The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. 10Q 2021 Q3 Quarterly report

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM 10-Q

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(Mark One)


☒			QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2021


☐			TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from ____________ to ______________

Commission file number 001-13958

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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware						13-3317783
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)						(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

One Hartford Plaza, Hartford, Connecticut 06155

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(860) 547-5000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:


Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share	HIG	The New York Stock Exchange
6.10% Notes due October 1, 2041	HIG 41	The New York Stock Exchange
7.875% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2042	HGH	The New York Stock Exchange
Depositary Shares, Each Representing a 1/1,000th Interest in a Share of 6.000% Non-Cumulative Preferred Stock, Series G, par value $0.01 per share	HIG PR G	The New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark:

• whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes

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• whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).

Yes

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• whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer

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Accelerated filer

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Non-accelerated filer

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Smaller reporting company

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Emerging growth company

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

• whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Yes

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As of October 27, 2021, there were outstanding 340,353,353 shares of Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the registrant.

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

QUARTERLY REPORT ON FORM 10-Q

FOR THE QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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Item	Description	Page
	Part I
1.	FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
	REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM	6
	CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS - FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 AND 2020	7
	CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) - FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 AND 2020	8
	CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2021 AND DECEMBER 31, 2020	9
	CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY - FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED SEP TEMBER 30, 2021 AND 2020	10
	CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS - FOR THE NINE MONTHS E N DED SEP TEMBER 30, 2021 AND 2020	11
	NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS	12
	NOTE 1 - BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES	12
	NOTE 2 - EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE	13
	NOTE 3 - SEGMENT INFORMATION	13
	NOTE 4 - FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS	15
	NOTE 5 - INVESTMENTS	24
	NOTE 6 - DERIVATIVES	30
	NOTE 7 - PREMIUMS RECEIVABLE AND AGENTS' BALANCES	36
	NOTE 8 - REINSURANCE	38
	NOTE 9 - RESERVE FOR UNPAID LOSSES AND LOSS ADJUSTMENT EXPENSES	40
	NOTE 10 - RESERVE FOR FUTURE POLICY BENEFITS	44
	NOTE 1 1 - DE BT	44
	NOTE 1 2 - INCOME TAXES	45
	NOTE 1 3 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES	46
	NOTE 1 4 - EQUITY	49
	NOTE 1 5 - ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS), NET OF TAX	49
	NOTE 1 6 - EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS	51
	NOTE 1 7 - BUSINESS DISPOSITION	51
	NOTE 1 8 - RESTRUCTURING AND OTHER COSTS	52
2.	MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS	53
3.	QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK	[a]
4.	CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES	117
	PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
1.	LEGAL PROCEEDINGS	118
1A.	RISK FACTORS	118
2.	UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS	118
6.	EXHIBITS	118
	EXHIBITS INDEX	119
	SIGNATURE	120

[a]The information required by this item is set forth in the Enterprise Risk Management section of Item 2, Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and is incorporated herein by reference.

Forward-looking Statements

Certain of the statements contained herein are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “seeks,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” and similar references to future periods.

Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions regarding future economic, competitive, legislative and other developments and their potential effect upon The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, the "Company" or "The Hartford"). Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict. Actual results could differ materially from expectations depending on the evolution of various factors, including the risks and uncertainties identified below, as well as factors described in such forward-looking statement, the Risk Factors of The Hartford's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report, and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

•Risks relating to the pandemic caused by the spread of the novel strain of coronavirus, specifically identified as the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) including impacts to the Company's insurance and product-related, regulatory/legal, recessionary and other global economic, capital and liquidity and operational risks

•Risks Relating to Economic, Political and Global Market Conditions:

◦challenges related to the Company’s current operating environment, including global political, economic and market conditions, and the effect of financial market disruptions, economic downturns, changes in trade regulation including tariffs and other barriers or other potentially adverse macroeconomic developments on the demand for our products and returns in our investment portfolios;

◦market risks associated with our business, including changes in credit spreads, equity prices, interest rates, inflation rate, foreign currency exchange rates and market volatility;

◦the impact on our investment portfolio if our investment portfolio is concentrated in any particular segment of the economy;

◦the impacts of changing climate and weather patterns on our businesses, operations and investment portfolio including on claims, demand and pricing of our products, the availability and cost of reinsurance, our modeling data used to evaluate and manage risks of catastrophes and severe weather events, the value of our investment portfolios and credit risk with reinsurers and other counterparties;

◦the risks associated with the discontinuance of the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate ("LIBOR") on the securities we hold or may have issued, other financial instruments and any other assets and liabilities whose value is tied to LIBOR;

◦the impacts associated with the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) from the European Union (“E.U.”) on our international operations in the U.K. and E.U.

•Insurance Industry and Product-Related Risks:

◦the possibility of unfavorable loss development, including with respect to long-tailed exposures;

◦the significant uncertainties that limit our ability to estimate the ultimate reserves necessary for asbestos and environmental claims;

◦the possibility of another pandemic, civil unrest, earthquake, or other natural or man-made disaster that may adversely affect our businesses;

◦weather and other natural physical events, including the intensity and frequency of storms, hail, wildfires, flooding, winter storms, hurricanes and tropical storms, as well as climate change and its potential impact on weather patterns;

◦the possible occurrence of terrorist attacks and the Company’s inability to contain its exposure as a result of, among other factors, the inability to exclude coverage for terrorist attacks from workers' compensation policies and limitations on reinsurance coverage from the federal government under applicable laws;

◦the Company’s ability to effectively price its property and casualty policies, including its ability to obtain regulatory consents to pricing actions or to non-renewal or withdrawal of certain product lines;

◦actions by competitors that may be larger or have greater financial resources than we do;

◦technological changes, including usage-based methods of determining premiums, advancements in automotive safety features, the development of autonomous vehicles, and platforms that facilitate ride sharing,

◦the Company's ability to market, distribute and provide insurance products and investment advisory services through current and future distribution channels and advisory firms;

◦political instability, politically motivated violence or civil unrest, may increase the frequency and severity of insured losses;

•Financial Strength, Credit and Counterparty Risks:

◦risks to our business, financial position, prospects and results associated with negative rating actions or downgrades in the Company’s financial strength and credit ratings or negative rating actions or downgrades relating to our investments;

◦capital requirements which are subject to many factors, including many that are outside the Company’s control, such as National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC") risk based capital formulas, rating agency capital models, Funds at Lloyd's and Solvency Capital Requirement, which can in turn affect our credit and financial strength ratings, cost of capital, regulatory compliance and other aspects of our business and results;

◦losses due to nonperformance or defaults by others, including credit risk with counterparties associated with investments, derivatives, premiums receivable, reinsurance recoverables and indemnifications provided by third parties in connection with previous dispositions;

◦the potential for losses due to our reinsurers' unwillingness or inability to meet their obligations under reinsurance contracts and the availability, pricing and adequacy of reinsurance to protect the Company against losses;

◦state and international regulatory limitations on the ability of the Company and certain of its subsidiaries to declare and pay dividends;

•Risks Relating to Estimates, Assumptions and Valuations:

◦risk associated with the use of analytical models in making decisions in key areas such as underwriting, pricing, capital management, reserving, investments, reinsurance and catastrophe risk management;

◦the potential for differing interpretations of the methodologies, estimations and assumptions that underlie the Company’s fair value estimates for its investments and the evaluation of intent-to-sell impairments and allowance for credit losses on available-for-sale securities and mortgage loans;

◦the potential for further impairments of our goodwill;

•Strategic and Operational Risks:

◦the Company’s ability to maintain the availability of its systems and safeguard the security of its data in the event of a disaster, cyber or other information security incident or other unanticipated event;

◦the potential for difficulties arising from outsourcing and similar third-party relationships;

◦the risks, challenges and uncertainties associated with capital management plans, expense reduction initiatives and other actions, which may include acquisitions, divestitures or restructurings;

◦risks associated with acquisitions and divestitures, including the challenges of integrating acquired companies or businesses, which may result in our inability to achieve the anticipated benefits and synergies and may result in unintended consequences;

◦difficulty in attracting and retaining talented and qualified personnel, including key employees, such as executives, managers and employees with strong technological, analytical and other specialized skills;

◦the Company’s ability to protect its intellectual property and defend against claims of infringement;

•Regulatory and Legal Risks:

◦the cost and other potential effects of increased federal, state and international regulatory and legislative developments, including those that could adversely impact the demand for the Company’s products, operating costs and required capital levels;

◦unfavorable judicial or legislative developments;

◦the impact of changes in federal, state or foreign tax laws;

◦regulatory requirements that could delay, deter or prevent a takeover attempt that stockholders might consider in their best interests; and

◦the impact of potential changes in accounting principles and related financial reporting requirements.

Any forward-looking statement made by the Company in this document speaks only as of the date of the filing of this Form 10-Q. Factors or events that could cause the Company’s actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all of them. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.


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Part I - Item 1. Financial Statements

Item 1.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

Hartford, Connecticut

Results of Review of Interim Financial Information

We have reviewed the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") as of September 30, 2021, the related condensed consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), and changes in stockholders' equity for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, and of cash flows for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "interim financial information"). Based on our reviews, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the accompanying interim financial information for it to be in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have previously audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of December 31, 2020, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in stockholders' equity, and cash flows for the year then ended (not presented herein); and in our report dated February 19, 2021, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements. In our opinion, the information set forth in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2020, is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the consolidated balance sheet from which it has been derived.

Basis for Review Results

This interim financial information is the responsibility of the Company's management. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our reviews in accordance with standards of the PCAOB. A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB, the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Hartford, Connecticut

October 28, 2021


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations


	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions, except for per share data)	2021		2020		2021		2020
	(Unaudited)
Revenues
Earned premiums	$	4,565	$	4,347	$	13,368	$	12,972
Fee income	377		323		1,107		941
Net investment income	650		492		1,740		1,290
Net realized gains (losses)	70		6		297		(116)
Other revenues	24		3		62		108
Total revenues	5,686		5,171		16,574		15,195
Benefits, losses and expenses
Benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses	3,420		2,962		9,556		8,725
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs ("DAC")	419		421		1,252		1,287
Insurance operating costs and other expenses	1,200		1,093		3,546		3,394




Interest expense	58		58		172		179
Amortization of other intangible assets	18		18		53		55
Restructuring and other costs	(12)		87		(1)		87
Total benefits, losses and expenses	5,103		4,639		14,578		13,727
Income before income taxes	583		532		1,996		1,468
Income tax expense	101		73		360		268


Net income	482		459		1,636		1,200
Preferred stock dividends	6		6		16		16
Net income available to common stockholders	$	476	$	453	$	1,620	$	1,184




Net income available to common stockholders per common share
Basic	$	1.38	$	1.26	$	4.60	$	3.30
Diluted	$	1.36	$	1.26	$	4.54	$	3.29

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss)


	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions)	2021		2020		2021		2020
	(Unaudited)
Net income	$	482	$	459	$	1,636	$	1,200
Other comprehensive income (loss) ("OCI"):
Change in net unrealized gain on fixed maturities	(274)		376		(904)		747
Change in unrealized losses on fixed maturities for which an allowance for credit losses ("ACL") has been recorded	—		—		—		1

Change in net gain on cash flow hedging instruments	1		(17)		1		22
Change in foreign currency translation adjustments	(4)		6		(1)		(1)
Changes in pension and other postretirement plan adjustments	14		12		41		35
Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax	(263)		377		(863)		804
Comprehensive income	$	219	$	836	$	773	$	2,004

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets


(in millions, except for share and per share data)	September 30, 2021		December 31, 2020
	(Unaudited)
Assets
Investments:
Fixed maturities, available-for-sale ("AFS"), at fair value (amortized cost of $41,485 and $41,561, and ACL of $4 and $23)	$	43,942	$	45,035

Equity securities, at fair value	1,616		1,438
Mortgage loans (net of ACL of $26 and $38)	5,106		4,493
Limited partnerships and other alternative investments	2,961		2,082
Other investments	337		201
Short-term investments	3,612		3,283
Total investments	57,574		56,532
Cash	232		151
Restricted cash	165		88
Premiums receivable and agents' balances (net of ACL of $124 and $152)	4,598		4,268
Reinsurance recoverables (net of allowance for uncollectible reinsurance of $99 and $108)	6,247		6,011
Deferred policy acquisition costs	883		789
Deferred income taxes, net	209		46
Goodwill	1,911		1,911
Property and equipment, net	1,047		1,122
Other intangible assets, net	881		950
Other assets	2,376		2,066
Assets held for sale	167		177
Total assets	$	76,290	$	74,111
Liabilities
Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses	$	39,378	$	37,855
Reserve for future policy benefits	602		638
Other policyholder funds and benefits payable	685		701
Unearned premiums	7,268		6,629

Long-term debt	4,943		4,352
Other liabilities	5,401		5,222
Liabilities held for sale	151		158
Total liabilities	58,428		55,555
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 13)
Stockholders’ Equity
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value — 50,000,000 shares authorized, 13,800 shares issued at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, aggregate liquidation preference of $345	334		334
Common stock, $0.01 par value —1,500,000,000 shares authorized, 384,923,222 shares issued at September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020	4		4
Additional paid-in capital	4,339		4,322
Retained earnings	15,169		13,918
Treasury stock, at cost 43,138,408 and 26,434,682 shares	(2,291)		(1,192)
Accumulated other comprehensive income, net of tax	307		1,170
Total stockholders’ equity	17,862		18,556
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	76,290	$	74,111

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders' Equity


	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions, except for share and per share data)	2021		2020		2021		2020
	(Unaudited)
Preferred Stock	$	334	$	334	$	334	$	334
Common Stock	4		4		4		4
Additional Paid-in Capital
Additional Paid-in Capital, beginning of period	4,330		4,299		4,322		4,312
Issuance of shares under incentive and stock compensation plans	(9)		(5)		(80)		(89)
Stock-based compensation plans expense	18		16		97		87


Additional Paid-in Capital, end of period	4,339		4,310		4,339		4,310
Retained Earnings
Retained Earnings, beginning of period	14,813		13,167		13,918		12,685
Cumulative effect of accounting changes, net of tax	—		—		—		(18)
Adjusted balance, beginning of period	14,813		13,167		13,918		12,667
Net income	482		459		1,636		1,200
Dividends declared on preferred stock	(6)		(6)		(16)		(16)
Dividends declared on common stock	(120)		(117)		(369)		(348)
Retained Earnings, end of period	15,169		13,503��		15,169		13,503
Treasury Stock, at cost
Treasury Stock, at cost, beginning of period	(1,807)		(1,211)		(1,192)		(1,117)
Treasury stock acquired	(511)		—		(1,202)		(150)
Issuance of shares under incentive and stock compensation plans	28		7		130		98
Net shares acquired related to employee incentive and stock compensation plans	(1)		(1)		(27)		(36)

Treasury Stock, at cost, end of period	(2,291)		(1,205)		(2,291)		(1,205)
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), net of tax
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income, net of tax, beginning of period	570		479		1,170		52


Total other comprehensive income (loss)	(263)		377		(863)		804
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), net of tax, end of period	307		856		307		856
Total Stockholders’ Equity	$	17,862	$	17,802	$	17,862	$	17,802
Preferred Shares Outstanding
Preferred Shares Outstanding, beginning of period	13,800		13,800		13,800		13,800
Issuance of preferred shares	—		—		—		—
Preferred Shares Outstanding, end of period	13,800		13,800		13,800		13,800
Common Shares Outstanding
Common Shares Outstanding, beginning of period (in thousands)	348,998		358,099		358,489		359,570
Treasury stock acquired	(7,729)		—		(18,765)		(2,661)
Issuance of shares under incentive and stock compensation plans	532		151		2,589		2,011
Return of shares under incentive and stock compensation plans to treasury stock	(16)		(16)		(528)		(686)

Common Shares Outstanding, at end of period	341,785		358,234		341,785		358,234
Cash dividends declared per common share	$	0.350	$	0.325	$	1.050	$	0.975
Cash dividends declared per preferred share	$	375.00	$	375.00	$	1,125.00	$	1,125.00

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows


	Nine Months Ended September 30,
(in millions)	2021		2020
Operating Activities	(Unaudited)
Net income	$	1,636	$	1,200
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:
Net realized losses (gains)	(317)		65
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs	1,252		1,287
Additions to deferred policy acquisition costs	(1,330)		(1,268)
Depreciation and amortization	515		411


Loss on sale of business	20		51��

Other operating activities, net	(178)		129
Change in assets and liabilities:
Increase in reinsurance recoverables	(257)		(186)
Net change in accrued and deferred income taxes	(114)		437

Increase in insurance liabilities	2,104		1,019

Net change in other assets and other liabilities	(442)		(490)
Net cash provided by operating activities	2,889		2,655
Investing Activities
Proceeds from the sale/maturity/prepayment of:
Fixed maturities, available-for-sale	16,141		14,734

Equity securities, at fair value	517		1,420
Mortgage loans	1,092		710
Partnerships	451		84

Payments for the purchase of:
Fixed maturities, available-for-sale	(15,898)		(15,544)

Equity securities, at fair value	(1,060)		(758)
Mortgage loans	(1,692)		(995)
Partnerships	(830)		(235)


Net proceeds from derivatives	3		131

Net additions of property and equipment	(92)		(78)
Net payments for short-term investments	(329)		(475)
Other investing activities, net	(51)		(1)


Net cash used for investing activities	(1,748)		(1,007)
Financing Activities
Deposits and other additions to investment and universal life-type contracts	66		44
Withdrawals and other deductions from investment and universal life-type contracts	(57)		(78)



Net decrease in securities loaned or sold under agreements to repurchase	—		(511)

Repayment of debt	—		(500)
Proceeds from the issuance of debt	588		—

Net issuance (return) of shares under incentive and stock compensation plans	23		(27)
Treasury stock acquired	(1,202)		(150)
Dividends paid on preferred stock	(16)		(16)
Dividends paid on common stock	(365)		(341)
Net cash used for financing activities	(963)		(1,579)
Foreign exchange rate effect on cash	(5)		(3)
Net increase in cash and restricted cash, including cash classified within assets held for sale	173		66
Less: Net increase in cash classified within assets held for sale	15		58
Net increase in cash and restricted cash	158		8
Cash and restricted cash – beginning of period	239		262
Cash and restricted cash– end of period	$	397	$	270
Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information
Income tax paid (received)	$	439	$	(161)
Interest paid	$	165	$	183

See Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Dollar amounts in millions, except for per share data, unless otherwise stated)

(Unaudited)

1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. is a holding company for insurance and financial services subsidiaries that provide property and casualty insurance, group life and disability products and mutual funds and exchange-traded products to individual and business customers in the United States as well as in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and other international locations (collectively, “The Hartford”, the “Company”, “we” or “our”).

On September 30, 2020, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of the issued and outstanding equity of Navigators Holdings (Europe) N.V., a Belgium holding company, and its subsidiaries, Bracht, Deckers & Mackelbert N.V. (“BDM”) and Assurances Contintales Contintale Verzekeringen N.V. (“ASCO”), (collectively referred to as "Continental Europe Operations"). For further discussion of this transaction see Note 17 - Business Disposition.

The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information, which differ materially from the accounting practices prescribed by various insurance regulatory authorities. These Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto included in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report. The results of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year.

The accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes are unaudited. These financial statements reflect all adjustments (generally consisting only of normal accruals) which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for the fair statement of the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the interim periods. The

Company's significant accounting policies are summarized in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

CONSOLIDATION

The Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., and entities in which the Company directly or indirectly has a controlling financial interest. Entities in which the Company has significant influence over the operating and financing decisions but does not control are reported using the equity method. Intercompany transactions and balances between The Hartford and its subsidiaries and affiliates have been eliminated.

USE OF ESTIMATES

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

The most significant estimates include those used in determining property and casualty and group long-term disability insurance product reserves, net of reinsurance; evaluation of goodwill for impairment; valuation of investments and derivative instruments; and contingencies relating to corporate litigation and regulatory matters.

RECLASSIFICATIONS

Certain reclassifications have been made to prior year financial information to conform to the current year presentation.


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2. EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE


Computation of Basic and Diluted Earnings per Common Share
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(In millions, except for per share data)	2021		2020		2021		2020
Earnings

Net income	$	482	$	459	$	1,636	$	1,200
Less: Preferred stock dividends	6		6		16		16




Net income available to common stockholders	$	476	$	453	$	1,620	$	1,184


Shares
Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic	345.6		358.3		352.5		358.3

Dilutive effect of stock-based awards under compensation plans	5.1		2.2		4.7		2.0
Weighted average common shares outstanding and dilutive potential common shares	350.7		360.5		357.2		360.3
Net income available to common stockholders per common share



Basic	$	1.38	$	1.26	$	4.60	$	3.30






Diluted	$	1.36	$	1.26	$	4.54	$	3.29

3. SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company currently conducts business principally in 5 reporting segments including Commercial Lines, Personal Lines, Property & Casualty Other Operations, Group Benefits and Hartford Funds, as well as a Corporate Category.

Net Income (Loss)


	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Commercial Lines	$	357	$	323	$	1,055	$	378
Personal Lines	51		79		304		548
Property & Casualty Other Operations	22		2		26		12
Group Benefits	28		119		207		324
Hartford Funds	56		44		155		119
Corporate	(32)		(108)		(111)		(181)
Net income	482		459		1,636		1,200
Preferred stock dividends	6		6		16		16
Net income available to common stockholders	$	476	$	453	$	1,620	$	1,184


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Revenues


	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Earned premiums and fee income:
Commercial Lines
Workers’ compensation	$	821	$	776	$	2,327	$	2,312
Liability	419		355		1,196		1,035
Marine	57		59		172		191
Package business	425		390		1,227		1,150
Property	212		200		617		590
Professional liability	163		150		476		442
Bond	72		68		212		206
Assumed reinsurance	88		68		240		206
Automobile	200		193		586		562
Total Commercial Lines	2,457		2,259		7,053		6,694
Personal Lines
Automobile	517		547		1,545		1,552
Homeowners	235		240		695		721
Total Personal Lines [1]	752		787		2,240		2,273

Group Benefits
Group disability	745		697		2,228		2,142
Group life	591		594		1,797		1,833
Other	79		70		235		200
Total Group Benefits	1,415		1,361		4,260		4,175
Hartford Funds
Mutual fund and Exchange-Traded Products ("ETP")	282		228		813		660
Talcott Resolution life and annuity separate accounts [2]	24		22		71		64
Total Hartford Funds	306		250		884		724
Corporate	12		13		38		47
Total earned premiums and fee income	4,942		4,670		14,475		13,913
Net investment income	650		492		1,740		1,290
Net realized gains (losses)	70		6		297		(116)
Other revenues	24		3		62		108
Total revenues	$	5,686	$	5,171	$	16,574	$	15,195

[1]For the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, AARP members accounted for earned premiums of $687 and $713, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, AARP members accounted for earned premiums of $2.0 billion and $2.1 billion, respectively.

[2]Represents revenues earned for investment advisory services on the life and annuity separate account AUM sold in May 2018 that is still managed by the Company's Hartford Funds segment.


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Revenue from Non-Insurance Contracts with Customers


		Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	Revenue Line Item	2021		2020		2021		2020
Commercial Lines
Installment billing fees	Fee income	$	8	$	8	$	25	$	21
Personal Lines
Installment billing fees	Fee income	8		8		24		26
Insurance servicing revenues	Other revenues	22		23		62		63
Group Benefits
Administrative services	Fee income	43		44		136		132
Hartford Funds
Advisor, distribution and other management fees	Fee income	280		228		807		659
Other fees	Fee income	26		22		77		65
Corporate
Investment management and other fees	Fee income	12		13		38		38
Transition service revenues	Other revenues	—		—		1		2
Total non-insurance revenues with customers		$	399	$	346	$	1,170	$	1,006

4. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

The Company carries certain financial assets and liabilities at estimated fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in the principal or most advantageous market in an orderly transaction between market participants. Our fair value framework includes a hierarchy that gives the highest priority to the use of quoted prices in active markets, followed by the use of market observable inputs, followed by the use of unobservable inputs. The fair value hierarchy levels are as follows:

Level 1 Fair values based primarily on unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities, in active markets that the Company has the ability to access at the measurement date.

Level 2 Fair values primarily based on observable inputs, other than quoted prices included in Level 1, or based on prices for similar assets and liabilities.

Level 3 Fair values derived when one or more of the significant inputs are unobservable (including assumptions about risk). With little or no observable market, the determination of fair values uses considerable judgment and represents the Company’s best estimate of an amount that could be realized in a market exchange for the asset or liability. Also included are securities that are traded within illiquid markets and/or priced by independent brokers.

The Company will classify the financial asset or liability by level based upon the lowest level input that is significant to the determination of the fair value. In most cases, both observable inputs (e.g., changes in interest rates) and unobservable inputs (e.g., changes in risk assumptions) are used to determine fair values that the Company has classified within Level 3.


