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Board of Directors and Stockholders
Unum Group and Subsidiaries
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Unum Group and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2008 and
2007, and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity, cash flows and comprehensive income (loss) for each of
the three years in the period ended December 31, 2008. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those
standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of
material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial
statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as
evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position
of Unum Group and subsidiaries at December 31, 2008 and 2007, and the consolidated results of their operations and their cash flows
for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2008, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Also in our opinion, the related financial statement schedules, when considered in relation to the basic financial statements taken as
a whole, present fairly in all material respects the information set forth therein.
As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, Unum Group changed its method of accounting for deferred acquisition
costs and income taxes as of January 1, 2007 in accordance with adoption of Statement of Position 05-1, Accounting by Insurance Enterprises
for Deferred Acquisition Costs in Connection With Modifications or Exchanges of Insurance Contracts, and Financial Accounting Standards
Board Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, an interpretation of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 109; and its method of accounting for dened benet pension and other postretirement plans as of December 31, 2006 in accordance
with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158 (SFAS 158), Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other
Postretirement Plans, an amendment of FASB Statements No. 87, 88, 106, and 132(R).
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States),
Unum Group and subsidiaries’ internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2008, based on criteria established in Internal
Control — Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, and our report dated
February 24, 2009 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
February 24, 2009