0000021175-17-000013.txt : 20170209 0000021175-17-000013.hdr.sgml : 20170209 20170209140045 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000021175-17-000013 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20170207 FILED AS OF DATE: 20170209 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20170209 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CNA FINANCIAL CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000021175 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: FIRE, MARINE & CASUALTY INSURANCE [6331] IRS NUMBER: 366169860 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: CNA STREET 2: 333 S. WABASH CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60604 BUSINESS PHONE: 3128225000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: CNA STREET 2: 333 S. WABASH CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60604 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: PONTARELLI THOMAS CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001257455 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-05823 FILM NUMBER: 17586879 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1326 EVERFREEN COURT CITY: GLENVIEW STATE: IL ZIP: 60025 4 1 wf-form4_148666683127639.xml FORM 4 X0306 4 2017-02-07 1 0000021175 CNA FINANCIAL CORP CNA 0001257455 PONTARELLI THOMAS 333 S. WABASH AVE. CHICAGO IL 60604 0 1 0 0 Former EVP & Chief Admin Off Common Stock 2017-02-07 4 M 0 236 42.53 A 58316 D Common Stock 2017-02-07 4 S 0 236 42.58 D 58080 D Stock Appreciation Rights 41.86 2017-02-07 4 M 0 15000 0 D 2017-02-07 Common Stock 15000.0 0 D The Reporting Person exercised 15,000 Stock Appreciation Rights and as such received a gain of 236 shares of the issuers common stock. A previously reported, the Stock Appreciation Rights became exercisable in four equal annual installments beginning on February 7, 2008. As previously reported, the Reporting Person received the Derivative Security pursuant to a grant of stock appreciation rights at no cost. /s/ Stathy Darcy by Power of Attorney for Thomas Pontarelli 2017-02-08 EX-24 2 pontarellipoaforform401-04.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY - TPONTARELLI

POWER OF ATTORNEY

    Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each
of Jonathan D. Kantor and Stathy Darcy, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

(1)    execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an
officer and/or director of CNA Financial Corporation (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4,
and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and
the rules thereunder; and

(2)    do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be
necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file
such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3)   take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best
interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the
documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned
pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such
terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-
fact's discretion.

       The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to
do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be
done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this
power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges
that the forgoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned,
are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

       This Power of Attorney shall supersede any existing power of attorney and shall remain
in full force and effect until a successor power of attorney is executed or the undersigned is no
longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in
a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 4th day of January, 2011.


                          /s/ Thomas Pontarelli
                        _________________________
                        Name: Thomas Pontarelli