Latest USA Headlines
All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
PG&E Has Settled One Battle Involving California Wildfire Fund
Mar 11 2020 // Pacific Gas & Electric told a federal bankruptcy judge that it has settled a dispute with disaster-relief agencies that threatened to siphon money away from a $13.5 billion fund earmarked for victims of catastrophic...
Houston-Area Physicians Group Settles False Billing Claims Case for $1.2M
Mar 11 2020 // Millennium Physicians Association PLLC has paid the United States $1,248,964 to resolve claims that they improperly billed the Medicare program for sleep studies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District...
U.S. Jury Awards Four VW Diesel Owners $100K in Punitive Damages Over Cheating
Mar 11 2020 // A U.S. jury in California on Monday awarded the drivers of four Volkswagen AG vehicles a total of $100,000 as punitive damages for being sold diesel vehicles that emitted excess pollution, although the amount awarded was a...
Uber Drivers Take Backseat in Clash Between Safety and Customer Privacy
Mar 11 2020 // Margaret Bordelon can still feel the hands of the drunk man who tried to pull her in for a kiss at the end of his Uber ride last September in Lafayette, Louisiana. An Uber driver for only a few months, Bordelon, 45,...
How Much U.S. P/C Insurance Bottom Line Grew in 2019: A.M. Best
Mar 10 2020 // Net underwriting income for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry in 2019 grew by $4.9 million from 2018, A.M. Best said in a new report. Underwriting income hit $4.1 billion in 2019, from a loss of $800 million in...
State Farm Begins Exit From Banking Business Via U.S. Bank Strategic Alliance
Mar 10 2020 // State Farm is getting out of the banking business. The property/casualty insurer said it has formed a strategic alliance with U.S. Bank, allowing it to assume State Farm Bank’s existing deposit and credit card...
Reuters: Aon Alleges Fraud in $300M Brazilian Deal with Broker Admix
Mar 10 2020 // British insurance broker Aon Plc has accused the founder of Brazilian health and benefits insurance broker Admix of defrauding it when it acquired the company four years ago in a 1.35 billion reais ($300 million) deal,...
U.S. Says 7 Firms Falsely Claiming Products Treat COVID-19
Mar 9 2020 // The Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have warned seven companies for allegedly selling unapproved products that may violate federal law by making deceptive or scientifically unsupported...
Europe’s Storm Dragi-Eberhard Cost Insurers €782M (US$882.9M): PERILS
Mar 9 2020 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, disclosed its fourth and final loss estimate of €782 million (US$882.9 million) for Europe’s Extratropical...
OSHA Cites Two Construction Companies After Employee’s Fatal Fall in Pennsylvania
Mar 9 2020 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited CLF Construction Inc. and Toll Brothers Inc. for exposing employees to fall hazards after a CLF employee suffered fatal...
UK Insurance Claims from Storms Ciara and Dennis Estimated at US$473.7M
Mar 9 2020 // Insurers expect to make payments to customers hit by the recent Storms Ciara and Dennis of over £363 million (US$ 473.7 million), according to initial estimates from the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Initial ABI...
FACTBOX: Latest News on Coronavirus’ Health, Economic Impact
Mar 9 2020 // The number of people infected with coronavirus topped 110,000 across the world as the outbreak reached more countries and caused more economic damage. DEATHS/INFECTIONS * More than 110,000 people have been infected by the...
Workers on Coronavirus Front Lines Fear Protections Are Inadequate
Mar 9 2020 // As coronavirus cases exploded across the world, federal medical workers tasked with screening incoming passengers at U.S. airports grew alarmed: Many were working without the most effective masks to protect them from...
Fitch Sees Only ‘Modest Impact’ on U.S. P/C Insurance from Coronavirus
Mar 9 2020 // The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is not currently anticipated to have a meaningful adverse impact on financial results reported by U.S. property/casualty companies, nor their ratings, according to Fitch Ratings. The...
Homeowners’ Satisfaction
Mar 9 2020 // U.S. homeowner insurers are doing a better job than ever making their customers happy when responding to claims, according to J.D. Power. Results of the firm’s Property Claims Satisfaction Study show that overall...
Business Moves
Mar 9 2020 // National ProAssurance, NORCAL Healthcare liability insurer ProAssurance Corp. has agreed to acquire medical professional liability insurer NORCAL Mutual Insurance Co. following NORCAL’s demutualization in a $450...
Declarations
Mar 9 2020 // Not High Time “This bill is not about getting high. This bill is about getting well.” — Dr. Alan Shackelford, a Colorado doctor who described the success of using medical marijuana on people with seizures...
Board Finalizes Rule Scaling Back Joint Employer Liability for Franchisees, Contractors
Mar 9 2020 // A U.S. labor board finalized a rule that will make it more difficult to hold companies liable for unlawful labor practices by franchisees and contractors, reversing a more worker-friendly Obama-era standard criticized by...
Coronavirus Wreaks Havoc on Global Businesses as Infections Pass 100,000
Mar 6 2020 // The number of people infected with the new coronavirus surpassed 100,000 across the world on Friday, as the outbreak reached more countries and economic damage intensified, with business districts beginning to empty and...
Sompo GRS Launches Replacement Value Protection Coverage for Real Estate Firms
Mar 6 2020 // Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS), a subsidiary of Sompo International Holdings Ltd., has entered into a partnership with independent risk management and insurance consulting firm Fisher Harris Shapiro, Inc. (FHS) to offer...
