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Safeco Names Jenks as Chief Information Officer

Apr 5 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco has named William Jenks Chief Information Office. He most recently served as executive vice president and chief information officer of worldwide operations at Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s...

Liberty Mutualsuccessfully argued that the ‘clear and convincing

Apr 3 2006 // evidence’ standard is not required under N.J.’s fraud law.News Currents N.J. Supreme Court lowers bar for proving customer fraudThe New Jersey Supreme Court has set an easier standard of proof for an insurance...

Safeco Offers Monoline Workers Compensation Program

Mar 31 2006 // Safeco, based in Seattle, is offering its workers compensation product on a stand-alone — or monoline — basis in 25 states. The move is designed to give small businesses more flexibility in acquiring coverage...

Liberty Mutual CEO Advocates Long-Term Terrorism Insurance Plan

Mar 31 2006 // Declaring the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) “an essential policyholder protection,” Edmund F. (Ted) Kelly, Liberty Mutual Group chairman, president and CEO, this week urged the National Association of...

Safeco To Host First-Quarter Earnings Conference Call

Mar 29 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco will be announcing its first quarter financial results on a conference call to be held 11 a.m. EST on May 2, 2006. The call also will be archived later in the day for replay on the Internet at...

Safeco to Lease Puget Sound Facilities

Mar 27 2006 // Safeco, Seattle, has revised the real estate strategy for its Puget Sound operations that calls for the company to lease space rather than build and own office facilities. That is a lower-cost solution that also provides...

N.J. Supreme Court Lowers Standard for Proving Insured Committed Fraud

Mar 14 2006 // The New Jersey Supreme Court has set an easier standard of proof for an insurance company suing an insured for fraud than a lower court had required.Instead of proving fraud by “clear and convincing evidence,”...

Safeco, FSC Insurance Offer Real-Time Rates in Connecticut

Mar 3 2006 // FSC Insurance Solutions, a business unit of Fiserv Inc., and Safeco have announced plans to provide independent agents in Connecticut with real-time personal auto insurance rates through FSC’s single-data-entry...

Liberty Mutual Group Chairman Pleased with 2005 Numbers

Mar 1 2006 // Liberty Mutual Group reported net income of $253 million and $1.027 billion for the three and 12 months ended Dec. 31, 2005, respectively, representing decreases of $312 million and $218 million from the same periods in...

Safeco Surety Names Mikolajewski Senior VP, Peters Retires

Feb 21 2006 // Safeco has announced that Tim Mikolajewski will be senior vice president of Safeco Surety. Mikolajewski has been with Safeco Surety since 1984 and has held several management positions, including vice president of Contract...

People and Places

Feb 20 2006 // Aon Risk Services of Oklahoma welcomed Don Horner to its staff as vice president, Health & Welfare Practice leader. He will be responsible for new business production, management of the Tulsa office’s Health...

Don Horner

Feb 19 2006 // Aon Risk Services of Oklahoma welcomed Don Horner to its staff as vice president, Health & Welfare Practice leader. He will be responsible for new business production, management of the Tulsa office’s Health...

Safeco Announces $250 Million Share Repurchase Program

Feb 7 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco has executed a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan to purchase up to $250 million of its outstanding common stock. That will allow Safeco to repurchase its shares during periods when the company would normally...

Business Moves

Feb 5 2006 // Morgan Hill, Calif.-based DMI Insurance Services Inc., has created a wholesale division that will specialize in excess and surplus markets for independent auto dealers and automotive specialty shops. Tina Evans, an...

Safeco Names LaRocco President

Feb 2 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco CEO Paula Rosput Reynolds announced the appointment of Michael LaRocco as president and chief operating officer of Safeco Insurance Companies. In this expanded role, LaRocco will bring together the...

Noy to Succeed Leamon as Chief of Liberty Mutual Safety Institute

Jan 26 2006 // Liberty Mutual Group in Boston announced that Tom Leamon, director of its Research Institute for Safety since 1991, will retire in late 2006. Liberty Mutual has appointed Dr. Y. Ian Noy vice president and director to...

Safeco Posts Nearly 5 Percent Revenue Increase

Jan 24 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco has announced its fourth quarter and year-end results. The company reported its net income for the fourth quarter of 2005 was $190.7 million, compared with $179.8 million during the same period the...

People & Places

Jan 23 2006 // Shelly Diegel has been elected chairman of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents‘ company council of executive officers for 2006. Diegel is vice president for small business distribution at Zurich...

People

Jan 22 2006 // Shelly Diegel has been elected chairman of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents’ company council of executive officers for 2006. Diegel is vice president for small business distribution at Zurich...

Actuaries Complete Liberty Mutual Asbestos Review

Jan 13 2006 // Outside actuaries have concluded that Liberty Mutual’s asbestos exposure may be shorter tailed than that of many other commercial insurers because the company mainly wrote primary coverage and also benefited from...