Insurance

Wells Fargo & Co. has established a group to provide financial services to publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) that are involved in commercial properties, the Phoenix Business Journal reported.

The REIT Finance Group …

The U.S. financial services industry extended $607 billion in loans to small businesses during the first half of 2011, which was just $45 billion less than the dollar amount of loans it made in all …

Lamair-Mulock-Condon Co. has been named one of the 2011 Best Practices Agencies by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America. The West Des Moines-based insurance brokerage was among 208 agencies in the United States …

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. may be on the cusp of getting Federal Reserve oversight under a proposal by regulators that also increases the chances that American International Group Inc.(AIG) and MetLife Inc. will receive …

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarthy was elected president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners during the group’s annual conference last Friday in Kansas City, Mo. McCarthy takes office Jan. 1, 2012, succeeding Iowa Insurance …

The dollar amount of tax credits claimed by businesses through the state’s economic development programs is expected to increase by 27 percent in the next five years, according to an updated contingent liabilities report recently …