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Safeco adds online distribution strategy to sell direct to consumers

Jun 5 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insur-ance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent agents, the company reported. Safeco began exploring this new...

Business Moves

Jun 5 2006 // Assurant, Safeco Financial Institution SolutionsAssurant Inc., a provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Safeco Finan-cial Institution...

Safeco adds online distribution strategy to sell direct to consumers

Jun 5 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insur-ance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent agents, the company reported. Safeco began exploring this new...

Safeco Insurance Intercompany Ratings Affirmed, Outlook Positive

Jun 1 2006 // Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said today it affirmed its “A+” counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on the Safeco Intercompany Pool members. S&P also affirmed its...

Kari Named Safeco’s New Chief Financial Officer

May 31 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco named financial services veteran Ross Kari as the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective June 21, 2006. Kari joins Safeco from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San...

Liberty Mutual Distributes Disaster Guides Nationwide

May 25 2006 // The 2006 hurricane season begins in one week, and homeowners from Corpus Christi to Coral Gables to Cape Cod hopefully are heeding the advice of government officials, disaster relief organizations, and insurers by taking...

Safeco Finds New Home for Headquarters and Regional Office

May 25 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco announced plans to move its corporate headquarters to 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza and its Northwest region office to the Second and Seneca building, both in downtown Seattle.Safeco has entered a lease for...

Business Moves

May 22 2006 // Odyssey Investment, York Insurance ServicesOdyssey Investment Partners LLC completed its acquisition of York Insurance Services Group Inc. in partnership with York Chairman and CEO Thomas C. MacArthur, other members of...

Your Space

May 22 2006 // In teenage land, the Internet is hardly foreign. Ask any 14-year-old today — they likely know all the ins and outs of using the Web to research school projects, as well as how to make friends all around the world...

Safeco adds online distribution strategy to sell direct to consumers

May 22 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent agents, the company reported. The company began exploring this new...

News Currents

May 22 2006 // Safeco adds online distribution strategy to sell direct to consumersSeattle-based Safeco Insurance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent...

Editor’s Note: Your Space

May 22 2006 // In teenage land, the Internet is hardly foreign. Ask any 14-year-old today — they likely know all the ins and outs of using the Web to research school projects, as well as how to make friends all around the world...

Safeco Adds Online Distribution Strategy

May 15 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent agents. The company began exploring this new distribution strategy in...

Liberty Mutual Opts to Fight, Not Settle, Charges Over Contingent Commissions, Account Steering

May 7 2006 // Unlike American International Group, Zurich, ACE and other insurers that have settled similar charges, Liberty Mutual Insurance Group has decided to fight allegations of anti-competitive practices that have been brought...

Safeco Increases Dividend By 20%; Announces Share Repurchase

May 4 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco’s board of directors announced an increase to the company’s quarterly dividend. The board declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.30 per share, payable on July 24, 2006, to shareholders...

Liberty Mutual: 1st Quarter Income Down, New Business Up; Call Today

May 3 2006 // Liberty Mutual Group reported net income of $292 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006, a decrease of $104 million or 26.3% from the same period in 2005. Results in the quarter include a $112 million increase...

Assurant Acquires Safeco Financial Institution Solutions

May 1 2006 // Assurant, Inc., a provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, has acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Safeco Financial Institution Solutions Inc. based in Seattle, Wash., a...

Safeco weighs Internet sales of auto insurance

Apr 17 2006 // Seattle-based property and casualty insurer Safeco is considering direct marketing its automobile insurance business on the Internet to reach additional consumers that don’t like to deal with a middle-man and...

Safeco weighs Internet sales of auto insurance

Apr 17 2006 // Seattle-based property and casualty insurer Safeco is considering direct marketing its automobile insurance business over the Internet to reach additional consumers that don’t like to deal with a middle-man and...

Business Moves

Apr 17 2006 // Aviva, Prudential“It takes two to tango,” as the saying goes, and Prudential (U.K.) apparently has no desire to dance with its larger rival Aviva Plc. It hastily rejected a £17 billion ($30 billion) offer...