The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG), usually known as The Hartford, is a Fortune 500 company and one of America’s largest investment and insurance companies. With 2008 revenues of $9.2 billion, The Hartford is a leading provider of investment products, life insurance and group benefits; automobile and homeowners products; and business property and casualty insurance. The company’s international operations are in Japan, the Uni...
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The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG), usually known as The Hartford, is a Fortune 500 company and one of America’s largest investment and insurance companies. With 2008 revenues of $9.2 billion, The Hartford is a leading provider of investment products, life insurance and group benefits; automobile and homeowners products; and business property and casualty insurance. The company’s international operations are in Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil and Ireland. The company’s earnings are divided equally between property-and-casualty operations and life operations.
The Hartford was originally founded in 1810 in Hartford, Connecticut. A group of local merchants gathered in a Hartford inn and, with working capital of $15,000, founded the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. The company survived some of the greatest peacetime tragedies in America’s history. After a huge fire destroyed New York’s financial district in 1835, The Hartford’s president, Eliphalet Terry,...
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