Hartford Financial Services CEO Liam McGee dies of cancer

Liam McGee, an Irish-born banker and insurance executive who guided Hartford Financial Services Group through a taxpayer bailout and shored up the company’s finances, has died.

The 60-year-old died on February 13 after a two-year battle with cancer. He had relocated with his family from Connecticut to California after learning he had the disease and stepping down from the insurer.

Mr McGee ran Hartford as CEO from October 2009 to the middle of 2014, turning around an insurer that had been forced into a US government rescue.