Discontinued Operations and Business Dispositions Level 3 (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Dec. 31, 2013

Discontinued Operations and Disposal Groups [Abstract]

Schedule of Assets and Liabilities Transferred [Table Text Block]

Composition of Invested Assets Transferred

The following table summarizes invested assets transferred by the Company in 2013 in connection with the sale of the Retirement Plans and Individual Life businesses.

	Carrying Value
	As of December 31, 2012
Fixed maturities, at fair value (amortized cost of $13,596) [1]	$	15,015
Equity securities, AFS, at fair value (cost of $27) [2]	28
Fixed maturities, at fair value using the FVO [3]	16
Mortgage loans (net of allowances for loan losses of $1)	1,288
Policy loans, at outstanding balance	542
Total invested assets transferred	$	16,889

[1] Includes $14.4 billion and $657 of securities in level 2 and 3 of the fair value hierarchy, respectively.

[2] All equity securities transferred are included in level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

[3] All FVO securities transferred are included in level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations, Disclosure [Text Block]

Discontinued Operations and Business Dispositions

Discontinued Operations

Sale of Hartford Life International Limited ("HLIL")

On December 12, 2013, the Company completed the sale of all of the issued and outstanding equity of HLIL, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, in a cash transaction to Columbia Insurance Company, a Berkshire Hathaway company, for approximately $285. At closing, HLIL’s sole asset was its subsidiary, Hartford Life Limited ("HLL"), a Dublin-based company that sold variable annuities in the U.K. from 2005 to 2009. The sale transaction resulted in an after-tax loss of $51 upon disposition in the year ended December 31, 2013. The operations of the Company's U.K. variable annuity business meet the criteria for reporting as discontinued operations.

The results of operations reflected as discontinued operations in the Consolidated Statements of Operations, consisting of amounts related to HLIL, is as follows:

	For the year ended December 31,
	2013
Revenues
Earned Premiums	$	(23	)
Fee income and other	14
Net investment income
Securities available-for-sale and other	(3		)
Equity securities, trading	139
Total net investment income	136
Net realized capital gains (losses)	(14		)
Total revenues	113
Benefits, losses and expenses
Benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses	2
Benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses - returns credited on international variable annuity	139
Amortization of DAC	—
Insurance operating costs and other expenses	(33		)
Total benefits, losses and expenses	108
Income before income taxes	5
Income tax benefit	(5		)
Income from operations of discontinued operations, net of tax	10
Net realized capital losses on disposal, net of tax	(51		)
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax	$	(41	)