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The Lloyd's of London insurance market has reduced its exposure A as much as possibleA to the crisis-hit eurozone in preparation for a collapse of the bloc's single currency, its chief executive told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

With 4,500 unique types of trees, Dawes Arboretum is like a Vegas-style all-you-can-eat buffet for... LANCASTER -- The Knights of Columbus Council 15447 met on May 17 and conducted its election of officers for 2012.

A year ago, I wouldn't have given you a dime for Tom Wilson's chances of lasting another 12 months as CEO of Allstate Corp.

The film shows a burning crucifix, gun-toting priests and the torture of a young boy.

Almost every day for nearly three weeks, Jon Butler rallied with fellow union strikers on the picket line.

ISLAMABAD: The 'fit and proper' criteria is prescribed and implemented by regulators globally in the financial sector.

When Warren Buffett speaks, Wall Street listens. The 81-year-old Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway has used his keen business sense to become one of the richest men in the world.

The British motor insurance industry could be on course for its first underwriting profit in 18 years after dramatically narrowing its losses during 2011, according to accountants Deloitte.

The three directors who oversee risk at JPMorgan Chase & Co. include a museum head who sat on American International Group Inc.'s governance committee in 2008, the grandson of a billionaire and the chief executive officer of a company that makes flight controls and work boots.

Building on recent efforts for California to divest in Iran, the state Assembly on Friday passed a bill that targets insurers for investing in companies that aid the country's nuclear weapons capabilities.

Four former executives at Berkshire Hathaway Inc's General Re Corp and one at American International Group Inc are in talks to settle a long-running criminal case accusing them of engineering a reinsurance transaction that fraudulently boosted AIG's loss reserves.

The reason this town has gotten recent attention isn't because of survivors; it's because of lives lost: 5 of them since 2006.

Aviva Plc opened at 8.40 on Friday. Aviva Plc has a 1-year low of $8.26 and a 1-year high of $14.56. The company has a market cap of $12.146 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 46.67. Separately, analysts at Goldman Sachs upgraded shares of Aviva Plc from a "neutral" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note to investors on Monday, April ... (more)

At a Thursday press conference calling for tighter regulation of insurance companies, state Sen.

Dozens of federal mine safety inspectors descended into 43 coal mines in three Appalachian states Wednesday in a massive, one-day blitz targeting mines once owned by Massey Energy.

Five environmental activists have been arrested after chaining themselves to a coal barge in protest of mountaintop removal mining operations.

Warren Buffett says his company is likely to buy more newspapers in the next few years, and Berkshire Hathaway will not try to influence the editorial policies of any of them.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc is eyeing more newspapers, according to a memo posted on Jim Romenesko's media website.

Asian shares eased on Thursday as markets were vulnerable to faltering factory orders in China and lack of concrete measures shown by European leaders to tackle the risk of Greece leaving the currency bloc.

British insurer Aviva plc is putting its South Korean and Sri Lankan businesses on the auction block, sources with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday, as part of a wider retreat from sub-scale Asian markets in a deal that could fetch around $150 million.