UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April 9, 2004
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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 001-13958 13-3317783
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(State or other jurisdiction (Commission (IRS Employer
of Incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
Hartford Plaza
Hartford, Connecticut 06115-1900
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(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (860) 547-5000
Item 12. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
This Current Report on Form 8-K is filed on behalf of The Hartford Financial
Services Group, Inc. ("The Hartford" or the "Company") to provide supplemental
financial disclosure relating to the three fiscal years ended December 31, 2003.
A copy is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by
reference.
The Hartford intends to change its reporting segments effective for the quarter
ending March 31, 2004. The segment change is in accordance with the provisions
of Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 131, and reflects the manner
in which the Company is currently managing its businesses.
The Company intends to reclassify its Property & Casualty doubtful accounts
expense from underwriting expenses to other expenses.
The Company also intends to report all debt and related interest expense in
Corporate.
The new segments and their component products are as follows:
LIFE
Retail Products Group: This segment will include the Company's individual
annuities, retail mutual funds, 401(k) plans (formerly Corporate), 529 college
savings plans, Canadian and offshore investment products. The Company is
planning to continue to prepare a separate income statement in its financial
supplement for the individual annuity line of business.
Institutional Solutions Group: This segment will include Governmental products,
institutional liability products, including structured settlements and
institutional annuities (including terminal funding cases), as well as private
placement life insurance owned by corporations (formerly reported as the
Corporate Owned Life Insurance segment) and high net worth individuals.
The Individual Life and Group Benefits segments remain unchanged from their
definitions as of December 31, 2003.
PROPERTY & CASUALTY
Property & Casualty is now organized into four reportable operating segments:
The underwriting segments of Business Insurance, Personal Lines, Specialty
Commercial (collectively "Ongoing Operations") and the Other Operations segment.
The Other Operations segment consists of certain property and casualty insurance
operations of the Company which have discontinued writing new business and
includes the financial results of the assumed reinsurance business previously
reported in the Reinsurance segment. The Other Operations segment also includes
substantially all of the Company's asbestos and environmental exposures.
Property & Casualty will continue to include
income and expense items not directly allocated to the operating segments, such
as net investment income, net realized gains and losses, other expenses and
income taxes.
Additionally, in order to better analyze the financial performance of the
property and casualty insurance businesses, doubtful accounts expense, which had
previously been included in underwriting results, will now be reported in other
expenses.
CORPORATE
The debt and related interest expense that had previously been reflected in Life
and Property & Casualty will now be reported in Corporate to better reflect the
Company's central control of its capital management function. Life's and
Property & Casualty's debt has been replaced with equity.
As provided in General Instruction B.6 of Form 8-K, the information and exhibit
contained in this Form 8-K shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of
Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, nor shall they be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference
in such a filing.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.
Date: April 9, 2004 By: /s/ Robert J. Price
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Name: Robert J. Price
Title: Senior Vice President and
Controller