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Assets and (Liabilities) Carried at Fair Value by Hierarchy Level as of September 30, 2021
	Total		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Assets accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis
Fixed maturities, AFS
Asset backed securities ("ABS")	$	1,207	$	—	$	1,184	$	23
Collateralized loan obligations ("CLOs")	3,011		—		2,657		354
Commercial mortgage-backed securities ("CMBS")	4,191		—		4,090		101
Corporate	18,861		—		17,607		1,254
Foreign government/government agencies	953		—		948		5
Municipal	8,878		—		8,878		—
Residential mortgage-backed securities ("RMBS")	3,286		—		3,018		268
U.S. Treasuries	3,555		618		2,937		—
Total fixed maturities	43,942		618		41,319		2,005
Equity securities, at fair value	1,616		991		554		71
Derivative assets
Credit derivatives	1		—		1		—

Foreign exchange derivatives	1		—		1		—

Total derivative assets [1]	2		—		2		—
Fixed maturities, at fair value using the fair value option ("FVO") [2]	75		—		—		75
Short-term investments	3,612		1,941		1,648		23
Total assets accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis	$	49,247	$	3,550	$	43,523	$	2,174
Liabilities accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis
Derivative liabilities
Credit derivatives	$	5	$	—	$	5	$	—

Foreign exchange derivatives	2		—		2		—
Interest rate derivatives	(45)		—		(45)		—
Total derivative liabilities [3]	(38)		—		(38)		—

Total liabilities accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis	$	(38)	$	—	$	(38)	$	—


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Assets and (Liabilities) Carried at Fair Value by Hierarchy Level as of December 31, 2020
	Total		Quoted Prices in Active Markets for Identical Assets (Level 1)		Significant Observable Inputs (Level 2)		Significant Unobservable Inputs (Level 3)
Assets accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis
Fixed maturities, AFS
ABS	$	1,564	$	—	$	1,564	$	—
CLOs	2,780		—		2,420		360
CMBS	4,484		—		4,407		77
Corporate	20,273		—		19,392		881
Foreign government/government agencies	919		—		913		6
Municipal	9,503		—		9,503		—
RMBS	4,107		—		3,726		381
U.S. Treasuries	1,405		529		876		—
Total fixed maturities	45,035		529		42,801		1,705

Equity securities, at fair value	1,438		872		496		70
Derivative assets
Credit derivatives	21		—		21		—

Foreign exchange derivatives	1		—		1		—
Interest rate derivatives	1		—		1		—
Total derivative assets [1]	23		—		23		—
Short-term investments	3,283		2,663		590		30
Total assets accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis	$	49,779	$	4,064	$	43,910	$	1,805
Liabilities accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis
Derivative liabilities


Foreign exchange derivatives	$	(14)	$	—	$	(14)	$	—
Interest rate derivatives	(70)		—		(70)		—
Total derivative liabilities [3]	(84)		—		(84)		—

Total liabilities accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis	$	(84)	$	—	$	(84)	$	—

[1]Includes derivative instruments in a net positive fair value position after consideration of the accrued interest and impact of collateral posting requirements which may be imposed by agreements and applicable law. See footnote 3 to this table for derivative liabilities.

[2]Included within other investments on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

[3]Includes derivative instruments in a net negative fair value position (derivative liability) after consideration of the accrued interest and impact of collateral posting requirements which may be imposed by agreements and applicable law.

The Company has overseas deposits in Other Investments of $62 and $54 as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively, which are measured at fair value using the net asset value as a practical expedient.

FIXED MATURITIES, EQUITY SECURITIES, SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS, AND DERIVATIVES

Valuation Techniques

The Company generally determines fair values using valuation techniques that use prices, rates, and other relevant information evident from market transactions involving identical or similar instruments. Valuation techniques also include, where appropriate, estimates of future cash flows that are converted into a single discounted amount using current market expectations. The Company uses a "waterfall" approach

comprised of the following pricing sources and techniques, which are listed in priority order:

•Quoted prices, unadjusted, for identical assets or liabilities in active markets, which are classified as Level 1.

•Prices from third-party pricing services, which primarily utilize a combination of techniques. These services utilize recently reported trades of identical, similar, or benchmark securities making adjustments for market observable inputs available through the reporting date. If there are no recently reported trades, they may use a discounted cash flow technique to develop a price using expected cash flows based upon the anticipated future performance of the underlying collateral discounted at an estimated market rate. Both techniques develop prices that consider the time value of future cash flows and provide a margin for risk, including liquidity and credit risk. Most prices provided by third-party pricing services are classified as Level 2 because the inputs used in pricing the securities are observable. However, some securities that are less liquid or trade less actively are classified as Level 3. Additionally, certain long-dated securities, such as municipal securities


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and bank loans, include benchmark interest rate or credit spread assumptions that are not observable in the marketplace and are thus classified as Level 3.

•Internal matrix pricing is a valuation process internally developed for private placement securities for which the Company is unable to obtain a price from a third-party pricing service. Internal pricing matrices determine credit spreads that, when combined with risk-free rates, are applied to contractual cash flows to develop a price. The Company develops credit spreads using market-based data for public securities adjusted for credit spread differentials between public and private securities, which are obtained from a survey of multiple private placement brokers. The market-based reference credit spread considers the issuer’s sector, financial strength, and term to maturity, using an independent public security index, while the credit spread differential considers the non-public nature of the security. Securities priced using internal matrix pricing are classified as Level 2 because the significant inputs are observable or can be corroborated with observable data.

•Independent broker quotes, which are typically non-binding, use inputs that can be difficult to corroborate with observable market-based data. Brokers may use present value techniques using assumptions specific to the security types, or they may use recent transactions of similar securities. Due to the lack of transparency in the process that brokers use to develop prices, valuations that are based on independent broker quotes are classified as Level 3.

The fair value of derivative instruments is determined primarily using a discounted cash flow model or option model technique and incorporates counterparty credit risk. In some cases, quoted market prices for exchange-traded and over-the-counter ("OTC") cleared derivatives may be used and in other cases independent broker quotes may be used. The pricing valuation models primarily use inputs that are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data. The valuation of certain derivatives may include significant inputs that are unobservable, such as volatility levels, and reflect the Company’s view of what other market participants would use when pricing such instruments.

Valuation Controls

The process for determining the fair value of investments is monitored by the Valuation Committee, which is a cross-functional group of senior management within the Company. The purpose of the Valuation Committee is to provide oversight of the pricing policy, procedures, and controls, including approval of valuation methodologies and pricing sources. The Valuation Committee reviews market data trends, pricing statistics and trading statistics to ensure that prices are reasonable and consistent with our fair value framework. Controls and procedures used to assess third-party pricing services are reviewed by the Valuation Committee, including the results of annual due-diligence reviews. Controls include, but are not limited to, reviewing daily and monthly price changes, stale prices, and missing prices and comparing new trade prices to third-party pricing services, weekly price changes to published bond index prices, and daily OTC derivative market valuations to counterparty valuations. The Company has a dedicated pricing group that works with trading and investment professionals to challenge prices received by a third-party pricing source if the Company believes that the valuation received does not accurately reflect the fair value. New valuation models and changes to current models require approval by the Valuation Committee. In addition, the Company’s enterprise-wide Operational Risk Management function provides an independent review of the suitability and reliability of model inputs, as well as an analysis of significant changes to current models.

Valuation Inputs

Quoted prices for identical assets in active markets are considered Level 1 and consist of on-the-run U.S. Treasuries, money market funds, exchange-traded equity securities, open-ended mutual funds, certain short-term investments, and exchange traded futures and option contracts.


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Valuation Inputs Used in Levels 2 and 3 Measurements for Securities and Derivatives
Level 2 Primary Observable Inputs		Level 3 Primary Unobservable Inputs
Fixed Maturity Investments
Structured securities (includes ABS, CLOs, CMBS and RMBS)
	• Benchmark yields and spreads • Monthly payment information • Collateral performance, which varies by vintage year and includes delinquency rates, loss severity rates and refinancing assumptions • Credit default swap indices Other inputs for ABS, CLOs and RMBS: • Estimate of future principal prepayments, derived from the characteristics of the underlying structure • Prepayment speeds previously experienced at the interest rate levels projected for the collateral		• Independent broker quotes • Credit spreads beyond observable curve • Interest rates beyond observable curve Other inputs for less liquid securities or those that trade less actively, including subprime RMBS: • Estimated cash flows • Credit spreads, which include illiquidity premium • Constant prepayment rates • Constant default rates • Loss severity
Corporates
	• Benchmark yields and spreads • Reported trades, bids, offers of the same or similar securities • Issuer spreads and credit default swap curves Other inputs for investment grade privately placed securities that utilize internal matrix pricing: • Credit spreads for public securities of similar quality, maturity, and sector, adjusted for non-public nature		• Independent broker quotes • Credit spreads beyond observable curve • Interest rates beyond observable curve Other inputs for below investment grade privately placed securities and private bank loans: • Credit spreads for public securities of similar quality, maturity, and sector, adjusted for non-public nature
U.S. Treasuries, Municipals, and Foreign government/government agencies
	• Benchmark yields and spreads • Issuer credit default swap curves • Political events in emerging market economies • Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board reported trades and material event notices • Issuer financial statements		• Credit spreads beyond observable curve • Interest rates beyond observable curve
Equity Securities
	• Quoted prices in markets that are not active		• For privately traded equity securities, internal discounted cash flow models utilizing earnings multiples or other cash flow assumptions that are not observable
Short-term Investments
	• Benchmark yields and spreads • Reported trades, bids, offers • Issuer spreads and credit default swap curves • Material event notices and new issue money market rates		• Independent broker quotes
Derivatives
Credit derivatives
	• Swap yield curve • Credit default swap curves		Not applicable
Foreign exchange derivatives
	• Swap yield curve • Currency spot and forward rates • Cross currency basis curves		Not applicable
Interest rate derivatives
	• Swap yield curve		Not applicable


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Significant Unobservable Inputs for Level 3 - Securities

Assets accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis

Fair
Value

Predominant
Valuation
Technique

Significant

Unobservable Input

Minimum

Maximum

Weighted Average [1]

Impact of
Increase in
Input on Fair Value [2]

As of September 30, 2021

CLOs [3]

290

Discounted cash flows

Spread

227 bps

251 bps

248 bps

Decrease

CMBS [3]

Discounted cash flows

Spread (encompasses prepayment, default risk and loss severity)

192 bps

483 bps

289 bps

Decrease

Corporate [4]

1,178

Discounted cash flows

Spread

94 bps

978 bps

272 bps

Decrease

RMBS [3]

251

Discounted cash flows

Spread [6]

43 bps

233 bps

84 bps

Decrease

Constant prepayment rate [6]

14%

Decrease [5]

Constant default rate [6]

Decrease

Loss severity [6]

—%

100%

65%

Decrease

As of December 31, 2020

CLOs [3]

340

Discounted cash flows

Spread

304 bps

305 bps

304 bps

Decrease

CMBS [3]

Discounted cash flows

Spread (encompasses prepayment, default risk and loss severity)

255 bps

975 bps

688 bps

Decrease

Corporate [4]

749

Discounted cash flows

Spread

110 bps

692 bps

293 bps

Decrease

RMBS [3]

364

Discounted cash flows

Spread [6]

7 bps

937 bps

119 bps

Decrease

Constant prepayment rate [6]

—%

10%

Decrease [5]

Constant default rate [6]

Decrease

Loss severity [6]

—%

100%

84%

Decrease

[1]The weighted average is determined based on the fair value of the securities.

[2]Conversely, the impact of a decrease in input would have the opposite impact to the fair value as that presented in the table.

[3]Excludes securities for which the Company bases fair value on broker quotations.

[4]Excludes securities for which the Company bases fair value on broker quotations; however, included are broker priced lower-rated private placement securities for which the Company receives spread and yield information to corroborate the fair value.

[5]Decrease for above market rate coupons and increase for below market rate coupons.

[6]Generally, a change in the assumption used for the constant default rate would have been accompanied by a directionally similar change in the assumption used for the loss severity and a directionally opposite change in the assumption used for constant prepayment rate and would have resulted in wider spreads.

As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the fair values of the Company's level 3 derivatives were less than $1 for both periods.

The table above excludes certain securities for which fair values are predominately based on independent broker quotes. While the Company does not have access to the significant unobservable inputs that independent brokers may use in their pricing process, the Company believes brokers likely use inputs similar to those used by the Company and third-party pricing services to price similar instruments. As such, in their pricing models, brokers likely use estimated loss severity rates, prepayment rates, constant default rates and credit spreads. Therefore, similar to non-broker priced securities, increases in these inputs would generally cause fair values to decrease. As of September 30, 2021, no significant adjustments were made by the Company to broker prices received.

LEVEL 3 ASSETS AND LIABILITIES MEASURED AT FAIR VALUE ON A RECURRING BASIS USING SIGNIFICANT UNOBSERVABLE INPUTS

The Company uses derivative instruments to manage the risk associated with certain assets and liabilities. However, the derivative instrument may not be classified within the same fair value hierarchy level as the associated asset or liability. Therefore, the realized and unrealized gains and losses on derivatives reported in the Level 3 rollforward may be offset by realized and unrealized gains and losses of the associated assets and liabilities in other line items of the financial statements.


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Fair Value Rollforwards for Financial Instruments Classified as Level 3 for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
				Total realized/unrealized gains (losses)
		Fair value as of June 30, 2021		Included in net income [1]		Included in OCI [2]		Purchases		Settlements		Sales		Transfers into Level 3 [3]		Transfers out of Level 3 [3]		Fair value as of September 30, 2021
Assets
Fixed maturities, AFS
	ABS	$	14	$	—	$	—	$	23	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	(14)	$	23
	CLOs	375		—		—		132		(34)		—		—		(119)		354
	CMBS	86		—		—		29		—		—		—		(14)		101
	Corporate	1,141		—		(7)		156		(29)		(1)		—		(6)		1,254
	Foreign Govt./Govt. Agencies	—		—		—		5		—		—		—		—		5

	RMBS	302		—		(1)		41		(45)		—		—		(29)		268
Total fixed maturities, AFS		1,918		—		(8)		386		(108)		(1)		—		(182)		2,005
Equity securities, at fair value		74		4		—		2		(9)		—		—		—		71
Fixed maturities, FVO [4]		—		—		—		75		—		—		—		—		75
Short-term investments		18		—		—		8		(3)		—		—		—		23
Total Assets		$	2,010	$	4	$	(8)	$	471	$	(120)	$	(1)	$	—	$	(182)	$	2,174


Fair Value Rollforwards for Financial Instruments Classified as Level 3 for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
				Total realized/unrealized gains (losses)
		Fair value as of January 1, 2021		Included in net income [1]		Included in OCI [2]		Purchases		Settlements		Sales		Transfers into Level 3 [3]		Transfers out of Level 3 [3]		Fair value as of September 30, 2021
Assets
Fixed Maturities, AFS
	ABS	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	42	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	(19)	$	23
	CLOs	360		—		—		391		(79)		—		—		(318)		354
	CMBS	77		—		2		68		(3)		—		5		(48)		101
	Corporate	881		6		(18)		405		(105)		(45)		172		(42)		1,254
	Foreign Govt./Govt. Agencies	6		—		—		5		—		(6)		—		—		5

	RMBS	381		—		(3)		221		(148)		(14)		—		(169)		268
Total Fixed Maturities, AFS		1,705		6		(19)		1,132		(335)		(65)		177		(596)		2,005
Equity Securities, at fair value		70		6		—		5		(10)		—		—		—		71
Fixed maturities, FVO [4]		—		—		—		75		—		—		—		—		75
Short-term investments		30		—		—		10		(17)		—		—		—		23
Total Assets		$	1,805	$	12	$	(19)	$	1,222	$	(362)	$	(65)	$	177	$	(596)	$	2,174


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Fair Value Rollforwards for Financial Instruments Classified as Level 3 for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2020
				Total realized/unrealized gains (losses)
		Fair value as of June 30, 2020		Included in net income [1]		Included in OCI [2]		Purchases		Settlements		Sales		Transfers into Level 3 [3]		Transfers out of Level 3 [3]		Fair value as of September 30, 2020
Assets
Fixed Maturities, AFS
	ABS	$	23	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	(23)	$	—
	CLOs	99		—		1		63		(3)		—		—		(19)		141
	CMBS	20		—		2		66		(1)		—		5		—		92
	Corporate	1,109		1		19		45		(62)		—		22		(138)		996

	Municipal	—		(3)		2		—		—		—		7		—		6
	RMBS	479		—		2		40		(48)		—		—		(22)		451
Total Fixed Maturities, AFS		1,730		(2)		26		214		(114)		—		34		(202)		1,686
Equity Securities, at fair value		66		—		—		3		—		—		—		—		69
Short-term investments		14		—		—		—		—		—		—		—		14




Total Assets		$	1,810	$	(2)	$	26	$	217	$	(114)	$	—	$	34	$	(202)	$	1,769


Fair Value Rollforwards for Financial Instruments Classified as Level 3 for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
				Total realized/unrealized gains (losses)
		Fair value as of January 1, 2020		Included in net income [1]		Included in OCI [2]		Purchases		Settlements		Sales		Transfers into Level 3 [3]		Transfers out of Level 3 [3]		Fair value as of September 30, 2020
Assets
Fixed Maturities, AFS
	ABS	$	15	$	—	$	(1)	$	43	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	(57)	$	—
	CLOs	95		—		(1)		82		(16)		—		—		(19)		141
	CMBS	9		—		2		79		(3)		—		5		—		92
	Corporate	732		(31)		—		161		(126)		(27)		481		(194)		996
	Foreign Govt./Govt. Agencies	3		—		—		—		—		—		—		(3)		—
	Municipal	—		(3)		2		—		—		—		7		—		6
	RMBS	560		—		(10)		66		(136)		(7)		—		(22)		451
Total Fixed Maturities, AFS		1,414		(34)		(8)		431		(281)		(34)		493		(295)		1,686
Equity Securities, at fair value		73		(10)		—		6		—		—		—		—		69
Short-term investments		15		—		—		—		(1)		—		—		—		14




Total Assets		$	1,502	$	(44)	$	(8)	$	437	$	(282)	$	(34)	$	493	$	(295)	$	1,769
Liabilities
Contingent Consideration		$	(22)	$	12	$	—	$	—	$	10	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Derivatives, net [5]
	Equity	(15)		36		—		—		(21)		—		—		—		—
Total Derivatives, net [5]		(15)		36		—		—		(21)		—		—		—		—
Total Liabilities		$	(37)	$	48	$	—	$	—	$	(11)	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—

[1]Amounts in these columns are generally reported in net realized gains (losses). All amounts are before income taxes.

[2]All amounts are before income taxes.

[3]Transfers in and/or (out) of Level 3 are primarily attributable to the availability of market observable information and the re-evaluation of the observability of pricing inputs.

[4]Included within other investments on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

[5]Derivative instruments are reported in this table on a net basis for asset (liability) positions and reported in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets in other investments and other liabilities.


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Changes in Unrealized Gains (Losses) for Financial Instruments Classified as Level 3 Still Held at End of Period
		Three Months Ended September 30,								Nine Months Ended September 30,
		2021		2020		2021		2020		2021		2020		2021		2020
		Changes in Unrealized Gain/(Loss) included in Net Income [1] [2]				Changes in Unrealized Gain/(Loss) included in OCI [3]				Changes in Unrealized Gain/(Loss) included in Net Income [1] [2]				Changes in Unrealized Gain/(Loss) included in OCI [3]
Assets
Fixed Maturities, AFS

	CLOs	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	1	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	(1)
	CMBS	—		—		—		2		—		—		2		2
	Corporate	—		(1)		(7)		17		—		(21)		(16)		1

	Municipal	—		(3)		—		2		—		(3)		—		2
	RMBS	—		—		(1)		2		—		—		(3)		(9)
Total Fixed Maturities, AFS		—		(4)		(8)		24		—		(24)		(17)		(5)
Equity Securities, at fair value		1		—		—		—		4		(9)		—		—






Total Assets		$	1	$	(4)	$	(8)	$	24	$	4	$	(33)	$	(17)	$	(5)
Liabilities
Contingent Consideration		$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	12	$	—	$	—



Total Liabilities		$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	12	$	—	$	—

[1]All amounts in these rows are reported in net gains (losses). All amounts are before income taxes.

[2]Amounts presented are for Level 3 only and therefore may not agree to other disclosures included herein.

[3]Changes in unrealized gain (loss) on fixed maturities, AFS are reported in changes in net unrealized gain on securities in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.

Fair Value Option

The Company has elected the fair value option for certain investments in residual interests of securitizations in order to reflect changes in fair value in earnings. These instruments are included within other investments on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and changes in the fair value of these securities are reported in net realized gains and losses.

As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the fair value of assets using the fair value option was $75 and $0, respectively.

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 realized gains (losses) related to the change in fair value of assets using the fair value option were less than $(1). For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 there were no realized gains (losses) related to the change in fair value of assets using the fair value option.

FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS NOT CARRIED AT FAIR VALUE


Financial Assets and Liabilities Not Carried at Fair Value
	September 30, 2021					December 31, 2020
	Fair Value Hierarchy Level	Carrying Amount [1]		Fair Value		Fair Value Hierarchy Level	Carrying Amount [1]		Fair Value
Assets
Mortgage loans	Level 3	$	5,106	$	5,332	Level 3	$	4,493	$	4,792
Liabilities
Other policyholder funds and benefits payable	Level 3	$	685	$	688	Level 3	$	701	$	703
Senior notes [2]	Level 2	$	3,853	$	4,707	Level 2	$	3,262	$	4,363
Junior subordinated debentures [2]	Level 2	$	1,090	$	1,107	Level 2	$	1,090	$	1,107

[1]As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, carrying amount of mortgage loans is net of ACL of $26 and $38, respectively.

[2]Included in long-term debt in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, except for any current maturities, which are included in short-term debt when applicable.


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5. INVESTMENTS


Net Realized Gains (Losses)
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(Before tax)	2021		2020		2021		2020
Gross gains on sales	$	63	$	27	$	162	$	201
Gross losses on sales	(8)		(12)		(54)		(42)
Equity securities [1]	3		42		134		(269)
Net credit losses on fixed maturities, AFS	—		(1)		4		(33)
Change in ACL on mortgage loans	(2)		5		12		(19)
Intent-to-sell impairments	—		—		—		(5)






Other, net [2]	14		(55)		39		51



Net realized gains (losses)	$	70	$	6	$	297	$	(116)

[1]The net unrealized gains (losses) on equity securities included in net realized gains (losses) related to equity securities still held as of September 30, 2021, were $(17) and $92 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 respectively. The net unrealized gains on equity securities included in net realized gains (losses) related to equity securities still held as of September 30, 2020, were $36 and $6 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 respectively.

[2]For both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 includes gains (losses) from transactional foreign currency revaluation of $6 and $(1), respectively, non-qualifying derivatives of $10 and $16, respectively, and an additional loss of $(2) and $(20), respectively, on the pending sale of Continental Europe Operations. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, there was also a gain of $46 on the sale of the Company's previously owned equity interest in Talcott Resolution. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, includes gains (losses) from transactional foreign currency revaluation of $(4) and $6, respectively, non-qualifying derivatives of $(2) and $97, respectively, and a loss of $51 related to the pending sale of the Continental Europe Operations.

Proceeds from the sales of fixed maturities, AFS totaled $2.9 billion and $11.1 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 respectively, and $4.5 billion and $11.7 billion for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively.

Accrued Interest Receivable on Fixed Maturities, AFS and Mortgage Loans

As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company reported accrued interest receivable related to fixed maturities, AFS of $326 and $327, respectively, and accrued interest receivable related to mortgage loans of $15 and $14, respectively. These amounts are recorded in other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and are not included in the carrying value of the fixed maturities or mortgage loans. The Company does not include the current accrued interest receivable balance when estimating the ACL. The Company has a policy to write-off accrued interest receivable balances that are more than 90 days past due. Write-offs of accrued interest receivable are recorded as a credit loss component of net realized gains and losses.

Interest income on fixed maturities and mortgage loans is accrued unless it is past due over 90 days or management deems the interest uncollectible.

Recognition and Presentation of Intent-to-Sell Impairments and ACL on Fixed Maturities, AFS

The Company will record an "intent-to-sell impairment" as a reduction to the amortized cost of fixed maturities, AFS in an unrealized loss position if the Company intends to sell or it is more likely than not that the Company will be required to sell the fixed maturity before a recovery in value. A corresponding charge is recorded in net realized losses equal to the difference

between the fair value on the impairment date and the amortized cost basis of the fixed maturity before recognizing the impairment.

When fixed maturities are in an unrealized loss position and the Company does not record an intent-to-sell impairment, the Company will record an ACL for the portion of the unrealized loss due to a credit loss. Any remaining unrealized loss on a fixed maturity after recording an ACL is the non-credit amount and is recorded in OCI. The ACL is the excess of the amortized cost over the greater of the Company's best estimate of the present value of expected future cash flows or the security's fair value. Cash flows are discounted at the effective yield that is used to record interest income. The ACL cannot exceed the unrealized loss and, therefore, it may fluctuate with changes in the fair value of the fixed maturity if the fair value is greater than the Company's best estimate of the present value of expected future cash flows. The initial ACL and any subsequent changes are recorded in net realized gains and losses. The ACL is written off against the amortized cost in the period in which all or a portion of the related fixed maturity is determined to be uncollectible.

Developing the Company’s best estimate of expected future cash flows is a quantitative and qualitative process that incorporates information received from third-party sources along with certain internal assumptions regarding the future performance. The Company's considerations include, but are not limited to, (a) changes in the financial condition of the issuer and/or the underlying collateral, (b) whether the issuer is current on contractually obligated interest and principal payments, (c) credit ratings, (d) payment structure of the security and (e) the extent to which the fair value has been less than the amortized cost of the security.

For non-structured securities, assumptions include, but are not limited to, economic and industry-specific trends and fundamentals, instrument-specific developments including changes in credit ratings, industry earnings multiples and the


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issuer’s ability to restructure, access capital markets, and execute asset sales.

For structured securities, assumptions include, but are not limited to, various performance indicators such as historical and projected default and recovery rates, credit ratings, current and projected delinquency rates, loan-to-value ratios ("LTVs"),

average cumulative collateral loss rates that vary by vintage year, prepayment speeds, and property value declines. These assumptions require the use of significant management judgment and include the probability of issuer default and estimates regarding timing and amount of expected recoveries which may include estimating the underlying collateral value.


