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Markel Insurance Company has acquired the social services program business of wholesaler Black/White & Associates Insurance. Terms of the deal were not released, said Britton L. Glisson, president and

American Family Mutual Insurance Company will contest a Missouri jury's $17 million class-action award over company insistence that customers use aftermarket parts for collision repairs, a spokesman s

Best said it lowered the financial strength ratings to "C-plus (Marginal)" from "C-double-plus (Marginal)," and the issuer credit ratings to "b-minus" from "b" for the Royal & Sun Alliance USA Insuran

Businesses in the United Kingdom could be facing a very challenging year with threats from the spreading bird flu virus and concerns over increased sophistication of cyber crime, a major brokerage fir

The department said its nonseasonally adjusted figures showed almost the same rate of growth, with employment up 1.5 percent in January to 2.32 million. February saw employment figures grow 1.3 percen

NU's technology editor Ara Trembly admits that he's "had it with tech support people who can't speak English or who speak it so badly that they might as well be speaking a foreign language." Log on t