BOSTON — Liberty Mutual Group Inc. said Wednesday it has agreed to buy Safeco Corp. for $6.2 billion in cash in a deal to create the nation’s fifth-largest property and casualty insurer. The boards of ...

Liberty Mutual Group said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire publicly traded Safeco Corp. and take it private in an all-cash, $6.2 billion deal to create the nation’s fifth-largest property and ...

Safeco Corp. might be on the verge of selling its life insurance unit, but that has not kept it from pushing new products into the bank channel. The Seattle insurer said that this Thursday it will ...

BOSTON — Liberty Mutual Group has agreed to acquire publicly traded Safeco Corp. and take it private in an all-cash, $6.2-billion deal to create the nation’s fifth-largest property and casualty ...

Safeco has hired a utility company CEO with Puget Sound-area ties to replace Mike McGavick as chief executive. Paula Rosput Reynolds, 49, will become the insurer’s president and CEO on Jan. 1, Safeco ...

Insurance giant Safeco Corp. is expected to either vacate or scale back its downtown operation next year–a move that could deal a major blow to the office market. At stake are about 700 downtown jobs, ...

Kevin A. Rowell is the newly knighted president of Safeco Mutual Funds, a job he assumed this past September. With nearly $3.3 billion in assets under management across its 19-fund lineup, the SAFECO ...

Safeco Insurance and the Seattle Mariners jointly announced today that their 20-year ballpark naming rights deal will not be extended past 2018. The deal that reportedly cost $1.8 million annually ...

SEATTLE, WA Beginning this December, SAFECO is launching “Building Skills through Volunteerism,” an employee development tool that recognizes the career advancing value of volunteering. The program ...

Safeco, which said earlier this week that it was ceasing the sale of homeowners insurance to new customers in California, said Friday it was filing for a 19.7% homeowners rate hike and would resume ...

BOSTON — Liberty Mutual Group said this morning it has agreed to buy Safeco Corp. for $6.2 billion in cash in a deal to create the nation’s fifth-largest property and casualty insurer. The boards of ...