Hallmark Financial Ends Business-Segment Spinoff Plan

By Matt Grossman

Hallmark Financial Services Inc. no longer plans to spin off its speciality-commercial insurance segment via an initial public offering, the Dallas-based insurer said Thursday.

Hallmark said steps it has taken such as a loss-portfolio transfer transaction and improvement in its underlying operating results led the company’s board to reconsider the spinoff plan.

Hallmark had announced the IPO plan for the speciality-commercial segment in April.

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