UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

SCHEDULE 13D

Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

(Name of Issuer)

(Title of Class of Securities)

(CUSIP Number)

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

(Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box.  x

Note: Schedules filed in paper format shall include a signed original and five copies of the schedule, including all exhibits. See §240.13d-7 for other parties to whom copies are to be sent.

The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).

This statement on Schedule 13D relates to the shares of common stock (“Common Stock”) and warrants to purchase Common Stock expiring June 26, 2019 (“Warrants”) of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”). The address of the Issuer’s principal executive offices is One Hartford Plaza, 690 Asylum Drive, Hartford, Connecticut 06155.

(a) NAME

Paulson & Co. Inc. (the “Reporting Person”)

(b) RESIDENCE OR BUSINESS ADDRESS

1251 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020

(c) PRESENT PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION OR EMPLOYMENT AND THE NAME, PRINCIPAL BUSINESS AND ADDRESS OF ANY CORPORATION OR OTHER ORGANIZATION IN WHICH SUCH EMPLOYMENT IS CONDUCTED

The Reporting Person, an investment advisor that is registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, furnishes investment advice to and manages onshore and offshore pooled investment vehicles and separate managed accounts (collectively, such pooled investment vehicles and accounts shall be referred to as the “Funds”). John Paulson is the President and sole Director of the Reporting Person.

Information regarding the directors, executive officers and/or control persons of the Reporting Person (collectively, the “Instruction C Persons”) is set forth in Exhibit I attached hereto.

(d), (e) CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS; CIVIL PROCEEDINGS

During the last five years, the Reporting Person has not (i) been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors) or (ii) been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations or prohibiting activities subject to federal or state securities laws or finding any violation of such laws.

(f) CITIZENSHIP

The Reporting Person is a Delaware corporation.

The consideration for the purchase of the shares of Common Stock and the Warrants reported herein by the Reporting Person was derived from available capital of the Funds managed by the Reporting Person, and a total of approximately $927,773,967 was paid to acquire such shares and Warrants.

The Reporting Person has had discussions or communications with the Issuer’s management and board of directors, and has made public statements, relating to the Issuer’s possible spin-off of its property and casualty insurance business. The Reporting Person expects to begin having such discussions or communications with shareholders relating to this matter and to continue having such discussions or communications with the Issuer’s management and board of directors and to continue making such public statements.

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The Reporting Person reserves the right to formulate any plans or proposals regarding the Issuer or any of its securities that relate to or would result in any of the matters set forth in subparagraphs (a) – (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D (including but not limited to acquiring or causing to be acquired, or disposing of, or causing to be disposed of, securities of the Issuer), to the extent deemed advisable in light of general investment and trading policies of the Reporting Person, market conditions or other factors; provided, however, that the Reporting Person does not currently have an intent to engage in a control transaction or any contested solicitation for the election of directors. The Reporting Person may communicate with the Issuer’s management or board of directors, or with other shareholders or third parties, to discuss any plans or proposals.

(a) Amount beneficially owned: 37,540,676 (See Notes 1 and 2)

Percent of class: 8.4%

(b) Number of shares of Common Stock and number of Warrants as to which the Reporting Person has:

(c) The following table sets forth all transactions with respect to the Common Stock of the Issuer effected during the past sixty (60) days by the Reporting Person, inclusive of any transactions effected through 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on February 13, 2012. All such transactions were effected in the open market. Purchase and sale transactions for the same quantities of shares on a given day typically reflect rebalancing of positions among the various Funds based on their relative capital levels, which may change from time to time.

(d) Not applicable.

(e) Not applicable.

Note 1: The amount listed consists of 37,470,676 shares of Common Stock and 70,000 Warrants. In addition, the Funds currently hold cash-settled swaps positions relating to an additional 221,424 shares of Common Stock and 3,251,000 Warrants, but because neither the Reporting Person nor the Funds have any power to vote, to direct the vote, to dispose or to direct the disposition of the shares of Common Stock and Warrants that its counterparty may hold in connection with such swaps positions, such shares of Common Stock and Warrants are not included in the amount listed in Item 5.

