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Jun 10 2009 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart said The Hartford has agreed to refund over $150,000 to nearly 1,300 auto insurance customers due to the mishandling of the company’s rate filing for its AARP auto...
Jun 4 2009 // Hartford Financial Services Group said on Thursday that CEO and chairman Ramani Ayer, under pressure from shareholders as the 199-year-old insurer struggles with record losses, would retire by the end of the year.The...
Jun 3 2009 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced that Sean Fitzpatrick, senior vice president of its Middle Market insurance businesses, will assume responsibility for the company’s Specialty Financial insurance...
Jun 1 2009 // AIGAmerican International Group has signed an agreement to sell its prime real estate holding in Tokyo for approximately $1.2 billion to Nippon Life Insurance Co. The property includes approximately one acre of land on...
May 19 2009 // Neal S. Wolin has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.In February, Wolin was named deputy assistant to the President and deputy counsel to the President...
May 18 2009 // Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. said it plans to keep its U.S. property/casualty and life businesses, after winning approval last week to tap $3.4 billion of federal bailout funds.Chief Executive Ramani Ayer...
Apr 23 2009 // Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is trying to sell its property/ casualty insurance business, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday, as the U.S. insurer reels from massive losses.Hartford has retained...
Mar 9 2009 // MarshMarsh & McLennan Companies Inc., the No. 2 global insurance broker, said the 2008 restructuring at Marsh Inc., its flagship insurance brokerage unit, was on track to generate annual savings of $200 million, and...
Mar 9 2009 // MarshMarsh & McLennan Companies Inc., the No. 2 global insurance broker, said the 2008 restructuring at Marsh Inc., its flagship insurance brokerage unit, was on track to generate annual savings of $200 million, and...
Mar 6 2009 // Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is in talks to sell most of its life insurance subsidiary to Sun Life Financial Inc. of Canada, Bloomberg News reported, citing anonymous people.Splitting the Hartford, Conn.-based...
Mar 3 2009 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength ratings (FSR) to ‘A’ (Excellent) from ‘A+’ (Superior) and the issuer credit ratings (ICR) to “a+” from “aa-” of the key...
Feb 22 2009 // The Hartford has filed a lawsuit to determine whether it must pay claims filed by victims of a nationwide salmonella outbreak traced to the Virginia peanut butter maker it insures.Hartford, Conn.-based Hartford Casualty...
Feb 22 2009 // Juan Andrade and Jonathan Bennett have been named as interim co-leads of the Property and Casualty Operations of The Hartford.Their appointment to those interim positions follows the departure of Neil Wolin, president and...
Feb 22 2009 // Juan Andrade and Jonathan Bennett have been named as interim co-leads of the Property and Casualty Operations of The Hartford.Their appointment to those interim positions follows the departure of Neil Wolin, president and...
Feb 22 2009 // American International Group (AIG) named Peter Eastwood president and CEO of Lexington Insurance Co., a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance. Eastwood assumes management responsibility for Lexington from Kevin H. Kelley, who...
Feb 17 2009 // London-based insurer and reinsurer Beazley Group is acquiring Boston-based First State Management Group, an underwriting manager specializing in excess and surplus lines commercial property insurance for $35.4 million in...
Feb 9 2009 // The Hartford has filed a lawsuit to determine whether it must pay claims filed by victims of a nationwide salmonella outbreak traced to the Virginia peanut butter maker it insures.Hartford, Conn.-based Hartford Casualty...
Feb 6 2009 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. reported a fourth quarter 2008 net loss of $806 million. For full year 2008, The Hartford reported a net loss of $2.7 billion, compared to net income of $2.9 billion in...
Jan 28 2009 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. today announced that Neal Wolin, president and chief operating officer of the company’s Property and Casualty Operations, has accepted a position in the White House as...
Jan 13 2009 // The Hartford Financial Services Group plans to hire 150 full-time workers by spring for a Reno, Nev., call center.The Connecticut-based company says the workers will take service calls from members of AARP, the...