– The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE:THG) today announced a preliminary estimate for fourth quarter catastrophe losses of approximately $190 million, before taxes, or 13.9 points of net earned premiums. The estimate is approximately $137 million above the company’s pre-tax fourth quarter catastrophe assumption, driven by the effects of Winter Storm Elliott, which accounted for approximately $165 million, before taxes, of overall catastrophe losses in the quarter and primarily impacted the company’s core commercial business.
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