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The Hartford Adds New Program to Help Employees, Claimants Overcome Disability-Related Challenges

May 5 2004 // The Harford Financial Services Group Inc. is helping employees, disability claimants and their families to overcome the challenges that can accompany a disability through Ability Assist, a confidential service that...

CAA Named The Hartford’s Agent of the Year

Mar 10 2004 // Texas-based managing general agency (MGA) Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced it was named Agent of the Year by The Hartford’s Houston branch. The annual award honors the agency or broker demonstrating the...

Small Businesses Start Small Then Grow into Big Businesses

Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were more than five million firms employing fewer than 20 people in 2001, not counting the millions of people who are self employed. Another 600,000 firms employed between 20 and...

Small Businesses are Big Business

Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were 5,652,544 firms actively doing business in the U.S. in 2001, the latest available totals. This doesn’t count the millions of people who are self-employed. 5,036,845 of...

Small Businesses Start Small Then Grow into Big Businesses

Mar 8 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were more than five million firms employing fewer than 20 people in 2001, not counting the millions of people who are self employed. Another 600,000 firms employed between 20 and...

Small Businesses Start Small Then Grow into Big Businesses

Feb 23 2004 // According to the U.S. Census Bureau there were more than five million firms employing fewer than 20 people in 2001, not counting the millions of people who are self employed. Another 600,000 firms employed between 20 and...

The Hartford Targets “Big Small Businesses”

Feb 5 2004 // The Hartford announced that it’s broadening its definition of small businesses and plans to offer more tailored coverages from more “dedicated underwriters” and faster responses to the needs of the...

‘Clean Streets’ Program Now Open to Agents Doing Business with The Hartford

Jan 21 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has opened its street cleaners insurance program to all independent agents doing business with The Hartford. Hartford-affiliated agents can place their clients’ business...

Robert Kerzner to Retire from Hartford

Jan 16 2004 // Robert Kerzner, executive vice president and director of The Hartford Financial Services Group’s individual life division and president of Woodbury Financial Services, is retiring after a 30-year career with the...

The Hartford Adds Endorsement Requests for Agents Utilizing AMS Agency Management Systems

Jan 13 2004 // Submitting endorsements to insurance policies from The Hartford reportedly just got faster and easier for the thousands of insurance agents that use an AMS agency management system. The Hartford, which has long been a...

The Hartford Awards Nearly $1 Million in Grants to Organizations

Jan 9 2004 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, headquartered in the city that bears its name, recently awarded $929,500 in grants to 20 nonprofit organizations in the Greater Hartford area. The company awards grants four times a...

Hartford Settles Mac Arthur Asbestos Litigation for $1.15 Billion

Dec 22 2003 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. announced on Friday that it has agreed to a global settlement of all claims arising out of its historical insurance relationship with Mac Arthur Company and its subsidiary...

The Hartford Making Ocean Cargo Safer for Businesses

Dec 5 2003 // The exploits of pirates are exciting on the movie screen, but not much fun for the business owner whose ocean-bound goods they took as booty. Today the threat of swashbuckling men with an eye-patch and a parrot on the...

SIAA Claims More Than Just Aggregation

Dec 1 2003 // At first blush, the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance may look like just one more short-term solution to the increasing shift in the balance of power toward insurance carriers away from independent agents. Commissions...

SIAA Claims More Than Just Aggregation

Dec 1 2003 // At first blush, the Strategic Independent Agents Alliance may look like just one more short-term solution to the increasing shift in the balance of power toward insurance carriers away from independent agents. ommissions...

The Hartford’s Ayer to be Honored For Support of Public Education

Nov 13 2003 // Ramani Ayer, chairman and CEO of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., will be presented this week with the first-ever 2003 Polaris Award for his efforts in support of public education in the city of...

The Hartford Reports Q3 Net Income of $343 Million

Nov 6 2003 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. reported net income per diluted share of $1.20 for the third quarter of 2003, up from $1.06 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2002. Net income increased 29 percent to...

CSC Licenses Its Exceed P/C Software to The Hartford

Oct 29 2003 // Computer Sciences Corporation announced that The Hartford Financial Services Group has signed a multi-year license for CSC’s Exceed, a comprehensive software system for the property and casualty industry. Under the...

The Hartford Chooses Corporate Systems as Medical Cost Management Solution for WC

Oct 22 2003 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has selected Corporate Systems’ MedBillPro as its medical invoice management solution for workers’ compensation. The Hartford will be teaming with Corporate Systems,...

The Hartford Notes Q3 EPS Estimates

Oct 14 2003 // The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. reported that it currently estimates its third quarter 2003 earnings per diluted share will be between $1.15 and $1.18, including additional reserves for the cost of resolving...