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Note 2: The Reporting Person, an investment advisor that is registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, furnishes investment advice to and manages the Funds. In its role as investment advisor, or manager, the Reporting Person possesses voting and/or investment power over the securities of the Issuer described in this schedule that are owned by the Funds. All securities reported in this schedule are owned by the Funds. The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of such securities.

Not Applicable.

The following documents are filed as exhibits:

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After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

EXHIBIT I

INFORMATION REGARDING THE INSTRUCTION C PERSONS

The following table sets forth the name, title, principal occupation, business address, place of employment and citizenship of each of the executive officers and directors of Paulson & Co. Inc.

				Investment Management
						1251 Avenue of the
						Americas 50th Floor
						New York, NY 10020 USA

February 14, 2012

Mr. Liam E. McGee

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

One Hartford Plaza

Hartford, CT 06155

Dear Liam:

We appreciate the opportunity to have a dialogue with you on the significant benefits to be achieved through a tax-free spinoff of Hartford’s P&C business. As the largest investor in the Company for the past year, we have done exhaustive research on the challenges and opportunities of The Hartford and believe that a spinoff would produce an increase in value for Hartford shareholders of 40 – 60%+ above the unaffected share price. This valuation range is also consistent with Goldman Sachs’ estimate of a valuation enhancement on the order of 70%.

Stated simply, the spin-off would:

Given the extremely poor performance of Hartford’s stock and the fact that Hartford trades at lower valuation multiples than any of its US insurance peers, addressing these issues should be Hartford’s highest priority. That is why we were disappointed that management, on the February 8^th earnings call, only addressed the potential “challenges” of a separation. Not only do we believe that you underestimate the potential value that would be created by a spin, the “challenges” you describe are both over-rated and readily manageable.

We shared our view regarding the benefits of a tax-free P&C spinoff initially in November 2011 and again in December 2011. As part of our analysis, we considered all other strategic alternatives including share buybacks, the sales of individual businesses, the sale or IPO of minority stakes in Life and/or P&C, and others, but none of these came close to the dramatic increase in shareholder value to be created by a spinoff. For your reference, we have updated and attached the slides we previously sent to your Board.

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Significant Underperformance Could Be Reversed through Spinoff

Prior to the discussion of strategic alternatives on the February 8^th earnings call, Hartford’s shares stood at 44% of book value – a huge discount to its closest P&C peers (1.1x on average) and closest Life peers (0.8x on average) and the lowest of any major US insurance company.

Investor dissatisfaction with Hartford’s current direction is reflected in your stock performance. Hartford’s share price fell by 38% in 2011 while P&C peers rose by 14%, and even declined more than Life peers which fell 23%.

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The main, but not the only, reason for Hartford’s low multiple is because the company combines both a Life and P&C business together. Although P&C companies trade at higher multiples than life companies, by keeping the two together, Hartford trades at the lower life multiples.

If P&C and Life were separately traded, we believe the two companies would be valued at a combined $32 per share, resulting in immediate share price appreciation of more than 60% above the $19.12 price on February 7^th before Hartford’s fourth quarter earnings call. A tax-free spinoff of 100% of P&C would create both pure play P&C and Life companies that would be easier to understand and benchmark against their peers. It would immediately attract P&C investors and P&C analyst coverage.

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In addition, our estimate of the value of a spin-off only reaches $32 per share, well below Hartford’s book value of $45 per share. This is due to the low multiple to book value at which we have estimated the Life Company would trade. We would hope that a newly incentivized Life management running a pure Life company would take steps to further improve the separately traded Life’s value. The table below shows a range of valuation outcomes based on various P/BV assumptions.