ACL on Fixed Maturities, AFS by Type
	Three Months Ended September 30,										Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021				2020						2021				2020
(Before tax)	Corporate		Total		Corporate		Municipal		Total		Corporate		Total		Corporate		Municipal		Total
Balance as of beginning of period	$	4	$	4	$	32	$	—	$	32	$	23	$	23	$	—	$	—	$	—
Credit losses on fixed maturities where an allowance was not previously recorded	—		—		—		3		3		2		2		35		3		38

Reduction due to sales	—		—		(1)		—		(1)		(15)		(15)		(3)		—		(3)

Net increases (decreases) on fixed maturities where an allowance was previously recorded	—		—		(2)		—		(2)		(6)		(6)		(3)		—		(3)


Balance as of end of period	$	4	$	4	$	29	$	3	$	32	$	4	$	4	$	29	$	3	$	32


Fixed Maturities, AFS, by Type
	September 30, 2021										December 31, 2020
	Amortized Cost		ACL		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses		Fair Value			Amortized Cost		ACL		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses		Fair Value
ABS	$	1,187	$	—	$	20	$	—	$	1,207		$	1,525	$	—	$	39	$	—	$	1,564
CLOs	3,002		—		10		(1)		3,011			2,780		—		7		(7)		2,780
CMBS	3,969		—		231		(9)		4,191			4,219		—		286		(21)		4,484
Corporate	17,597		(4)		1,310		(42)		18,861			18,401		(23)		1,926		(31)		20,273
Foreign govt./govt. agencies	916		—		40		(3)		953			842		—		77		—		919
Municipal	8,113		—		776		(11)		8,878			8,564		—		940		(1)		9,503
RMBS	3,212		—		85		(11)		3,286			3,966		—		144		(3)		4,107
U.S. Treasuries	3,489		—		83		(17)		3,555			1,264		—		141		—		1,405
Total fixed maturities, AFS	$	41,485	$	(4)	$	2,555	$	(94)	$	43,942		$	41,561	$	(23)	$	3,560	$	(63)	$	45,035


Fixed Maturities, AFS, by Contractual Maturity Year
	September 30, 2021				December 31, 2020
	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value
One year or less	$	1,319	$	1,340	$	1,411	$	1,432
Over one year through five years	8,214		8,577		7,832		8,286
Over five years through ten years	9,088		9,520		7,622		8,354
Over ten years	11,494		12,810		12,206		14,028
Subtotal	30,115		32,247		29,071		32,100
Mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities	11,370		11,695		12,490		12,935
Total fixed maturities, AFS	$	41,485	$	43,942	$	41,561	$	45,035

Estimated maturities may differ from contractual maturities due to call or prepayment provisions. Due to the potential for variability in payment speeds (i.e. prepayments or extensions), mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities are not categorized by contractual maturity.

Concentration of Credit Risk

The Company aims to maintain a diversified investment portfolio including issuer, sector and geographic stratification, where

applicable, and has established certain exposure limits, diversification standards and review procedures to mitigate credit risk. The Company had no investment exposure to any credit concentration risk of a single issuer greater than 10% of the Company's stockholders' equity as of September 30, 2021 or December 31, 2020 other than U.S. government securities and certain U.S. government agencies.


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Unrealized Losses on Fixed Maturities, AFS


Unrealized Loss Aging for Fixed Maturities, AFS by Type and Length of Time as of September 30, 2021
	Less Than 12 Months				12 Months or More				Total
	Fair Value		Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Unrealized Losses
ABS	$	204	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	204	$	—
CLOs	842		(1)		159		—		1,001		(1)
CMBS	298		(3)		87		(6)		385		(9)
Corporate	2,229		(34)		208		(8)		2,437		(42)
Foreign govt./govt. agencies	265		(3)		—		—		265		(3)
Municipal	695		(11)		12		—		707		(11)
RMBS	880		(8)		100		(3)		980		(11)
U.S. Treasuries	2,707		(17)		3		—		2,710		(17)
Total fixed maturities, AFS in an unrealized loss position	$	8,120	$	(77)	$	569	$	(17)	$	8,689	$	(94)


Unrealized Loss Aging for Fixed Maturities, AFS by Type and Length of Time as of December 31, 2020
	Less Than 12 Months				12 Months or More				Total
	Fair Value		Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Unrealized Losses
ABS	$	44	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	44	$	—
CLOs	758		(2)		715		(5)		1,473		(7)
CMBS	410		(17)		19		(4)		429		(21)
Corporate	466		(13)		212		(18)		678		(31)
Foreign govt./govt. agencies	24		—		—		—		24		—
Municipal	34		(1)		—		—		34		(1)
RMBS	461		(3)		21		—		482		(3)
U.S. Treasuries	39		—		—		—		39		—
Total fixed maturities, AFS in an unrealized loss position	$	2,236	$	(36)	$	967	$	(27)	$	3,203	$	(63)

As of September 30, 2021, fixed maturities, AFS in an unrealized loss position consisted of 1,057 instruments, primarily in the corporate sectors, most notably financial services, technology and communications, capital goods, and utilities, as well as U.S. Treasuries which were depressed largely due to higher interest rates and/or wider credit spreads since the purchase date. As of September 30, 2021, 98% of these fixed maturities were depressed less than 20% of cost or amortized cost. The increase in unrealized losses during the nine months ended September 30, 2021, was primarily attributable to higher interest rates, partially offset by tighter credit spreads.

Most of the fixed maturities depressed for twelve months or more relate to the corporate and CMBS sectors which were primarily depressed because current market spreads are wider than at the respective purchase dates. Additionally, certain corporate fixed maturities were also depressed because of their variable-rate coupons and long-dated maturities. The Company neither has an intention to sell nor does it expect to be required to sell the fixed maturities outlined in the preceding discussion. The decision to record credit losses on fixed maturities, AFS in the form of an ACL requires us to make qualitative and quantitative estimates of expected future cash flows. Given the uncertainty about the ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on issuers of these securities, actual cash flows could ultimately deviate significantly from our expectations resulting in realized losses in future periods.


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MORTGAGE LOANS

ACL on Mortgage Loans

The Company reviews mortgage loans on a quarterly basis to estimate the ACL with changes in the ACL recorded in net realized gains and losses. Apart from an ACL recorded on individual mortgage loans where the borrower is experiencing financial difficulties, the Company records an ACL on the pool of mortgage loans based on lifetime expected credit losses. The Company utilizes a third-party forecasting model to estimate lifetime expected credit losses at a loan level under multiple economic scenarios. The scenarios use macroeconomic data provided by an internationally recognized economics firm that generates forecasts of varying economic factors such as GDP growth, unemployment and interest rates. The economic scenarios are projected over 10 years. The first two to four years of the 10-year period assume a specific modeled economic scenario (including moderate upside, moderate recession and severe recession scenarios) and then revert to historical long-term assumptions over the remaining period. Using these economic scenarios, the forecasting model projects property-specific operating income and capitalization rates used to estimate the value of a future operating income stream. The operating income and the property valuations derived from capitalization rates are compared to loan payment and principal amounts to create debt service coverage ratios ("DSCRs") and loan-to-value ratios ("LTVs") over the forecast period. The model overlays historical data about mortgage loan performance based on DSCRs and LTVs and projects the probability of default, amount of loss given a default and resulting expected loss through maturity for each loan under each economic scenario. Economic scenarios are probability-weighted based on a statistical analysis of the forecasted economic factors and qualitative analysis. The Company records the change in the ACL on mortgage loans based on the weighted-average expected credit losses across the selected economic scenarios.

When a borrower is experiencing financial difficulty, including when foreclosure is probable, the Company measures an ACL on individual mortgage loans. The ACL is established for any shortfall between the amortized cost of the loan and the fair value of the collateral less costs to sell. Estimates of collectibility from an individual borrower require the use of significant management judgment and include the probability and timing of borrower default and loss severity estimates. In addition, cash flow projections may change based upon new information about the borrower's ability to pay and/or the value of underlying collateral such as changes in projected property value estimates. As of September 30, 2021, the Company did not have any mortgage loans for which an ACL was established on an individual basis.

There were no mortgage loans held-for-sale as of September 30, 2021 or December 31, 2020. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, the Company had no mortgage loans that have had extensions

or restructurings other than what is allowable under the original terms of the contract.


ACL on Mortgage Loans
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
ACL as of beginning of period	$	24	$	43	$	38	$	—
Cumulative effect of accounting changes [1]							19
Adjusted beginning ACL	24		43		38		19
Current period provision (release)	2		(5)		(12)		19



ACL as of September 30,	$	26	$	38	$	26	$	38

[1]Represents the adjustment to the ACL recorded on adoption of accounting guidance for credit losses on January 1, 2020. For further information, see the Financial Instruments - Credit Losses section within Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies, included in The Hartford's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

The increase in the allowance for the three months ended September 30, 2021, is driven by net additions of new loans. The decrease in the allowance for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, is the result of improved economic scenarios, including improved GDP growth and unemployment, and higher property valuations as compared to the prior periods, partially offset by an increase driven by net additions of new loans. We continue to monitor the impact on our mortgage loan portfolio from borrower behavior in response to the economic stress. Borrowers with lower LTVs have an incentive to continue to make payments of principal and/or interest in order to preserve the equity they have in the underlying commercial real estate properties. During the first nine months of 2020, the Company increased the estimate of the ACL in response to significant economic stress experienced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The weighted-average LTV ratio of the Company’s mortgage loan portfolio was 52% as of September 30, 2021, while the weighted-average LTV ratio at origination of these loans was 60%. LTV ratios compare the loan amount to the value of the underlying property collateralizing the loan with property values based on appraisals updated no less than annually. Factors considered in estimating property values include, among other things, actual and expected property cash flows, geographic market data and the ratio of the property's net operating income to its value. DSCR compares a property’s net operating income to the borrower’s principal and interest payments and are updated no less than annually through reviews of underlying properties.


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Mortgage Loans LTV & DSCR by Origination Year as of September 30, 2021
	2021			2020			2019			2018			2017			2016 & Prior			Total
Loan-to-value	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost [1]		Avg. DSCR

65% - 80%	$	3	2.25x	$	51	2.63x	$	91	1.37x	$	111	1.04x	$	45	1.75x	$	125	1.52x	$	426	1.52x
Less than 65%	1,020		2.86x	654		2.76x	772		2.71x	485		2.21x	419		1.88x	1,356		2.46x	4,706		2.55x
Total mortgage loans	$	1,023	2.86x	$	705	2.75x	$	863	2.57x	$	596	1.99x	$	464	1.87x	$	1,481	2.38x	$	5,132	2.47x

[1]Amortized cost of mortgage loans excludes ACL of $26.


Mortgage Loans LTV & DSCR by Origination Year as of December 31, 2020
	2020			2019			2018			2017			2016			2015 & Prior			Total
Loan-to-value	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost		Avg. DSCR	Amortized Cost [1]		Avg. DSCR

65% - 80%	$	28	1.62x	$	243	1.58x	$	212	1.33x	$	45	2.02x	$	51	1.92x	$	115	1.74x	$	694	1.59x
Less than 65%	659		2.56x	676		2.85x	410		2.25x	446		1.89x	235		2.99x	1,411		3.01x	3,837		2.69x
Total mortgage loans	$	687	2.52x	$	919	2.51x	$	622	1.94x	$	491	1.90x	$	286	2.80x	$	1,526	2.92x	$	4,531	2.52x

[1]Amortized cost of mortgage loans excludes ACL of $38.


Mortgage Loans by Region
	September 30, 2021				December 31, 2020
	Amortized Cost		Percent of Total		Amortized Cost		Percent of Total
East North Central	$	294	5.7	%	$	290	6.4	%

Middle Atlantic	304		5.9	%	291		6.4	%
Mountain	418		8.1	%	254		5.6	%
New England	394		7.7	%	397		8.8	%
Pacific	1,216		23.7	%	1,001		22.1	%
South Atlantic	1,407		27.4	%	1,038		22.9	%
West North Central	44		0.9	%	44		1.0	%
West South Central	388		7.6	%	433		9.5	%
Other [1]	667		13.0��	%	783		17.3	%
Total mortgage loans	5,132		100.0	%	4,531		100.0	%
ACL	(26)				(38)
Total mortgage loans, net of ACL	$	5,106			$	4,493

[1]Primarily represents loans collateralized by multiple properties in various regions.


Mortgage Loans by Property Type
	September 30, 2021				December 31, 2020
	Amortized Cost		Percent of Total		Amortized Cost		Percent of Total
Commercial

Industrial	$	1,804	35.2	%	$	1,339	29.5	%

Multifamily	1,695		33.0	%	1,498		33.1	%
Office	650		12.7	%	774		17.1	%
Retail [1]	916		17.8	%	788		17.4	%
Single Family	27		0.5	%	92		2.0	%
Other	40		0.8	%	40		0.9	%
Total mortgage loans	5,132		100.0	%	4,531		100.0	%
ACL	(26)				(38)
Total mortgage loans, net of ACL	$	5,106			$	4,493

[1]Primarily comprised of grocery-anchored retail centers, with no exposure to regional shopping malls.

Past-Due Mortgage Loans

Mortgage loans are considered past due if a payment of principal or interest is not received according to the contractual terms of the loan agreement, which typically includes a grace period. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company held no mortgage loans considered past due.

Mortgage Servicing

The Company originates, sells and services commercial mortgage loans on behalf of third parties and recognizes servicing fee income over the period that services are performed. As of September 30, 2021, under this program, the Company serviced mortgage loans with a total outstanding


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principal of $7.9 billion, of which $3.9 billion was serviced on behalf of third parties and $4.0 billion was retained and reported in total investments on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of December 31, 2020, the Company serviced mortgage loans with a total outstanding principal balance of $6.9 billion, of which $3.7 billion was serviced on behalf of third parties and $3.2 billion was retained and reported in total investments on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Servicing rights are carried at the lower of cost or fair value and were $0 as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, because servicing fees were market-level fees at origination and remain adequate to compensate the Company for servicing the loans.

VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES

The Company is engaged with various special purpose entities and other entities that are deemed to be VIEs primarily as an investor through normal investment activities but also as an investment manager.

A VIE is an entity that either has investors that lack certain essential characteristics of a controlling financial interest, such as simple majority kick-out rights, or lacks sufficient funds to finance its own activities without financial support provided by other entities. The Company performs ongoing qualitative assessments of its VIEs to determine whether the Company has a controlling financial interest in the VIE and therefore is the primary beneficiary. The Company is deemed to have a controlling financial interest when it has both the ability to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the VIE and the obligation to absorb losses or right to receive benefits from the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE. Based on the Company’s assessment, if it determines it is the primary beneficiary, the Company consolidates the VIE in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Consolidated VIEs

As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company did 0t hold any securities for which it is the primary beneficiary.

Non-Consolidated VIEs

The Company, through normal investment activities, makes passive investments in limited partnerships and other alternative investments. For these non-consolidated VIEs, the Company has determined it is not the primary beneficiary as it has no ability to direct activities that could significantly affect the economic performance of the investments. The Company’s maximum exposure to loss as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 was limited to the total carrying value of $1.7 billion and $1.3 billion, respectively, which are included in limited partnerships and other alternative investments in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company has outstanding commitments totaling $1.2 billion and $768 million, respectively, whereby the Company is committed to fund these investments and may be called by the partnership during the commitment period to fund the purchase of new investments and partnership expenses. These investments are generally of a passive nature in that the Company does not take an active role in management. For further discussion of these investments, see Equity Method Investments within Note 6 - Investments of

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

In addition, the Company makes passive investments in structured securities issued by VIEs for which the Company is not the manager. These investments are included in ABS, CLOs, CMBS, and RMBS and are reported in fixed maturities, AFS, and other investments. The Company has not provided financial or other support with respect to these investments other than its original investment. For these investments, the Company determined it is not the primary beneficiary due to the relative size of the Company’s investment in comparison to the principal amount of the structured securities issued by the VIEs, the Company’s inability to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the VIEs, and, where applicable, the level of credit subordination which reduces the Company’s obligation to absorb losses or right to receive benefits. The Company’s maximum exposure to loss on these investments is limited to the amount of the Company’s investment.

SECURITIES LENDING, REVERSE REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS, OTHER COLLATERAL TRANSACTIONS AND RESTRICTED INVESTMENTS

Securities Lending

Under a securities lending program, the Company lends certain fixed maturities within the corporate, foreign government/government agencies, and municipal sectors as well as equity securities to qualifying third-party borrowers in return for collateral in the form of cash or securities. For domestic and non-domestic loaned securities, respectively, borrowers provide collateral of 102% and 105% of the fair value of the securities lent at the time of the loan. Borrowers will return the securities to the Company for cash or securities collateral at maturity dates generally of 90 days or less. Security collateral on deposit from counterparties in connection with securities lending transactions may not be sold or re-pledged, except in the event of default by the counterparty, and is not reflected on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Additional collateral is obtained if the fair value of the collateral falls below 100% of the fair value of the loaned securities. The agreements are continuous and do not have stated maturity dates and provide the counterparty the right to sell or re-pledge the securities loaned. If cash, rather than securities, is received as collateral, the cash is typically invested in short-term investments or fixed maturities and is reported as an asset on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Income associated with securities lending transactions is reported as a component of net investment income in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations. While the Company had securities on loan as part of a securities lending program during 2020, as of September 30, 2021 and December 31,


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2020, the Company did not have any securities on loan as part of a securities lending program.

Reverse Repurchase Agreements

From time to time, the Company enters into reverse repurchase agreements where the Company purchases securities and simultaneously agrees to resell the same or substantially the same securities. The maturity of these transactions is generally within one year. The agreements require additional collateral to be transferred to the Company under specified conditions and the Company has the right to sell or re-pledge the securities received. The Company accounts for reverse repurchase agreements as collateralized financing. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company reported $23 and $30, respectively, within short-term investments on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets representing a receivable for the amount of cash transferred to purchase the securities.

Other Collateral Transactions

As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company pledged collateral of $9 and $34, respectively, of U.S. government securities or cash primarily related to certain bank loan participations committed through a limited partnership agreement. Amounts also include collateral related to letters of credit.

For disclosure of collateral in support of derivative transactions, refer to the Derivative Collateral Arrangements section in Note 6 - Derivatives of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Other Restricted Investments

The Company is required by law to deposit securities with

government agencies in certain states in which it conducts business. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the fair value of securities on deposit was $2.5 billion and $2.6 billion, respectively.

In addition, as of September 30, 2021, the Company held fixed maturities of $682 and short-term investments of $2 in trust for the benefit of syndicate policyholders, held fixed maturities of $170 in a Lloyd's of London ("Lloyd's") trust account to provide a portion of the required capital, and maintained other investments of $62 primarily consisting of overseas deposits in various countries with Lloyd's to support underwriting activities in those countries. As of December 31, 2020, the Company held fixed maturities of $661 and short-term investments of $26 in trust for the benefit of syndicate policyholders, held fixed maturities of $175 in a Lloyd's trust account to provide a portion of the required capital, and maintained other investments of $54 primarily consisting of overseas deposits in various countries with Lloyd's to support underwriting activities in those countries. Lloyd's is an insurance market-place operating worldwide. Lloyd's does not underwrite risks. The Company accepts risks as the sole member of Lloyd's Syndicate 1221 ("Lloyd's Syndicate").

Equity Method Investments

On June 30, 2021, Hopmeadow Holdings LP, the legal entity that acquired Talcott Resolution in May 2018 (collectively referred to as "Talcott Resolution"), was sold and, as a result, the Company sold its retained 9.7% interest. The Company received a total $217 in connection with the sale of its 9.7% ownership interest, resulting in a realized gain on sale of $46 before tax for the nine months ended September 30, 2021.

6. DERIVATIVES

The Company utilizes a variety of OTC, OTC-cleared and exchange traded derivative instruments as a part of its overall risk management strategy as well as to enter into replication transactions or income generation covered call transactions. Derivative instruments are used to manage risk associated with interest rate, equity market, credit spread, issuer default, price, and currency exchange rate or volatility. Replication transactions are used as an economical means to synthetically replicate the characteristics and performance of assets that are permissible investments under the Company’s investment policies.

STRATEGIES THAT QUALIFY FOR HEDGE ACCOUNTING

Some of the Company's derivatives satisfy hedge accounting requirements as outlined in Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, included in The Hartford’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report. Typically, these hedging instruments include interest rate swaps and, to a lesser extent, foreign currency swaps where the terms or expected cash flows of the hedged item closely match the terms of the swap. The interest rate swaps are typically used to manage interest rate duration of certain fixed maturity securities or debt instruments issued.

Cash Flow Hedges

Interest rate swaps are predominantly used to manage portfolio duration and better match cash receipts from assets with cash disbursements required to fund liabilities. These derivatives primarily convert interest receipts on variable-rate fixed maturity securities to fixed rates. The Company has also entered into interest rate swaps to convert the variable interest payments on 3 month LIBOR + 2.125% junior subordinated debt to fixed interest payments. For further information, see the Junior Subordinated Debentures section within Note 14 - Debt of Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements, included in The Hartford's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

Foreign currency swaps are used to convert foreign currency denominated cash flows related to certain investment receipts to U.S. dollars in order to reduce cash flow fluctuations due to changes in currency rates.

The Company also previously entered into forward starting swap agreements to hedge the interest rate exposure related to the future purchase of fixed-rate securities, primarily to hedge interest rate risk inherent in the assumptions used to price certain group benefits liabilities.


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NON-QUALIFYING STRATEGIES

Derivative relationships that do not qualify for hedge accounting (“non-qualifying strategies”) primarily include hedges of interest rate, foreign currency and equity risk of certain fixed maturities and equities. In addition, hedging and replication strategies that utilize credit default swaps do not qualify for hedge accounting. The non-qualifying strategies include:

Credit Contracts

Credit default swaps are used to purchase credit protection on an individual entity or referenced index to economically hedge against default risk and credit-related changes in the value of fixed maturity securities. Credit default swaps are also used to assume credit risk related to an individual entity or referenced index as a part of replication transactions. These contracts require the Company to pay or receive a periodic fee in exchange for compensation from the counterparty or the Company should the referenced security issuers experience a credit event, as defined in the contract. The Company also enters into credit default swaps to terminate existing credit default swaps, thereby offsetting the changes in value of the original swap going forward.

Interest Rate Swaps, Swaptions and Futures

The Company uses interest rate swaps, swaptions and futures to manage interest rate duration between assets and liabilities. In addition, the Company enters into interest rate swaps to terminate existing swaps, thereby offsetting the changes in value of the original swap going forward. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the notional amount of interest rate swaps in offsetting relationships was $7.2 billion and $7.6 billion, respectively.

Foreign Currency Swaps and Forwards

The Company enters into foreign currency swaps to convert the foreign currency exposures of certain foreign currency-denominated fixed maturity investments to U.S. dollars.

Equity Index Options

The Company enters into equity index options to hedge the impact of a decline in the equity markets on the investment portfolio. The Company also enters into covered call options on equity securities to generate additional return.

DERIVATIVE BALANCE SHEET CLASSIFICATION

For reporting purposes, the Company has elected to offset within assets or liabilities, based upon the net of the fair value amounts, income accruals and related cash collateral receivables and payables of OTC derivative instruments executed in a legal entity and with the same counterparty under a master netting agreement, which provides the Company with the legal right of offset. The following fair value amounts do not include income accruals or related cash collateral receivables and payables, which are netted with derivative fair value amounts to determine balance sheet presentation. The Company’s derivative instruments are held for risk management purposes, unless otherwise noted in the following table. The notional amount of derivative contracts represents the basis upon which pay or receive amounts are calculated and is presented in the table to quantify the volume of the Company’s derivative activity. Notional amounts are not necessarily reflective of credit risk.


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Derivative Balance Sheet Presentation
	Net Derivatives								Asset Derivatives				Liability Derivatives
	Notional Amount				Fair Value				Fair Value				Fair Value
Hedge Designation/ Derivative Type	Sep 30, 2021		Dec. 31, 2020		Sep 30, 2021		Dec. 31, 2020		Sep 30, 2021		Dec. 31, 2020		Sep 30, 2021		Dec. 31, 2020
Cash flow hedges
Interest rate swaps	$	2,340	$	2,340	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Foreign currency swaps	326		286		2		(13)		7		3		(5)		(16)
Total cash flow hedges	2,666		2,626		2		(13)		7		3		(5)		(16)
Non-qualifying strategies
Interest rate contracts
Interest rate swaps and futures	7,991		8,335		(45)		(69)		3		4		(48)		(73)
Foreign exchange contracts
Foreign currency swaps and forwards	465		269		1		—		1		—		—		—
Credit contracts
Credit derivatives that purchase credit protection	16		6		(1)		—		—		—		(1)		—
Credit derivatives that assume credit risk [1]	75		675		7		21		7		21		—		—
Credit derivatives in offsetting positions	212		218		—		—		3		5		(3)		(5)


Total non-qualifying strategies	8,759		9,503		(38)		(48)		14		30		(52)		(78)
Total cash flow hedges and non-qualifying strategies	$	11,425	$	12,129	$	(36)	$	(61)	$	21	$	33	$	(57)	$	(94)
Balance Sheet Location
Fixed maturities, available-for-sale	$	318	$	269	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Other investments	1,367		9,585		2		23		5		25		(3)		(2)
Other liabilities	9,740		2,275		(38)		(84)		16		8		(54)		(92)
Total derivatives	$	11,425	$	12,129	$	(36)	$	(61)	$	21	$	33	$	(57)	$	(94)

[1]The derivative instruments related to this strategy are held for other investment purposes.

Offsetting of Derivative Assets/Liabilities

The following tables present the gross fair value amounts, the amounts offset, and net position of derivative instruments eligible for offset in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. Amounts offset include fair value amounts, income accruals and related cash collateral receivables and

payables associated with derivative instruments that are traded under a common master netting agreement, as described in the preceding discussion. Also included in the tables are financial collateral receivables and payables, which are contractually permitted to be offset upon an event of default, although are disallowed for offsetting under U.S. GAAP.


