Latest USA Headlines
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Cyber World
Jul 4 2011 // Barely a day goes by without news of another data breach at a major corporation or institution. From Sony to Citicorp, and the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate, systems have proved vulnerable to hackers with...
Aon: U.S. Insured Weather Losses Top $15.5 Billion This Year
Jul 4 2011 // Insured severe weather losses have already topped $15.5 billion in the United States this year, three times the full-year average of the past 20 years, insurance brokerage Aon Corp. said. Almost all of that comes from the...
Cyber World
Jul 4 2011 // Barely a day goes by without news of another data breach at a major corporation or institution. From Sony to Citicorp, and the International Monetary Fund to the U.S. Senate, systems have proved vulnerable to hackers with...
Report: SoCal Quake Would Rattle Economy
Jul 4 2011 // A new study says a big Southern California earthquake would rattle the region’s economy and its buildings. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said a magnitude-7.8 quake in the southern segment of the San Andreas...
U.S. Calls for Cross-Border Laws to Counter Cyber Attacks
Jul 1 2011 // Cyber criminals are outwitting national and international legal systems that fail to embrace technological advances, a top U.S. official said on Friday, demanding a cross-border campaign to combat the security...
U.S. Appeals Court in Ohio Upholds Health Care Law
Jul 1 2011 // In the first ruling by a federal appeals court on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a panel in Cincinnati affirmed that Congress can require Americans to have minimum insurance coverage. A conservative...
Totals: U.S. Spring Tornado Losses for P/C Carriers
Jul 1 2011 // Record-breaking tornadoes devastated parts of the United States in April and May, generating substantial losses for insurance companies. Following is a list of maximum losses reported by some insurers and reinsurers for...
Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fund Too Slow: U.S. Attorney General
Jul 1 2011 // The fund oil firm BP set up to deal with compensation claims after last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill is working too slowly, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday. The fund is not sufficiently transparent...
Container Shipper Suspends Some Iran Operations over Sanctions
Jun 30 2011 // The world’s largest container firm suspended operations at several Iranian ports on Thursday, potentially disrupting critical food shipments as it complies with tightening U.S. sanctions. Maersk line, a unit of A.P....
Audit Faults U.S. Monitoring of Medical Device Recalls
Jun 30 2011 // Congressional auditors have faulted U.S. health regulators for failing to track unsafe medical devices after they are recalled, opening the door to further risks to patients. The Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
Liberty Mutual Helps 10 Communities Fund Fourth of July Events
Jun 30 2011 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has announced 10 winners of its Bring Back the 4th contest, which – from May 4 to June 14, 2011 – encouraged U.S. cities and towns to compete for ten $10,000 grants to help fund local Fourth of...
Federal Report: Coal Dust, Deception in Fatal West Virginia Mine Blast
Jun 30 2011 // The blast that killed 29 men in a West Virginia coal mine last year was probably caused by coal dust ignition, compounded by safety failings, intimidation and deception by the mine’s owner, the U.S. mine regulator...
Eqecat Set to Release 3 Revised Catastrophe Models
Jun 29 2011 // Catastrophe risk modeler Eqecat has scheduled July 15 as the date to release three significant revisions to its Worldcatenterprise 3.16 platform. The updates cover Eqecat’s North Atlantic hurricane model, its Canada...
Appeals Court Sides With BP in Securities Fraud Lawsuit
Jun 29 2011 // A U.S. appeals court sided with BP Plc in a securities fraud lawsuit arising from a 2006 Alaska oil spill, but the case isn’t over. BP discovered two oil spills in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in 2006, and a corporate...
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Individual Health Insurance Mandate
Jun 29 2011 // A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law that requires Americans to buy insurance as constitutional, an early victory for the White House. The U.S. Court of Appeals...
Jury Weighs First U.S. Foreign Bribery Sting Case
Jun 29 2011 // Jurors have seen grenade launchers, M4 rifles and secretly recorded videos of military suppliers working on a deal to funnel money to an official of an African nation they wanted to buy their weapons. Now, after a six-week...
Season’s First Atlantic Storm Powers Toward Mexico
Jun 29 2011 // Arlene, the first tropical storm of the North Atlantic hurricane season, churned through the southwestern Gulf of Mexico Tuesday but looked set to spare Mexico’s oilfields from a direct hit. The storm had maximum...
US, India Pledge Market Access Cooperation; Could Ease Insurance Barriers
Jun 28 2011 // Finance chiefs from the United States and India pledged on Tuesday to continue efforts to open up India’s financial, retail, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors to competition but offered no specific measures to...
Report Says South China Sea Disputes Could Lead to Asian War
Jun 28 2011 // Risks are growing that incidents at sea involving China could lead to war in Asia, potentially drawing in the United States and other powers, an Australian think tank warned on Tuesday. The Lowy Institute said in a report...
U.S. Court Rejects $270M Tobacco Lawsuit Appeal
Jun 27 2011 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the major tobacco companies of a $270 million award for a Louisiana smoking cessation program. Altria Group Inc’s Philip Morris USA Inc, a Reynolds American Inc unit, a...
