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Cna Financial Corp – ‘10-Q’ for 3/31/17 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Monday, 5/1/17, at 9:34am ET   ·   For:  3/31/17   ·   Accession #:  21175-17-81   ·   File #:  1-05823

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 5/01/17  Cna Financial Corp                10-Q        3/31/17   67:11M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML    745K 
 2: EX-10.1     Material Contract                                   HTML     53K 
 3: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     29K 
 4: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     29K 
 5: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
 6: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     24K 
13: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     41K 
14: R2          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations     HTML     83K 
                (Unaudited)                                                      
15: R3          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive  HTML     46K 
                Income (Unaudited)                                               
16: R4          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML    113K 
17: R5          Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets -             HTML     48K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
18: R6          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows     HTML    127K 
                (Unaudited)                                                      
19: R7          Condensed Consolidated Statements of Stockholders'  HTML     44K 
                Equity (Unaudited)                                               
20: R8          General                                             HTML     39K 
21: R9          Earnings Per Share                                  HTML     27K 
22: R10         Investments                                         HTML    365K 
23: R11         Fair Value                                          HTML    402K 
24: R12         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves         HTML    152K 
25: R13         Legal Proceedings and Guarantees                    HTML     36K 
26: R14         Benefit Plans                                       HTML     36K 
27: R15         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) by    HTML     77K 
                Component                                                        
28: R16         Business Segments                                   HTML    338K 
29: R17         General (Policies)                                  HTML     42K 
30: R18         Investments (Tables)                                HTML    369K 
31: R19         Fair Value (Tables)                                 HTML    401K 
32: R20         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves         HTML    146K 
                (Tables)                                                         
33: R21         Benefit Plans (Tables)                              HTML     34K 
34: R22         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) by    HTML     76K 
                Component (Tables)                                               
35: R23         Business Segments (Tables)                          HTML    333K 
36: R24         General - Narrative (Details)                       HTML     28K 
37: R25         Earnings Per Share - Narrative (Details)            HTML     28K 
38: R26         Investments - Narrative (Details)                   HTML     42K 
39: R27         Investments - Net investment income (Details)       HTML     43K 
40: R28         Investments - Net realized investment gains         HTML     39K 
                (Losses) (Details)                                               
41: R29         Investments - Components of other-than-temporary    HTML     38K 
                impairment losses recognized in earnings (Details)               
42: R30         Investments - Summary of fixed maturity and equity  HTML     88K 
                securities (Details)                                             
43: R31         Investments - Securities in a gross unrealized      HTML     91K 
                loss position (Details)                                          
44: R32         Investments - Activity related to the pretax fixed  HTML     28K 
                maturity credit loss component reflected within                  
                retained earnings for securities still held for                  
                which a portion of an OTTI loss was recognized in                
                OCI (Details)                                                    
45: R33         Investments - Contractual maturity (Details)        HTML     55K 
46: R34         Fair Value - Narrative (Details)                    HTML     30K 
47: R35         Fair Value - Assets and liabilities measured at     HTML    119K 
                fair value on a recurring basis (Details)                        
48: R36         Fair Value - Reconciliation for assets and          HTML    105K 
                liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring                
                basis using significant unobservable inputs)                     
                (Details)                                                        
49: R37         Fair Value - Quantitative information about         HTML     34K 
                significant unobservable inputs in the fair value                
                measurement of level 3 assets (Details)                          
50: R38         Fair Value - Carrying amount and estimated fair     HTML     51K 
                value of financial instrument assets and                         
                liabilities which are not measured at fair value                 
                (Details)                                                        
51: R39         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves -       HTML     47K 
                Narrative (Details)                                              
52: R40         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves -       HTML     53K 
                Reconciliation of claim and claim adjustment                     
                expense reserves (Details)                                       
53: R41         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves - Net   HTML     40K 
                prior year development (Details)                                 
54: R42         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves - Net   HTML     37K 
                prior year claim and allocated claim adjustment                  
                expense reserve development for Specialty segment                
                (Details)                                                        
55: R43         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves - Net   HTML     35K 
                prior year claim and allocated claim adjustment                  
                expense reserve development for Commercial segment               
                (Details)                                                        
56: R44         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves - Net   HTML     37K 
                prior year claim and allocated claim adjustment                  
                expense reserve development for International                    
                segment (Details)                                                
57: R45         Claim and Claim Adjustment Expense Reserves -       HTML     29K 
                Impact of Loss Portfolio Transfer on the                         
                Consolidated Statement of Operations (Details)                   
58: R46         Legal Proceedings and Guarantees - Narrative        HTML     47K 
                (Details)                                                        
59: R47         Benefit Plans - Components of net periodic cost     HTML     36K 
                (Benefit) (Details)                                              
60: R48         Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) by    HTML     61K 
                Component - Changes in accumulated other                         
                comprehensive income (Loss) by Component (Details)               
61: R49         Business Segments - Narrative (Details)             HTML     27K 
62: R50         Business Segments - Income Statement Information    HTML    112K 
                (Details)                                                        
63: R51         Business Segments - Balance Sheet Information       HTML     73K 
                (Details)                                                        
64: R52         Business Segments - Revenues by Line of Business    HTML     56K 
                (Details)                                                        
66: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML    117K 
65: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     82K 
 7: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- cna-20170331                        XML   4.67M 
 9: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- cna-20170331_cal                XML    272K 
10: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- cna-20170331_def                 XML    569K 
11: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- cna-20170331_lab                      XML   1.39M 
12: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- cna-20170331_pre               XML    880K 
 8: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- cna-20170331                          XSD    160K 
67: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000021175-17-000081-xbrl      Zip    260K 


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