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Offsetting Derivative Assets and Liabilities
	(i)		(ii)		(iii) = (i) - (ii)				(iv)		(v) = (iii) - (iv)
					Net Amounts Presented in the Statement of Financial Position				Collateral Disallowed for Offset in the Statement of Financial Position
	Gross Amounts of Recognized Assets (Liabilities)		Gross Amounts Offset in the Statement of Financial Position		Derivative Assets [1] (Liabilities) [2]		Accrued Interest and Cash Collateral (Received) [3] Pledged [2]		Financial Collateral (Received) Pledged [4]		Net Amount
As of September 30, 2021
Other investments	$	21	$	18	$	2	$	1	$	3	$	—
Other liabilities	$	(57)	$	(7)	$	(38)	$	(12)	$	(48)	$	(2)
As of December 31, 2020
Other investments	$	33	$	31	$	23	$	(21)	$	1	$	1
Other liabilities	$	(94)	$	(6)	$	(84)	$	(4)	$	(83)	$	(5)

[1]Included in other investments in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

[2]Included in other liabilities in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and is limited to the net derivative payable associated with each counterparty.

[3]Included in other investments in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and is limited to the net derivative receivable associated with each counterparty.

[4]Excludes collateral associated with exchange-traded derivative instruments.

CASH FLOW HEDGES

For derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges, the gain or loss on the derivative is reported as a component of OCI and reclassified into earnings in the

same period or periods during which the hedged transaction affects earnings. All components of each derivative’s gain or loss were included in the assessment of hedge effectiveness.


Gain (Loss) Recognized in OCI
	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
		2021		2020			2021		2020
Interest rate swaps		$	2	$	—		$	8	$	36
Foreign currency swaps		8		(12)			19		12
Total		$	10	$	(12)		$	27	$	48


Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into Income for the Three Months Ended

	September 30, 2021						September 30, 2020
	Net Realized Gain/(Loss)		Net Investment Income		Interest Expense		Net Realized Gain/(Loss)		Net Investment Income		Interest Expense
Interest rate swaps	$	—	$	11	$	(3)	$	—	$	9	$	(2)
Foreign currency swaps	—		1		—		1		1		—
Total	$	—	$	12	$	(3)	$	1	$	10	$	(2)

Total amounts presented on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations	$	70	$	650	$	58	$	6	$	492	$	58


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Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCI into Income for the Nine Months Ended

	September 30, 2021						September 30, 2020
	Net Realized Gain/(Loss)		Net Investment Income		Interest Expense		Net Realized Gain/(Loss)		Net Investment Income		Interest Expense
Interest rate swaps	$	—	$	31	$	(8)	$	—	$	19	$	(4)
Foreign currency swaps	—		3		—		1		3		—
Total	$	—	$	34	$	(8)	$	1	$	22	$	(4)

Total amounts presented on the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations	$	297	$	1,740	$	172	$	(116)	$	1,290	$	179

As of September 30, 2021, the before tax deferred net gains on derivative instruments recorded in AOCI that are expected to be reclassified to earnings during the next twelve months are $31. This expectation is based on the anticipated interest payments on hedged investments in fixed maturity securities and long-term debt that will occur over the next twelve months. At that time, the Company will recognize the deferred net gains (losses) as an adjustment to net investment income and interest expense over the term of the investment cash flows.

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, the Company had no net reclassifications from AOCI

to earnings resulting from the discontinuance of cash-flow hedges due to forecasted transactions that were no longer probable of occurring.

NON-QUALIFYING STRATEGIES

For non-qualifying strategies, including embedded derivatives that are required to be bifurcated from their host contracts and accounted for as derivatives, the gain or loss on the derivative is recognized currently in earnings within net realized gains (losses).


Non-Qualifying Strategies Recognized within Net Realized Gains (Losses)
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020






Foreign exchange contracts
Foreign currency swaps and forwards	$	1	$	—	$	1	$	3



Interest rate contracts
Interest rate swaps, swaptions, and futures	9		—		9		21
Credit contracts
Credit derivatives that purchase credit protection	—		(1)		—		3
Credit derivatives that assume credit risk	—		(1)		6		(5)
Equity contracts
Equity index swaps and options	—		—		—		75




Total	$	10	$	(2)	$	16	$	97


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Credit Risk Assumed through Credit Derivatives

The Company enters into credit default swaps that assume credit risk of a single entity or referenced index in order to synthetically replicate investment transactions that are permissible under the Company's investment policies. The Company will receive periodic payments based on an agreed upon rate and notional amount and will only make a payment if there is a credit event. A credit event payment will typically be equal to the notional value of the swap contract less the value of the referenced security issuer’s debt obligation after the

occurrence of the credit event. A credit event is generally defined as a default on contractually obligated interest or principal payments or bankruptcy of the referenced entity. The credit default swaps in which the Company assumes credit risk primarily reference investment grade single corporate issuers and baskets, which include standard diversified portfolios of corporate and CMBS issuers. The diversified portfolios of corporate issuers are established within sector concentration limits and may be divided into tranches that possess different credit ratings.


Credit Risk Assumed Derivatives by Type
						Underlying Referenced Credit Obligation(s) [1]
	Notional Amount [2]		Fair Value		Weighted Average Years to Maturity	Type	Average Credit Rating	Offsetting Notional Amount [3]		Offsetting Fair Value [3]
As of September 30, 2021


Basket credit default swaps [4]

Below investment grade risk exposure	$	75	$	7	5 years	Corporate Credit	B+	$	—	$	—
Investment grade risk exposure	100		1		7 years	CMBS Credit	AAA	100		(1)
Below investment grade risk exposure	6		(3)		Less than 1 year	CMBS Credit	CCC+	6		3
Total	$	181	$	5				$	106	$	2
As of December 31, 2020
Single name credit default swaps
Investment grade risk exposure	$	175	$	9	5 years	Corporate Credit	A-	$	—	$	—
Basket credit default swaps [4]
Investment grade risk exposure	500		12		5 years	Corporate Credit	BBB+	—		—

Investment grade risk exposure	100		1		8 years	CMBS Credit	AAA	100		(1)
Below investment grade risk exposure	9		(4)		Less than 1 year	CMBS Credit	CCC+	9		4
Total	$	784	$	18				$	109	$	3

[1]The average credit ratings are based on availability and are generally the midpoint of the available ratings among Moody’s, S&P and Fitch. If no rating is available from a rating agency, then an internally developed rating is used.

[2]Notional amount is equal to the maximum potential future loss amount. These derivatives are governed by agreements and applicable law, which include collateral posting requirements. There is no additional specific collateral related to these contracts or recourse provisions included in the contracts to offset losses.

[3]The Company has entered into offsetting credit default swaps to terminate certain existing credit default swaps, thereby offsetting the future changes in value of, or losses paid related to, the original swap.

[4]Comprised of swaps of standard market indices of diversified portfolios of corporate and CMBS issuers referenced through credit default swaps. These swaps are subsequently valued based upon the observable standard market index.

DERIVATIVE COLLATERAL ARRANGEMENTS

The Company enters into various collateral arrangements in connection with its derivative instruments, which require both the pledging and accepting of collateral. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company has pledged cash collateral associated with derivative instruments of $2 and $0, respectively. In general, collateral receivable is recorded in other assets or other liabilities on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as determined by the Company's election to offset on the balance sheet. As of September 30,

2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company pledged securities collateral associated with derivative instruments with a fair value of $54 and $90, respectively, which have been included in fixed maturities on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The counterparties generally have the right to sell or re-pledge these securities.

In addition, as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company has pledged initial margin of securities related to OTC-cleared and exchange traded derivatives with a fair value of $119 and $83, respectively, which are included within fixed maturities on the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company accepted cash collateral associated with derivative instruments of $12 and $24, respectively, which was invested and recorded in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets in fixed maturities and short-term investments with corresponding amounts recorded in other investments or other liabilities as determined by the Company's election to offset on the balance sheet. The Company also accepted

securities collateral as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, with a fair value of $3 and $1, respectively, which the Company has the right to sell or repledge. As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had no repledged securities and no securities held as collateral have been sold. Non-cash collateral accepted was held in separate custodial accounts and was not included in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

7. PREMIUMS RECEIVABLE AND AGENTS' BALANCES


Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances

	As of September 30, 2021		As of December 31, 2020




Premiums receivable, excluding receivables for losses within a deductible and retrospectively-rated policy premiums ("loss sensitive business")	$	4,200	$	3,851
Receivables for loss sensitive business, by credit quality:
AAA	—		—
AA	137		142
A	57		62
BBB	161		185
BB	103		115
Below BB	64		65
Total receivables for loss sensitive business	522		569

Total Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances, Gross	4,722		4,420
ACL	(124)		(152)
Total Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances, Net of ACL	$	4,598	$	4,268

ACL on Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances

Balances are considered past due when amounts that have been billed are not collected within contractually stipulated time periods. The Company had an immaterial amount of receivables with a due date of more than one year that are past-due.

Premiums receivable and agents' balances, excluding receivables for loss sensitive business, are primarily comprised of premiums due from policyholders, which are typically collectible within one year or less. For these balances, the ACL is estimated based on an aging of receivables and recent historical credit loss and collection experience, adjusted for current economic conditions and reasonable and supportable forecasts, when appropriate.

A portion of the Company's Commercial Lines business is written with large deductibles or under retrospectively-rated plans (referred to as "loss sensitive business"). Under some commercial insurance contracts with a large deductible, the Company is obligated to pay the claimant the full amount of the claim and the Company is subsequently reimbursed by the

policyholder for the deductible amount. As such, the Company is subject to credit risk until reimbursement is made. Retrospectively-rated policies are utilized primarily for workers' compensation coverage, whereby the ultimate premium is adjusted based on actual losses incurred. Although the premium adjustment feature of a retrospectively-rated policy substantially reduces insurance risk for the Company, it presents credit risk to the Company. The Company’s results of operations could be adversely affected if a significant portion of such policyholders failed to reimburse the Company for the deductible amount or the amount of additional premium owed under retrospectively-rated policies. The Company manages these credit risks through credit analysis, collateral requirements, and oversight.

The ACL for receivables for loss sensitive business is estimated as the amount of the receivable exposed to loss multiplied by estimated factors for probability of default and the amount of loss given a default. The probability of default is assigned based on each policyholder's credit rating, or a rating is estimated if no external rating is available. Credit ratings are reviewed and updated at least annually. The exposure amount is estimated net of collateral and other credit enhancement, considering the nature of the collateral, potential future changes in collateral values, and historical loss information for the type of collateral obtained. The probability of default factors are historical corporate defaults for receivables with similar durations estimated through multiple economic cycles. Credit ratings are forward-looking and consider a variety of economic outcomes. The loss given default factors are based on a study of historical recovery rates for general creditors through multiple economic cycles. The Company's evaluation of the required ACL for receivables for loss sensitive business considers the current economic environment as well as the probability-weighted macroeconomic scenarios similar to the approach used for estimating the ACL for mortgage loans. See Note 5 - Investments.

During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, the ACL on premiums receivable decreased as the provision required on premiums written in the quarter was more than offset by write-offs and a reduction in the provision reflecting lessening expected impacts of COVID-19 relative to prior assumptions in certain lines of business. The three months ended September 30, 2020 reflected a decrease in the ACL primarily due to modest economic scenario improvement related to COVID-19, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, an increase in the ACL due to the increasing impacts of COVID-19.


Table of Contents						Note 7 - Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


Rollforward of ACL on Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances for the Three Months Ended
	September 30, 2021						September 30, 2020
	Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances, Excluding Receivables for Loss Sensitive Business		Receivables for Loss Sensitive Business		Total		Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances, Excluding Receivables for Loss Sensitive Business		Receivables for Loss Sensitive Business		Total
Beginning ACL	$	97	$	37	$	134	$	139	$	44	$	183


Current period provision (release)	1		—		1		2		—		2

Current period write-offs	(13)		—		(13)		(12)		—		(12)
Current period recoveries	2		—		2		1		—		1
Ending ACL	$	87	$	37	$	124	$	130	$	44	$	174


Rollforward of ACL on Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances for the Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2021						September 30, 2020
	Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances, Excluding Receivables for Loss Sensitive Business		Receivables for Loss Sensitive Business		Total		Premiums Receivable and Agents' Balances, Excluding Receivables for Loss Sensitive Business		Receivables for Loss Sensitive Business		Total
Beginning ACL	$	117	$	35	$	152	$	85	$	60	$	145
Cumulative effect of accounting change [1]							(2)		(21)		(23)
Adjusted beginning ACL	117		35		152		83		39		122
Current period provision (release)	6		2		8		78		5		83

Current period write-offs	(43)		—		(43)		(35)		—		(35)
Current period recoveries	7		—		7		4		—		4
Ending ACL	$	87	$	37	$	124	$	130	$	44	$	174

[1]Represents the adjustment to the ACL recorded on adoption of accounting guidance for credit losses on January 1, 2020. The adjusted beginning ACL was based on the Company's historical loss information adjusted for current conditions and the forecasted economic environment at the time the guidance was adopted. For further information, see Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.


Table of Contents						Note 8 - Reinsurance

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

8. REINSURANCE

The Company cedes insurance risk to reinsurers to enable the Company to manage capital and risk exposure. Such arrangements do not relieve the Company of its primary liability to policyholders. Failure of reinsurers to honor their obligations could result in losses to the Company. The Company's procedures include carefully selecting its reinsurers, structuring agreements to provide collateral funds where necessary, and regularly monitoring the financial condition and ratings of its reinsurers.

REINSURANCE RECOVERABLES

Reinsurance recoverables include balances due from reinsurance companies and are presented net of an allowance for uncollectible reinsurance. Reinsurance recoverables include an estimate of the amount of gross losses and loss adjustment

expense reserves that may be ceded under the terms of the reinsurance agreements, including incurred but not reported ("IBNR") unpaid losses. The Company’s estimate of losses and loss adjustment expense reserves ceded to reinsurers is based on assumptions that are consistent with those used in establishing the gross reserves for amounts the Company owes to its claimants. The Company estimates its ceded reinsurance recoverables based on the terms of any applicable facultative and treaty reinsurance, including an estimate of how incurred but not reported losses will ultimately be ceded under reinsurance agreements. Accordingly, the Company’s estimate of reinsurance recoverables is subject to similar risks and uncertainties as the estimate of the gross reserve for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses.


Reinsurance Recoverables by Credit Quality Indicator
	As of September 30, 2021								As of December 31, 2020
	Property and Casualty		Group Benefits		Corporate		Total		Property and Casualty		Group Benefits		Corporate		Total
A.M. Best Financial Strength Rating
A++	$	1,728	$	—	$	—	$	1,728	$	1,598	$	—	$	—	$	1,598
A+	1,876		236		279		2,391		1,788		230		305		2,323
A	696		—		—		696		638		—		—		638
A-	29		9		—		38		37		9		—		46
B++	644		—		3		647		666		—		3		669
Below B++	21		1		—		22		21		1		—		22
Total Rated by A.M. Best	4,994		246		282		5,522		4,748		240		308		5,296
Mandatory (Assigned) and Voluntary Risk Pools	251		—		—		251		259		—		—		259
Captives	311		—		—		311		305		—		—		305
Other not rated companies	255		7		—		262		254		5		—		259
Gross Reinsurance Recoverables	5,811		253		282		6,346		5,566		245		308		6,119
Allowance for uncollectible reinsurance	(96)		(1)		(2)		(99)		(105)		(1)		(2)		(108)
Net Reinsurance Recoverables	$	5,715	$	252	$	280	$	6,247	$	5,461	$	244	$	306	$	6,011

Balances are considered past due when amounts that have been billed are not collected within contractually stipulated time periods, generally 30, 60 or 90 days. To manage reinsurer credit risk, a reinsurance security review committee evaluates the credit standing, financial performance, management and operational quality of each potential reinsurer. In placing reinsurance, the Company considers the nature of the risk reinsured, including the expected liability payout duration, and establishes limits tiered by reinsurer credit rating.

Where its contracts permit, the Company secures future claim obligations with various forms of collateral or other credit enhancement, including irrevocable letters of credit, secured trusts, funds held accounts and group wide offsets. As part of its reinsurance recoverable review, the Company analyzes recent developments in commutation activity between reinsurers and cedants, recent trends in arbitration and litigation outcomes in disputes between cedants and reinsurers and the overall credit quality of the Company’s reinsurers.

Due to the inherent uncertainties as to collection and the length of time before reinsurance recoverables become due, it is possible that future adjustments to the Company’s reinsurance recoverables, net of the allowance, could be required, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated results of operations or cash flows in a particular quarter or annual period.

The allowance for uncollectible reinsurance comprises an ACL and an allowance for disputed balances. The ACL is estimated as the amount of reinsurance recoverables exposed to loss multiplied by estimated factors for the probability of default and the amount of loss given a default. The probability of default is assigned based on each reinsurer's credit rating, or a rating is estimated if no external rating is available. Credit ratings are reviewed on a quarterly basis and any significant changes are reflected in an updated estimate. The probability of default factors are historical insurer and reinsurer defaults for liabilities with similar durations to the reinsured liabilities as estimated


Table of Contents						Note 8 - Reinsurance

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

through multiple economic cycles. Credit ratings are forward-looking and consider a variety of economic outcomes. The loss given default factors are based on a study of historical recovery rates for general creditors of corporations through multiple economic cycles or, in the case of purchased annuities funding structured settlements accounted for as reinsurance, historical recovery rates for annuity contract holders.

As shown in the table above, a portion of the total gross reinsurance recoverable balance relates to the Company’s participation in various mandatory (assigned) and voluntary risk pools. Reinsurance recoverables due from pools are backed by the financial position of all insurance companies participating in the pools and the credit backing the reinsurance recoverable is not limited to the financial strength of each pool. The mandatory pools generally are funded through policy assessments or surcharges and if any participant in the pool defaults, remaining liabilities are apportioned among the other members.

The Company's evaluation of the required ACL for reinsurance recoverables considers the current economic environment as well as macroeconomic scenarios similar to the approach used to estimate the ACL for mortgage loans. See Note 5 - Investments. Insurance companies, including reinsurers, are regulated and hold risk-based capital ("RBC") to mitigate the risk of loss due to economic factors and other risks. Non-U.S. reinsurers are either subject to a capital regime substantively equivalent to domestic insurers or we hold collateral to support collection of reinsurance recoverables. As a result, there is limited history of losses from insurer defaults. The decrease in the ACL for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 was primarily due to higher than expected recovery from one reinsurer on which the Company had recognized an ACL. In the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, there were 0 write-offs of reinsurance recoverables that would impact ACL.


Allowance for Uncollectible Reinsurance for the Three Months Ended
	September 30, 2021								September 30, 2020
	Property and Casualty		Group Benefits		Corporate		Total		Property and Casualty		Group Benefits		Corporate		Total
Beginning allowance for uncollectible reinsurance	$	96	$	1	$	2	$	99	$	108	$	1	$	2	$	111
Beginning allowance for disputed amounts	56		—		—		56		57		—		—		$	57
Beginning ACL	40		1		2		43		51		1		2		54


Current period provision (release)	1		—		—		1		1		—		—		1



Ending ACL	41		1		2		44		52		1		2		55
Ending allowance for disputed amounts	55		—		—		55		54		—		—		54
Ending allowance for uncollectible reinsurance	$	96	$	1	$	2	$	99	$	106	$	1	$	2	$	109


Allowance for Uncollectible Reinsurance for the Nine Months Ended
	September 30, 2021								September 30, 2020
	Property and Casualty		Group Benefits		Corporate		Total		Property and Casualty		Group Benefits		Corporate		Total
Beginning allowance for uncollectible reinsurance	$	105	$	1	$	2	$	108	$	114	$	—	$	—	$	114
Beginning allowance for disputed amounts	53		—		—		53		66		—		—		$	66
Beginning ACL	52		1		2		55		48		—		—		48
Cumulative effect of accounting change [1]									—		1		1		2
Adjusted beginning ACL	52		1		2		55		48		1		1		50
Current period provision (release)	(11)		—		—		(11)		3		—		1		4


Current period gross recoveries	—		—		—		—		1		—		—		1
Ending ACL	41		1		2		44		52		1		2		55
Ending allowance for disputed amounts	55		—		—		55		54		—		—		54
Ending allowance for uncollectible reinsurance	$	96	$	1	$	2	$	99	$	106	$	1	$	2	$	109

[1] Represents the adjustment to the ACL recorded on adoption of accounting guidance for credit losses on January 1, 2020. For further information, see Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.


Table of Contents						Note 9 - Reserves for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

9. RESERVE FOR UNPAID LOSSES AND LOSS ADJUSTMENT EXPENSES

|PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE PRODUCT RESERVES, NET OF REINSURANCE

Rollforward of Liabilities for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses


	For the nine months ended September 30,
	2021		2020
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	29,622	$	28,261
Reinsurance and other recoverables	5,725		5,275
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	23,897		22,986

Provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses
Current accident year	5,968		5,992
Prior accident year development [1]	170		(320)
Total provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses	6,138		5,672
Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance included in other liabilities [1]	(73)		(97)
Payments
Current accident year	(1,549)		(1,447)
Prior accident years	(3,155)		(3,338)
Total payments	(4,704)		(4,785)
Net change in reserves transferred to liabilities held for sale	—		(43)
Foreign currency adjustment	1		(3)
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	25,259		23,730
Reinsurance and other recoverables	5,931		5,421
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	31,190	$	29,151

[1]Prior accident year development does not include the benefit of a portion of losses ceded under the Navigators and A&E ADC which, under retroactive reinsurance accounting, is deferred and is recognized over the period the ceded losses are recovered in cash from NICO. For additional information regarding the two adverse development cover reinsurance agreements, refer to Adverse Development Covers discussion below.


Table of Contents						Note 9 - Reserves for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Unfavorable (Favorable) Prior Accident Year Development


	For the nine months ended September 30,
		2021		2020
Workers’ compensation		$	(113)	$	(72)

Workers’ compensation discount accretion		26		27
General liability		451		112
Marine		—		1
Package business		(66)		(24)
Commercial property		(24)		(6)
Professional liability		(7)		(16)
Bond		(26)		(10)
Assumed reinsurance		—		(7)
Automobile liability - Commercial Lines		9		27
Automobile liability - Personal Lines		(73)		(53)
Homeowners		2		3



Catastrophes		(98)		(413)
Uncollectible reinsurance		(10)		(8)
Other reserve re-estimates, net		26		22
Prior accident year development before change in deferred gain		97		(417)
Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance included in other liabilities [1]		73		97
Total prior accident year development		$	170	$	(320)

[1]The change in deferred gain for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 included $73 and $97, respectively, of adverse development on Navigators 2018 and prior accident year reserves, primarily driven by professional liability and wholesale construction within general liability in the 2021 period and marine, professional liability, general liability, assumed reinsurance and prior accident year catastrophes in the 2020 period.

Re-estimates of prior accident year reserves for the nine months ended September 30, 2021

Workers’ compensation reserves were decreased within small commercial and middle & large commercial for the 2013 through 2018 accident years driven by lower than previously estimated claim severity.

General liability reserves were increased including an increase for sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims above the amount of reserves previously recorded for this exposure, primarily to reflect an increase in reserves for claims made against the Boy Scouts of America ("BSA") as discussed further below, partially offset by reserve decreases for other mass torts and extra contractual liability claims. In addition, the Company recognized reserve increases on Navigators’ wholesale construction business for 2018 and prior accident years included in the change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance in the above table.

Package business reserves decreased largely due to lower estimated loss adjustment expenses for accident years

2014 to 2018 and a reduction in estimated reserves for extra contractual liability claims.

Commercial property reserves were decreased primarily due to favorable development for the 2020 accident year in both middle & large commercial and global specialty.

Professional liability reserves were decreased due to lower estimated severity in both large and middle market directors’ and officers’ (“D&O”) insurance for older accident years. More than offsetting this favorable reserve development were reserve increases on legacy Navigators public company directors’ and officers’ insurance for 2018 and prior accident years which is reflected within the change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance in the above table.

Bond reserves were reduced mostly due to favorable emergence on contract surety claims driven by higher than previously anticipated recoveries, largely for the 2016 to 2017 accident years.

Automobile liability reserves were decreased in Personal Lines principally due to lower estimated severity on AARP Direct and Agency claims, primarily within accident years 2017 to 2020, and a reduction in estimated reserves for extra contractual liability claims.

Catastrophes reserves were decreased in both Commercial and Personal Lines primarily driven by a reduction in reserves for 2019 and 2020 wind and hail events, lower estimated losses from 2017 and 2018 hurricanes and a reduction in estimated losses from the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires, including an expected recovery of subrogation from a utility related to the 2018 Woolsey wildfire in California.

Uncollectible reinsurance reserves were decreased due to a higher than expected recovery from one reinsurer on which the Company had recognized an allowance for credit losses.

Other reserve re-estimates, net, were increased primarily due to an increase in reserves for sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims within P&C Other Operations, principally on assumed reinsurance.

Re-estimates of prior accident year reserves for the nine months ended September 30, 2020

Workers’ compensation reserves were reduced on national account business within middle & large commercial, driven by lower than previously estimated claim severity for the 2014 and prior accident years and were reduced in small commercial due to lower than expected claim severity for the 2013 to 2018 accident years.

General liability reserves were increased in part due to guaranteed cost construction business for accident years 2014 to 2019 as incurred losses are developing higher than previously expected for premises and operations claims and product liability claims, partly due to a change in industry mix and a heavier concentration of losses in California than initially assumed, as well as increased reserves for middle market and complex liability claims for accident year 2018 largely due to higher than expected severity. Also contributing were increases


Table of Contents						Note 9 - Reserves for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

in reserves on primary layer construction account business within global specialty, mainly related to accident years 2015-2017, which is included as a component of the change in deferred gain under retroactive reinsurance in the above table.

In addition, the Company recorded an increase in reserves for sexual molestation and abuse claims related to cases brought against religious and other institutions that were insureds of the Company which was partly offset by reserve decreases for other mass torts and extra contractual liability claims.

The Company increased reserves for sexual molestation claims by $129 considering the impact of recent bankruptcy filings and an expected increase in claim incidence largely driven by legislation passed in a number of states that provides an opportunity for claimants to file claims for a period of time despite the fact that the original statute of limitations had expired.

Marine reserves were increased principally due to an increase in domestic marine liability, mostly in accident years 2017 and 2018 due to a higher number of large losses. The increase in marine reserves is included as a component of the change in deferred gain under retroactive reinsurance in the above table.

