castelo Named CEO of US Unit
May 5 2016 // Madrid-based MAPFRE S.A. has promoted Jaime Tamayo as CEO of the international territorial area. In his new responsibilities, Tamayo will oversee three regions at MAPFRE: the North America region; the EMEA region,...
Hartley to Lead U.S. General Liability for Liberty International Underwriters
May 4 2016 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU) has named Casey Hartley as U.S. General Liability product line leader. Based in Atlanta, Miss., Hartley will have responsibility for the technical underwriting, portfolio...
Japanese Insurers Expected to Continue U.S. Spending Spree: Investment Bankers
May 4 2016 // Japanese insurers made more than $18 billion worth of acquisitions in the U.S. last year, and their spending spree isn’t over yet, industry dealmakers said on Tuesday. Japan has a number of large, healthy insurers...
Buffett Has No Love for High-Priced Money Managers; Says Even a President Trump Couldn’t Derail U.S. Economy
May 4 2016 // Warren Buffett’s biggest investment tip: Be wary of fees. At the annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the billionaire warned about the enduring risk of derivatives, defended stocks in his portfolio and...
Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.: Study
May 4 2016 // Medical errors in the U.S. account for more than 250,000 deaths per year, which makes them the third leading cause of death in the country, according to researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Johns...
Commercial Auto Insurance Remains a Loser on the Whole: Fitch
May 3 2016 // While the property/casualty industry has reported three consecutive years of significant underwriting profits, the commercial auto market as a whole reported an underwriting loss for the fifth consecutive year in 2015. In...
Supreme Court Denies BP Investors’ Class Action Over Losses Tied to Gulf Oil Spill
May 2 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from shareholders seeking to revive their class action lawsuit against BP claiming the British oil company misrepresented its safety procedures prior to the 2010 Gulf of...
AIG Selling $1.2 Billion Worth of Shares in China’s PICC P&C: Report
May 2 2016 // American International Group is offering for sale about $1.2 billion worth of shares in China’s PICC Property and Casualty Co. Ltd. (PICC P&C) in a block deal, IFR said on Saturday, citing a term sheet of the...
Employers Pay as 32% of Opioids Prescriptions Are Abused: Report
May 2 2016 // Nearly one out of every three (32 percent) opioid prescriptions, which are subsidized by America’s employers, is being abused, according to a report by a healthcare data and technology company. San Francisco-based...
Large Insurers Eager But Cautious About Drone Insurance Market
Apr 29 2016 // A growing number of insurance companies envision a large, robust insurance market for liability and property coverage associated with drone use. However, many insurers currently are proceeding with caution in light of...
