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• New York Attorney General investigates Boston-based insurer.

  - 2004-10-20

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 20--Liberty Mutual Group has been subpoenaed by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the first local insurer to be caught up in the prosecutor's fast-widening probe into the insurance industry's sales practices. ...

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• Premier of China to Visit Middleton, Mass., Dairy during State Visit.

  - 2003-12-10

  By Ross Kerber, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 10--MIDDLETON -- When Premier Wen Jiabao of China comes to do business in Massachusetts today, he's not visiting EMC Corp., Gillette Co., Staples Inc., or any other big company. ...

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• Chinese Premier to Visit Boston.

  - 2003-12-04

  By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 4--The number three man in the Chinese government will pay his first visit to Boston next week, underscoring the growing commercial ties between the Bay State and the world's most populous...

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• Boston Firm to Appeal Ruling Granted in Favor of Auto Insurer.

  - 2001-10-24

  By Bruce Mohl, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 24--Rivals of Commerce Insurance say the state's largest auto insurer violated the law when it snared all of the good customers of tiny Horace Mann Educators Corp. while dumping the ones with...

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• CORRECTION: Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Asked to Reconsider Conversion.

  - 2001-03-06

  By Scott Bernard Nelson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 6--The story slugged GL-INSURANCE-STRUCTURE, filed for Mar. 2 by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, moved with an inaccurate headline. The corrected headline moves above, and the original story follows. ...

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• Massachusetts Insurance Company Faces Internal Discord.

  - 2001-03-02

  By Scott Bernard Nelson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 2--The group leading the fight against Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.'s planned conversion of its ownership structure turned up the political heat yesterday. The Center for Insurance Research...

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• The Boston Globe Downtown Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-09-20

  Sep. 20--This is, quite frankly, not the sexiest column I have ever written. Columns about "demutualization" and "mutual holding companies" tend to make readers turn the page. The executives at Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., the big Boston-based writer of workers' compensation and auto and...

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• The Boston Globe Boston Capital Column.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-02-02

  Feb. 2--TEMPORARY CEO HAS CHANCE TO GIVE LIBERTY FINANCIAL A PERMANENT MAKEOVER: Memo to Gary Countryman: Don't pass up this chance. Countryman, the chairman of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., has stepped in temporarily as chief executive of Liberty Financial Cos., a publicly traded...

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• Boston-Based Liberty Mutual Group Looks for a Tax Break.(Originated from The Boston Globe)

  - 1997-10-25

  Oct. 25--Gary Countryman isn't threatening to move his company out of Massachusetts. Even so, he thinks he deserves a tax break. "This is about fairness," said Countryman, chief executive of Liberty Mutual Group, a large property and ca Oct. 25--Gary Countryman isn't...

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