July 11, 2012
The Insurance Marketing and Communications Association (IMCA) held its annual awards ceremony last month in Denver. The awards were presented to a range of insurance organizations in categories including advertising, sales promotion, multimedia campaigns and public relations.Liberty Mutual was honored …
June 27, 2012
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group announced that Liberty Videocon General Insurance Company Ltd, a joint venture between Liberty Mutual Insurance Group and Videocon Industries Ltd., has received the necessary license from India’s insurance regulatory authority to commence its operations. The operation …
June 5, 2012
State regulators around the county are finally collecting their share of a multimillion dollar settlement reached with American International Group (AIG) in 2010 based on the company’s misreporting of workers’ compensation premiums for the years 1985 to 1996. In December …
May 24, 2012
Boston-headquartered Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed Brian Dunham as senior vice president and chief actuary of its group benefits operation.Prior to joining Liberty Mutual, Dunham was responsible for the pricing and financial management of Unum’s large case group life and …
May 1, 2012
An insurance company selling federal flood insurance has won a case against a Mississippi homeowner who claimed the insurer was negligent in not informing him that he was eligible to buy a preferred risk policy with more coverage than he …
April 27, 2012
Global insurer Liberty Mutual Holding Co. Inc. and its subsidiaries reported a 26 percent jump in net income for the three months ended March 31 due to higher premiums and lower catastrophe losses. The company reported a profit of $459 …
March 29, 2012
Liberty Mutual, one of the largest insurance companies in the world, said it would enter the Russian market with a deal to acquire KIT Finance Insurance, which primarily writes auto coverage in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Terms of the deal …
March 23, 2012
A New Hampshire woman pleaded guilty this month to filing a fraudulent claim on her renter’s policy. The suspicious claim was made in 2009 and was subsequently investigated by the New Hampshire insurance department’s fraud unit. State authorities said Tammiann …
March 19, 2012
The owner of a Des Moines firm that provides companies with temporary employees has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison in a scheme to reduce the cost of his workers’ compensation insurance. The U.S. attorney’s office says …
March 14, 2012
Liberty Mutual said it will continue its legal fight even after a federal judge formally approved a $450 million workers’ compensation class-action settlement between AIG and its rival companies. The class action alleged that American International Group (AIG) and its …