Potential Values Based on Different P/BV Multiples

Lack of Research Coverage and Investor Interest

P&C analysts shun Hartford due to its complexity, resulting in a lack of research coverage and investor interest. For example, only 3 of 19 P&C analysts cover Hartford while 18 of the 19 cover Travelers and Chubb and 17 cover ACE.

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Few of the Life analysts who cover Hartford understand the P&C side of Hartford. Of the 15 Life analysts who cover Hartford, only 3 also cover its P&C peers.

Many of the largest institutional investors in Hartford’s peers are significantly underweight Hartford, which suggests, among other things, the complexity makes the company un-investable, even at the current stock price.

Competitors have Already Realized Value of Separation

While multi-line insurers were common twenty years ago, almost all US multi-lines other than Hartford chose to separate P&C and Life in order to increase shareholder value, including Travelers, CNA, Lincoln, Aetna and CIGNA, as indicated by the table below.

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Given the extreme undervaluation, poor share price performance, lack of P&C analyst interest and significant value creation, we believe it is incumbent on the Board to focus on implementing a plan to spin off the P&C business in the most efficient manner. This will immediately unlock the P&C value as it should trade at more than twice the multiple at which Hartford trades and be warmly welcomed by analysts and investors. Shareholders are entitled to expect the management and the Board to show leadership by moving beyond the current phase of identifying potential challenges to working actively to address them in a way that is accretive to shareholder value.

Challenges Can Be Readily Addressed

The most significant challenge to a spinoff that you have identified seems to be how to allocate the debt to balance the company’s credit ratings objectives with the delivery of greater shareholder value. Your slide suggests that there could be ratings pressure on the Life Company if it assumes more than approximately $2.3bn of debt (one-third of the $6.8bn of holding company debt). The slide also points out the risk that the P&C Company would need to consider potentially dilutive de-leveraging actions if it were allocated the remaining debt.

We believe, as do others, that your analysis understates the debt servicing capabilities of Life. If debt were allocated roughly in proportion to equity, approximately 40% to P&C and 60% to Life, $2.5bn could be allocated to P&C and the balance of $4.3bn of debt would be allocated to Life. P&C would have a debt-to-total capital ratio of 28% and Life’s ratio would be 24%. Both would be in line with Hartford’s 25% ratio today and well within “A” ratings leverage guidelines of 25-35% from S&P and 30-40% from Moody’s. They would also be in line with their peers: P&C peers are currently at 25%, and Lincoln National was at 25% before reclassifying $750mm of debt as a result of an AXXX securitization.

Nevertheless, if allocation of debt is your main concern, there are many ways to reduce leverage.

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In short there are many ways to structure a separation in order to free up cash, to reduce leverage and to accomplish the spinoff with little or no dilution to shareholders. You and your advisors can determine the most accretive ways to reduce leverage to accomplish a tax-free spinoff of P&C that creates the greatest shareholder value.

We strongly believe that any additional issues can be resolved favorably to effect a tax-free spinoff in a timely manner. Our analysis of Hartford’s bond covenants and intra-group guarantees shows that the Company has broad scope for various approaches to optimize the allocation of capital and debt. Similarly, a well-prepared approach to regulators and rating agencies should be able to address any questions and a well-structured plan should be viewed positively. While there may be small synergies in keeping the businesses together, the economic value of any synergies is immaterial relative to the value unlocked by a separation.

Spinoff Enhances Each Business’s Potential for Success

Each of the companies will be in a stronger position to make decisions that serve its discrete objectives. An independent Life company may decide to sharpen its focus and stop selling low-return, capital-intensive types of insurance and focus instead on faster-growing, less capital-intensive businesses such as mutual funds, retirement and group life. When Sun Life announced it would put US VA into runoff, the stock outperformed Hartford by 14% (Sun Life rose 8.4% on a day in which Hartford fell 5.5%). Analysts are increasingly calling on Hartford to follow suit, with Credit Suisse writing after the December investor day “we think putting [US VA] into run off is a no brainer, given the fact that net income ROE (which includes hedging costs) is zero and it is a drag on capital generation.” We expect an independent Life company would make logical economic decisions that would allow it to be valued at least equal to the Life insurance average of 0.8x book value.

