secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     HANOVER INSURANCE GROUP, INC. (THG)
CIK:        0000944695
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-10-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001564590-21-052364
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Hanover Q3 net income drops to $34M from $119M; combined ratio 102.3%
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- Net income $34.0M ($0.94/diluted) vs $118.9M ($3.13/diluted) in prior-year quarter.
- Operating income $30.8M ($0.85/diluted) vs $93.5M ($2.46/diluted) a year ago.
- Combined ratio 102.3% (ex-cat 89.4%); catastrophe losses $153.5M including $75M from Hurricane Ida.
- Net premiums written grew 8.4% to $1.38B; book value per share $87.04, down 1.3% from Q2.
- Repurchased 175k shares for $24M in Q3; $371M remaining under buyback program.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944695/000156459021052364/0001564590-21-052364-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/944695/000156459021052364/thg-8k_20211027.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-052364

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