CNA Financial Corporation

Foreign workers for U.S. are casualties twice over

2009-06-21 00:00:00

Rey Torres dreamed of a better life for his wife and five children when he left a neighborhood of wooden shacks and burning trash piles to drive a bus on a U.S. military base near Baghdad. He hoped to send his children to college and build a new home...

The day ahead in business April 29

2013-04-29 03:30:00

Reports: Personal income/spending for March, 7:30 a.m.; Pending home sales for March 9 a.m.; Dallas Fed manufacturing survey for April, 9:30 a.m. Local earnings: Addus Homecare Corp., CNA Financial Corp., General Growth Properties Inc., Great Lakes...

The day ahead in business

2012-02-06 03:30:00

Energy startup powers past fundraising target

2011-12-01 00:00:00

CNA Financial announces first-quarter profit

2010-05-03 16:32:12

The week ahead

2007-10-28 00:00:00

Monday: -- Earnings: American Financial Group Inc.; CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.; CNA Financial Corp.; Hertz Global Holdings Inc.; Humana Inc.; Kellogg Co.; Loews Corp.; Pitney Bowes Inc.; Principal Financial Group Inc.; RadioShack Corp. Tuesday: --...

Local stocks rise above tumult

2007-07-09 00:00:00

Amid rising investor nervousness, volatility and turmoil in debt markets stemming from defaults on subprime mortgages, Chicago-area stocks managed to largely hold their own over the last three months. Perhaps surprisingly, there were only a dozen...

Dicen adiós las últimas tres familias

2008-02-11 00:00:00

Winners scarce among big area firms

2003-04-07 00:00:00

Chicago-area stocks have not gotten off to a particularly good start in 2003. As market benchmarks look to break the first three-year losing streak since World War II, the biggest local companies endured a rocky first quarter, with a few, mostly limited,...

Insurers likely to bend, not break

2001-09-12 00:00:00

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Tuesday will slam insurers in the gut, but observers say the well-capitalized industry should be able to withstand the blow, which is expected to break records. "This clearly is going to shake out to be the...

Safety concerns send many home

2001-09-12 00:00:00

The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington brought a sudden end to the workday for thousands of people in Chicago. Quaker Oats Co. closed its headquarters along the Chicago River at 10 a.m., sending 1,100 home. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of...

Some new realities await opening bell at exchanges

2001-09-16 00:00:00

Stock prices face potentially sharp adjustments to new global economic realities as soon as trading resumes. Trading has been frozen since last Monday, but investor sentiment toward equities has ebbed and flowed with each news headline. Generally,...

Andy Cohen has been appointed the vice president of field operations for CNA Financial Corporation. He joins CNA most recently from Travelers Insurance, where he served as vice president, strategy, middle market.

2012-09-04 13:17:00

Global insurance broker Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, on April 3 appointed Tanja Maffei as senior vice president of Willis North America International Practice.

2012-04-03 00:00:00

Salary: $1,000,000 Bonus: $477,085 Stock awards: $4,548,578 Options awards: $462,808 Non-equity incentive pay: $2,750,000 Other pay: $1,192,642 Perks included in other pay: Personal use of aircraft ($1,031,286), relocation 29,339), parking benefit ($900), club memberships/companion travel ($1,064),

2010-05-21 13:23:49