secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HANOVER INSURANCE GROUP, INC. (THG)
CIK:        0000944695
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-07-28T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001564590-21-038372
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hanover Q2 net income $3.52 EPS, operating $2.85; combined ratio 94.4%
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- Net income $128.5M ($3.52 diluted EPS) vs $115.2M ($3.01) prior year; operating income $104.0M ($2.85) vs $62.7M ($1.63).
- Combined ratio improved to 94.4% from 96.2%; ex-cat combined ratio 87.9%.
- Net premiums written $1.207B, up 11.7% (8.6% adjusted for 2020 premium returns).
- Catastrophe losses $76.8M (6.5% of NPE), 40 bps above expectations, driven by Midwest storms.
- Book value per share $88.23, up 4.8% from Q1; share repurchases of 542k shares for $73.3M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944695/000156459021038372/0001564590-21-038372-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944695/000156459021038372/thg-8k_20210727.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-038372

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