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Johns Hopkins has completed its purchase of the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in North Baltimore for $15 million and plans to take possession today. Brian Dembeck, executive director of Johns Hopkins Real Estate, said Hopkins plans to begin this spring to modify 415,000 square feet of office space on the property for use by more than 900 Hopkins employees who will move there in phases. He said the renovation would be a multimillion-dollar project, but he didn't give a specific figure.

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Johns Hopkins has completed its purchase of the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in North Baltimore for $15 million and plans to take possession today. Brian Dembeck, executive director of Johns Hopkins Real Estate, said Hopkins plans to begin this spring to modify 415,000 square feet of office space on the property for use by more than 900 Hopkins employees who will move there in phases. He said the renovation would be a multimillion-dollar project, but he didn't give a specific figure.

Johns Hopkins has completed its purchase of the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in North Baltimore for $15 million and plans to take possession today. Brian Dembeck, executive director of Johns Hopkins Real Estate, said Hopkins plans to begin this spring to modify 415,000 square feet of office space on the property for use by more than 900 Hopkins employees who will move there in phases. He said the renovation would be a multimillion-dollar project, but he didn't give a specific figure.

Insurance company Zurich American is moving its operations and hundreds of workers from Baltimore to an office complex in Owings Mills, company and city leaders said Thursday. The Switzerland-based company put its two office buildings on Keswick Road in the Hampden neighborhood up for sale late last year, saying it was looking for smaller quarters. The Baltimore buildings, which total about 462,000 square feet, have vacant space because the staff has been significantly reduced over the years, said spokesman Steve McKay.

On February 17, 2005 RABBI JUDA GLASNER; husband of Deborah Glasner (nee Deutsch); father of David Glasner of Silver Spring, MD and Moses Glasner of State College, PA; brother of Esther Lewenstein of Zurich, Switzerland and Shulamis Boallag of Zurich, Switzerland and the late Noomi Motzen; grandfather of Ruth Snyder, Sharon Yelenick and Donna, Chaya and Shifra Glasner; great grandfather of eight. Services and Interment in Israel. Family in mourning at 2903 Fallstaff Rd., Apt. 206 (21209)

Maryland and eight other states have reached a $171 million settlement with an insurance company accused of inflating prices and fixing bids on commercial insurance policies, the Maryland attorney general's office said yesterday. Zurich American Insurance Co. has agreed to pay $151 million to the defrauded companies - with about $2.8 million paid to businesses in Maryland - to settle allegations of bid-rigging and price-fixing, said Kevin Enright, a spokesman for Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. Zurich will pay an additional $20 million to the states for investigative costs.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Provident Cos. said yesterday that it will buy Paul Revere Corp., a rival disability insurer, from Textron Inc. in a transaction valued at $1.2 billion.Zurich Insurance Co., a Swiss insurer, will help pay for the purchase by taking a 15 percent stake in Provident for about $300 million.The acquisition will create the largest U.S. insurer of individuals against loss of income from debilitating illnesses or accidents. It's also the latest step in Provident's effort to reorganize and expand.

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Dr. Annie Martha Bestebreurtje Fitzpatrick, a well-known Baltimore County pediatrician who fled the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, died Thursday of natural causes at her home in Ruxton. She was 74."She was more than a doctor, she was a friend," said Anne Whitman, whose three sons were patients of Dr. Bestebreurtje.Known as "Dr. Annie," she treated two generations of patients over the past 39 years at her private practice in Ruxton."You could call her any time of the day or night.

Johns Hopkins has completed its purchase of the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in North Baltimore for $15 million and plans to take possession today. Brian Dembeck, executive director of Johns Hopkins Real Estate, said Hopkins plans to begin this spring to modify 415,000 square feet of office space on the property for use by more than 900 Hopkins employees who will move there in phases. He said the renovation would be a multimillion-dollar project, but he didn't give a specific figure.

Johns Hopkins plans to buy the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in North Baltimore and relocate up to 1,100 workers to two large office buildings - a move expected to help stabilize the area and boost neighboring businesses. The 11.4-acre property at Keswick Road and 40th Street would be acquired by a subsidiary jointly owned by the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System in East Baltimore, to consolidate workers in finance, data processing and other services.

Johns Hopkins has a contract to acquire the former Zurich Insurance Co. property in north Baltimore and will use it to consolidate financial, data processing and administrative functions currently spread out in several city locations. The 11.4 acre property at Keswick Road and W. 40th Street will be acquired by a subsidiary jointly owned by The Johns Hopkins University, based on the Homewood campus less than half a mile away, and the Johns Hopkins Health System in East Baltimore.

Insurance company Zurich American is moving its operations and hundreds of workers from Baltimore to an office complex in Owings Mills, company and city leaders said Thursday. The Switzerland-based company put its two office buildings on Keswick Road in the Hampden neighborhood up for sale late last year, saying it was looking for smaller quarters. The Baltimore buildings, which total about 462,000 square feet, have vacant space because the staff has been significantly reduced over the years, said spokesman Steve McKay.