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Liberty Mutual Group Chairman Pleased with 2005 Numbers

Liberty Mutual Group reported net income of $253 million and $1.027 billion for the three and 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2005, respectively, representing decreases of $312 million and $218 million from the same periods in 2004. Results in the …

Mass. Gov. Proposes Good Driver Rate Rollback in Plan to End ‘Soviet-Style’ System

Massachusetts auto insurers would be required to provide up to a five percent discount to good drivers with clean records but be able to set other rates up to a cap of 15 percent on liability coverage under an auto …

ING To Sell Chile P/C Operations to Liberty Mutual

The Netherlands’ ING Group announced that it has signed an agreement to sell ING Chile’s property & casualty insurance operation, ING Seguros Generales, to the Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. ING said the …

Liberty Mutual Group Sees Net Income Rise

Liberty Mutual Group reported net income of $565 million and $1.245 billion for the three and 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2004, respectively, representing a $130 million and $394 million increase over the same periods in 2003. “In 2004, we …

California Still Vulnerable in Workers’ Compensation Market

Just when it seemed California might overcome its perennial workers’ compensation crisis, renewed downward pricing pressure threatens to send the market into another tailspin, according to analysts at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. “The industry has barely recovered from the …

Liberty Mutual to Buy AGF’s Chilean Subsidiary

Boston-based Liberty Mutual Group will further expand its Latin American insurance business with the purchase of the insurance operations of AGF Allianz Chile S.A., a unit of France’s AGF, which is in turn a division of Germany’s Allianz AG. The …

CEOs Question Wisdom of Sarbanes-Oxley at S&P Conference

In the opinion of one major industry player, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 set in place “a mad rush to save the world from bad management,” a misguided and costly strategy that will fall victim to its unintended consequences, which …

Sarbanes-Oxley ‘Stifles Competition’, Says MetLife CEO

In the opinion of one major industry player, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 set in place “a mad rush to save the world from bad management,” a misguided and costly strategy that will fall victim to its unintended consequences, which …

Sarbanes-Oxley ‘Stifles Competition,’ Says MetLife CEO

In the opinion of one major industry player, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 set in place “a mad rush to save the world from bad management,” a misguided and costly strategy that will fall victim to its unintended consequences, which …

Sarbanes-Oxley ‘Stifles Competition’, Says MetLife CEO

In the opinion of one major industry player, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 set in place “a mad rush to save the world from bad management,” a misguided and costly strategy that will fall victim to its unintended consequences, which …