Phoenix Companies Incorporated

After three years with its shares hovering around $2, The Phoenix Cos. Inc. said it will execute a 1-for-20 reverse stock split in August for its common stock. "We believe this is the right time for a reverse stock split, which will reduce administrative...

Faye Keith Jolly of Deerfield Beach, Fla., applied for a $10 million life insurance policy with a division of The Phoenix Cos. Inc. in the winter of 2007. He was 73 at the time, though Jolly claimed to be of healthy, athletic stock. He wrote a letter...

Dona D. Young retired Wednesday as chairman, president and chief executive of The Phoenix Companies Inc., leaving the 158-year-old Hartford company, which is struggling against daunting odds, in the hands of incoming CEO James D. Wehr. Wehr, who has been...

Ask Wilson H. Faude, historian extraordinaire and director emeritus of Hartford's Old State House, for his favorite piece of architecture in Hartford, and he'll sidestep colonial and Italianate and Queen Anne marvels. He'll go straight to that monument of...

The Hartford received preliminary approval Thursday for a $3.4 billion federal loan under the emergency bailout program, a deal that would give the insurer breathing room and could ease the company's need to raise money by selling businesses. Other major...

Connecticut's insurance companies are busy building profits or shooting for turnarounds this year, but a multitude of investigations looms over the industry here and across the nation. Many of the probes kicked off last year with New York Attorney...

After years of dramatic shifts in Connecticut's corporate landscape, 2001 brought few changes in the addresses of the state's largest publicly traded companies. But for most, the year was far from quiet. The Courant's annual ranking of the 100 largest...