Symetra Financial Corp., owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., sold shares at the low end for its initial public offering as investors won concessions from three other companies in the first U.S. IPOs of 2010.

An initiative that would change the way auto insurance premiums can be calculated under California’s landmark Proposition 103 was certified Wednesday to appear on the June 8 ballot, just hours after the author of the existing law assailed it as a deceitful attempt to raise insurance rates for millions of drivers.

INSURANCE premiums for cars and houses are expected to rise sharply as insurers scramble to recover from a year of shrinking profits.

President Obama was correct to conclude that boosting economic activity required a fiscal stimulus.

Four Cambridgeshire households could be preparing to make a home insurance claim after suffering at the hands of burglars.

Officials say auto theft rates dropped Valley-wide nearly 40 percent in the first six months of 2009.

Home insurance claims are set to soar this week, as thousands of students across the UK return to their university accommodation.

Deborah Wood says she’s helped find homes for at least 500 dogs since she began her rescue efforts in 2001.

MORRISTOWN — Chris Christie on Friday named Tom Considine, vice president and government relations counsel at insurer MetLife Inc., as commissioner of the Department of Banking and Insurance

Taiwan’s banks and insurance companies will gain from the new rules, but the Taiwanese need more liberalization to be competitive in the Chinese market