Package business reserves decreased for accident years 2014 to 2017 largely due to lower estimates of allocated loss adjustment expenses.

Commercial property reserves were decreased for accident year 2019 due to favorable developments on marine and middle market property claims.

Professional liability reserves were decreased primarily due to lower estimated severity on non-security class action D&O claims and fewer than expected E&O claims with financial institutions for the 2011 to 2018 accident years, partially offset by an increase in D&O reserves for the 2019 accident year driven by higher frequency of class action lawsuits and an increase in large Syndicate D&O losses for the 2016 and 2017 accident years. These Syndicate reserve increases within Global Specialty are included as a component of the change in deferred gain under retroactive reinsurance in the above table.

Assumed reinsurance reserves were increased for accident year 2018 mostly due to higher accident and health reserve estimates for medical professionals on assumed casualty business. These reserve increases are included as a component of the change in deferred gain under retroactive reinsurance in the above table.

Automobile liability reserves were decreased in Personal Lines principally due to lower than previously expected AARP Direct automobile liability claim severity for the 2017 and 2018 accident years. Automobile liability reserves were increased in Commercial Lines primarily due to higher than expected large losses on national accounts in the first quarter of 2020 related to accident years 2015 to 2017 and due to large losses within middle & large commercial, primarily within the 2018 and 2019 accident years.

Catastrophes reserves were reduced, primarily due to a reduction in estimated reserves for 2017 and 2018 California wildfires and a reduction in estimated catastrophes for wind and hail events in the 2018 and 2019 accident years, partially offset

by an increase in reserves for 2019 typhoons Hagibis and Faxai in Asia. The reduction in reserves for the 2017 and 2018 wildfires was largely due to recognizing a $289 subrogation benefit in the second quarter of 2020 from PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (together, “PG&E”).

Settlement Agreement with Boy Scouts of America

On September 14, 2021, the Company announced that it entered into a new agreement-in-principle with the BSA, related to sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims associated with liability policies issued by various Hartford writing companies in the 1970s and early 1980s, superseding its prior agreement of April 16, 2021, which now includes the BSA, its local councils and the representatives of a majority of the sexual abuse claimants. As part of the agreement-in-principle, The Hartford will pay $787, before tax, for claims associated with policies mostly issued in the 1970s. In exchange for The Hartford’s payment, the BSA and its local councils will fully release The Hartford from any obligation under policies The Hartford issued to the BSA and its local councils. In addition, the representatives for the claimants joining this agreement-in-principle will support a plan of reorganization which incorporates the settlement. The prior agreement of April 16, 2021 to settle these claims for $650 did not include the local councils or representatives of a majority of the claimants.

The agreement-in-principle was reached in connection with BSA’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will become a final settlement upon the occurrence of certain conditions, including execution of a definitive settlement agreement, confirmation of the BSA’s global resolution plan, receipt of executed releases from the local councils, and approval from the bankruptcy court as part of BSA’s overall plan of reorganization. The parties to the agreement-in-principle expect to receive court approval of the settlement in early 2022. No assurance can be given that all the conditions precedent to the settlement will be satisfied or that bankruptcy court approval, if obtained, will not be delayed for various procedural reasons.

If the bankruptcy court ultimately does not approve BSA’s plan of reorganization including terms of the agreement-in-principle, it is possible that adverse outcomes, if any, could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated operating results.

Adverse Development Covers

The Company has an adverse development cover reinsurance agreement with NICO, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., to reinsure loss development after 2016 on substantially all of the Company’s asbestos and environmental reserves (the “A&E ADC”). Under the A&E ADC, the Company paid a reinsurance premium of $650 for NICO to assume adverse net loss reserve development up to $1.5 billion above the Company’s existing net A&E reserves as of December 31, 2016 of approximately $1.7 billion including reserves for A&E exposure for accident years prior to 1986 that are reported in Property & Casualty Other Operations ("Run-off A&E") and reserves for A&E exposure for accident years 1986 and subsequent from policies underwritten prior to 2016 that are reported in ongoing Commercial Lines and Personal Lines. The $650 reinsurance premium was placed into a collateral trust account as security for NICO’s claim payment obligations to the Company. The Company has retained the risk of collection on amounts due from other third-party reinsurers and continues to be responsible


Table of Contents						Note 9 - Reserves for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

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NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

for claims handling and other administrative services, subject to certain conditions. The A&E ADC covers substantially all the Company’s A&E reserve development up to the reinsurance limit.

Under retroactive reinsurance accounting, net adverse A&E reserve development after December 31, 2016 will result in an offsetting reinsurance recoverable up to the $1.5 billion limit. Cumulative ceded losses up to the $650 reinsurance premium paid have been recognized as a dollar-for-dollar offset to direct losses incurred. Cumulative ceded losses exceeding the $650 reinsurance premium paid result in a deferred gain. As of September 30, 2021, the Company has incurred $860 in cumulative adverse development on asbestos and environmental reserves that have been ceded under the A&E ADC treaty with NICO with $640 of available limit remaining under the A&E ADC. As a result, the Company has recorded a $210 deferred gain within other liabilities, representing the difference between the reinsurance recoverable of $860 and ceded premium paid of $650. The deferred gain is recognized over the claim settlement period in the proportion of the amount of cumulative ceded losses collected from the reinsurer to the estimated ultimate reinsurance recoveries. Consequently, until periods when the deferred gain is recognized as a benefit to earnings, cumulative adverse development of asbestos and environmental claims will result in charges against earnings which may be significant.

Immediately after closing on the acquisition of Navigators Group, effective May 23, 2019, the Company purchased the Navigators ADC, an aggregate excess of loss reinsurance agreement covering adverse reserve development, from NICO, on behalf of Navigators Insurers. Under the Navigators ADC, the Navigators Insurers paid NICO a reinsurance premium of $91 in exchange for reinsurance coverage of $300 of adverse net loss reserve development that attaches $100 above the Navigators Insurers' existing net loss and allocated loss adjustment reserves as of December 31, 2018 subject to the treaty of $1.816 billion for accidents and losses prior to December 31, 2018.

As of September 30, 2021, the Company has recorded a reinsurance recoverable under the Navigators ADC of $282, as estimated cumulative loss development on the 2018 and prior accident year reserves of $382 exceed the $100 deductible. While the reinsurance recoverable is $282, the Company has also recorded a $191 cumulative deferred gain within other liabilities since, under retroactive reinsurance accounting, ceded losses in excess of the $91 of ceded premium paid must be recognized as a deferred gain. Of the $191 of cumulative ceded losses in excess of ceded premium paid, $73 was recognized as a deferred gain in 2021 and $97 was recognized as a deferred gain in 2020. As the Company has ceded $282 of the $300 available limit, there is $18 of remaining limit available as of September 30, 2021.

|GROUP LIFE, DISABILITY AND ACCIDENT PRODUCTS

Rollforward of Liabilities for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses


	For the nine months ended September 30,
	2021		2020
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	8,233	$	8,256
Reinsurance recoverables [1]	237		246
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	7,996		8,010

Provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses
Current incurral year	3,753		3,339
Prior year's discount accretion	155		160
Prior incurral year development [2]	(382)		(362)
Total provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses [3]	3,526		3,137
Payments
Current incurral year	(1,776)		(1,553)
Prior incurral years	(1,804)		(1,681)
Total payments	(3,580)		(3,234)
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	7,942		7,913
Reinsurance recoverables	246		242
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	8,188	$	8,155

[1]Includes a cumulative effect adjustment of $(1) representing an adjustment to the ACL recorded on adoption of accounting guidance for credit losses on January 1, 2020. For further information refer to 2020 10-K, Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies.

[2]Prior incurral year development represents the change in estimated ultimate incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses for prior incurral years on a discounted basis.

[3]Includes unallocated loss adjustment expenses ("ULAE") of $131 and $133 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, that are recorded in insurance operating costs and other expenses in the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.


Table of Contents						Note 9 - Reserves for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Re-estimates of prior incurral years reserves for the nine months ended September 30, 2021

Group disability- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $320 largely driven by group long-term disability claim incidence lower than prior assumptions together with strong recoveries on prior incurral year claims, and a New York Paid Family Leave refund.

Group life and accident (including group life premium waiver)- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $50 largely driven by lower-than-previously expected claim incidence in both Group Life Premium Waiver and Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment.

Supplemental Accident & Health- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $10 driven by lower-than-previously expected claim incidence during the pandemic.

Re-estimates of prior incurral years reserves for the nine months ended September 30, 2020

Group disability- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $293 largely driven by group long-term

disability lower claim incidence and higher recoveries on prior incurral year claims, and a refund on the New York Paid Family Leave program.

Supplemental Accident & Health- Prior period reserve estimates decreased by approximately $19 driven by lower-than-expected emergence of prior year claims, especially for voluntary critical Illness and voluntary accident products.

10. RESERVE FOR FUTURE POLICY BENEFITS


Changes in Reserves for Future Policy Benefits[1]
	For the nine months ended September 30,
	2021		2020
Beginning liability balance	$	638	$	635
Incurred	45		74
Paid	(74)		(67)
Change in unrealized investment gains and losses	(7)		8
Ending liability balance	$	602	$	650



Ending reinsurance recoverable asset	$	22	$	29

[1]Reserves for future policy benefits includes paid-up life insurance and whole-life policies resulting from conversion from group life policies included within the Group Benefits segment and reserves for run-off structured settlement and terminal funding agreement liabilities which are in the Corporate category.

11. DEBT

Senior Notes

Revolving Credit Facility

In 2018, The Hartford entered into a $750 senior unsecured five-year revolving credit facility (the "Credit Facility"). As of September 30, 2021, no borrowings were outstanding, no letters of credit were issued under the Credit Facility and The Hartford was in compliance with all financial covenants.

On October 27, 2021, The Hartford amended and restated the Credit Facility (as amended, the “2021 Credit Facility”) which, among other changes, extends the term of the facility through October 27, 2026, includes provisions for determining LIBOR successor rates, and resets the level of The Hartford’s minimum consolidated net worth financial covenant to $11.25 billion, excluding AOCI. The 2021 Credit Facility provides up to $750 of


Table of Contents						Note 11 - Debt

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

unsecured credit, including $100 available to support letters of credit. Under the 2021 Credit Facility:

•Revolving loans may be in multiple currencies.

•U.S. dollar loans will bear interest at a floating rate equivalent to an indexed rate that varies depending on the type of borrowing plus a basis point spread based on The Hartford's credit rating and will mature no later than October 27, 2026.

•Letters of credit bear a fee based on The Hartford's credit rating and expire no later than October 27, 2027.

The 2021 Credit Facility limits the ratio of senior debt to capitalization, excluding AOCI, at 35% and includes other customary covenants. The 2021 Credit Facility is for general corporate purposes.

For further information regarding the Credit Facility, see Note 14 - Debt of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

12. INCOME TAXES

INCOME TAX EXPENSE


Income Tax Rate Reconciliation
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Tax provision at U.S. federal statutory rate	$	122	$	111	$	419	$	308
Tax-exempt interest	(10)		(12)		(31)		(36)


Increase in deferred tax valuation allowance	(1)		6		6		19

Sale of business	—		(8)		(5)		(8)
Earnings on corporate owned life insurance	(5)		(6)		(16)		(3)
Carryback benefit	—		(5)		—		(5)
Tax credits	(8)		(4)		(9)		(4)
Tax law change	1		(6)		(6)		(6)
Other	2		(3)		2		3
Provision for income taxes	$	101	$	73	$	360	$	268

UNCERTAIN TAX POSITIONS


Rollforward of Unrecognized Tax Benefits
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Balance, beginning of period	$	15	$	14	$	15	$	14
Gross increases - tax positions in prior period	—		—		—		—
Gross decreases - tax positions in prior period	—		—		—		—

Gross increases - tax positions in current period	5		1		5		1

Lapse of statute of limitations	(5)		—		(5)		—
Balance, end of period	$	15	$	15	$	15	$	15

The entire amount of unrecognized tax benefits, if recognized, would affect the effective tax rate in the period of the release. The Company recognized $5 of its previously unrecognized tax benefits associated with dividends from segregated asset accounts of the life and annuity business sold in 2018. This liability was subject to a tax indemnification agreement and a corresponding receivable included in other assets has been taken down upon lapse of the statute of limitations.

OTHER TAX MATTERS

On June 10, 2021, the United Kingdom enacted Finance Bill 2021, which included an increase in the corporate tax rate from 19% to 25%, effective April 1, 2023. In the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company recorded a tax benefit of $6, which reflects the estimated benefit of the change in tax rate on the net deferred tax assets of its U.K. subsidiaries.

On March 27, 2020, as part of the business stimulus package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government enacted the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ("CARES") Act. The CARES Act established new tax provisions including, but not limited to: (1) five-year carryback of net operating losses ("NOLs") generated in 2018, 2019 and 2020; (2) accelerated refund of alternative minimum tax ("AMT") credit carryforwards; and (3) retroactive changes to allow accelerated depreciation for certain depreciable property.

For the period ending September 30, 2020 the Company recorded a tax benefit of $11 related to the carryback of losses from the Navigators Group 2019 pre-acquisition tax return to recover taxes paid in prior years at the previous statutory tax rate of 35%, of which $5 related to the existing insurance company carryback provision and $6 was due to the non-insurance carryback provision of the CARES Act.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded a tax benefit of $5 and $8 related to the excess tax basis over GAAP basis on the sale of the Continental Europe Operations. For discussion of this transaction, refer to Note 17 - Business Disposition.


Table of Contents						Note 12 - Income Taxes

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

As of September 30, 2021, the Company has foreign net operating losses of $23 for which a valuation allowance of $4 has been established. While the foreign net operating losses ("NOLs") do not expire, this assessment reflects uncertainty in the Company's ability to generate sufficient taxable income in the near term in those specific jurisdictions.

Management has assessed the need for a valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets based on tax character and jurisdiction. In making the assessment, management considered future taxable temporary difference reversals, future taxable income exclusive of reversing temporary differences and carryovers, taxable income in open carry back years and other

tax planning strategies which management views as prudent and feasible.

The federal income tax audits for the Company have been completed through 2013, and the Company is not currently under federal income tax examination for any open years. The statute of limitations is closed through the 2017 tax year with the exception of NOL carryforwards utilized in open tax years. Management believes that adequate provision has been made in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for any potential adjustments that may result from tax examinations and other tax-related matters for all open tax years.

13. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Management evaluates each contingent matter separately. A loss is recorded if probable and reasonably estimable. Management establishes liabilities for these contingencies at its “best estimate,” or, if no one number within the range of possible losses is more probable than any other, the Company records an estimated liability at the low end of the range of losses.

LITIGATION

The Hartford is involved in claims litigation arising in the ordinary course of business, both as a liability insurer defending or providing indemnity for third-party claims brought against insureds and as an insurer defending coverage claims brought against it. The Hartford accounts for such activity through the establishment of unpaid loss and loss adjustment expense reserves. Subject to the uncertainties related to sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims discussed in Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of this Form 10-Q and in Note 12 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses, of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, and in the following discussion under the caption “COVID-19 Pandemic Business Income Insurance Coverage Litigation” and under the caption “Run-off Asbestos and Environmental Claims,” management expects that the ultimate liability, if any, with respect to such ordinary-course claims litigation, after consideration of provisions made for potential losses and costs of defense, will not be material to the consolidated financial condition, results of operations or cash flows of The Hartford.

The Hartford is also involved in other kinds of legal actions, some of which assert claims for substantial amounts. In addition to the matter described below, these actions include putative class actions seeking certification of a state or national class. Such putative class actions have alleged, for example, underpayment of claims or improper sales or underwriting practices in connection with various kinds of insurance policies, such as personal and commercial automobile, property, disability, life and inland marine. The Hartford also is involved in individual actions in which punitive damages are sought, such as claims alleging bad faith in the handling of insurance claims or other allegedly unfair or improper business practices. Like many other insurers, The Hartford also has been joined in actions by asbestos plaintiffs asserting, among other things, that insurers had a duty to protect the public from the dangers of asbestos and that insurers committed unfair trade practices by asserting defenses on behalf of their policyholders in the underlying asbestos cases. Management expects that the

ultimate liability, if any, with respect to such lawsuits, after consideration of provisions made for estimated losses, will not be material to the consolidated financial condition of The Hartford. Nonetheless, given the large or indeterminate amounts sought in certain of these actions, and the inherent unpredictability of litigation, the outcome in certain matters could, from time to time, have a material adverse effect on the Company’s results of operations or cash flows in particular quarterly or annual periods.

COVID-19 Pandemic Business Income Insurance Coverage Litigation

Like many others in the property and casualty insurance industry, beginning in April 2020, various direct and indirect subsidiaries of the Company (collectively the "Hartford Writing Companies”), and in some instances the Company itself, have been served as defendants in lawsuits seeking insurance coverage under commercial insurance policies issued by the Hartford Writing Companies for alleged losses resulting from the shutdown or suspension of their businesses due to the spread of COVID-19. More than 260 such lawsuits have been filed, of which more than 60 purport to be filed on behalf of broad nationwide or statewide classes of policyholders. These lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts in roughly 34 states. Although the allegations vary, the plaintiffs generally seek a declaration of insurance coverage, damages for breach of contract in unspecified amounts, interest, and attorneys' fees. Many of the lawsuits also allege that the insurance claims were denied in bad faith or otherwise in violation of state laws and seek extra-contractual or punitive damages.

The Company and its subsidiaries deny the allegations and continue to vigorously defend these suits. The Hartford Writing Companies maintain that they have no coverage obligations with respect to these suits for business income allegedly lost by the plaintiffs due to the COVID-19 pandemic based on the clear terms of the applicable insurance policies. Although the policy terms vary depending, among other things, upon the size, nature, and location of the policyholder’s business, in general, the claims at issue in these lawsuits were denied because the claimant identified no direct physical damage or loss to property at the insured premises, and the governmental orders that led to the complete or partial shutdown of the business were not due to the existence of any direct physical loss or damage in the


Table of Contents						Note 13 - Commitments and Contingencies

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

immediate vicinity of the insured premises and did not prohibit access to the insured premises, as required by the terms of the insurance policies. In addition, the vast majority of the policies at issue expressly exclude from coverage any loss caused directly or indirectly by the presence, growth, proliferation, spread or activity of a virus, subject to a narrow set of exceptions not applicable in connection with this pandemic, and contain a pollution and contamination exclusion that, among other things, expressly excludes from coverage any loss caused by material that threatens human health or welfare.

In addition to the inherent difficulty in predicting litigation outcomes, the COVID-19 pandemic business income coverage lawsuits present numerous uncertainties and contingencies that are not yet known, including how many policyholders will ultimately file claims, the number of lawsuits that will be filed, the extent to which any state or nationwide classes will be certified, and the size and scope of any such classes. The legal theories advocated by plaintiffs vary significantly by case as do the state laws that govern the policy interpretation. These lawsuits are at various stages of litigation; some are in the earliest stages of litigation, many complaints are in the process of being amended, some have been dismissed voluntarily and may be refiled, while others have been dismissed through rulings in favor of the Hartford Writing Companies. Discovery is underway in certain single plaintiff cases and class actions. More than 40 policyholders have appealed dismissals in favor of the Hartford Writing Companies. While these appeals are at various stages of the process, no decisions have been issued at this time. In addition, business income calculations depend upon a wide range of factors that are particular to the circumstances of each individual policyholder and, here, almost none of the plaintiffs have submitted proofs of loss or otherwise quantified or factually supported any allegedly covered loss, and, in any event, the Company’s experience shows that demands for damages often bear little relation to a reasonable estimate of potential loss. Accordingly, management cannot now reasonably estimate the possible loss or range of loss, if any. Nonetheless, given the large number of claims and potential claims, the indeterminate amounts sought, and the inherent unpredictability of litigation, it is possible that adverse outcomes, if any, in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated operating results.

Run-off Asbestos and Environmental Claims

The Company continues to receive A&E claims. Asbestos claims relate primarily to bodily injuries asserted by people who came in contact with asbestos or products containing asbestos. Environmental claims relate primarily to pollution and related clean-up costs.

The vast majority of the Company's exposure to A&E relates to Run-off A&E, reported within the P&C Other Operations segment. In addition, since 1986, the Company has written asbestos and environmental exposures under general liability policies and pollution liability under homeowners policies, which are reported in the Commercial Lines and Personal Lines segments.

Prior to 1986, the Company wrote several different categories of insurance contracts that may cover A&E claims. First, the Company wrote primary policies providing the first layer of coverage in an insured’s liability program. Second, the

Company wrote excess and umbrella policies providing higher layers of coverage for losses that exhaust the limits of underlying coverage. Third, the Company acted as a reinsurer assuming a portion of those risks assumed by other insurers writing primary, excess, umbrella and reinsurance coverages.

Significant uncertainty limits the ability of insurers and reinsurers to estimate the ultimate reserves necessary for unpaid gross losses and expenses related to environmental and particularly asbestos claims. The degree of variability of gross reserve estimates for these exposures is significantly greater than for other more traditional exposures.

In the case of the reserves for asbestos exposures, factors contributing to the high degree of uncertainty include inadequate loss development patterns, plaintiffs’ expanding theories of liability, the risks inherent in major litigation, and inconsistent emerging legal doctrines. Furthermore, over time, insurers, including the Company, have experienced significant changes in the rate at which asbestos claims are brought, the claims experience of particular insureds, and the value of claims, making predictions of future exposure from past experience uncertain. Plaintiffs and insureds also have sought to use bankruptcy proceedings, including “pre-packaged” bankruptcies, to accelerate and increase loss payments by insurers. In addition, some policyholders have asserted new classes of claims for coverages to which an aggregate limit of liability may not apply. Further uncertainties include insolvencies of other carriers and unanticipated developments pertaining to the Company’s ability to recover reinsurance for A&E claims. Management believes these issues are not likely to be resolved in the near future.

In the case of the reserves for environmental exposures, factors contributing to the high degree of uncertainty include expanding theories of liability and damages, the risks inherent in major litigation, inconsistent decisions concerning the existence and scope of coverage for environmental claims, and uncertainty as to the monetary amount being sought by the claimant from the insured.

The reporting pattern for assumed reinsurance claims, including those related to A&E claims, is much longer than for direct claims. In many instances, it takes months or years to determine that the policyholder’s own obligations have been met and how the reinsurance in question may apply to such claims. The delay in reporting reinsurance claims and exposures adds to the uncertainty of estimating the related reserves.

It is also not possible to predict changes in the legal and legislative environment and their effect on the future development of A&E claims.

Given the factors described above, the Company believes the actuarial tools and other techniques it employs to estimate the ultimate cost of claims for more traditional kinds of insurance exposure are less precise in estimating reserves for A&E exposures. For this reason, the Company principally relies on exposure-based analysis to estimate the ultimate costs of these claims, both gross and net of reinsurance, and regularly evaluates new account information in assessing its potential A&E exposures. The Company supplements this exposure-based analysis with evaluations of the Company’s historical direct net loss and expense paid and reported experience, and net loss and expense paid and reported experience by calendar and/or report year, to assess any emerging trends, fluctuations


Table of Contents						Note 13 - Commitments and Contingencies

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

or characteristics suggested by the aggregate paid and reported activity.

While the Company believes that its current A&E reserves are appropriate, significant uncertainties limit the ability of insurers and reinsurers to estimate the ultimate reserves necessary for unpaid losses and related expenses. The ultimate liabilities, thus, could exceed the currently recorded reserves, and any such additional liability, while not estimable now, could be material to The Hartford’s consolidated operating results and liquidity.

For its Run-off A&E, as of September 30, 2021, the Company reported $621 of net asbestos reserves and $25 of net environmental reserves. While the Company believes that its current Run-off A&E reserves are appropriate, significant uncertainties limit our ability to estimate the ultimate reserves necessary for unpaid losses and related expenses. The ultimate liabilities, thus, could exceed the currently recorded reserves, and any such additional liability, while not reasonably estimable now, could be material to The Hartford's consolidated operating results and liquidity.

The Company’s A&E ADC reinsurance agreement with NICO reinsures substantially all A&E reserve development for 2016 and prior accident years, including Run-off A&E and A&E reserves included in Commercial Lines and Personal Lines. The A&E ADC has a coverage limit of $1.5 billion above the Company’s existing net A&E reserves as of December 31, 2016 of approximately $1.7 billion. As of September 30, 2021, the Company has incurred $860 in cumulative adverse development on A&E reserves that have been ceded under the A&E ADC treaty with NICO, leaving $640 of coverage available for future adverse net reserve development, if any. The Company has recorded a $210 deferred gain within other liabilities for losses economically ceded to NICO but for which the benefit is not recognized in earnings until later periods. Cumulative adverse development of A&E claims for accident years 2016 and prior could ultimately exceed the $1.5 billion treaty limit in which case any adverse development in excess of the treaty limit would be absorbed as a charge to earnings by the Company. In these scenarios, the effect of these charges could be material to the Company’s consolidated operating results and liquidity. For more information on the A&E ADC, refer to Note 12, Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

DERIVATIVE COMMITMENTS

Certain of the Company’s derivative agreements contain provisions that are tied to the financial strength ratings, as set by nationally recognized statistical agencies, of the individual legal entity that entered into the derivative agreement. If the legal entity’s financial strength were to fall below certain ratings, the counterparties to the derivative agreements could, in certain instances, terminate the agreements and demand immediate settlement of all outstanding derivative positions traded under each impacted bilateral agreement. The settlement amount is determined by netting the derivative positions transacted under each agreement. If the termination rights were to be exercised by the counterparties, it could impact the legal entity’s ability to conduct hedging activities by increasing the associated costs and decreasing the willingness of counterparties to transact with the legal entity. The aggregate fair value of all derivative

instruments with credit-risk-related contingent features that are in a net liability position as of September 30, 2021 was $52 for which the legal entities have posted collateral of $55 in the normal course of business. Based on derivative market values as of September 30, 2021, a downgrade of the current financial strength ratings by either Moody's or S&P would not require additional assets to be posted as collateral. This requirement could change as derivative market values change, as a result of changes in our hedging activities or to the extent changes in contractual terms are negotiated. The nature of the additional collateral that we would post, if required, would be primarily in the form of U.S. Treasury bills, U.S. Treasury notes and government agency securities.


