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	<footnotes>
		<footnote id="F1">Market Value Units in The Chubb Corporation Directors Deferred Compensation Plan.  Units are payable in common stock only and the value of such units are based on the market value of the Coporation's common stock.</footnote>
		<footnote id="F2">All Stock Options are granted in tandem with tax withholding rights.</footnote>
	</footnotes>
	<remarks>
	</remarks>
	<ownerSignature>
		<signatureName>By: Nancy J. Obremski, POA</signatureName>
		<signatureDate>2004-01-07</signatureDate>
	</ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>

