NU Online News Service, May 5, 3:33 p.m. EDT

Liberty Mutual Group reported first-quarter net income of $28 million, a 92.2 percent decrease from the $360 million in net income reported in the 2008 first quarter.

Private equity losses hurt the quarterly results, and Edmund F. Kelly, chairman, president and CEO of Liberty Mutual, attributed those losses to the struggling capital markets.

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