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November 05, 2004 at 07:00 PM
Prudential Financial Inc., Newark, N.J., says regulators are asking it for information about some of its business practices.[@@]
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Connecticut attorney general’s office and the U.S. Department of Labor want to know about Prudential’s “payments to insurance intermediaries and certain other practices that may be viewed as anti-competitive,” Prudential says in a quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Prudential says it is just one of a “number of insurance companies” that are getting the requests for information, but it notes that it might receive additional requests for information about broker compensation and related topics. The company says it is cooperating fully with the regulators’ inquiries.
Mary Flowers, a Prudential spokesperson, declined to talk about whether individual Prudential executives had received requests for information or to discuss what Prudential meant when it referred to “certain other practices” in its quarterly report.
Separately, Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford, says in its quarterly SEC filing that it is the subject of several private actions arising from allegations of a civil complaint filed against Marsh Inc. and Marsh’s parent company, Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., New York. The complaint alleges that certain insurance companies, including Hartford, participated with Marsh in arrangements to submit inflated bids for business insurance and paid contingent commissions to ensure that Marsh would direct business to them, Hartford says.
Hartford is not joined as a defendant in the action, Hartford says.
