ProAssurance Corporation (NYSE: PRA) announced today that its acquisition of Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. (Eastern) was completed effective January 1, 2014. Eastern's shareholders overwhelmingly approved the transaction at a special ...
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British motor insurer Direct Line Group has reported operating profit of £131.2m for the third quarter of 2013, with an increase of 6.1% compared to £123.7m during the same period earlier year. The company said that the 6.1% ...
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Foreign insurance giants have cast eye on the Chinese vehicle insurance market in succession. Hubei Biocause Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 000627), a shareholder of Tianping Auto Insurance Co., Ltd., said in a statement on September ...
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Hong Kong insurance industry has reported gross premiums of $143.7bn in the first half ended on 30 June 2013 (H1), up 14.5%, compared during the same period in 2012, according to the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance. For the long ...
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Australian general insurer QBE Insurance Group has posted a net profit of $477m for the first half of 2013, a decline of 37% compared to $760m for the same period last year. Underwriting profit grew by 2% to $530m for the first half of ...
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General Electric (GE) is reportedly considering sale of its Australia-based insurance business, GE Capital Insurance, in an effort to adjust its Australian portfolio, a source familiar with the deal has revealed. The source was quoted by ...
American Financial Group has reported net earnings attributable to shareholders of $50m, or $0.54 per share for the fourth quarter of 2012, against $109m, or $1.09 per share during the same period earlier year. The P&C specialty insurance ...
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Argo Group International Holdings has posted net income of $24m, or $0.92 per diluted share, up 10% from a net income of $21.6m, or $0.78 per diluted share during the same period last fiscal. Argo Group CEO Mark E Watson III said, "Each ...
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AXIS Capital Holdings has reported net income attributable to common shareholders for the second quarter of 2012 of $168m, or $1.35 per diluted common share, up by 66% from $101m, or $0.79 per diluted common share, during the same period ...
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American Financial Group has reported net earnings attributable to shareholders of $226m or $2.39 per share for the third quarter of 2012, with an increase of 133% from $97m, or $0.95 per share, during the same period last year. Its core ...
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