Insurance

EMC Insurance Group Inc. said Monday that it expects improving fourth-quarter and full-year operating results when it announces earnings next month. The Des Moines-based property/casualty insurer said it expects premium income to increase by 10.2 …

An investment company with a prominent lineage is infringing on the many trademarks that made the Principal companies “famous,” according to a federal lawsuit.

C.V. Starr & Co. Inc. is infringing on a slew of …

Wayzata, Minn.-based TCF National Bank has agreed to pay a $10 million penalty for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, Minnesota Public Radio reported. The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency …

Caterpillar Inc. reported fourth-quarter profits that topped analysts’ estimates, Bloomberg reported. Net income fell to $1.04 a share from $2.32 a year earlier. Profits excluding a $580 million write-down on its ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. unit in …

Buoyed by strong quarterly earnings reports, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index rallied for a seventh day on Thursday, a five-year peak, Reuters reported. 

The equity market was also boosted by the agreement by Congress to …

LWBJ Financial LLC announced the election of Paul Juffer as managing partner. Juffer, a senior partner and one of the firm’s founders, replaces Marv Debner, who left the firm to take a position with BKD …