Table of Contents						Note 14 - Equity

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

14. EQUITY

EQUITY REPURCHASE PROGRAM

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company repurchased $1.2 billion (19 million shares) of common stock under the share repurchase program that is effective January 1, 2021 until December 31, 2022 as authorized by the Board of Directors in December 2020. The share repurchase program was initially authorized at $1.5 billion and, in April 2021, was increased to $2.5 billion. In October 2021, the Company announced an additional increase in the

share repurchase authorization to $3.0 billion, which remains effective until December 31, 2022. During the period October 1, 2021 through October 27, 2021, the Company repurchased $108 (1.5 million shares) under this repurchase program. The timing of future repurchases will be dependent on several factors, including the market price of the Company's securities, the Company's capital position, consideration of the effect of any repurchases on the Company's financial strength or credit ratings, the Company's blackout periods, and other considerations.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2020, The Company repurchased $150 (2.7 million shares) of common stock under the previous share repurchase program that expired December 31, 2020.

15. CHANGES IN AND RECLASSIFICATIONS FROM ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)


Changes in AOCI, Net of Tax for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Changes in
	Net Unrealized Gain on Fixed Maturities		Unrealized Loss on Fixed Maturities with ACL		Net Gain on Cash Flow Hedging Instruments		Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments		Pension and Other Postretirement Plan Adjustments		AOCI, net of tax
Beginning balance	$	2,204	$	(2)	$	12	$	46	$	(1,690)	$	570


OCI before reclassifications	(231)		—		8		(4)		1		(226)
Amounts reclassified from AOCI	(43)		—		(7)		—		13		(37)
OCI, net of tax	(274)		—		1		(4)		14		(263)
Ending balance	$	1,930	$	(2)	$	13	$	42	$	(1,676)	$	307


Changes in AOCI, Net of Tax for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Changes in
	Net Unrealized Gain on Fixed Maturities		Unrealized Loss on Fixed Maturities with ACL		Net Gain on Cash Flow Hedging Instruments		Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments		Pension and Other Postretirement Plan Adjustments		AOCI, net of tax
Beginning balance	$	2,834	$	(2)	$	12	$	43	$	(1,717)	$	1,170


OCI before reclassifications	(816)		—		22		(1)		(1)		(796)
Amounts reclassified from AOCI	(88)		—		(21)		—		42		(67)
OCI, net of tax	(904)		—		1		(1)		41		(863)
Ending balance	$	1,930	$	(2)	$	13	$	42	$	(1,676)	$	307


Table of Contents						Note 15 - Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


Reclassifications from AOCI
	Three Months Ended September 30, 2021		Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021		Affected Line Item in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations
Net Unrealized Gain on Fixed Maturities
Available-for-sale fixed maturities	$	55	$	112	Net realized gains (losses)
	55		112		Total before tax
	12		24		Income tax expense

	$	43	$	88	Net income






Net Gains on Cash Flow Hedging Instruments

Interest rate swaps	$	11	$	31	Net investment income
Interest rate swaps	(3)		(8)		Interest expense
Foreign currency swaps	1		3		Net investment income

	9		26		Total before tax
	2		5		Income tax expense

	$	7	$	21	Net income





Pension and Other Postretirement Plan Adjustments
Amortization of prior service credit	$	2	$	5	Insurance operating costs and other expenses
Amortization of actuarial loss	(19)		(58)		Insurance operating costs and other expenses

	(17)		(53)		Total before tax
	(4)		(11)		Income tax expense
	$	(13)	$	(42)	Net income
Total amounts reclassified from AOCI	$	37	$	67	Net income


Changes in AOCI, Net of Tax for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2020
	Changes in
	Net Unrealized Gain on Fixed Maturities		Net Unrealized Loss on Fixed Maturities with ACL		Net Gain on Cash Flow Hedging Instruments		Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments		Pension and Other Postretirement Plan Adjustments		AOCI, net of tax
Beginning balance	$	2,055	$	(2)	$	48	$	27	$	(1,649)	$	479


OCI before reclassifications	388		—		(10)		6		—		384
Amounts reclassified from AOCI	(12)		—		(7)		—		12		(7)
OCI, net of tax	376		—		(17)		6		12		377
Ending balance	$	2,431	$	(2)	$	31	$	33	$	(1,637)	$	856


Changes in AOCI, Net of Tax for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
	Changes in
	Net Unrealized Gain on Fixed Maturities		Net Unrealized Loss on Fixed Maturities with ACL		Net Gain on Cash Flow Hedging Instruments		Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments		Pension and Other Postretirement Plan Adjustments		AOCI, net of tax
Beginning balance	$	1,684	$	(3)	$	9	$	34	$	(1,672)	$	52


OCI before reclassifications	842		1		37		(1)		(1)		878
Amounts reclassified from AOCI	(95)		—		(15)		—		36		(74)
OCI, net of tax	747		1		22		(1)		35		804
Ending balance	$	2,431	$	(2)	$	31	$	33	$	(1,637)	$	856


Table of Contents						Note 15 - Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax

THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


Reclassifications from AOCI
	Three Months Ended September 30, 2020		Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020		Affected Line Item in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations
Net Unrealized Gain on Fixed Maturities
Available-for-sale fixed maturities	$	15	$	120	Net realized gains (losses)
	15		120		Total before tax
	3		25		Income tax expense

	$	12	$	95	Net income






Net Gains on Cash Flow Hedging Instruments

Interest rate swaps	$	9	$	19	Net investment income
Interest rate swaps	(2)		(4)		Interest expense
Foreign currency swaps	1		3		Net investment income
Foreign currency swaps	1		1		Net realized gains (losses)
	9		19		Total before tax
	2		4		Income tax expense

	$	7	$	15	Net income





Pension and Other Postretirement Plan Adjustments
Amortization of prior service credit	$	2	$	5	Insurance operating costs and other expenses
Amortization of actuarial loss	(17)		(50)		Insurance operating costs and other expenses

	(15)		(45)		Total before tax
	(3)		(9)		Income tax expense
	$	(12)	$	(36)	Net income
Total amounts reclassified from AOCI	$	7	$	74	Net income

16. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

The Company’s employee benefit plans are described in Note 19 - Employee Benefit Plans of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in The Hartford’s 2020 Annual Report on Form 10-K. Net periodic cost (benefit) is recognized in insurance operating costs and other expenses in the condensed consolidated statement of operations.

Based on the funded status of the U.S. qualified defined benefit

pension plan, the Company does not anticipate making a contribution to the plan in 2021.


Net Periodic Cost (Benefit)
	Pension Benefits								Other Postretirement Benefits
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,				Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020		2021		2020		2021		2020
Service cost	$	1	$	1	$	3	$	3	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Interest cost	24		31		71		95		—		1		2		4
Expected return on plan assets	(51)		(53)		(153)		(161)		—		—		(2)		(2)
Amortization of prior service credit	—		—		—		—		(2)		(2)		(5)		(5)
Amortization of actuarial loss	17		15		52		45		2		2		6		5

Net periodic cost (benefit)	$	(9)	$	(6)	$	(27)	$	(18)	$	—	$	1	$	1	$	2


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

17. BUSINESS DISPOSITION

Sale of Continental Europe Operations

On September 30, 2020, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Continental Europe Operations consisting of multiple arrangements designed as a single transaction. The Continental Europe Operations are included in the Commercial Lines reporting segment. Revenues and earnings are not material to the Company's consolidated results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020. The pending sale resulted in an estimated loss on the

sale of approximately $68, before tax, including $20, before tax, in the nine months ended September 30, 2021, which was recorded within net realized gains (losses). The accrual for the estimated before tax loss is included as a reduction of the carrying value of assets held for sale in the Company's Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2021. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.

Carrying Value of Assets and Liabilities to be Transferred in Connection With the Sale [1]


	As of September 30, 2021		As of December 31, 2020
Assets
Investments and cash	$	153	$	142




Reinsurance recoverables and other	14		35
Total assets held for sale	167		177
Liabilities
Unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses	82		84
Unearned premiums	19		31
Other liabilities	50		43
Total liabilities held for sale	$	151	$	158

[1]As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the estimated fair value of the disposal group was $12 and $14, respectively, based on the estimated consideration to be received less cost to sell. Within the disposal group, as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, investments in fixed maturities and short-term investments, which are measured at fair value on a recurring basis, had a fair value of $79 and $84, respectively, of which $2 and $1, respectively, was based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and $77 and $83, respectively, was based on significant observable inputs.The remaining fair value less costs to sell for the disposal group as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 was ($67) and ($70), respectively, which is measured on a nonrecurring basis using significant unobservable inputs. See Note 4—Fair Value Measurements for more information.

18. RESTRUCTURING AND OTHER COSTS

In recognition of the need to become more cost efficient and competitive along with enhancing the experience we provide to agents and customers, on July 30, 2020 the Company announced an operational transformation and cost reduction plan it refers to as Hartford Next. Hartford Next is intended to reduce annual insurance operating costs and other expenses through reduction of the Company's headcount, investment in information technology ("IT") to further enhance our capabilities, and other activities. The activities are expected to be substantially complete by the end of 2022.

Termination benefits related to workforce reductions and professional fees are included within restructuring and other costs in the Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and unpaid restructuring costs are included in other liabilities in

the September 30, 2021 Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheet. In the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the severance benefits accrual was reduced $24 due to more recent experience of higher than expected voluntary attrition. Subsequent to September 30, 2021, the Company expects to incur additional costs including amortization of right of use assets and other lease exit costs, other IT costs to retire applications, professional fees and other expenses. Total restructuring and other costs are expected to be approximately $133, before tax, and are being recognized in Corporate for segment reporting. The estimated restructuring and other costs for future periods do not include all costs associated with the real estate consolidation plan as those plans are still being finalized.


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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


Restructuring and Other Costs, Before Tax

	Incurred in the Three Months Ended September 30,				Incurred in the Nine Months Ended September 30,				Cumulative Incurred Through September 30, 2021		Total Amount Expected to be Incurred
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Severance benefits	$	(15)	$	78	$	(24)	$	78	$	49	$	49
IT costs	2		—		6		—		8		24
Professional fees and other expenses	1		9		17		9		46		60
Total restructuring and other costs, before tax	$	(12)	$	87	$	(1)	$	87	$	103	$	133


Accrued Restructuring and Other Costs
	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Severance Benefits and Related Costs		IT Costs		Professional Fees and Other		Total Restructuring and Other Costs Liability
Balance, beginning of period	$	54	$	—	$	—	$	54
Incurred	(24)		6		17		(1)
Payments	(10)		(6)		(17)		(33)
Balance, end of period	$	20	$	—	$	—	$	20


Accrued Restructuring and Other Costs
	Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
	Severance Benefits and Related Costs		IT Costs		Professional Fees and Other		Total Restructuring and Other Costs Liability
Balance, beginning of period	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Incurred	78		—		9		87
Payments	(3)		—		(9)		(12)
Balance, end of period	$	75	$	—	$	—	$	75


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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

(Dollar amounts in millions except for per share data, unless otherwise stated)

The Hartford provides projections and other forward-looking information in the following discussions, which contain many forward-looking statements, particularly relating to the Company’s future financial performance. These forward-looking statements are estimates based on information currently available to the Company, are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to the cautionary statements set forth on pages 4 and 5 of this Form 10-Q. Actual results are likely to differ, and in the past have differed, materially from those forecast by the Company, depending on the outcome of various factors, including, but not limited to, those set forth in the following discussion; Part I, Item 1A, Risk Factors in The Hartford’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report; and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Hartford undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.

On September 30, 2020, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of the issued and outstanding equity of Navigators Holdings (Europe) N.V., a Belgium holding company, and its subsidiaries, Bracht, Deckers & Mackelbert N.V. (“BDM”) and Assurances Contintales Contintale Verzekeringen N.V. (“ASCO”), (collectively referred to as "Continental Europe Operations"). For discussion of this transaction, see Note 17 - Business Disposition of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Certain reclassifications have been made to historical financial information presented in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations ("MD&A") to conform to the current period presentation.

The Hartford defines increases or decreases greater than or equal to 200% as “NM” or not meaningful.

INDEX

Throughout the MD&A, we use certain terms and abbreviations, the more commonly used are summarized in the Acronyms section.

KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES AND RATIOS

The Company considers the measures and ratios in the following discussion to be key performance indicators for its businesses. Management believes that these ratios and measures are useful in understanding the underlying trends in The Hartford’s businesses. However, these key performance indicators should only be used in conjunction with, and not in lieu of, the results presented in the segment discussions that follow in this MD&A. These ratios and measures may not be comparable to other performance measures used by the Company’s competitors.


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DEFINITIONS OF NON-GAAP AND OTHER MEASURES AND RATIOS

Assets Under Management ("AUM")- Include mutual fund and exchange-traded products ("ETP") assets. AUM is a measure used by the Company's Hartford Funds segment because a significant portion of the Company’s mutual fund and ETP revenues are based upon asset values. These revenues increase or decrease with a rise or fall in AUM whether caused by changes in the market or through net flows.

Book Value per Diluted Share excluding accumulated other comprehensive income ("AOCI")- This is a non-GAAP per share measure that is calculated by dividing (a) common stockholders' equity, excluding AOCI, after tax, by (b) common shares outstanding and dilutive potential common shares. The Company provides this measure to enable investors to analyze the amount of the Company's net worth that is primarily attributable to the Company's business operations. The Company believes that excluding AOCI from the numerator is useful to investors because it eliminates the effect of items that can fluctuate significantly from period to period, primarily based on changes in interest rates. Book value per diluted share is the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure.

Combined Ratio- The sum of the loss and loss adjustment expense ratio, the expense ratio and the policyholder dividend ratio. This ratio is a relative measurement that describes the related cost of losses and expenses for every $100 of earned premiums. A combined ratio below 100 demonstrates underwriting profit; a combined ratio above 100 demonstrates underwriting losses.

Core Earnings- The Hartford uses the non-GAAP measure core earnings as an important measure of the Company’s operating performance. The Hartford believes that core earnings provides investors with a valuable measure of the performance of the Company’s ongoing businesses because it reveals trends in our insurance and financial services businesses that may be obscured by including the net effect of certain items. Therefore, the following items are excluded from core earnings:

•Certain realized gains and losses - Some realized gains and losses are primarily driven by investment decisions and external economic developments, the nature and timing of which are unrelated to the insurance and underwriting aspects of our business. Accordingly, core earnings excludes the effect of all realized gains and losses that tend to be highly variable from period to period based on capital market conditions. The Hartford believes, however, that some realized gains and losses are integrally related to our insurance operations, so core earnings includes net realized gains and losses such as net periodic settlements on credit derivatives. These net realized gains and losses are directly related to an offsetting item included in the income statement such as net investment income.

•Restructuring and other costs - Costs incurred as part of a restructuring plan are not a recurring operating expense of the business.

•Loss on extinguishment of debt - Largely consisting of make-whole payments or tender premiums upon paying debt off before maturity, these losses are not a recurring operating expense of the business.

•Gains and losses on reinsurance transactions - Gains or losses on reinsurance, such as those entered into upon sale of a business or to reinsure loss reserves, are not a recurring operating expense of the business.

•Integration and other non-recurring M&A costs - These costs, including transaction costs incurred in connection with an acquired business, are incurred over a short period of time and do not represent an ongoing operating expense of the business.

•Change in loss reserves upon acquisition of a business - These changes in loss reserves are excluded from core earnings because such changes could obscure the ability to compare results in periods after the acquisition to results of periods prior to the acquisition.

•Deferred gain resulting from retroactive reinsurance and subsequent changes in the deferred gain - Retroactive reinsurance agreements economically transfer risk to the reinsurers and including the full benefit from retroactive reinsurance in core earnings provides greater insight into the economics of the business.

•Change in valuation allowance on deferred taxes related to non-core components of pre-tax income - These changes in valuation allowances are excluded from core earnings because they relate to non-core components of pre-tax income, such as tax attributes like capital loss carryforwards.

•Results of discontinued operations - These results are excluded from core earnings for businesses sold or held for sale because such results could obscure the ability to compare period over period results for our ongoing businesses.

In addition to the above components of net income available to common stockholders that are excluded from core earnings, preferred stock dividends declared, which are excluded from net income available to common stockholders, are included in the determination of core earnings. Preferred stock dividends are a cost of financing more akin to interest expense on debt and are expected to be a recurring expense as long as the preferred stock is outstanding.

Net income (loss) and net income (loss) available to common stockholders are the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measures to core earnings. Core earnings should not be considered as a substitute for net income (loss) or net income (loss) available to common stockholders and does not reflect the overall profitability of the Company’s business. Therefore, The Hartford believes that it is useful for investors to evaluate net income (loss), net income (loss) available to common stockholders, and core earnings when reviewing the Company’s performance.


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Reconciliation of Net Income to Core Earnings
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Net income	$	482	$	459	$	1,636	$	1,200
Preferred stock dividends	6		6		16		16
Net income available to common stockholders	476		453		1,620		1,184
Adjustments to reconcile net income available to common stockholders to core earnings:
Net realized losses (gains) excluded from core earnings, before tax	(68)		(6)		(293)		119
Restructuring and other costs, before tax	(12)		87		(1)		87


Integration and other non-recurring M&A costs, before tax	8		14		53		40

Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance, before tax	28		14		73		97
Income tax expense (benefit) [1]	10		(35)		29		(77)

Core earnings	$	442	$	527	$	1,481	$	1,450

[1] Primarily represents the federal income tax expense (benefit) related to before tax items not included in core earnings and includes the effect of changes in net deferred taxes due to changes in enacted tax rates.

Core Earnings Margin- The Hartford uses the non-GAAP measure core earnings margin to evaluate, and believes it is an important measure of, the Group Benefits segment's operating performance. Core earnings margin is calculated by dividing core earnings by revenues, excluding buyouts and realized gains (losses). Net income margin, calculated by dividing net income by revenues, is the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure. The Company believes that core earnings margin provides investors with a valuable measure of the performance of Group Benefits because it reveals trends in the business that may be obscured by the effect of buyouts and realized gains (losses) as well as other items excluded in the calculation of core earnings. Core earnings margin should not be considered as a substitute for net income margin and does not reflect the overall profitability of Group Benefits. Therefore, the Company believes it is important for investors to evaluate both core earnings margin and net income margin when reviewing performance. A reconciliation of net income margin to core earnings margin is set forth in the Results of Operations section within MD&A - Group Benefits.

Current Accident Year Catastrophe Ratio- A component of the loss and loss adjustment expense ratio, represents the ratio of catastrophe losses incurred in the current accident year (net of reinsurance) to earned premiums. For U.S. events, a catastrophe is an event that causes $25 or more in industry insured property losses and affects a significant number of property and casualty policyholders and insurers, as defined by the Property Claim Services office of Verisk. For international events, the Company's approach is similar, informed, in part, by how Lloyd's of London defines catastrophes. Lloyd's of London is an insurance market-place operating worldwide ("Lloyd's"). Lloyd's does not underwrite risks. The Company accepts risks as the sole member of Lloyd's Syndicate 1221 ("Lloyd's Syndicate"). The current accident year catastrophe ratio includes the effect of catastrophe losses, but does not include the effect of reinstatement premiums.

Expense Ratio- For the underwriting segments of Commercial Lines and Personal Lines is the ratio of underwriting expenses less fee income, to earned premiums. Underwriting expenses include the amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs ("DAC") and insurance operating costs

and expenses, including certain centralized services costs and bad debt expense. DAC include commissions, taxes, licenses and fees and other incremental direct underwriting expenses and are amortized over the policy term.

The expense ratio for Group Benefits is expressed as the ratio of insurance operating costs and other expenses including amortization of intangibles and amortization of DAC, to premiums and other considerations, excluding buyout premiums.

The expense ratio for Commercial Lines, Personal Lines and Group Benefits does not include integration and other transaction costs associated with an acquired business.

Fee Income- Is largely driven from amounts earned as a result of contractually defined percentages of assets under management in our Hartford Funds business. These fees are generally earned on a daily basis. Therefore, the growth in assets under management either through positive net flows or favorable market performance will have a favorable impact on fee income. Conversely, either negative net flows or unfavorable market performance will reduce fee income.

Gross New Business Premium- Represents the amount of premiums charged, before ceded reinsurance, for policies issued to customers who were not insured with the Company in the previous policy term. Gross new business premium plus gross renewal written premium less ceded reinsurance equals total written premium.

Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Ratio- A measure of the cost of claims incurred in the calendar year divided by earned premium and includes losses and loss adjustment expenses incurred for both the current and prior accident years. Among other factors, the loss and loss adjustment expense ratio needed for the Company to achieve its targeted return on equity ("ROE") fluctuates from year to year based on changes in the expected investment yield over the claim settlement period, the timing of expected claim settlements and the targeted returns set by management based on the competitive environment.

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lines of business, where the emergence of claim frequency and severity is credible and likely indicative of ultimate losses. Claim frequency represents the percentage change in the average number of reported claims per unit of exposure in the current accident year compared to that of the previous accident year. Claim severity represents the percentage change in the estimated average cost per claim in the current accident year compared to that of the previous accident year. As one of the factors used to determine pricing, the Company’s practice is to first make an overall assumption about claim frequency and severity for a given line of business and then, as part of the rate-making process, adjust the assumption as appropriate for the particular state, product or coverage.

Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Ratio before Catastrophes and Prior Accident Year Development- A measure of the cost of non-catastrophe loss and loss adjustment expenses incurred in the current accident year divided by earned premiums. Management believes that the current accident year loss and loss adjustment expense ratio before catastrophes is a performance measure that is useful to investors as it removes the impact of volatile and unpredictable catastrophe losses and prior accident year development.

Loss Ratio, excluding Buyouts- Utilized for the Group Benefits segment and is expressed as a ratio of benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses, excluding those related to buyout premiums, to premiums and other considerations, excluding buyout premiums. Since Group Benefits occasionally buys a block of claims for a stated premium amount, the Company excludes this buyout from the loss ratio used for evaluating the profitability of the business as buyouts may distort the loss ratio. Buyout premiums represent takeover of open claim liabilities and other non-recurring premium amounts.

Mutual Fund and Exchange-Traded Product Assets- Are owned by the shareholders of those products and not by the Company and, therefore, are not reflected in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements except in instances where the Company seeds new investment products and holds an investment in the fund for a period of time. Mutual fund and ETP assets are a measure used by the Company primarily because a significant portion of the Company’s Hartford Funds segment revenues are based upon asset values. These revenues increase or decrease with a rise or fall in AUM whether caused by changes in the market or through net flows.

Net New Business Premium- Represents the amount of premiums charged, after ceded reinsurance, for policies issued to customers who were not insured with the Company in the previous policy term. Net new business premium plus renewal written premium equals total written premium.

Policy Count Retention- Represents the ratio of the number of renewal policies issued during the current year period divided by the number of policies issued in the previous calendar period before considering policies cancelled subsequent to renewal. Policy count retention is affected by a number of factors, including the percentage of renewal policy quotes accepted and decisions by the Company to non-renew policies because of specific policy underwriting concerns or because of a decision to reduce premium writings in certain

classes of business or states. Policy count retention is also affected by advertising and rate actions taken by competitors.

Policy Count Retention, Net of Cancellations- Represents the ratio of the number of renewal policies issued net of cancellations during the current year period divided by the number of policies issued net of cancellations in the previous calendar period.

Policies in Force- Represents the number of policies with coverage in effect as of the end of the period. The number of policies in force is a growth measure used for Personal Lines and standard commercial lines (small commercial and middle market lines within middle & large commercial) within Commercial Lines and is affected by both new business growth and policy count retention.

Policyholder Dividend Ratio- The ratio of policyholder dividends to earned premium.

Prior Accident Year Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Ratio- Represents the increase (decrease) in the estimated cost of settling catastrophe and non-catastrophe claims incurred in prior accident years as recorded in the current calendar year divided by earned premiums.

Reinstatement Premiums- Represents additional ceded premium paid for the reinstatement of the amount of reinsurance coverage that was reduced as a result of the Company ceding losses to reinsurers.

Renewal Earned Price Increase (Decrease)- Written premiums are earned over the policy term, which is six months for certain Personal Lines automobile business and twelve months for substantially all of the remainder of the Company’s Property and Casualty business. Since the Company earns premiums over the six to twelve month term of the policies, renewal earned price increases (decreases) lag renewal written price increases (decreases) by six to twelve months.

Renewal Written Price Increase (Decrease)- For Commercial Lines, represents the combined effect of rate changes, amount of insurance and individual risk pricing decisions per unit of exposure on commercial lines policies that renewed. For Personal Lines, renewal written price increases represent the total change in premium per policy since the prior year on those policies that renewed and includes the combined effect of rate changes, amount of insurance and other changes in exposure. For Personal Lines, other changes in exposure include, but are not limited to, the effect of changes in number of drivers, vehicles and incidents, as well as changes in customer policy elections, such as deductibles and limits. The rate component represents the change in rate filed with and approved by state regulators during the period and the amount of insurance represents the change in the value of the rating base, such as model year/vehicle symbol for automobiles, building replacement costs for property and wage inflation for workers’ compensation. A number of factors affect renewal written price increases (decreases) including expected loss costs as projected by the Company’s pricing actuaries, rate filings approved by state regulators, risk selection decisions made by the Company’s underwriters and marketplace competition. Renewal written price changes reflect the property and casualty insurance market cycle. Prices tend to increase for


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a particular line of business when insurance carriers have incurred significant losses in that line of business in the recent past or the industry as a whole commits less of its capital to writing exposures in that line of business. Prices tend to decrease when recent loss experience has been favorable or when competition among insurance carriers increases. Renewal written price statistics are subject to change from period to period, based on a number of factors, including changes in actuarial estimates and the effect of subsequent cancellations and non-renewals, and modifications made to better reflect ultimate pricing achieved.