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P&C and Life are already of sufficient size to serve customers and attract and retain management. Both can remain on firm financial footing, as evidenced by Hartford’s recent stress test disclosures and announced share repurchase program. The additional capital that will be available to the companies as pure-play entities will also help assure that the companies can continue to improve and grow for the benefit of not only shareholders but policyholders, employees, agents and brokers and the greater Hartford community.

Many leading U.S. companies have announced 100% spinoffs of major divisions to create shareholder value, including McGraw Hill, Abbott Laboratories, Tyco, Kraft, Ralcorp, ConocoPhillips, Procter & Gamble, Marriott, Sara Lee and ITT. As William Stiritz, Chairman and CEO of Ralcorp, said on July 15, 2011 “We firmly believe the separation of Post Foods from Ralcorp by way of a tax-free spin-off will unlock significant value for our shareholders. As independent companies, both Ralcorp and Post Foods will be better positioned to focus on strategies specific to their particular businesses, thereby improving the opportunities to deliver increasing shareholder value.”

In summary, we believe a separation of Hartford into pure play Life and P&C companies would maximize shareholder value in both the short term and the long term and enable each company to focus solely on their own strategies, distribution channels and capital requirements. Management and the Board have an excellent opportunity to seize the initiative to adopt this plan, implement it proactively and unlock the shareholder value it will create.

We look forward to continuing to discuss these matters with you.

Sincerely,

John Paulson

Cc:

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HARTFORD

Spin-Off of P&C Business Would

Increase Shareholder Value By 60%

Investment Management

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Phone: (212) 956-2221 Fax: (212) 977-9505

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February 14, 2012

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A SPIN-OFF OF THE P&C DIVISION CAN LEAD TO A 60% APPRECIATION IN HARTFORD’S STOCK PRICE

1. Hartford’s share price has dramatically underperformed peers

In 2011, Hartford’s stock declined 38% while P&C peers1 were up 14% and life peers2 were down 23%

2. Hartford trades at the lowest multiple to book value (0.44x) or earnings (5.7x) of any US insurance company

3. The low valuation is due to complexity of analyzing a combined P&C and Life company, which has resulted in a lack of research coverage and investor interest

4. The solution is to spin-off the P&C business to create two pure-play insurance companies – one in Life and one in P&C

5. This restructuring can lead to an estimated 60% appreciation in the stock price

(1) P&C Peers: TRV, CB & ACE

(2) Life Peers: LNC, PFG, MET & PRU

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HARTFORD’S STOCK HAS DRAMATICALLY UNDERPERFORMED P&C PEERS BY 73% AND LIFE PEERS BY 21% SINCE RAISING NEW EQUITY CAPITAL TO MEET ITS STRESS TESTS

Since:

Mar 16

Last

Datapoint:

30 Dec 11

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(17)% Life

(38)% HIG

35% P&C

Mar-10

May-10

Jul-10

Sep-10

Nov-10

Jan-11

Mar-11

May-11

Jul-11

Sep-11

Nov-11

(1) Life Peers: LNC, PFG, MET & PRU (2) P&C Peers: TRV, CB & ACE

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IN 2011, HARTFORD DRAMATICALLY UNDERPERFORMED BOTH LIFE AND P&C PEERS

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14% P&C

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(38)% HIG

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Jul-11

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Nov-11

(1) Life Peers: LNC, PFG, MET & PRU

(2) P&C Peers: TRV, CB & ACE

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HARTFORD TRADES AT 44% OF BOOK VALUE COMPARED TO 81% FOR LIFE PEERS AND 106% FOR P&C PEERS

1.40x 1.20x 1.00x 0.80x 0.60x 0.40x 0.20x 0.00x

0.44x 0.59x 0.78x 0.81x 0.91x 0.95x 0.96x 1.02x 1.06x 1.21x

HIG LNC MET

Life Avg.

