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EXHIBIT 10.18
THE HARTFORD DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
As amended December 20, 2012
ARTICLE I
PURPOSE
1.1 Purpose. The purpose of the Plan is to provide, in the discretion of the Committee, an opportunity for certain Key Employees
and Directors to defer the receipt of certain Eligible Compensation to the extent provided herein. The Plan is intended to constitute an
unfunded and unsecured deferred compensation arrangement for a select group of management or highly compensated individuals for
purposes of ERISA. The Plan restates the terms of certain unfunded and unsecured deferred compensation arrangements established for
such employees by ITT Corporation and The Hartford in 1994 and 1995, and continued by The Hartford to the extent provided
hereunder. Capitalized terms used in the Plan shall have the meanings provided herein.
Effective January 1, 2009, the Plan is amended in order to comply with final regulations issued under Section 409A of the Internal
Revenue Code (the “Code”). The Plan is intended to comply with Section 409A of the Code, and no action taken by the Company shall
be construed in a manner that would result in the imposition of an additional tax on participants under Section 409A of the Code. The
provisions designed to comply with Section 409A are retroactively effective to January 1, 2005, to comply with transitional guidance
promulgated by the Internal Revenue Service under Section 409A. Consistent with that guidance, and notwithstanding Section 3.1
hereof, Plan participants have the opportunity to irrevocably redesignate during 2008 how amounts scheduled to be paid after 2008 in
accordance with prior deferral elections are to be paid, provided that no such redesignation shall cause the payment of an amount
scheduled to be made in a later year to be accelerated into the 2008 year.
Effective December 1, 2012, no further elections by Key Employees or Directors to defer Eligible Compensation shall be permitted.
ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS
The following terms shall have the following meanings for purposes of the Plan:
"Account" means any account maintained on behalf of a Participant pursuant to the Plan.
"Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.