Return on Assets (“ROA”), Core Earnings-The Company uses this non-GAAP financial measure to evaluate, and believes is an important measure of, the Hartford Funds segment’s operating performance. ROA, core earnings is calculated by dividing annualized core earnings by a daily average AUM. ROA is the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure. The Company believes that ROA, core earnings, provides investors with a valuable measure of the performance of the Hartford Funds segment because it reveals trends in our business that may be obscured by the effect of items excluded in the calculation of core earnings. ROA, core earnings, should not be considered as a substitute for ROA and does not reflect the overall profitability of our Hartford Funds business. Therefore, the Company believes it is important for investors to evaluate both ROA, and ROA, core earnings when reviewing the Hartford Funds segment performance. A reconciliation of ROA to ROA, core earnings is set forth in the Results of Operations section within MD&A - Hartford Funds.

Underlying Combined Ratio- This non-GAAP financial measure of underwriting results represents the combined ratio before catastrophes, prior accident year development and current accident year change in loss reserves upon acquisition of a business. Combined ratio is the most directly comparable GAAP measure. The underlying combined ratio represents the combined ratio for the current accident year, excluding the impact of current accident year catastrophes and current accident year change in loss reserves upon acquisition of a business. The Company believes this ratio is an important measure of the trend in profitability since it removes the impact of volatile and unpredictable catastrophe losses and prior accident year loss and loss adjustment expense reserve development. The changes to loss reserves upon acquisition of a business are excluded from underlying combined ratio because such changes could obscure the ability to compare results in periods after the acquisition to results of periods prior to the acquisition as such trends are valuable to our investors' ability to assess the Company's financial performance.

A reconciliation of combined ratio to underlying combined ratio is set forth in the Results of Operations section within MD&A - Commercial Lines and Personal Lines.

Underwriting Gain (Loss)- The Hartford's management evaluates profitability of the Commercial and Personal Lines segments primarily on the basis of underwriting gain or loss. Underwriting gain (loss) is a before tax non-GAAP measure that represents earned premiums less incurred losses, loss adjustment expenses and underwriting expenses. Net income (loss) is the most directly comparable GAAP measure. Underwriting gain (loss) is influenced significantly by earned premium growth and the adequacy of The Hartford's pricing. Underwriting profitability over time is also greatly influenced by The Hartford's underwriting discipline, as management strives to manage exposure to loss through favorable risk selection and diversification, effective management of claims, use of reinsurance and its ability to manage its expenses. The Hartford believes that the measure underwriting gain (loss) provides investors with a valuable measure of profitability, before tax, derived from underwriting activities, which are managed separately from the Company's investing activities.


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Reconciliation of Net Income to Underwriting Gain (Loss)
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Commercial Lines
Net income	$	357	$	323	$	1,055	$	378
Adjustments to reconcile net income to underwriting gain (loss):
Net servicing income	(2)		(1)		(11)		(2)
Net investment income	(421)		(316)		(1,130)		(797)
Net realized losses (gains)	(51)		26		(142)		105
Other expense	5		8		15		25

Income tax expense	82		52		228		71
Underwriting gain (loss)	$	(30)	$	92	$	15	$	(220)
Personal Lines
Net income	$	51	$	79	$	304	$	548
Adjustments to reconcile net income to underwriting gain (loss):
Net servicing income	(6)		(5)		(15)		(10)
Net investment income	(44)		(41)		(119)		(110)
Net realized losses	(4)		(3)		(17)		12
Other income	1		2		1		1
Income tax expense	12		20		76		142
Underwriting gain	$	10	$	52	$	230	$	583
P&C Other Ops
Net income	$	22	$	2	$	26	$	12
Adjustments to reconcile net income to underwriting gain (loss):
Net investment income	(22)		(14)		(58)		(40)
Net realized losses	(2)		(2)		(7)		3
Income tax expense	5		1		5		2
Underwriting gain (loss)	$	3	$	(13)	$	(34)	$	(23)

Written and Earned Premiums- Written premium represents the amount of premiums charged for policies issued, net of reinsurance, during a fiscal period. Premiums are considered earned and are included in the financial results on a pro rata basis over the policy period. Management believes that written premium is a performance measure that is useful to investors as it reflects current trends in the Company’s sale of property and casualty insurance products. Written and earned premium are recorded net of ceded reinsurance premium.

Traditional life and disability insurance type products, such as those sold by Group Benefits, collect premiums from policyholders in exchange for financial protection for the policyholder from a specified insurable loss, such as death or disability. These premiums together with net investment income earned are used to pay the contractual obligations under these insurance contracts. Two major factors, new sales and persistency, impact premium growth. Sales can increase or decrease in a given year based on a number of factors, including but not limited to, customer demand for the Company’s product offerings, pricing competition, distribution channels and the Company’s reputation and ratings. Persistency refers to the percentage of premium remaining in-force from year-to-year.


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THE HARTFORD’S OPERATIONS

The Hartford conducts business principally in five reporting segments including Commercial Lines, Personal Lines, Property & Casualty Other Operations, Group Benefits and Hartford Funds, as well as a Corporate category. The Company includes in the Corporate category reserves for run-off structured settlement and terminal funding agreement liabilities, restructuring costs, capital raising activities (including equity financing, debt financing and related interest expense), transaction expenses incurred in connection with an acquisition, certain M&A costs, purchase accounting adjustments related to goodwill and other expenses not allocated to the reporting segments. Corporate also includes investment management fees and expenses related to managing third party business, including management of the invested assets of Talcott Resolution Life, Inc. and its subsidiaries. In addition, up until June 30, 2021, Corporate included a 9.7% ownership interest in Hopmeadow Holdings LP, the legal entity that acquired Talcott Resolution in May 2018 (Hopmeadow Holdings, LP, Talcott Resolution Life Inc., and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to as "Talcott Resolution"). The sale of Talcott Resolution was completed on June 30, 2021. The Company received a total of $217 in connection with the sale of its 9.7% ownership interest, resulting in a realized gain of $46 before tax for the nine months ended September 30, 2021.

The Company derives its revenues principally from: (a) premiums earned for insurance coverage provided to insureds; (b) management fees on mutual fund and ETP assets; (c) net investment income; (d) fees earned for services provided to third parties; and (e) net realized gains and losses. Premiums charged for insurance coverage are earned principally on a pro rata basis over the terms of the related policies in-force.

The profitability of the Company's property and casualty insurance businesses over time is greatly influenced by the Company’s underwriting discipline, which seeks to manage exposure to loss through favorable risk selection and diversification, its management of claims, its use of reinsurance, the size of its in force block, actual mortality and morbidity experience, and its ability to manage its expense ratio which it accomplishes through economies of scale and its management of acquisition costs and other underwriting expenses. Pricing adequacy depends on a number of factors, including the ability to obtain regulatory approval for rate changes, proper evaluation of underwriting risks, the ability to project future loss cost frequency and severity based on historical loss experience adjusted for known trends, the Company’s response to rate actions taken by competitors, its expense levels and expectations about regulatory and legal developments. The Company seeks to price its insurance policies such that insurance premiums and future net investment income earned on premiums received will cover underwriting expenses and the ultimate cost of paying claims reported on the policies and provide for a profit margin. For many of its insurance products, the Company is required to obtain approval for its premium rates from state insurance departments and the Lloyd's Syndicate 1221's ("Lloyd's Syndicate") ability to write business is subject to Lloyd's approval for its premium capacity each year. Most of Personal Lines written premium is associated with our exclusive

licensing agreement with AARP. This agreement provides an important competitive advantage given the size of the 50 plus population and the strength of the AARP brand. In 2020, the Company extended this agreement through December 31, 2032.

Similar to property and casualty, profitability of the Group Benefits business depends, in large part, on the ability to evaluate and price risks appropriately and make reliable estimates of mortality, morbidity, disability and longevity. To manage the pricing risk, Group Benefits generally offers term insurance policies, allowing for the adjustment of rates or policy terms in order to minimize the adverse effect of market trends, loss costs, declining interest rates and other factors. However, as policies are typically sold with rate guarantees of up to three years, pricing for the Company’s products could prove to be inadequate if loss and expense trends emerge adversely during the rate guarantee period or if investment returns are lower than expected at the time the products were sold. For some of its products, the Company is required to obtain approval for its premium rates from state insurance departments. New and renewal business for group benefits business, particularly for long-term disability, are priced using an assumption about expected investment yields over time. While the Company employs asset-liability duration matching strategies to mitigate risk and may use interest-rate sensitive derivatives to hedge its exposure in the Group Benefits investment portfolio, cash flow patterns related to the payment of benefits and claims are uncertain and actual investment yields could differ significantly from expected investment yields, affecting profitability of the business. In addition to appropriately evaluating and pricing risks, the profitability of the Group Benefits business depends on other factors, including the Company’s response to pricing decisions and other actions taken by competitors, its ability to offer voluntary products and self-service capabilities, the persistency of its sold business and its ability to manage its expenses which it seeks to achieve through economies of scale and operating efficiencies.

The financial results of the Company’s mutual fund and ETP businesses depend largely on the amount of assets under management and the level of fees charged based, in part, on asset share class and product type. Changes in assets under management are driven by the two main factors of net flows and the market return of the funds, which are heavily influenced by the return realized in the equity and bond markets. Net flows are comprised of new sales less redemptions by mutual fund and ETP shareholders. Financial results are highly correlated to the growth in assets under management since these products generally earn fee income on a daily basis.

The investment return, or yield, on invested assets is an important element of the Company’s earnings since insurance products are priced with the assumption that premiums received can be invested for a period of time before benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses are paid. Due to the need to maintain sufficient liquidity to satisfy claim obligations, the majority of the Company’s invested assets have been held in available-for-sale securities, including, among other asset classes, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, government debt, short-term debt, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities and collateralized loan obligations. The primary investment objective for the Company is to maximize economic value, consistent with acceptable risk parameters, including the management of credit


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risk and interest rate sensitivity of invested assets, while generating sufficient net of tax income to meet policyholder and corporate obligations. Investment strategies are developed based on a variety of factors including business needs, regulatory requirements and tax considerations.

IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON OUR FINANCIAL CONDITION, RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AND LIQUIDITY

Impact to written and earned premiums

Despite the rollout of vaccines and states largely lifting restrictions allowing business to re-open, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose a threat to the economic recovery of the U.S. and other countries in which we operate. As one of the largest providers of small business insurance in the U.S., we were negatively affected by economic effects of the pandemic on small businesses beginning in March of 2020. An improvement in economic conditions in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 has contributed to an increase of 14% and 10% respectively, in our small commercial written premiums. Our middle & large commercial business was also negatively affected by COVID-19 and written premium in that line has rebounded with an increase of 18% and 11%,

respectively, in the three and nine month period. Overall, Commercial Lines written premium increased $333, or 15%, and $757, or 11%, respectively, in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 with growth in workers' compensation, small commercial package business, general liability, U.S. wholesale, U.S. financial lines and global reinsurance.

Personal Lines written premium declined 2% and 1%, respectively, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 due to the effect of non-renewed premium exceeding new business, partially offset in the nine month period by the effect of premium credits given in the second quarter of 2020.

In Group Benefits, fully insured ongoing premium increased 4% and 3%, respectively, in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, primarily due to higher in-force employer group disability premiums and higher supplemental health product premiums.

Impact to direct benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses from COVID-19 claims

Total direct COVID-19 and excess mortality claims were higher in the first nine months of 2021 compared to the comparable period in 2020 largely due to an increase in excess mortality claims in our group life business given the high level of deaths in the first nine months of 2021, partially offset by commercial property COVID-19 losses incurred in the second quarter of 2020.


	For the three months ended September 30,				For the nine months ended September 30,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Excess mortality claims on group life	$	212	$	42	$	422	$	87
COVID-19 short-term disability claims [1]	16		(14)		23		(14)
Workers' compensation COVID-19 claims	—		17		20		52
Global specialty financial lines and other	3		20		10		57
Commercial property	—		—		—		141
Total direct COVID-19 and excess mortality claims	$	231	$	65	$	475	$	323

[1]The nine months ended September 30, 2020 included both short-term disability and New York paid family leave claims related to COVID-19. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, lower incurred losses due to fewer elective procedures during the early stages of the pandemic more than offset direct COVID-19 incurred losses.

Excess mortality in the group life business includes both claims where COVID-19 is specifically listed as the cause of death and indirect impacts of the pandemic such as causes of death due to patients deferring regular treatments of chronic conditions. The incidence of excess mortality claims is subject to significant uncertainty as it is dependent on a number of factors difficult to predict including, among others, the ultimate vaccination rate of the population, the effectiveness of the vaccines, how long the Delta variant surge will last, the potential spread of new COVID-19 variants, the percentage of those infected who are of working age and the strain on the health care system preventing timely treatment of chronic illnesses.

Within P&C, direct COVID-19 incurred losses in the nine months ended September 30, 2021 were predominantly on workers' compensation claims incurred in the first quarter. We incur COVID-19 workers’ compensation losses when it is determined that workers were exposed to COVID-19 out of and in the course of their employment and in other cases where states have passed laws providing for the presumption of coverage for certain industry classes, including health care and other essential workers.

Apart from COVID-19 workers' compensation claims, net of favorable frequency, and incurred losses within financial lines, P&C COVID-19 incurred losses in the nine months ended September 30, 2020 primarily included $141 for property claims. There were no COVID-19 P&C property losses incurred in the three or nine months ended September 30, 2021. Nearly all of our property insurance policies require direct physical loss or damage to property and contain standard exclusions that we believe preclude coverage for COVID-19 related claims, and the vast majority of such policies contain exclusions for virus-related losses.

Other impacts from COVID-19

In Personal Lines automobile, miles driven and average claim severity have begun to increase again as we emerge from the pandemic which has increased automobile loss costs in 2021. In addition, as the effects of favorable claim frequency from lower miles driven during the pandemic are factored into rates, we expect lower earned pricing increases resulting in a higher


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expected automobile loss ratio in 2021 than in 2020. Refer to Personal Lines Results of Operations for discussion of pricing and loss cost trends for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021.

As we emerge from the pandemic, inflationary pressures in the economy have resulted in increased claim severity in 2021 in automobile and property lines of business in both Commercial Lines and Personal Lines. As expectations of inflationary pressures have increased, interest rates have risen in 2021 and higher interest rates reduce the fair value of our investments in fixed maturity securities, AFS.

Aided by some improvement in the economy and the effect of the government’s economic stimulus payments to our customers, in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, we recorded decreases of $10 and $28, respectively, in the ACL on premiums receivable, reflecting a lower expectation of credit losses, though there remains an elevated risk of uncollectible premiums receivable relative to historical trends if economic conditions do not improve further.

As we emerge from the pandemic, we expect travel costs and certain employee benefits costs will increase relative to the lower level of those costs we incurred when shelter-in-place orders were in effect.

For information about resources the Company has to manage capital and liquidity, refer to the Capital Resources & Liquidity section of MD&A.

For additional information about the potential economic impacts to the Company of the COVID-19 pandemic, see the risk factor "The pandemic caused by the spread of COVID-19 has disrupted our operations and may have a material adverse impact on our business results, financial condition, results of operations and/or liquidity" in Item 1A of Part I of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020.

OPERATIONAL TRANSFORMATION AND COST REDUCTION PLAN

In recognition of the need to become more cost efficient and competitive along with enhancing the experience we provide to agents and customers, on July 30, 2020, the Company announced an operational transformation and cost reduction plan it refers to as Hartford Next. Through reduction of its headcount, IT investments to further enhance our capabilities, and other activities, relative to 2019, the Company expects to achieve a reduction in annual insurance operating costs and other expenses of approximately $540 by 2022 and $625 by 2023.

To achieve those expected savings, we expect to incur approximately $395 over the course of the program, with $203 expensed cumulatively through September 30, 2021, and expected expenses of $15 over the last three months of 2021, $68 in 2022 and $110 after 2022, with the expenses after 2022 consisting mostly of amortization of internal use software, non-capitalized IT costs and capitalized real estate costs. Included in the estimated costs of $395, we expect to incur restructuring costs of approximately $133, including $49 of employee

severance, and approximately $84 of other costs, including consulting expenses, lease termination expenses and the cost to retire certain IT applications. Restructuring costs are reported as a charge to net income but not in core earnings.

The following table presents Hartford Next program costs incurred, including restructuring costs, and expense savings relative to 2019 realized in the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and expected annual costs and expense savings relative to 2019 for the full year in 2021 and 2022:


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Hartford Next Costs and Expense Savings
	Nine months ended September 30, 2021		Estimate for 2021		Estimate for 2022
Employee severance	$	(24)	$	(24)	$	—
IT costs to retire applications	6		9		12
Professional fees and other expenses	17		20		10

Estimated restructuring costs	(1)		5		22

Non-capitalized IT costs	38		41		24
Other costs	13		18		16
Amortization of capitalized IT development costs [1]	—		—		5
Amortization of capitalized real estate [2]	—		—		1
Estimated costs within core earnings	51		59		46
Total Hartford Next program costs	$	50	$	64	$	68

Cumulative savings for the period relative to 2019	$	(306)	$	(400)	$	(540)


Net expense (savings) before tax:	$	(256)	$	(336)	$	(472)

Net expense (savings) before tax:
Accounted for within core earnings	$	(255)	$	(341)	$	(494)
Restructuring costs recognized outside of core earnings	(1)		5		22
Net expense (savings) before tax	$	(256)	$	(336)	$	(472)

[1]Does not include approximately $50 of IT asset amortization after 2022.

[2]Does not include approximately $20 of real estate amortization after 2022.


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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

Net Income Available to Common Stockholders

Net Income Available to Common Stockholders per Diluted Share

Book Value per Diluted Share

Increased $23 or 5%

Increased $0.10 or 8%

Increased $0.14 or 0.3%

Increase in net investment income

Increase in net income available to common stockholders

Reduction in outstanding shares due to share repurchases

Higher earned premiums in Commercial Lines and a lower P&C current accident year loss ratio before COVID-19

Share repurchases

Decrease in common stockholders' equity largely due to a decrease in AOCI, primarily driven by a decrease in net unrealized gains on available for sale securities, partially

offset by net income in excess of common stockholder dividends and share repurchases

Increase in dilutive shares under stock-based compensation largely due to an increase in the quarterly average stock price

Lower restructuring costs

Increase in net realized gains

Decrease in P&C COVID-19 incurred losses

Increase in excess mortality losses in group life

A change to unfavorable P&C prior accident year reserve development

Increase in current accident year catastrophe losses

Increase in P&C underwriting expenses and Group Benefits insurance operating costs and other expenses

Investment Yield, After Tax

Property & Casualty Combined Ratio

Group Benefits Net Income Margin

Increased 70 bps

Increased 4.8 points

Decreased 6.2 points

Greater returns on limited partnerships and other alternative investments

A change to unfavorable prior accident year reserve development

Higher excess mortality in group life

Lower reinvestment rates

Higher personal automobile claim frequency and severity

A higher group disability loss ratio due to higher short-term disability claim incidence as the prior year benefited from fewer elective procedures during the early stages of the pandemic

Higher current accident year catastrophe losses

Lower current accident year loss ratio before COVID-19 in global specialty, workers' compensation, and non-catastrophe property

A higher expense ratio

Increase in net investment income

Decrease in COVID-19 incurred losses


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CONSOLIDATED RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The Consolidated Results of Operations should be read in conjunction with the Company's Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and the related Notes as well as with the segment operating results sections of MD&A.

Consolidated Results of Operations


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Earned premiums	$	4,565	$	4,347	5	%	$	13,368	$	12,972	3	%
Fee income	377		323		17	%	1,107		941		18	%
Net investment income	650		492		32	%	1,740		1,290		35	%
Net realized gains (losses)	70		6		NM		297		(116)		NM
Other revenues	24		3		NM		62		108		(43	%)
Total revenues	5,686		5,171		10	%	16,574		15,195		9	%
Benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses	3,420		2,962		15	%	9,556		8,725		10	%
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs	419		421		—	%	1,252		1,287		(3	%)
Insurance operating costs and other expenses	1,200		1,093		10	%	3,546		3,394		4	%


Interest expense	58		58		—	%	172		179		(4	%)
Amortization of other intangible assets	18		18		—	%	53		55		(4	%)
Restructuring and other costs	(12)		87		(114	%)	(1)		87		(101	%)
Total benefits, losses and expenses	5,103		4,639		10	%	14,578		13,727		6	%
Income, before tax	583		532		10	%	1,996		1,468		36	%
Income tax expense	101		73		38	%	360		268		34	%


Net income	482		459		5	%	1,636		1,200		36	%
Preferred stock dividends	6		6		—	%	16		16		—	%
Net income available to common stockholders	$	476	$	453	5	%	$	1,620	$	1,184	37	%

Three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2020

Net income available to common stockholders increased by $23, primarily driven by:

•An increase in net investment income of $158 before tax driven by higher returns on limited partnerships and other alternative investments;

•Higher Commercial Lines earned premiums, including higher audit and endorsement premiums;

•$87 before tax of restructuring costs in the 2020 period related to the Hartford Next operational transformation and cost reduction initiative and a $12 before tax reduction of such costs in the 2021 period;

•An improvement in the P&C underlying combined ratio, driven by lower current accident year loss ratios before catastrophes in Commercial Lines, including a decrease in COVID-19 incurred losses from $37 before tax in third quarter 2020 to $3 before tax in third quarter 2021, partially offset by higher personal automobile loss costs;

•A $64 before tax increase in net realized gains; and

•An increase in earnings from Hartford Funds.

These increases were largely offset by:

•An increase in excess mortality losses in group life of $170 before tax, including deaths specifically attributable to COVID-19, and higher short-term disability losses related to COVID-19;

•A change from favorable to unfavorable P&C prior accident year development, primarily due to an increase in reserves in the 2021 period for sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims related to claims against the Boy Scouts of America ("BSA"); and

•A $71 before tax increase in current accident year catastrophe losses, primarily driven by losses from hurricane Ida.

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condition, results of operations and liquidity section of this MD&A.

REVENUE

Earned Premiums

Earned premiums increased by $218, or 5%, primarily due to:

•An increase in Property and Casualty reflecting a 9% increase in Commercial Lines and a 4% decrease in Personal Lines. Contributing to the increase in Commercial Lines was the effect of higher audit and endorsement premiums given the economic recovery in 2021. The decrease in Personal Lines was due to the effect of non-renewals outpacing new business; and

•An increase in Group Benefits earned premium within group disability and higher supplemental health product premiums.

Fee income increased driven by Hartford Funds as a result of higher daily average assets under management due to an increase in equity market levels and net inflows over the previous 12 months.

Other revenues increased by $21, primarily driven by a $21 before tax loss on the previously owned Talcott Resolution investment in third quarter 2020.

Net Investment Income

Net investment income increased primarily due to:

•Greater income from limited partnerships and other alternative investments primarily driven by higher valuations and cash distributions within private equity funds and sales of underlying investments within real estate funds;

•A higher level of invested assets; and

•Higher dividend income from equity investments.

These increases were partially offset by a lower yield on fixed maturity investments resulting from reinvesting at lower rates.

Net realized gains improved by $64 from third quarter of 2020, primarily driven by:

•A loss of $51 before tax in the 2020 period related to the sale of the Company’s Continental Europe Operations, which the Company agreed to sell in September of 2020;

•Higher net realized gains on sales of fixed maturity securities; and

•Gains on non-qualifying interest rate derivatives in 2021 due to an increase in interest rates.

These improvements were partially offset by:

•Lower net realized and unrealized gains on equity securities driven by greater valuation increases in the prior year period; and

•A net increase in ACL on mortgage loans in 2021 driven by net additions of new loans compared to a decrease in the ACL on mortgage loans in 2020.

For further discussion of investment results, see MD&A - Investment Results, Net Realized Gains and MD&A - Investment Results, Net Investment Income.


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BENEFITS, LOSSES AND EXPENSES

Losses and LAE Incurred for P&C

Benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses increased $458, or 15%, due to:

•An increase in Property & Casualty of $264, which was attributable to:

–A $165 change to P&C net unfavorable prior accident year reserve development in 2021 from net favorable prior accident year reserve development in 2020. Prior accident year reserve development in 2021 was an unfavorable $90 before tax, including $28 before tax of adverse development for Navigators related to 2018 and prior accident years that has been economically ceded to NICO but recorded as a deferred gain. Unfavorable development before deferred gain was driven by an increase in the BSA settlement announced in September 2021, partially offset by reserve decreases for workers' compensation, personal automobile liability, package business and bond. Prior accident year reserve development in third quarter 2020 was a net favorable $75 before tax and primarily included a reduction in reserves in workers’ compensation, personal automobile, professional liability, and package business. Due to recognizing a deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance, the $75 of net favorable reserve development in third quarter 2020 included $14 before tax of adverse development for Navigators related to 2018 and prior accident years that has been recorded as a deferred gain;

–A $71 increase in current accident year catastrophe losses. Catastrophe losses of $300 in the third quarter of 2021 were principally from hurricane Ida and, to a lesser extent, losses from tropical storms, California wildfires and wind and hail events in the Midwest and Mountain West. Catastrophe losses in the third quarter of 2020 were primarily from wildfires in California and Oregon, hurricane Laura on the Gulf Coast, tropical storm Isaias on the East Coast, a Midwest derecho and other wind and hail events, mostly in the Central

Losses and LAE Incurred for Group Benefits

Plains. For additional information, see MD&A - Critical Accounting Estimates, Property & Casualty Insurance Product Reserves, Net of Reinsurance; and

–An increase in P&C current accident year ("CAY") loss and loss adjustment expenses before catastrophes primarily due to higher personal automobile claim costs and the impact of higher earned premium; partially offset by lower current accident year loss ratios in Commercial Lines, including lower COVID-19 incurred losses.

•An increase in Group Benefits of $194 primarily driven by a higher level of excess mortality losses in group life, the effect of an increase in earned premiums and higher short-term disability COVID-19 related losses as the prior year period benefited from fewer elective procedures during the early stages of the pandemic.