PFG

PRU

TRV

ACE

P&C Avg.

CB

Life

P&C

(1) As of February 7, 2012.

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HARTFORD TRADES AT A 24% DISCOUNT TO STATUTORY LIQUIDATION VALUE, THE LOWEST OF ANY PEER

Price / Stat Liquidation Value

HIG AIG AMP PFG PL CNO MET PRU UNM SFG DFG LNC AFL TMK

0.76x 1.03x 1.32x 1.53x 1.68x 1.70x 1.72x 1.86x 2.17x 2.49x 2.87x 4.00x 5.16x 7.63x

As of January 7, 2012

Hartford as of 3Q11, other companies as of 2Q11 from CS report dated 14 Sep 2011.

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OPERATING BOTH P&C AND LIFE RESULTS IN A LACK OF RESEARCH COVERAGE AND INVESTOR

INTEREST. OF THE 19 P&C ANALYSTS, ONLY 3 COVER HARTFORD AND ONLY 1 COVERS LIFE COMPANIES.

P&C

Inst. Investor Ranking Analyst

1) Jay Cohen

2) Jay Gelb

3) Matt Heimermann

RU Keith Walsh

RU Josh Shanker

RU Brian Meredith

Vinay Misquith

Michael Nannizzi

Larry Greenberg

Cliff Gallant

Amit Kumar

Greg Locraft

Michael Grasher

Mark Dwelle

Paul Newsome

Josh Stirling

Dan Farrell

Michael Paisan

Adam Klauber

Bank BAC Barclays JPM Citi DB UBS Evercore GS

Janney Montgomery KBW

Macquarie MS Piper Jaffray RBC Sandler O’Neil Sanford Bernstein Sterne Agee Stifel Wiilliam Blair

Cover: HIG Life

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WHILE ONLY 3 OF 19 P&C ANALYSTS COVER HARTFORD, 18 COVER TRAVELERS,

18 COVER CHUBB, AND 17 COVER ACE

P&C

Inst. Investor Ranking Analyst

1) Jay Cohen

2) Jay Gelb

3) Matt Heimermann

RU Keith Walsh

RU Josh Shanker

RU Brian Meredith

Vinay Misquith

Michael Nannizzi

Larry Greenberg

Cliff Gallant

Alan Zimmermann

Greg Locraft Michael

Grasher Mark Dwelle

Paul Newsome

Josh Stirling

Dan Farrell

Michael Paisan

Adam Klauber

Bank BAC Barclays JPM Citi DB UBS Evercore GS

Janney Montgomery KBW

Macquarie MS Piper Jaffray RBC Sandler O’Neil Sanford Bernstein Sterne Agee Stifel Wiilliam Blair

Covers:

Travelers Chubb ACE Hartford

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P&C ANALYSTS ARE BULLISH ON THE P&C SECTOR. ACE HAS 15 BUY RECOMMENDATIONS, TRAVELERS HAS 13, CHUBB HAS 8. HARTFORD HAS ONLY 1.

Buy ratings:

ACE Travelers Chubb Hartford

15 13 8,1

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FEW ANALYSTS UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE OF HARTFORD. OF THE 15 LIFE ANALYSTS WHO COVER HARTFORD , ONLY 3 ALSO COVER ITS P&C PEERS .

