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Liberty Mutual’s Q4 Net Income Takes a Hit from Auto Liability Losses

Mar 3 2017 // Liberty Mutual Holding Co.’s 2016 fourth quarter net income declined substantially, due mostly to higher U.S. personal and commercial auto liability losses. But the number was up for the full year.The insurer booked...

Texas Supreme Court Sides with Policyholder in Ike-Damaged Property Case

Feb 20 2017 // When is a fence a “dwelling” structure for insurance coverage purposes and when is it an “other structure?”The Texas Supreme Court, relying on disputed language in a Liberty Mutual Insurance Co....

Texas High Court Sides with Policyholder in Ike-Damaged Property Case

Feb 13 2017 // When is a fence a “dwelling” structure for insurance coverage purposes and when is it an “other structure?”The Texas Supreme Court, relying on disputed language in a Liberty Mutual Insurance Co....

Liberty Mutual Names Asher President of Safeco, Succeeding Nickerson

Jan 30 2017 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has named Tyler Asher president of Safeco Insurance.During his nearly 18-year career with Safeco, Asher has served in a variety of roles spanning finance, accounting, management reporting and...

AIG Signs Major Reinsurance Deal with Berkshire’s National Indemnity

Jan 20 2017 // American International Group Inc. announced that it has entered into a reinsurance agreement covering many of the long-term risks on previously-written commercial insurance policies.The agreement, with National Indemnity...

Cost of Most Serious Workplace Injuries Falls: Liberty Mutual

Jan 20 2017 // Workplace injuries and accidents that cause employees to miss six or more days of work cost U.S. employers $59.9 billion in 2014, the most recent year for which statistically valid injury data are available, according to...

People – East

Jan 9 2017 // Chubb, the world’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurance company, has appointed Jeffrey Updyke as regional manager for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the company’s commercial...

QBE North America Appoints Hill as CFO in New York City

Dec 20 2016 // QBE North America, an operating division of global insurer QBE Insurance Group Limited, has appointed Kris L. Hill as chief financial officer.Hill will assume her new role effective January 17, 2017 and also serve as a...

QBE North America Names Liberty Mutual’s Hill as Chief Financial Officer

Dec 19 2016 // QBE North America has appointed Kris L. Hill as chief financial officer.Hill will assume her new role effective January 17, 2017, and also serve as a member of the QBE North America Executive Management Board. She will be...

Liberty Mutual to Acquire Ironshore from China’s Fosun for $3 Billion

Dec 5 2016 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has agreed to acquire specialty lines insurer Ironshore Inc. from China’s Fosun International Limited.Liberty Mutual will acquire a 100 percent ownership interest in Ironshore. According to...

Liberty Mutual Names Dwortz President of Helmsman

Dec 2 2016 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has appointed David Dwortz as president, Helmsman Management Services, its third party claims administrator. Dwortz takes the reigns at Helmsman Management Services from Debbie Michel, who was...

How Liberty Mutual Did in Q3

Nov 4 2016 // Liberty Mutual Holding Co. and its subsidiaries reported net income of $455 million and $863 million for the three and nine months ended Sept. 30, 2016, respectively, versus a $427 million loss and $103 million gain for...

Liberty Mutual Issues Statement Following Shooting at Oregon Office

Oct 25 2016 // Liberty Mutual issued a statement today addressing a Portland, Ore. shooting over the weekend reportedly involving co-workers at the insurance company who knew each other.Portland police are investigating whether a...

Liberty Mutual’s Peters Joins Startup Lemonade as Chief Underwriting Officer

Oct 10 2016 // Lemonade, the new peer-to-peer insurance company that opened for business last month, has named John Peters as its chief underwriting officer.At Lemonade, Peters will be responsible for insurance product terms and...

Liberty Mutual Adds 2 Excess Casualty Products for Large Companies

Sep 29 2016 // Liberty Mutual Insurance has launched two new excess casualty products for large companies: the Utility Follow Form Excess for the power and utility sectors, and the Integrated Occurrence Form for the large corporate...

Liberty Mutual Giving Consumers a Voice in Insurance via Amazon’s Alexa

Sep 13 2016 // Now shopping for insurance is simpler than ever. Just speak up.Liberty Mutual Insurance has launched the first insurance-focused service for Amazon’s Alexa, a voice-controlled device that plays music; provides news,...

Liberty Mutual’s Agatep Named Underwriting Chief for XL Catlin’s New Accident, Health Business

Sep 12 2016 // Ronnell Agatep has joined XL Catlin’s global retail Accident & Health (A&H) insurance business as its global head of underwriting. Based in New York, Agatep assumes this newly-created role to drive product...

Liberty Mutual Eyes Sale of Two Office Buildings in Boston

Sep 9 2016 // Liberty Mutual Insurance, a Boston, Mass., based property and casualty insurer, is planning to market the sale of two office buildings at 10 St. James Avenue and 75 Arlington Street in Boston’s Back Bay...

Liberty Mutual & China’s Sanpower Group Form P/C Joint Venture

Aug 16 2016 // Liberty Mutual Insurance and Sanpower Group Co. Ltd., one of China’s leading private enterprises, announced they have agreed to create a joint venture from Liberty Mutual’s current Chinese property/casualty...

Liberty Mutual Insurance Raises Shareholding in India’s Liberty Videocon to 49%

Aug 15 2016 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Group is increasing its overall interest in its non-life insurance joint venture company, Liberty Videocon General Insurance Co. Ltd., from 26 percent to 49 percent.The increase was enabled as a...