The Hartford
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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, and is 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 employes 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 Lawrence, is based on Monarch of the Glen, a famous painting of a regal stag.
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