Insurance News

Grupo Gigante SAB, a Mexican owner of office-supply stores, has lined up financing from Credit Suisse Group AG and Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA for its proposed takeover of Office Depot Inc.

A special collection will be taken at St. Christopher's R.C. Church in Grant City the weekend of June 1-2 to send brain cancer survivor Christopher Canale, a 6-year-old from Oakwood, to Lourdes.

Unum Group on Thursday trumpeted the success of its conservative business model, which has continued to deliver steady returns and rising profits for the Chattanooga-based insurer in spite of a spotty job market.

McCann had six novels to his name by the time he turned 40, but it was 2009's best-selling and prize-scooping Let the Great World Spin that made him an international name.

Insurance losses from the deadly tornadoes that hit Granbury, Cleburne and other communities in North Texas last week could reach $250 million, an insurance industry group said.

Surge Energy Inc. . Oil and gas. Down 37 cents, or 6.99 per cent, at $4.92 on 7.47 million shares.

"Kansas City Life Insurance has been upgraded by TheStreet Ratings from hold to buy.

The ACE Group announced today that it has received provisional approval from Myanmar's Directorate of Investment and Company Administration to establish a representative office in Myanmar.

Several environmental protesters are facing charges after blocking the road leading to the headquarters for coal producer Alpha Natural Resources in Bristol.

The clouds of a thunderstorm roll over neighbourhoods heavily damaged in a tornado in Moore, Okla., May 23, 2013.

Stock index futures fell on Friday, setting up Wall Street for its first weekly decline since mid April, amid concern the central bank may scale back its support to the economy.

Oklahoma residents should inspect for tornado damage once it is safe to do so. Residents should be very careful when returning home following the tornadoes that struck earlier this week.

In California, the most populous state in the country, one might think that insurers would be tripping over themselves to get plans on Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange .

Mexican and Canadian stocks are returning the least in 14 years versus the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a break from a history of matching or beating the benchmark gauge since the countries formed a free-trade agreement in 1994.

While the results are awaited of the public consultation on amendments to the Insurance Companies Ordinance for the establishment of an Independent Insurance Authority , provisional statistics have been released showing that the total gross premiums of the Hong Kong insurance industry in 2012 amounted to HKD255.2bn , an increase of 13.0% over 2011.

After weeks of negotiations, California said it has selected 13 health plans for a new state-run insurance marketplace where as many as 5 million people will shop for coverage next year.

As the Moore, Okla. area works to assess the damage and recover from the deadly F5 tornado, thousands of people from throughout the country are asking to help.

While bond insurers MBIA Inc and FGIC Corp receive the lion's share of Ally Financial Inc's $2.1 billion contribution to the debts of mortgage lender Residential Capital LLC, hedge funds like Paulson & Co may have obtained a better deal.

Gary Delgado learned last week from a note slipped under his door that the rent for his two-bedroom apartment at Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town will jump by $920 to $4,220 a month in July.

Principal Financial Group says it has agreed to transfer ownership of its Principal Wellness business to a Rockville, Md.-based company focused on improving employee wellness programs.