Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Friday second-quarter profit fell 40 percent, as declining stock prices depressed the value of...
Monthly Archives: August 2010
LeRoy Bostic of Lewis & Thompson in Detroit has been named president of the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA)....
Crime on cruise ships is rare, considering 10 million North Americans sailed last year. But some crime victims believe that...
Specialty insurance company Markel Corp. reported that its combined ratio for the second quarter of 2010 was 103 percent, compared...
Florida-based Brown & Brown has acquired Virginia-based benefits firm Synergy Benefits Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Synergy, which has annual...
Exxon Mobil Corp. is suing the United States to recover more than $45 million in clean-up costs at its refining...
Tropical Storm Colin weakened to a tropical depression in the Atlantic Ocean Sunday as it passed west of Bermuda, the...
Russian troops dug a 8-km (5-mile) long canal to keep fires caused by a record heatwave away from a nuclear...
A suspected militant strike on a Japanese-owned tanker illustrates how vulnerable merchant ships are to attack on the high seas...
The New Jersey Supreme Court says a liability waiver protects a gym from a lawsuit filed by a customer who...