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Liberty Mutual Gives Top Coach Award to Zook at Illinois, 3 Midwest Coaches

Dec 31 2007 // Their teams amassed 43 wins this year against a mere eight setbacks; their student-athletes displayed exceptional discipline on the field, integrity off the field, and excellence in the classroom; and they exercised their...

The Road to Texas Supreme Court’s Heart: Through the Fifth Circuit

Dec 23 2007 // Omar Bradley often said, “Set your course by the stars and not by the light of every passing ship.” In 2007, the Texas Supreme Court failed to heed this advice, following an inconsistent course unbounded by...

Safeco To Discuss Quarterly, Year-End Results during Webcast

Dec 21 2007 // Seattle-based Safeco will be hosting a live Internet broadcast of its conference call to discuss fourth-quarter and year-end financial results on Thursday, Jan. 31 at 5 p.m. EST. A live Webcast of the presentation will be...

Liberty Mutual Expands Middle-Market General Liability Coverage

Dec 13 2007 // Liberty Mutual has enhanced its general liability offering to mid-market businesses in order to account for coverage gaps. In addition, Liberty Mutual is expanding general liability coverages for 10 specific industry...

Liberty Mutual Agency Markets’ Parker Named Top Fraud Investigator

Dec 11 2007 // Liberty Mutual Agency Markets recently announced that senior special investigator Barbara Parker was honored by the National Society of Professional Insurance Investigators (NSPII) with the 2007 F. Lee Brininger Award,...

Advocacy Group Challenges Liberty Mutual’s California Insurance Rates

Dec 11 2007 // The Greenlining Institute, a multi-ethnic advocacy organization, has fiiled a petition with the California Department of Insurance challenging Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.’s insurance rates.According to the advocacy...

Mass. Auto Insurers Get Into Gear for Competition

Dec 2 2007 // Auto insurance carriers are looking to compete by rewarding drivers with good driving records, good grades, hybrid vehicles, property policies and pets under auto insurance rating plans filed for use in 2008 in...

Texas Supreme Court Shakes up Outlook for Co-insurers at Odds

Dec 2 2007 // It is common for an insured to have two insurers cover the same risk. When the insured is sued regarding that risk, both insurers have a duty to defend and indemnify the insured. Often the insurers agree to a split of the...

Safeco Estimates Calif. Wildfire Losses at $35 Million

Dec 2 2007 // Frank Santoya, a member of the California Fire Office of the State Fire Marshall, walks through the rubble as he surveys the fire damage in the Rancho Barnardo neighborhood of San Diego on Oct. 30, 2007 (AP Photo/Rick...

Mass. Drivers Get Taste of Competition; Insurers Cut Rates, Enhance Products

Nov 20 2007 // Drivers with good driving records, good grades, hybrid vehicles, property policies and pets are among those who could benefit under auto insurance rating plans filed for use in 2008 in Massachusetts.Indeeed, most drivers...

N.H. Court: Homeowners Exclusion Applies in Babysitter Molestation

Nov 18 2007 // A New Hampshire couple sued for negligence after their son molested children they were babysitting does not have coverage under their homeowners policy that has a sexual molestation exclusion, the New Hampshire Supreme...

Peerless Insurance Returning to Mass. Auto Under Managed Competition

Nov 14 2007 // Liberty Mutual Group today announced that one of its companies – Keene, N.H.-based Peerless Insurance – intends to return to the Massachusetts private passenger auto insurance market next year after a 20-year...

Safeco Estimates Calif. Wildfire Losses at $35 Million

Nov 12 2007 // Seattle-based Safeco is estimating that claims stemming from the recent California wildfires will amountto $35 million in pretax catastrophe losses. That figure represents the estimated losses both from claims received...

Liberty Mutual to Grow Mass. Sales Force by 50% to Handle Auto

Nov 9 2007 // Liberty Mutual, the state’s fourth-largest auto insurer, announced plans to add 30 sales representatives in Massachusetts – a 50 percent increase – by the time the state implements new managed competition...

N.H. Court: Home Insurance Exclusion Applies in Babysitter Molestation

Nov 7 2007 // A New Hampshire couple sued for negligence after their son molested children they were babysitting does not have coverage under their homeowners policy that has a sexual molestation exclusion, the New Hampshire Supreme...

Liberty Mutual to Re-quote 3,305 Dropped Coastal Home Policies in N.Y.

Nov 1 2007 // Some 3,305 coastal residents in New York whose homeowners insurance policies had not been renewed by Liberty Mutual partly because they did not have other policies with the company – such as life or automobile...

International, Personal Lines Drive Liberty Mutual 3d Quarter

Nov 1 2007 // Liberty Mutual Group reported net operating income of $390 million for the three months ended September 30, 2007, an increase of $3 million over the same period in 2006.Results in the quarter include a 9.6% increase in...

Analyst: Safeco’s Earnings Per Share Likely to Be Lower

Oct 31 2007 // Goldman Sachs announced it is lowering its 2007 earnings per share estimate for Safeco by $0.55 to $6.20, primarily to reflect the third quarter EPS shortfall, as well as higher fourth quarter catastrophe losses expected...

Safeco Employees, Agents Contribute $250,000 to Fire Victims

Oct 29 2007 // Seattle-based Safeco announced it is donating a package of up to $250,000 to support relief efforts for victims of the Southern California wildfires. A $50,000 grant will be donated immediately to the San Diego/Imperial...

How to put the brakes on truck crashes

Oct 27 2007 // Drivers of large trucks and other vehicles involved in truck crashes are 10 times more likely to be the cause of the crash than other factors, such as weather, road conditions, and vehicle performance, according to a study...