CNA Financial
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| Public | |
| Traded as | : CNA |
| Industry | Insurance |
| Founded | 1897 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. 1967 (parent company) |
| Headquarters |
CNA Center Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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Key people
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Dino Robusto, Chairman and CEO |
| Revenue |
 US$ 9.547 billion (2012) |
 US$ 628 million (2012) |
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US$ 628 million (2012) |
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| Total assets |
US$ 58.522 billion (2012) |
| Total equity |
US$ 12.314 billion (2012) |
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Number of employees
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7,500 (Dec 2012) |
| Parent | Loews Corporation |
| Website | www.cna.com |
CNA Financial Corporation is a financial corporation based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and noted for its 600-foot (180 m) tall red headquarters building, CNA Center. Its principal subsidiary, Continental Casualty Company (CCC), was founded in 1897. CNA (the parent company) was incorporated in 1967.
CNA itself is 90% owned by a holding company, Loews Corporation. This holding company also has interests in offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, natural gas transmission pipelines, oil and gas exploration, and in hotel operations.
Continental Assurance Company of North America was founded in Detroit in 1897. The purpose of the company was to provide accident and health insurance to railroad industry employees. This company then merged with the Metropolitan Accident Company, changed its name to the Continental Casualty Company, and moved to Chicago.
The National Fire Insurance Company was acquired in 1956, and in 1963 the American Casualty Company was acquired. The first letters of each of the original companies were merged to form the acronym CNA. It was then referred to as the Continental National American Group, now it simply goes by CNA.
In 1968, CNA bought the Manhattan Fund from Gerald Tsai for $27 million in stock.
In 1999, CNA sold its personal insurance division to Allstate. That personal insurance company is now Encompass Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Allstate.
On February 13, 2003, the company restated its financial data for the past three years, cutting shareholders' equity by $254 million, to comply with federal accounting requirements concerning its life settlement contracts. On March 19, 2003, the company announced a revision to its previously reported fourth quarter 2002 results to reflect an additional $32 million of after-tax impairment losses on equity securities. On May 3, 2005, CNA said it would restate financial results for prior years to correct its accounting for several reinsurance contracts, mainly with a former affiliate, and its equity accounting with this affiliate. For 2004, this would reduce stockholders' equity as of Dec. 31, 2004, by $29 million, or 0.3 percent. On February 16, 2006, CNA restated its annual financial statements from 2001 to 2004 as well as interim statements through the third quarter of 2005 to correct accounting for businesses reported as discontinued operations. On March 8, 2006, the company would make their third results restatements in less than a year, to correct errors in reporting cash flow.
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