This new online marketplace unites vehicle owners with collision repair needs with repair shops that are capable of performing repairs in an insurer-supported, web -based service program. Insurers

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Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America Corp. is acquiring the Balboa Insurance Group as part of the deal announced today to acquire Countrywide Financial Corp., Calabasas, Calif., in a $4 billion stock

Former State Insurance Commissioner Julianne Bowler in 2006 had approved rate increases of 25 percent on Cape Cod, the nearby islands and in other coastal areas, and 12.4 percent elsewhere for the Mas