Latest USA Headlines
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Top 10 Market Conduct Actions Facing P/C Insurers
Oct 30 2018 // Untimely claims handling and failure to provide required compliant claims, underwriting, and policyholder service disclosures are the U.S. insurance industry’s top compliance shortcomings. That’s according to a...
How High Customer Expectations Raise the Bar for Insurance Industry
Oct 30 2018 // Record high customer satisfaction among auto insurance customers is clearly good news for customers, especially at a time when their overall customer experience is being tested by the rising cost of auto insurance. For...
U.S. Safety Agency Probing Mercedes-Benz Recall Notice Practices
Oct 30 2018 // Mercedes-Benz USA is under investigation by U.S. safety regulators who say the luxury-auto maker may be taking too long to send safety recall notices to car owners and inform the government. The National Highway Traffic...
Supreme Court to Weigh If Government Agencies Entitled to Challenge Patents
Oct 29 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a dispute involving a small Alabama company that accused the U.S. Postal Service of infringing its patented mail processing system and improperly convincing a federal...
AFL Insurance Brokers Finds Good Strategic, Cultural Fit with U.S. MGA Zodiac
Oct 29 2018 // AFL Insurance Brokers, the London-based Lloyd’s broker, was looking for an MGA platform in the United States and found the perfect partner last month when it purchased Zodiac Insurance Services, which specializes in...
U.S. Forming Strike Force to Combat Appalachia Opioid Abuse
Oct 29 2018 // U.S. Justice Department officials say a new law enforcement strike force is being formed to combat opioid abuse in Appalachia. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski says the Appalachian Regional Prescription...
Class Action Claiming Wells Fargo Made Robocalls Seeks Triple Damages
Oct 29 2018 // A proposed class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court accuses Wells Fargo of making tens of thousands of automatically dialed, or “robo,” calls to cell phones without consumers’ consent. Filed on...
Super Typhoon Yutu Threatens Philippines’ Most Populous Island
Oct 28 2018 // Super Typhoon Yutu could rip into eastern Luzon in the Philippines on Tuesday, extending the toll of destruction it left in the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands earlier this week. Yutu was about 731 miles (1,176 kilometers)...
Army Corps, Texas Officials Propose Sweeping Hurricane Protection Plan
Oct 26 2018 // Following years of research, studies and public debate, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — in partnership with the state’s General Land Office — has recommended a multi-billion-dollar project that would protect...
Better Underwriting, Lower Taxes Behind The Hartford’s Strong Q3 Results
Oct 26 2018 // The Hartford reported third quarter 2018 net profit of $427 million compared with $145 million in third quarter 2017. The $282 million increase was due to higher commercial lines, personal lines, group benefits and mutual...
New Jersey Insurance Broker Stole Nearly $1M While Selling Fake Health Insurance
Oct 26 2018 // An insurance broker who stole nearly $1 million while continuing to sell health care coverage he knew was fake has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. David Clark, 75, of Morristown, N.J., previously pleaded guilty...
Injury Rates Jump at Coal Giant Murray’s West Virginia Mines
Oct 26 2018 // Injury rates have more than doubled at five West Virginia coal mines acquired by Murray Energy Corp. in 2013, according to a Reuters review of federal data, as the firm sharply increased the amount of coal produced per...
Climate Change Impact Assessment Looks at Risk, Readiness Around U.S.
Oct 25 2018 // Low risk, but low readiness. That’s the assessment for Long Beach, Calif., a city that’s close to my heart. For those who love numbers, the city has a risk score of 49.48, and a readiness score of 47.01. Not...
U.S. Making Some Progress Against Opioid Epidemic, Says Health Chief
Oct 25 2018 // The number of U.S. drug overdose deaths has begun to level off after years of relentless increases driven by the opioid epidemic, health secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday, cautioning it’s too soon to declare...
Apple CEO Calls for U.S. Privacy Law to Protect User Data
Oct 24 2018 // Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Wednesday customer data was being “weaponised with military efficiency” by companies to increase profit. Cook, speaking at the International Conference of Data Protection...
Court Says Nestle, Cargill Can Be Sued Over Child Labor Overseas
Oct 24 2018 // A U.S. federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated a lawsuit by a group of former child slaves accusing the U.S. unit of Nestle SA, the world’s largest food maker, and Cargill Co of perpetuating child slavery at...
U.S. Agency Calls for Better Safety Metrics for Autonomous Cars
Oct 24 2018 // Autonomous vehicle manufacturers need a better yardstick to show that their products are safe, said Derek Kan, under secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation. The metrics that are most widely used by...
Midwest Food Distributor to Pay $3.6M to Settle Sex Discrimination Lawsuit
Oct 23 2018 // A food distributor with warehouses in Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Michigan, will pay $3.6 million to settle a class sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
Head of Crumbling Foundations Fund in Connecticut Says $1B Needed
Oct 23 2018 // The superintendent of a new captive insurance company charged with distributing millions of dollars to Connecticut homeowners with crumbling foundations is warning he doesn’t have nearly enough money to address the...
CoreLogic to Buy Toronto-Based Claims Workflow Firm Symbility Solutions
Oct 23 2018 // CoreLogic, the Irvine, Calif.-based property data and analytics firm, has agreed to acquire the outstanding shares of Symbililty Solutions Inc. not already owned by CoreLogic. CoreLogic currently holds approximately a 28...
