The company published one of the more encouraging sets of quarterly figures so far this earnings season.Recent news in the insurance industry hasn't been all that positive, but you wouldn't know that from the smoking-hot performance of The Travelers Companies (TRV 9.00%) over the past few days.In fact, after reporting its latest set of quarterly results on Thursday, Travelers hit its all-time-high closing stock price. The shares were up by 12% week to date as of early Friday morning, according to data compi ...