All the headlines from our Liberty Mutual Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 30 2008 // Fitch Ratings has upgraded the following ratings of the Liberty Mutual Group (LMG): –Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘BBB+’ from ‘BBB’; –Senior Unsecured Notes to ‘BBB’ from...
Jan 27 2008 // Swett & Crawford appointed Meredith Dyson as senior vice president. Dyson, who will assist the company with its marketing efforts and other related activities, will be based in New York.Most recently, Dyson was with...
Jan 24 2008 // Safeco has named Kirk Chartier senior leader of Distribution and Strategy. The announcement was made here by Paula Reynolds, the company’s president and chief executive officer.At Safeco, Chartier will oversee the...
Jan 10 2008 // Putting itself in the skates of an 8-year-old, the Utah Supreme Court reinstated a lawsuit Tuesday filed by a woman whose son was smacked in the head with a hockey stick while teasing another player.A key issue: Did...
Jan 9 2008 // Safeco announced that Paul Chmura has joined the company as Northeast regional executive. Chmura comes to Safeco from The Hanover Insurance Group, where he served as the regional vice president of sales and distribution...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...