Hartford Financial Services Group News

For most Americans, the ability to drive is essential to who we are and is deeply connected to our independence and our identity as productive, responsible members of society, notes the American Occupational Therapy Association , Bethesda, Md.

Nov. 19, 2009 09:31 AM CHICAGO, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Seven Summits Research issues PriceWatch Alerts for RIMM, CL, HIG, STX, and MWW.

Auto repair shop owners in Connecticut Tuesday celebrated a victory in a six-year battle against The Hartford, winning a $15 million jury award in a dispute over appraisals and labor costs for fixing damaged vehicles.

Nov. 17 -- Robert Froehlich, senior managing director at Hartford Financial Services, talks with Bloomberg's Jon Erlichman about the outlook for China's currency policy.

For months, the most visible thing on The Hartford's campus on Asylum Hill has been the demolition of all but the oldest section of the former MassMutual headquarters.

Billionaire investor John Paulson disclosed in a regulatory filing his Paulson & Co.

User-generated content is taking many forms on today's Internet. Whether consumers are posting product reviews to a company's Web site, providing personally identifiable information to receive a special offer, or uploading photos to a social networking site, they're sharing more information about themselves online, which creates both opportunities ...

Submitted by James Foye, MetroHartford Alliance , on 2009-11-09.   HYPE, Hartford Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs, has announced the winners of Entrepreneurship Awards.

Insurance firm Beazley USA Services Inc. will more than triple its space when it takes over the entire 12th floor of 1270 Sixth Ave.

This surge in volume was nearly triple the stock's average daily trading volume of 23,643 contracts.

In a Nov. 2 story about a hearing for the South Dakota portion of a proposed crude oil pipeline, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the project's construction manager said access to medical facilities during construction was the project's biggest challenge.

Hartford Financial Services said third quarter net loss was $220 million or 79 cents a share.

The S&P 500 managed to eek out a 0.2% gain overnight Tuesday, largely thanks to the industrials and basic materials sectors, together with an M&A-driven jump in the transport sector as Warren B. plays Texas Hold'em and goes all in on the future of the US economy.

Investors late Tuesday pushed shares of Kraft Foods Inc. lower after the company's quarterly sales fell short of Wall Street's target, while Hartford Financial Group shares rose after the insurer's core earnings came in better than had been expected.

Hartford Financial Services is scheduled to step into the earnings spotlight right after Tuesday's closing bell, with the insurance issue releasing its final third-quarter figures.

3. During the course of the session, the security saw close to 16,000 puts change hands, more than doubling its average daily volume of fewer than 7,300 puts.

Seventy-six percent of Americans over age 50 say they donate money to causes they support, and 53 percent said they do volunteer work, a recent survey shows.

Analyst Report ) reported operating earnings of 84 cents in the third quarter, which was ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 80 cents.

Life insurer Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. said Monday that its chief financial officer, Lizabeth Zlatkus, will be named its chief risk officer and the company will begin looking externally for a new CFO.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal reached a $1.3 million settlement with The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.