TOKYO: Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance said Monday it was considering buying a US firm with reports saying it was eyeing a nearly $5.0-billion takeover of Protective Life.

The leading Nikkei economic daily and other Japanese media reported that the third-biggest Japanese life insurer was preparing to acquire the mid-sized firm based in the southern US state of Alabama.

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