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Cautiously Optimistic

Feb 8 2009 // A recent development may have agents feeling cautiously optimistic that they will have an opportunity go after a larger slice of the mid-sized business pie as Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group shuttles direct distribution...

Liberty Mutual Drops Direct Sales to Middle Market Businesses

Feb 8 2009 // Puts Faith in Independent Agents Liberty Mutual Group is throwing in the towel on direct distribution of insurance to middle market businesses. Because it couldn’t beat independent agents and brokers — who...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Liberty Mutual Appeal in Asbestos Case

Jan 30 2009 // An insurance company might have to pay big money to people claiming asbestos-related injuries under a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling. The court ruled in a dispute between Plastics Engineering Co. and its insurer, Liberty...

Ohio’s Kehres Named Division III Liberty Mutual Coach of Year

Jan 26 2009 // Ohio’s Mount Union College head football coach Larry Kehres has been selected as the 2008 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year for Division III. Kehres and Liberty Mutual will present four local charities and the Mount...

People

Jan 25 2009 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) named Russell Johnston president and CEO of AIG Environmental, a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance. Johnston joined AIG in 1990 serving in senior management positions within...

Liberty Mutual Drops Direct Sales to Middle Market Businesses; Puts Faith in Independent Agents

Jan 22 2009 // Liberty Mutual Group is throwing in the towel on direct distribution of insurance to middle market businesses. Since it couldn’t beat independent agents and brokers — who dominate sales in this segment —...

Liberty Mutual Increases Nevada Auto Insurance Rates

Jan 21 2009 // The Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. received approval for a 6.9 percent rate increase, Liberty Insurance Corp. received approval for a 7 percent rate increase and First Liberty Insurance Corp. received approval for a 7.6...

Reading Between the Whines

Jan 11 2009 // There are several near-constants in an insurance editor’s life when a new year rolls around. There’s the inevitable mistake of putting last year’s date on this week’s article. There’s the...

Reading Between the Whines

Jan 11 2009 // There are several near-constants in an insurance editor’s life when a new year rolls around. There’s the inevitable mistake of putting last year’s date on this month’s article. There’s the...

Another Year, Different Stories to Tell?

Jan 11 2009 // The calendar pages have turned and it’s already 2009. Geez. Well, we can’t do anything about the years going by, after all it’s better than the alternative. But we can look forward certainly, to more,...

Reading Between the Whines

Jan 11 2009 // There are several near-constants in an insurance editor’s life when a new year rolls around. There’s the inevitable mistake of putting last year’s date on this week’s article. There’s the...

Safeco Insurance Foundation Donates $15,000 To Connections to Success

Dec 29 2008 // Safeco Insurance Foundation has awarded $15,000 to Connections to Success Inc., a nonprofit organization that helps men and women transition to the workforce. Connections to Success is a nonprofit that was founded in 1998...

2008: Busy Year for Mergers, Big and Small

Dec 21 2008 // A lot happened in the world of insurance agency/brokerage mergers and acquisitions in 2008. Willis made the biggest slash with its $2.1 billion acquisition of Hilb Rogal & Hobbs Co. (HRH), one of the world’s...

Best Rates Liberty Mutual Europe ‘A’

Dec 15 2008 // A.M. Best Co. has assigned a financial strength rating of ‘A’ (Excellent) and an issuer credit rating of “a” to UK-based Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe Limited (LMIE), a part of the Liberty...

BC Law Gets $3.1M from Liberty Mutual for P/C Insurance Professorship

Dec 1 2008 // Boston College Law School has received a $3.1 million gift from Liberty Mutual Group that will be used to establish a professorship in property and casualty insurance law. The gift, to be paid over four years, is the...

People

Nov 30 2008 // Safeco Insurance and Indiana Insurance, both Liberty Mutual Agency Markets companies, recently announced key management appointments to lead their respective personal and commercial lines operations in their Midwest...

Nov 30 2008 // Peter Lauve, of Abilene, Texas, has been named president of Texas-based Insurors Group. As Insurors Group president, Lauve, also a partner with CBS Insurance located in Abilene, will lead a network of Texas agents that...

People

Nov 30 2008 // The Insurance Marketing and Communications Association (IMCA) named Richard Look as president. He is a marketing communications veteran with both agency and insurance company experience, and currently serves as vice...

Safeco, Montgomery Insurance Unveil Southeast Regional Operations

Nov 25 2008 // The effects on the Southeast of Liberty Mutual’s acquisition of Safeco Insurance became clearer as the insurer announced its regional line-up of companies and personnel. Montgomery Insurance and Safeco are part of...

Liberty Mutual’s Ramey to Retire; Long, Condrin, Sweeney Promoted

Nov 25 2008 // The Liberty Mutual Group of Insurance Companies in Boston announced a series of leadership changes for three of the company’s four business units. Thomas C. Ramey, 65, chairman and president of Liberty International,...