Coventry Buys Benefits Firm
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First Health Group Corp. is the latest in a series of acquisitions that Coventry has made to try to boost its leverage with hospitals, doctors and pharmaceutical companies when negotiating costs.
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Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has announced it will buy British motor insurer Equity Insurance Group for 570 million pounds.
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Hugh Osmond, the pubs-to-pizzas entrepreneur, is to make a dramatic move into Britain&#39;s life insurance market by leading a Â£1billion cash acquisition
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First Health Group, which manages health-care benefits for employers and unions and which has struggled lately, will be acquired by Coventry Health Care in a $1.
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Financial group HHG today announced the Â£1.03 billion sale of its UK life insurance business, which includes the Pearl and London Life brands.
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The James River Group, a property and casualty insurer, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by the hedge fund D. E. Shaw Group for $575 million in cash.
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British life insurers Resolution  and Friends Provident  confirmed on Monday that they are in advanced merger discussions that could lead to the creation of a group worth over 8 billion pounds ($16.4 billion).
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Charterhouse has beaten off competition from another private equity player to buy Saga, the company that provides services to the over-50s, for Â£1.
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Food and clothing chain Marks &amp; Spencer PLC said Tuesday it had bought the per una clothing brand from businessman George Davies for 125 million pounds (&#36;223 million).
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Hugh Osmond, the entrepreneur better known for investing in the food and drink sector, on Thursday night sealed the UK&#39;s largest closed life assurance deal with the
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Resolution Life, the closed life assurance consolidator led by Clive Cowdery, completed its second acquisition yesterday with the Â£205m purchase of Swiss Life&#39;s closed UK business.
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Business & money: Transport for London to declare interest in acquiring stricken London Underground contracting firm.
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Britain&#039;s biggest insurer Aviva Plc has  agreed to pay &#36;2.9 billion in cash for U.S. life insurer AmerUs  Group Co in a deal that will boost its undersized presence in  the United States.
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GNC Corp. , the leading retailer of vitamins and nutrition products, agreed to be acquired by Ares Management LLC and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in a deal with a total enterprise value of $1.65 billion.
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UK fire equipment manufacturer Kidde agrees a Â£1.4bn takeover by US manufacturer United Technologies.
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United Technologies Corp., which offers security services through its Chubb unit, agreed to buy UK fire-protection company Kidde Plc for $2.8 billion in cash to expand its range of building-services products.
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The job cuts come as part of A.I.G.âs move to combine units with the newly acquired 21st Century Insurance Group.