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Castle Inspection Service and MS/B Form Strategic Alliance

Oct 24 2005 // Partnership Means Superior Service for Combined Customer Base Salt Lake City, Utah and Los Angeles – Castle Inspection Service (Castle) and Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B), an MDA company, are pleased to...

St. Paul Travelers Sets Plan to Sell Stake in Nuveen

Mar 28 2005 // Nuveen Investments, Inc. and The St. Paul Travelers Companies, Inc. announced that St. Paul Travelers is implementing a program to sell its equity interest in Nuveen Investments. The objective of the transactions is for...

Marshall & Swift Names Thornton COO

Feb 25 2005 // Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B), a worldwide provider of residential and commercial cost data, technology and services for the property insurance industry, has announced the appointment of James Thornton as chief...

Underinsured Homeowner Problem Revisited on Anniversary of Calif. Wildfires

Nov 8 2004 // Replacement cost, policy limits, and non-renewal of policies were the source of a heated debate in a day-long hearing investigating underinsured homeowners affected by last year’s wildfires. California Insurance...

Calif. Commissioner Grills Insurers on Underinsured Homeowner Problem

Oct 22 2004 // Replacement cost, policy limits, and non-renewal of policies were the source of a heated debate in a day-long hearing investigating underinsured homeowners affected by last year’s wildfires. California Insurance...

Underinsurance Problem Improves, Says MS/B

Oct 5 2004 // Undervaluation statistics for U.S. homeowners business continue to improve, according to Peter M. Wells, senior vice president of Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B). MS/B, a provider of building cost data and estimating...

MS/B Sale Complete; Will Continue to Remain Independently Operated

Jun 24 2004 // Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B) announced the completion of its sale to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. of Richmond, B.C., Canada. Combined with MDA’s existing property information and valuation...

RMS, Marshall & Swift/Boeckh Form Partnership to Enhance Property Valuation for Risk Analysis

May 6 2004 // Newark Calif.-based Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a leading provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, and Marshall & Swift/Boeckh (MS/B), leaders in building cost solutions to the...

Canadian Firm to Acquire Marshall & Swift/Boeckh

Apr 27 2004 // MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) in British Columbia announced a major expansion of its information products business in the U.S. The company has entered into an agreement to acquire privately held...

MS/B Says Underinsurance Problem Lessening

Jul 30 2003 // Undervaluation statistics for U.S. homeowners business have improved dramatically, according to Robert Crine, president of Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B). Crine announced the news to senior executives from the P/C...

Marshall & Swift/Boeckh Taps Pathlore to Train Insurance Industry

Jun 19 2003 // Pathlore Software Corp., a provider of learning-management systems (LMS), announced today that New Berlin, Wis.-based Marshall & Swift/Boeckh (MS/B) will use Pathlore’s LMS to bring training to insurance agents,...

MS/B and Alacrity Services LLC Form Alliance

Nov 14 2002 // Atlanta-based provider of structural loss estimates and direct repair programs for property insurers, Alacrity Services LLC—owner of ptc-NET(TM)—and Marshall & Swift / Boeckh (MS/B), a provider of building cost...

AMS, Marshall & Swift/Boeckh Form Marketing Agreement

Nov 13 2002 // AMS Services of Windsor, Conn. announced it has entered an agreement with New Berlin, Wis.-based Marshall & Swift/Boeckh (MS/B), a and building cost information systems provider, in which AMS’s rating group will...

Life and Death Decisions, A Tale of Two Towers

Sep 2 2002 // As the classic television crime show used to remind us, “There are 8 million stories in the Naked City.” There were more on Sept. 11, 2001. Here are just a few, one from each of the three World Trade Center...

Life and Death Decisions, A Tale of Two Towers

Sep 2 2002 // As the classic television crime show used to remind us, “There are 8 million stories in the Naked City.” There were more on Sept. 11, 2001. Here are just a few, one from each of the three World Trade Center...

MS Frontier Re Rated ‘AA’

Aug 7 2002 // Standard & Poor’s has assigned its ‘AA-‘ insurer financial strength rating to MS Frontier Reinsurance Ltd. (MSFR), based on its superior capitalization, its strategic importance to its parent, Mitsui...

Morgan Stanley Increases Investment Rating on Marsh McLennan

Jun 18 2002 // Morgan Stanley has increased its investment rating on insurer Marsh & McLennan. From “equal weight” to “overweight.” An analyst reported that the company’s stock price decline has been...

Marshall and Swift/Boeckh Unveils Interactive Training Tool For Claims Estimating

Jun 10 2002 // Marshall and Swift / Boeckh (MS/B) of New Berlin, Wis., a provider of building cost data and estimating technology for the property and casualty insurance industry, announced the launch of a new service, IntegriClaim™...

Morgan Stanley Increases Ratings for St. Paul and XL Capital

May 29 2002 // Morgan Stanley raised its rating for St. Paul Cos. and XL Capital, identifying the two stocks as underpriced as the insurance market prospers with higher premium rates. St. Paul was raised to “equal-weight”...

Marshall and Swift/Boeckh Acquires Data

Apr 17 2002 // Marshall & Swift/Boeckh, a New Berlin, Wis.-based provider of building cost data and estimating services to the property insurance industry, has acquired the contents data from Total Research & Replacement (TRR),...