Hartford
Financial Services Group, Inc. - (en)
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., shortened to The Hartford in
marketing materials, is a large investment and insurance company in the
United States. The group's logo is an emblem featuring a stag.
Its products include life, auto, homeowners, and business insurance and
employee benefits are the largest seller of individual annuities in the
United States. It supplies insurance products to members of the American
Association of Retired Persons (AARP).
The company sells products through about 11,000 independent insurance
agencies, and the company employs 30,000 persons.
It is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HIG.
The company was founded in 1810 and is based in Hartford, Connecticut,
from which it takes its name.
In 2004, The Hartford purchased the Group Benefits Division of CNA
Financial Corporation, based in Chicago, Illinois.
The stag logo, dubbed Larry, is based on Monarch of the Glen, a famous
painting of a regal stag.