Life

Inst. Investor Ranking Analyst

1) Jimmy Bhullar

2) Andrew Kligerman

3) Tom Gallagher

RU Suneet Kamath

RU Ed Spehar RU Nigel Dally

Alan Devlin

Mark Finklestein

Randy Binner

Chris Giovanni

Bob Glasspiegal

Jeff Schuman

Eric Berg

Ed Shields

John Nadel

John Hall

Bank JPM UBS CS

Sanford Bernstein BAC

MS Citi

Altantic Equities Evercore FBR

GS

Janney Montgomery KBW

RBC

Sandler O’Neil Sterne Agee Wells Fargo

Covers: HIG P&C

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THE SOLUTION

Split Into Two Pure-Play Companies: P&C and Life

Tax-Free Spinoff of 100% of P&C

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IF P&C AND LIFE WERE SEPARATELY QUOTED, WE BELIEVE THAT THE TWO COMPANIES WOULD BE VALUED AT APPROXIMATELY $32, A 66% INCREASE

2012 (1) If-quoted value 4Q11 Core If-quoted Implied BV ex AOCI Earnings ROE P/BV (3) P/E Total Per share P&C 9,851 841 Net debt (2) (2,200) (94) Corp. other (4) 508 10 Net 8,159 757 8.9% 1.06x 10.3x 8,648 16.82

Life 15,003 1,093 Net debt (2) (3,000) (214) Corp. other (4) 1,036 10

Net 13,039 889 6.6% 0.59x 8.7x 7,693 14.96 P&C + Life 21,197 1,645 7.5% 0.77x 9.9x 16,341 31.78 Diluted shares 514 Share price as of: 7-Feb-12 19.12

Upside 66%

(1) Average of core earnings estimates by BAC, Barclays, JPM, UBS, CS & MS.

(2) P&C net debt consists of $2.5bn gross debt and $300mm cash, Life net debt consists of $4.3bn gross debt and $1.3bn cash.

(3) Average P&C peer multiple for Hartford P&C. LNC multiple for Hartford Life.

(4) Assumes Corporate excluding debt and cash is allocated 50/50 between P&C and Life. Assumes $528mm discount for Allianz jr. sub debt added back to Life Corporate.

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WHILE MULTI-LINE INSURANCE COMPANIES WERE POPULAR IN THE PAST, NEARLY ALL LEADING U.S. INSURERS ARE NOW PURE-PLAYS

Segment earnings Historical 2011

Date P&C Life Health P&C Life Health Travelers (1) 2000 75% 25% 0% 100% 0% 0% CNA 2002 59% 41% 0% 100% 0% 0% Lincoln (2) 1996 40% 60% 0% 0% 100% 0% Aetna 1994 8% 42% 50% 0% 8% 92% Cigna 1996 20% 34% 46% 0% 18% 82%

(1) Pro-forma combination of St. Paul and Citigroup insurance businesses (2) P&C includes reinsurance segment

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MANY FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES ARE SPINNING OFF 100% OF BUSINESS LINES TO CREATE SHAREHOLDER VALUE

Completed

Spinco Completion Parent Spinco Market cap Date Marathon Oil Marathon Petroleum 15,562 Jun-11 Motorola Motorola Mobility 11,866 Dec-10 Liberty Media Liberty Interactive 11,063 Sep-11 Expedia TripAdvisor 3,816 Dec-11 Williams Cos WPX Energy 3,455 Jan-12 Cablevision AMC Networks 3,050 Jun-11 Beam Fortune Brands 3,025 Oct-11 General Growth Howard Hughes 1,975 Nov-11 Northrup Grumman Huntington Ingalls 1,784 Mar-11 Sunoco SunCoke Energy 1,042 Jan-12 Marriott International Marriott Vacations 758 Nov-11 Forest Oil Lone Pine Resources 585 Sep-11

Announced

Announcement Parent Spinco Date Abbott Laboratories Research-based medicines Oct-11 Tyco ADT Home Security & Flow Control Sep-11 Kraft North American grocery business Aug-11 L-3 Government Services Jul-11 Ralcorp Post Foods Jul-11 ConocoPhillips Refining & marketing business Jul-11 Sears Orchard Supply Hardware Jun-11 Procter & Gamble Pringles Apr-11 Sara Lee Beverage business Jan-11

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THE OBJECTIVE IN ALL THESE SPIN-OFFS IS THE SAME, TO OPTIMIZE RETURNS TO SHAREHOLDERS

Ralcorp’s 100% Tax-Free Spinoff of Post Foods

We firmly believe the separation of Post Foods from Ralcorp by way of a tax-free spin-off will unlock significant value for our shareholders.

