Insurer Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. spent $520,000 in the fourth quarter to lobby the federal government on insurance regulation reform, consumer protection rights and other issues, according to a recent disclosure report. That's down from the $690,000 the Hartford, Conn.-based life insurer spent in ...

Insurer Hartford Financial Services Group said Monday it was profitable in the fourth quarter as its life and property-casualty businesses both improved. The Hartford, Conn.-based company earned $557 million, or $1.19 per share in the final three months of the year. That compared with a loss of $806 ...

An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five workers and injuring a dozen or more. The explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown, about 20 miles south of Hartford, could be heard and ...

An explosion blew apart a power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines Sunday, killing multiple people and injuring at least 14 in a blast that shook homes for miles, officials said. Betsy Hard, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, told The Associated Press that multiple people died in the explosion at ...