Hartford Financial Services Group Incorporated

Arthur Laupus joined AARP because he thought the nonprofit senior-citizen-advocacy group would make his retirement years easier. He signed up for an auto-insurance policy endorsed by AARP, believing the advertising that said he would save money. He didn'...

HARTFORD, Conn. Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. said yesterday that it applied to switch its business structure to a savings-and-loan holding company, which would make the firm eligible for funding under the government's $700 billion bank rescue...

Four insurance companies on Friday asked the government to allow them to buy thrifts so they can qualify to receive federal money under the financial rescue program. Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Genworth Financial Inc., Lincoln National Corp....

Shares of The Hartford and other life insurers fell sharply Wednesday as investors grew more concerned about the sector's large exposure to commercial mortgage investments and the variable annuity business. Shares of the Hartford Financial Services Group...

For investors who thought the stock market had put the worst of this ruthless year behind it, it's time to recalibrate. One of the most brutal downturns in stock market history intensified Wednesday as share prices fell to new lows on fear that the...

WALL STREET ENDS WEEK ON DOWN NOTE | Wall Street ended a turbulent week with another astonishing show of volatility Friday, with stocks plunging, recovering and then plunging again as investors absorbed another wave of downbeat economic news. The Dow...

Sanford-based Federal Trust Corp. announced Friday that it has agreed to be acquired by insurance giant Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., a pending deal potentially worth $10 million. Terms call for the insurer to pay Federal Trust investors $1 a...

A new wave of loan defaults, this time tied to commercial mortgages, is starting to hit insurance companies and may be contributing to the stock market's woes. Industry players say the insurers' predicament is being worsened by a rule requiring that...

Consolidated-Tomoka Land Co. Friday's close: $26.09, down 10.34% from previous week Consolidated-Tomoka's board of directors last week authorized a program to repurchase $8 million of the company's shares. The Daytona Beach-based landowner and...

The nation's unemployment rate is at a 14-year high, Ford is planning more job cuts after burning through billions in the third quarter, and General Motors is expected to report its own dismal earnings results later Friday. The evidence continues to roll...

New claims for unemployment benefits dropped slightly last week, while the number of people continuing to receive benefits reached its highest level in more than 25 years, the government said Thursday. The Labor Department reported that initial claims...

The anti-bailout crowd got what it wanted Monday: More pain for Wall Street fat cats, to the tune of the biggest one-day drop in key stock indexes since the 1987 market crash. Unfortunately, that pain also was felt in the not-so-fat 401(k) retirement...