As independent companies, both Ralcorp and Post Foods will be better positioned to focus on strategies specific to their particular businesses, thereby improving the opportunities to deliver increasing shareholder value.

William Stiritz—Chairman of Ralcorp, 15 Jul 2011

Kraft’s 100% Tax-Free Spinoff of N. American Grocery Business

The company believes creating two public companies would offer a number of opportunities:

– Each business would focus on its distinct strategic priorities, with financial targets that best fit its own markets and unique opportunities.

– Each would be able to allocate resources and deploy capital in a manner consistent with its strategic priorities in order to optimize total returns to shareholders.

– Investors would be able to value the two companies based on their particular operational and financial characteristics and thus invest accordingly.

Press release, 4 Aug 2011

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MANY ANALYSTS SEE SUBSTANTIAL VALUE IN A SEPARATION OF P&C AND VIABLE WAYS TO ACHIEVE IT

“We believe HIG’s P&C and life companies are worth more separately than together. If HIG’s valuation remains depressed, we expect HIG to reach a similar verdict over time, resulting in a potential spin-off of its P&C business.”

- Chris Giovanni-Goldman Sachs, 9 Jan 2012

“We believe there is a strong opportunity for management to unlock shareholder value by reevaluating the multi-line strategy, placing annuities into run-off, and selling off its remaining life insurance operations. If executed, we see a potential fair value in the range of $26-27, roughly 50% above the stock’s level.”

-Nigel Dally-Morgan Stanley, 1 Feb 2012

“We believe that a split of the life and P&C business would be viewed positively by investors. Based upon our sum-of-the-parts analysis, the company would likely be valued higher as two separate entities. Also, a successful sale of the asset management business would enhance capital flexibility and boost investor sentiment.”

-Jimmy Bhullar-JP Morgan, 27 Jan 2012

“ We view the break up scenario as a viable strategy” -Tom Gallagher-Credit Suisse, 8 Feb 2012

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ECONOMIC VALUE OF ANY SYNERGIES IMMATERIAL IN RELATION TO VALUE UNLOCKED IN A SPINOFF

P&C

Synergies = 1% of premiums

Life

Commercial $675

Group Benefits $113

Life $235

Annuities $593

Personal $165

Mutual Funds $93

Retirement Plans $59

(1) Average of 2012 core earnings estimates by BAC, Barclays, JPM, UBS, CS & MS.

(2) Join sales efforts generated approximately $90mm of incremental premium in the first nine months of 2011,

1% of total written premiums of $4,694mm in P&C commercial and $3,078mm in group benefits .

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COVENANTS APPEAR TO ALLOW A 100% TAX-FREE SPIN-OFF OF THE P&C BUSINESS

“We will not consolidate with or merge into any other corporation or convey, transfer or lease our properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any person.unless: the successor corporation expressly assumes our obligations relating to the notes”

“Substantially as an entirety” is generally understood to be 60% or more: P&C is less than half of Hartford on most measures(1)

LTM 30 Sep 11 2008 (2) 2007

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P&C Life

Equity 38% 62%

Stat Capital 46% 54%

Assets 25% 75%

Core income 22% 78%

Net income 28% 72%

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SOLUTION TO HARTFORD’S UNDERVALUATION: TAX-FREE SPIN-OFF OF 100% OF P&C

Shareholders

Existing Notes

HIG (Life)

NewCo (P&C)

NOTE: If there is a need to reduce Life’s debt, Life can use cash and/or sell assets to pay down debt, or Newco can issue new debt to repay a portion of Life’s debt.

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