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“Beneficiary” means the beneficiary or beneficiaries designated pursuant to Section 10 to receive the amount, if any,
payable under the Plan upon the death of an Award Recipient.
“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of an event defined in Section 9 of the Plan.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as now in effect or as hereafter amended. (All citations to sections
of the Code are to such sections as they may from time to time be amended or renumbered.)
“Committee” means the Compensation and Personnel Committee of the Board or such other committee as may be
designated by the Board to administer the Plan.
“Company” means The Hartford and its successors and assigns.
“Director” means a member of the Board of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. who is not an employee of
any Participating Company.
“Eligible Employee” means an Employee employed by a Participating Company; provided, however, that except as
the Board of Directors or the Committee, pursuant to authority delegated by the Board of Directors, may otherwise provide
on a basis uniformly applicable to all persons similarly situated, “Eligible Employee” shall not include any “Ineligible
Person,” which includes: (i) a person who (A) holds a position with the Company’s “HARTEMP” Program, (B) is hired to
work for a Participating Company through a temporary employment agency, or (C) is hired to a position with a Participating
Company with notice on his or her date of hire that the position will terminate on a certain date; (ii) a person who is a leased
employee (within the meaning of Code Section 414(n)(2)) of a Participating Company or is otherwise employed by or
through a temporary help firm, technical help firm, staffing firm, employee leasing firm, or professional employer
organization, regardless of whether such person is an Employee of a Participating Company, and (iii) a person who performs
services for a Participating Company as an independent contractor or under any other non-employee classification, or who is
classified by a Participating Company as, or determined by a Participating Company to be, an independent contractor,
regardless of whether such person is characterized or ultimately determined by the Internal Revenue Service or any other
Federal, State or local governmental authority or regulatory body to be an employee of a Participating Company or its
affiliates for income or wage tax purposes or for any other purpose.
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Source: HARTFORD FINANCIAL S, 10-K, February 12, 2009