HIG

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

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Is HIG Halal?

Property-casualty and group-benefits insurer — conventional insurance and interest-based investing are an activity-level disqualifier.

What You Should Know

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. is a conventional property-casualty and group-benefits insurer. Its March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q reports assets of $86,322 million, interest-bearing debt of $4,372 million, cash of $166 million, interest-bearing securities of $45,762 million, receivables of $14,224 million and quarterly revenue of $7,226 million. Debt/assets is 5.06%, liquidity/assets is 53.21% and receivables-plus-cash/assets is 16.67%; the liquidity screen fails, but the activity-level conventional-insurance concern is decisive regardless of ratios. The filing does not provide a reproducible gross non-compliant-income numerator.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Conventional insurance is built on gharar and riba, which are activity-level disqualifiers that cannot be cured by purification
  • Liquidity/assets is 53.21%, above examined 33.333% limits
  • Premium float is invested in interest-bearing securities; the filing does not provide a reproducible gross purification numerator
  • This is a structural business-model concern rather than an incidental financial-ratio issue
  • Muslim investors should avoid the stock and consider takaful for protection needs and permissible businesses for investment

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-15.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
5.06%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

4,372 / 86,322

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
53.21%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

45,928 / 86,322

Receivables + cash / assets
16.67%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

14,390 / 86,322

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Liquidity/assets is 53.21%, above the examined 33.333% limit; the conventional insurance activity also fails.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Liquidity/assets is 53.21%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% limit; the activity screen fails.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Liquidity/assets is 53.21%, above the examined Malaysia limit; this is not an official classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A properly licensed and reproducible historical market-cap series is not stored; the activity and asset-based screens already fail.

Business-activity disclosure

The Hartford is a conventional property-casualty and group-benefits insurer whose underwriting and investment of premium float are central to its economics.

Limitation: Conventional insurance is an activity-level concern; no revenue carve-out can make the core model permissible.

Purification

The filing does not provide a reproducible gross non-compliant-income numerator; the core conventional insurance activity also fails the business screen.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from The Hartford's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q.
  • Debt is the reported long-term debt balance; insurance liabilities are not treated as interest-bearing debt.
  • Cash excludes $54 million of restricted cash. Interest-bearing securities combine available-for-sale debt securities and fair-value-option fixed-maturity securities.
  • Receivables proxy combines premiums receivable, accrued investment income receivable and notes receivable; the filing does not present one universal Sharia receivables line.
  • Total revenue is used as the activity-level non-compliant-revenue proxy because conventional insurance is the core business; this is not a purification ruling.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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