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Filed under: Allstate Corp , Travelers Companies Inc. Mother Nature and mankind took it easy on the insurance industry in 2009.

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Category: DEVELOPING AN EFFICIENT FINANCE FUNCTION A newcomer revamps Allstate's financial structure.

In Phoenix, a high school library received a check for $1,000 for two books that had been overdue for 50 years.

Allstate Corp. , the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, is investing in corporate debt as it reduces commercial real estate and municipal bond holdings.

Allstate Corp. , the largest publicly-traded insurer of homes and automobiles in the U.S., announced this week that it is making some major shifts in its investment portfolio that now exceeds $100 billion.

A.M. Best and Fitch Ratings announced ratings updates. The following are some of the most recent: The Allstate Corp.

If most Americans had never heard of Wall Street titan Edward Liddy before the financial crisis, they knew his name only too well by the end of last spring.

Warren Buffett's takeover of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. illustrates an emerging trend: Takeovers are back.

(Craina TMs) a " Allstate Corp. is getting out of the stock-picking business. The Northbrook-based insurance giant confirmed that it has hired Goldman Sachs Asset Management to handle its $4.6-billion portfolio of public equities. About 15 jobs a " 5% of Allstate Investmentsa TM workforce a " ...

Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Thomas Wilson said the insurer may take advantage of the increase in takeover targets and a decline in the cost of buying rivals.

Nov. 17 Thomas Wilson, chief executive officer at Allstate Corp., talks with Bloomberg's Lindsey Arent about the company's investment strategy.

Allstate Corp. announced today that Joseph Lacher Jr. has been named president of Allstate Protection, effective Nov.

Allstate Corp. said Monday that it hired Joseph Lacher from rival Travelers Cos.

MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE laid off mope at home while job hunting. Mark Philpott moved 6,000 miles, from England to South Africa and leapt from IT support to personal training.

In support of October's National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Allstate agency owner Karen Clark of Marshall was one of several Michigan Allstate agents who collected 1,800 gently used business suits and professional apparel items that will be given to domestic violence survivors to outfit them with confidence as they enter or re-enter the ...

Loews Corp., the holding company run by New York's Tisch family, and Guardian Life Insurance Co.

Among the shares expected to see active trade in Thursday's session are those of the retailers as well as Allstate, Cigna, Cisco, CareFusion, Dr Pepper Snapple, i2, MetroPCS, MF Global, Netsuite, News Corp., Qualcomm, Sirius XM, THQ and Time Warner Cable.

CITY OF COMMERCE, Calif.-- --99 Only Stores announces its financial results for the second quarter ended September 26, 2009.

Allstate Corp. said late Wednesday that it swung to a quarterly profit as the auto insurer benefited from a lack of major catastrophes and avoided big investment losses that it suffered last year.