Latest Safeco Insurance Headlines

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Safeco Finds New Home for Headquarters and Regional Office

May 25 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco announced plans to move its corporate headquarters to 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza and its Northwest region office to the Second and Seneca building, both in downtown Seattle. Safeco has entered a lease...

Business Moves

May 22 2006 // Odyssey Investment, York Insurance Services Odyssey Investment Partners LLC completed its acquisition of York Insurance Services Group Inc. in partnership with York Chairman and CEO Thomas C. MacArthur, other members of...

Your Space

May 22 2006 // In teenage land, the Internet is hardly foreign. Ask any 14-year-old today — they likely know all the ins and outs of using the Web to research school projects, as well as how to make friends all around the world...

Safeco adds online distribution strategy to sell direct to consumers

May 22 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent agents, the company reported. The company began exploring this new...

News Currents

May 22 2006 // Safeco adds online distribution strategy to sell direct to consumers Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent...

Editor’s Note: Your Space

May 22 2006 // In teenage land, the Internet is hardly foreign. Ask any 14-year-old today — they likely know all the ins and outs of using the Web to research school projects, as well as how to make friends all around the world...

Safeco Adds Online Distribution Strategy

May 15 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco Insurance Companies has decided sell products via the Internet to supplement its existing and preferred sale channel of independent agents. The company began exploring this new distribution strategy in...

Safeco Increases Dividend By 20%; Announces Share Repurchase

May 4 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco’s board of directors announced an increase to the company’s quarterly dividend. The board declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.30 per share, payable on July 24, 2006, to shareholders...

Assurant Acquires Safeco Financial Institution Solutions

May 1 2006 // Assurant, Inc., a provider of specialty insurance and insurance-related products and services, has acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Safeco Financial Institution Solutions Inc. based in Seattle, Wash., a...

Safeco weighs Internet sales of auto insurance

Apr 17 2006 // Seattle-based property and casualty insurer Safeco is considering direct marketing its automobile insurance business on the Internet to reach additional consumers that don’t like to deal with a middle-man and...

Safeco weighs Internet sales of auto insurance

Apr 17 2006 // Seattle-based property and casualty insurer Safeco is considering direct marketing its automobile insurance business over the Internet to reach additional consumers that don’t like to deal with a middle-man and...

Business Moves

Apr 17 2006 // Aviva, Prudential “It takes two to tango,” as the saying goes, and Prudential (U.K.) apparently has no desire to dance with its larger rival Aviva Plc. It hastily rejected a £17 billion ($30 billion) offer...

Safeco Names Jenks as Chief Information Officer

Apr 5 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco has named William Jenks Chief Information Office. He most recently served as executive vice president and chief information officer of worldwide operations at Publicis Groupe, one of the world’s...

Safeco Offers Monoline Workers Compensation Program

Mar 31 2006 // Safeco, based in Seattle, is offering its workers compensation product on a stand-alone — or monoline — basis in 25 states. The move is designed to give small businesses more flexibility in acquiring coverage...

Safeco To Host First-Quarter Earnings Conference Call

Mar 29 2006 // Seattle-based Safeco will be announcing its first quarter financial results on a conference call to be held 11 a.m. EST on May 2, 2006. The call also will be archived later in the day for replay on the Internet at...

Safeco to Lease Puget Sound Facilities

Mar 27 2006 // Safeco, Seattle, has revised the real estate strategy for its Puget Sound operations that calls for the company to lease space rather than build and own office facilities. That is a lower-cost solution that also provides...

Safeco, FSC Insurance Offer Real-Time Rates in Connecticut

Mar 3 2006 // FSC Insurance Solutions, a business unit of Fiserv Inc., and Safeco have announced plans to provide independent agents in Connecticut with real-time personal auto insurance rates through FSC’s single-data-entry...

Safeco Surety Names Mikolajewski Senior VP, Peters Retires

Feb 21 2006 // Safeco has announced that Tim Mikolajewski will be senior vice president of Safeco Surety. Mikolajewski has been with Safeco Surety since 1984 and has held several management positions, including vice president of Contract...

People and Places

Feb 20 2006 // Aon Risk Services of Oklahoma welcomed Don Horner to its staff as vice president, Health & Welfare Practice leader. He will be responsible for new business production, management of the Tulsa office’s Health...

Don Horner

Feb 19 2006 // Aon Risk Services of Oklahoma welcomed Don Horner to its staff as vice president, Health & Welfare Practice leader. He will be responsible for new business production, management of the Tulsa office’s Health...