For further discussion of impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, refer to the Impact of COVID-19 on our Financial Condition, Results of Operations and Liquidity section of this MD&A.

Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs was relatively flat year over year with an increase in Commercial Lines offset by decreases in Personal Lines and Group Benefits.

Insurance operating costs and other expenses increased primarily due to:

•Higher variable costs of the Hartford Funds business due to higher daily average assets under management;

•Higher variable incentive compensation costs;

•An increase in supplemental and contingent commissions; and

•Increases in technology costs, AARP direct marketing costs in Personal Lines and costs in Group Benefits to handle elevated claim levels resulting from the pandemic.


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These increases were partially offset by:

•Lower staffing and other costs driven by the Company’s Hartford Next operational and transformation cost reduction plan.

Restructuring and other costs declined primarily due to $78 of severance costs recorded in the 2020 period related to the Hartford Next initiative. For further discussion of impacts resulting from the Hartford Next initiative, see MD&A - The Hartford's Operations, Operational Transformation and Cost Reduction Plan and Note 18 - Restructuring and Other Costs of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Income tax expense increased primarily due to an increase in income before tax as well as permanent tax benefits in the 2020 period related to the sale of the Continental Europe Operations and the carryback of losses related to the Navigators Group acquisition. For further discussion of income taxes, see Note 12 - Income Taxes of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Nine months ended September 30,2021 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2020

Net income available to common stockholders increased by $436 primarily driven by:

•An increase in net investment income of $450 before tax driven by higher returns on limited partnerships and other alternative investments;

•A $413 before tax change from net realized losses in 2020 to net realized gains in 2021, primarily driven by changes in valuation and sales of equity securities from losses in the 2020 period to gains in the 2021 period;

•An improvement in the P&C underlying combined ratio, including a reduction in COVID-19 incurred losses from $250 before tax in the 2020 period to $30 before tax in the 2021 period, a lower loss ratio before COVID-19 in Commercial Lines, partially offset by higher personal automobile claim frequency;

•Higher Commercial Lines earned premiums, including higher audit and endorsement premiums, and higher earned premiums in Group Benefits;

•An $88 before tax decrease in restructuring costs related to the Hartford Next operational transformation and cost reduction plan; and

•An increase in earnings from Hartford Funds.

These increases were partially offset by:

•A $490 before tax change from net favorable P&C prior accident year development in the 2020 period to net unfavorable development in the 2021 period, primarily driven by greater increases to reserves for sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims and lower reserve decreases for catastrophes in the 2021 period;

•A $335 before tax increase in excess mortality, including deaths specifically attributable to COVID-19, and greater short-term disability losses related to COVID-19;

•A $91 before tax increase in current accident year catastrophe losses, primarily driven by losses from hurricane Ida; and

•Lower income from the Talcott Resolution investment, which was divested on June 30, 2021.

For a discussion of the Company's operating results by segment, see MD&A - Segment Operating Summaries. In addition, for further discussion of impacts resulting from the

COVID-19 pandemic, refer to the Impact of COVID-19 on our financial condition, results of operations and liquidity section of this MD&A.

REVENUE

Earned Premiums

[1] For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, the total includes $9 in Corporate.

Earned premiums increased primarily due to:

•An increase in P&C reflecting a 5% increase in Commercial Lines and a 1% decrease in Personal Lines as the effect of non-renewals outpacing new business in Personal Lines was partially offset by the effect of $81 in COVID-related premium credits in the 2020 period. Contributing to the increase in Commercial Lines was the effect of higher audit and endorsement premiums given the economic recovery in 2021; and

•An increase in Group Benefits earned premium of 2% year over year due to an increase in group disability and higher supplemental health product premiums, partially offset by the effect of buyout premium in the 2020 period.

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increase in equity market levels and net inflows.

Other revenues decreased by $46, primarily driven by lower income of $54 from the Talcott Resolution investment, which was divested on June 30, 2021.

Net Investment Income

Net investment income increased primarily due to:

•A higher level of invested assets;

•Greater income from non-routine income items, including make-whole payments and yield adjustments on prepayable securities; and

•Higher income from equity investments.

These increases were partially offset by:

•A lower yield on fixed maturity investments resulting from reinvesting at lower rates and a lower yield on floating rate investments.

Net realized gains (losses) increased primarily driven by:

•Gains on equity securities in the 2021 period driven by appreciation in value compared to losses on equity securities in the 2020 period, partially offset by net realized gains in the 2020 period upon termination of derivatives used to hedge against a decline in equity market levels;

•A net reduction in ACL on mortgage loans and fixed maturities in the 2021 period due to an improved economic outlook and valuation increases of corporate securities, compared to increases in the ACL on mortgage loans and fixed maturities in the 2020 period;

•A $46 before tax net realized gain in 2021 resulting from sale of the Company's 9.7% previously owned interest in Talcott Resolution; and

•A lower level of losses in 2021 than in 2020 related to the pending sale of the Continental Europe Operations.

These improvements were partially offset by:

•Lower net realized gains on sales of fixed maturity securities.

For further discussion of investment results, see MD&A - Investment Results, Net Realized Gains and MD&A - Investment Results, Net Investment Income.


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BENEFITS, LOSSES AND EXPENSES

Losses and LAE Incurred for P&C

Benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses increased due to:

•An increase in incurred losses for Property & Casualty of $471 which was driven by:

–An unfavorable change of $490 in P&C net prior accident year reserve development. Prior accident year reserve development in the 2021 period was a net unfavorable $170 before tax, driven by reserve increases for sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims, primarily to reflect claims made against the Boy Scouts of America ("BSA"), partially offset by reserve decreases in catastrophes, workers' compensation, package business, personal automobile, commercial property, and bond. Prior accident year development in the 2021 period also included $73 before tax of adverse development for Navigators related to 2018 and prior accident years. Prior accident year reserve development in 2020 was a favorable $320 before tax, driven by $413 of reserve reductions related to catastrophes, including decreases in estimated losses arising from wind and hail events in 2018 and 2019 and from the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires, including a $289 before tax subrogation benefit from PG&E. Apart from catastrophes, reserve development in the nine months ended September 30, 2020 primarily included a $129 before tax reserve increase for sexual molestation and abuse claims and $97 before tax of adverse development for Navigators related to 2018 and prior accident years, for which the Company recognized a deferred gain. For further discussion, see Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements;

–An increase in current accident year catastrophe losses of $91, before tax. Catastrophe losses in the 2021 period were principally from hurricane Ida as well as from tornado, wind and hail events in Texas, the Midwest and Southeast, and from February winter storms, primarily in the South. Catastrophe losses in 2020 were primarily from wildfires in California and

Losses and LAE Incurred for Group Benefits

Oregon, Tropical Storm Isaias and Hurricane Laura losses in third quarter 2020, the civil unrest during the second quarter of 2020 and from tornado, wind and hail events in the South, Midwest and Central Plains.

–Partially offset by a decrease in P&C current accident year ("CAY") loss and loss adjustment expenses before catastrophes primarily due to a $220 before tax decrease in COVID-19 incurred losses, and lower current accident year loss ratios before COVID-19 in global specialty and workers’ compensation, partially offset by higher personal automobile claim frequency, higher non-catastrophe property losses and the effect of higher earned premiums.

•An increase in Group Benefits of $369 driven by higher excess mortality in group life, the effect of an increase in earned premiums and higher short-term disability claim incidence as the prior year period benefited from fewer elective procedures during the early stages of the pandemic, partially offset by a higher New York Paid Family Leave risk assessment refund in the 2021 period.

For further discussion of impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, refer to the Impact of COVID-19 on our Financial Condition, Results of Operations and Liquidity section of this MD&A.

Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs decreased from the prior year period due primarily to reductions in Commercial Lines and Personal Lines with the decrease in Commercial Lines due to lower average commissions and the decrease in Personal Lines due to lower earned premiums.

Insurance operating costs and other expenses increased due to:

•Higher variable costs of the Hartford Funds business due to higher daily average assets under management;

•Higher variable incentive compensation costs;

•An increase in supplemental and contingent commissions;


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•Increased costs in Group Benefits to handle elevated claim levels resulting from the pandemic, higher technology costs and increased AARP direct marketing costs in Personal Lines; and

•Legal and consulting costs associated with the unsolicited proposals from Chubb Limited (“Chubb”) to acquire the Company.

These increases were partially offset by:

•Lower staffing and other costs driven by the Company’s Hartford Next operational transformation and cost reduction plan; and

•A decrease in the ACL on uncollectible premiums receivable in Property & Casualty and Group Benefits in the 2021 period compared to an increase in the 2020 period due to the economic impacts of COVID-19.

Restructuring and other costs decreased as the prior year period included severance costs related to the Company's Hartford Next operational transformation and cost reduction plan. For further discussion of impacts resulting from the Hartford Next initiative, see MD&A - The Hartford's Operations, The Hartford's Operations, Operational Transformation and Cost Reduction Plan and Note 18 - Restructuring and Other Costs of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Income tax expense increased primarily due to an increase in income before tax.

For further discussion of income taxes, see Note 12 - Income Taxes of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

INVESTMENT RESULTS


Composition of Invested Assets
	September 30, 2021				December 31, 2020
	Amount		Percent		Amount		Percent
Fixed maturities, available-for-sale ("AFS"), at fair value	$	43,942	76.3	%	$	45,035	79.7	%

Equity securities, at fair value	1,616		2.8	%	1,438		2.5	%
Mortgage loans (net of ACL of $26 and $38)	5,106		8.9	%	4,493		7.9	%
Limited partnerships and other alternative investments	2,961		5.1	%	2,082		3.7	%
Other investments [1]	337		0.6	%	201		0.4	%
Short-term investments	3,612		6.3	%	3,283		5.8	%
Total investments	$	57,574	100.0	%	$	56,532	100.0	%

[1]Primarily consists of fixed maturities, at fair value using the fair value option ("FVO"), equity fund investments, overseas deposits, consolidated investment funds and derivative instruments which are carried at fair value.

September 30, 2021 compared to December 31, 2020

Total investments increased primarily due to an increase in limited partnerships and other alternative investments as well as mortgage loans, largely offset by a decrease in fixed maturities, AFS.

Limited partnerships and other alternative investments increased primarily driven by increased valuations and additional investments in real estate joint ventures.

Mortgage loans increased largely due to funding of industrial, retail, and multifamily commercial whole loans.

Fixed maturities, AFS decreased primarily due to a decrease in valuations due to higher interest rates, partially offset by tighter credit spreads.


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Net Investment Income
	Three Months Ended September 30,								Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021				2020				2021				2020
(Before tax)	Amount		Yield [1]		Amount		Yield [1]		Amount		Yield [1]		Amount		Yield [1]
Fixed maturities [2]	$	332	3.1	%	$	359	3.4	%	$	1,019	3.1	%	$	1,093	3.5	%
Equity securities	23		6.2	%	9		4.5	%	43		3.9	%	27		3.4	%
Mortgage loans	45		3.7	%	44		3.9	%	133		3.7	%	128		3.9	%
Limited partnerships and other alternative investments	259		39.6	%	83		18.3	%	562		33.7	%	70		5.2	%
Other [3]	11				14				43				23
Investment expense	(20)				(17)				(60)				(51)
Total net investment income	$	650	4.8	%	$	492	3.8	%	$	1,740	4.3	%	$	1,290	3.4	%
Total net investment income excluding limited partnerships and other alternative investments	$	391	3.0	%	$	409	3.3	%	$	1,178	3.1	%	$	1,220	3.3	%

[1]Yields calculated using annualized net investment income divided by the monthly average invested assets at amortized cost, as applicable, excluding repurchase agreement and securities lending collateral, if any, and derivatives book value.

[2]Includes net investment income on short-term investments.

[3]Primarily includes changes in fair value of certain equity fund investments and income from derivatives that qualify for hedge accounting and are used to hedge fixed maturities.

Three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three months ended September 30, 2020

Total net investment income increased primarily due to:

•A higher level of invested assets; and

•Higher dividend income from equity investments.

These increases were partially offset by a lower yield on fixed maturities resulting from reinvesting at lower rates.

Nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2020

Total net investment income increased primarily due to:

•A higher level of invested assets;

•Greater income from non-routine items, including make-whole payments and yield adjustments on prepayable securities; and

•Higher income from equity investments.

These increases were partially offset by a lower yield on fixed maturities resulting from reinvesting at lower rates and a lower yield on floating rate investments.

Annualized net investment income yield, excluding limited partnerships and other alternative investments and non-routine items on fixed maturities, which include income items such as make-whole payments and yield adjustments on prepayable securities, was down primarily due to lower reinvestment rates.

Average reinvestment rates, on fixed maturities and mortgage loans, excluding certain U.S. Treasury securities, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, were 2.6% and 2.5%, respectively, which were below the average yield of sales and maturities of 3.1% and 3.0%, respectively. Average reinvestment rates for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, were 2.1% and 2.5%, respectively, which were below the average yield of sales and maturities of 3.5% for the same periods.

For the 2021 calendar year, we expect the annualized net investment income yield, excluding limited partnerships and other alternative investments and non-routine items on fixed maturities, to be lower than the portfolio yield earned in 2020, due to lower reinvestment rates and a lower yield on short-term investments. The estimated impact on net investment income yield is subject to change due to evolving market conditions and active portfolio management.


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Net Realized Gains (Losses)
	Three Months Ended September 30,				Nine Months Ended September 30,
(Before tax)	2021		2020		2021		2020
Gross gains on sales	$	63	$	27	$	162	$	201
Gross losses on sales	(8)		(12)		(54)		(42)
Equity securities [1]	3		42		134		(269)
Net credit losses on fixed maturities, AFS [2]	—		(1)		4		(33)
Change in ACL on mortgage loans [3]	(2)		5		12		(19)
Intent-to-sell impairments [2]	—		—		—		(5)


Other, net [4]	14		(55)		39		51



Net realized gains (losses)	$	70	$	6	$	297	$	(116)

[1] The net unrealized gains (losses) on equity securities included in net realized gains (losses) related to equity securities still held as of September 30, 2021, were $(17) and $92 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, respectively. The net unrealized gains on equity securities included in net realized gains (losses) related to equity securities still held as of September 30, 2020, were $36 and $6 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020 respectively.

[2] See Credit Losses on Fixed Maturities, AFS and Intent-to-Sell Impairments within the Investment Portfolio Risks and Risk Management section of the MD&A.

[3] See ACL on Mortgage Loans within the Investment Portfolio Risks and Risk Management section of the MD&A.

[4] For both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 includes gains (losses) from transactional foreign currency revaluation of $6 and $(1), respectively, non-qualifying derivatives of $10 and $16, respectively, and an additional loss of $(2) and $(20), respectively, on the pending sale of Continental Europe Operations. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, there was also a gain of $46 on the sale of the Company's previously owned interest in Talcott Resolution. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, includes gains (losses) from transactional foreign currency revaluation of $(4) and $6, respectively, non-qualifying derivatives of $(2) and $97, respectively, and a loss of $51 related to the pending sale of the Continental Europe Operations.

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021

Gross gains and losses on sales were primarily due to an overall reduction to corporate securities and tax-exempt municipals, in addition to sales of U.S. treasuries for duration and risk management.

Equity securities net gains for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 were primarily driven by appreciation in value due to higher equity market levels.

Other, net gains and losses for the nine month period ended September 30, 2021, included a gain of $46 on the sale of the Company's 9.7% retained interest in Talcott Resolution, and a loss of $20 related to the pending sale of the Company's Continental Europe Operations, which the Company agreed to sell in September of 2020. Also included for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2021 were gains of $9 on interest rate derivatives driven by an increase in interest rates.

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Gross gains and losses on sales were primarily driven by sales of U.S. treasury securities for duration and/or liquidity management and issuer-specific sales of corporate securities and tax-exempt municipal bonds.

Equity securities net gains for the three month period ended September 30, 2020 were primarily driven by mark-to-market gains due to an increase in equity market levels. For the nine month period ended September 30, 2020, net losses were driven by mark-to-market losses due to the decline in equity market levels in the first quarter and losses incurred on sales across multiple issuers as the Company reduced its exposure to equity securities.

Other, net gains for the three month period were primarily due to a loss of $51, before tax, on the sale of the Company's

Continental Europe Operations which the Company agreed to sell in September of 2020, while the nine month period also included $75 of realized gains on terminated derivatives used to hedge against a decline in equity market levels and $21 of gains on interest rate derivatives due to a decline in interest rates.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ, and in the past have differed, from those estimates.

The Company has identified the following estimates as critical in that they involve a higher degree of judgment and are subject to a significant degree of variability:

•property and casualty insurance product reserves, net of reinsurance;

•group benefit long-term disability ("LTD") reserves, net of reinsurance;

•evaluation of goodwill for impairment;

•valuation of investments and derivative instruments including evaluation of credit losses on fixed maturities, AFS and ACL on mortgage loans; and

•contingencies relating to corporate litigation and regulatory matters.

Certain of these estimates are particularly sensitive to market conditions, and deterioration and/or volatility in the worldwide debt or equity markets could have a material impact on the


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Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. In developing these estimates, management makes subjective and complex judgments that are inherently uncertain and subject to material change as facts and circumstances develop. Although variability is inherent in these estimates, management believes the amounts provided are appropriate based upon the facts available upon compilation of the financial statements.

The Company’s critical accounting estimates are discussed in Part II, Item 7 MD&A in the Company’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual

Report. In addition, Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report should be read in conjunction with this section to assist with obtaining an understanding of the underlying accounting policies related to these estimates. The following discussion updates certain of the Company’s critical accounting estimates as of September 30, 2021.

|PROPERTY & CASUALTY INSURANCE PRODUCT RESERVES, NET OF REINSURANCE

P&C Loss and Loss Adjustment Expense Reserves, Net of Reinsurance, by Segment as of September 30, 2021

Based on the results of the quarterly reserve review process, the Company determines the appropriate reserve adjustments, if any, to record. Recorded reserve estimates are adjusted after consideration of numerous factors, including but not limited to, the magnitude of the difference between the actuarial indication and the recorded reserves, improvement or deterioration of actuarial indications in the period, the maturity of the accident year, trends observed over the recent past and the level of volatility within a particular line of business. In general, adjustments are made more quickly to more mature accident years and less volatile lines of business. Such adjustments of reserves are referred to as “prior accident year development”. Increases in previous estimates of ultimate loss costs are referred to as either an increase in prior accident year reserves or as unfavorable reserve development. Decreases in previous estimates of ultimate loss costs are referred to as either a decrease in prior accident year reserves or as favorable reserve development. Reserve development can influence the comparability of year over year underwriting results and is set forth in the paragraphs and tables that follow.


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Rollforward of Property and Casualty Insurance Product Liabilities for Unpaid Losses and LAE for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Property & Casualty Other Operations		Total Property & Casualty
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	25,058	$	1,836	$	2,728	$	29,622
Reinsurance and other recoverables	4,271		28		1,426		5,725
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	20,787		1,808		1,302		23,897


Provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses
Current accident year before catastrophes	3,986		1,340		—		5,326
Current accident year ("CAY") catastrophes	490		152		—		642
Prior accident year development ("PYD") [1]	255		(113)		28		170
Total provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses	4,731		1,379		28		6,138
Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance included in other liabilities [1]	(73)		—		—		(73)
Payments	(3,154)		(1,394)		(156)		(4,704)

Foreign currency adjustment	1		—		—		1
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	22,292		1,793		1,174		25,259
Reinsurance and other recoverables	4,514		35		1,382		5,931
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	26,806	$	1,828	$	2,556	$	31,190
Earned premiums and fee income	$	7,053	$	2,240
Loss and loss expense paid ratio [2]	44.7		62.2
Loss and loss expense incurred ratio	67.3		62.2
Prior accident year development (pts) [3]	3.6		(5.1)

[1]Prior accident year development does not include the benefit of a portion of losses ceded under the Navigators and A&E ADCs which, under retroactive reinsurance accounting, is deferred and is recognized over the period the ceded losses are recovered in cash from National Indemnity Company ("NICO"). For additional information regarding the two adverse development cover reinsurance agreements, refer to Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

[2]The “loss and loss expense paid ratio” represents the ratio of paid losses and loss adjustment expenses to earned premiums and fee income.

[3]“Prior accident year development (pts)” represents the ratio of prior accident year development to earned premiums.


Current Accident Year Catastrophe Losses, Net of Reinsurance
	Three Months Ended September 30, 2021						Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Total		Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Total
Wind and hail	$	31	$	17	$	48	$	129	$	72	$	201
Winter storms [1]	(2)		—		(2)		152		18		170

Hurricanes and tropical storms	166		44		210		167		45		212
Wildfires	4		17		21		4		17		21



Catastrophes before assumed reinsurance	199		78		277		452		152		604
Global assumed reinsurance business [2]	23		—		23		38		—		38
Total catastrophe losses	$	222	$	78	$	300	$	490	$	152	$	642

[1]Includes catastrophe losses from the February winter storms in Texas and other areas within Commercial Lines and Personal Lines of $207 and $24, respectively, gross of reinsurance, and $152 and $18, respectively, net of reinsurance under the Company's per occurrence property catastrophe treaty covering events other than earthquakes and named hurricanes and tropical storms. The reinsurance covers 70% of up to $250 of losses in excess of $100 from such events occurring within a seven day time period, subject to a $50 annual aggregate deductible. These recoveries do not inure to the benefit of the aggregate property catastrophe treaty reinsurers. For further information on the treaty, refer to Enterprise Risk Management — Insurance Risk section of this MD&A.

[2]Catastrophe losses incurred on global assumed reinsurance business are not covered under the Company's aggregate property catastrophe treaty. For further information on the treaty, refer to Enterprise Risk Management — Insurance Risk section of this MD&A.


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Unfavorable (Favorable) Prior Accident Year Development for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Property & Casualty Other Operations		Total Property & Casualty Insurance
Workers’ compensation	$	(30)	$	—	$	—	$	(30)
Workers’ compensation discount accretion	8		—		—		8
General liability	144		—		—		144
Marine	(1)		—		—		(1)
Package business	(20)		—		—		(20)
Commercial property	(4)		—		—		(4)
Professional liability	—		—		—		—
Bond	(12)		—		—		(12)
Assumed reinsurance	—		—		—		—
Automobile liability	9		(30)		—		(21)
Homeowners	—		1		—		1


Catastrophes	—		—		—		—
Uncollectible reinsurance	—		—		—		—
Other reserve re-estimates, net	—		2		(5)		(3)
Prior accident year development before change in deferred gain	94		(27)		(5)		62
Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance included in other liabilities	28		—		—		28
Total prior accident year development	$	122	$	(27)	$	(5)	$	90


Unfavorable (Favorable) Prior Accident Year Development for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021
	Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Property & Casualty Other Operations		Total Property & Casualty Insurance
Workers’ compensation	$	(113)	$	—	$	—	$	(113)
Workers’ compensation discount accretion	26		—		—		26

General liability	451		—		—		451
Marine	—		—		—		—
Package business	(66)		—		—		(66)
Commercial property	(24)		—		—		(24)
Professional liability	(7)		—		—		(7)
Bond	(26)		—		—		(26)
Assumed reinsurance	—		—		—		—
Automobile liability	9		(73)		—		(64)
Homeowners	—		2		—		2
Net asbestos reserves	—		—		—		—
Net environmental reserves	—		—		—		—
Catastrophes	(57)		(41)		—		(98)
Uncollectible reinsurance	(5)		—		(5)		(10)
Other reserve re-estimates, net	(6)		(1)		33		26

Prior accident year development before change in deferred gain	182		(113)		28		97
Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance included in other liabilities	73		—		—		73
Total prior accident year development	$	255	$	(113)	$	28	$	170


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Rollforward of Property and Casualty Insurance Product Liabilities for Unpaid Losses and LAE for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
	Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Property & Casualty Other Operations		Total Property & Casualty Insurance
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	23,363	$	2,201	$	2,697	$	28,261
Reinsurance and other recoverables [1]	4,029		68		1,178		5,275
Beginning liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	19,334		2,133		1,519		22,986

Provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses
Current accident year before catastrophes	4,186		1,255		—		5,441
Current accident year catastrophes	355		196		—		551
Prior accident year development [2]	61		(396)		15		(320)
Total provision for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses	4,602		1,055		15		5,672
Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance included in other liabilities [2]	(97)		—		—		(97)
Payments	(3,271)		(1,310)		(204)		(4,785)
Net reserves transferred to liabilities held for sale	(43)		—		—		(43)
Foreign currency adjustment	(3)		—		—		(3)
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, net	20,522		1,878		1,330		23,730
Reinsurance and other recoverables	4,261		27		1,133		5,421
Ending liabilities for unpaid losses and loss adjustment expenses, gross	$	24,783	$	1,905	$	2,463	$	29,151
Earned premiums and fee income	$	6,694	$	2,273
Loss and loss expense paid ratio [3]	48.9		57.6
Loss and loss expense incurred ratio	68.9		47.0
Prior accident year development (pts) [4]	0.9		(17.6)

[1]Includes a cumulative effect adjustment of $1 and $(1) for Commercial Lines and Property & Casualty Other Operations respectively, representing an adjustment to the ACL recorded on adoption of accounting guidance for credit losses on January 1, 2020. See Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

[2]Prior accident year development does not include the benefit of a portion of losses ceded under the Navigators and A&E ADC which, under retroactive reinsurance accounting, is deferred and is recognized over the period the ceded losses are recovered in cash from NICO. For additional information regarding the two adverse development cover reinsurance agreements, refer to Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

[3] The “loss and loss expense paid ratio” represents the ratio of paid losses and loss adjustment expenses to earned premiums and fee income.

[4]“Prior accident year development (pts)” represents the ratio of prior accident year development to earned premiums.


Current Accident Year Catastrophe Losses, Net of Reinsurance
	Three Months Ended September 30, 2020						Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
	Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Total		Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Total
Wind and hail	$	26	$	18	$	44	$	160	$	90	$	250
Civil Unrest	(3)		—		(3)		107		—		107
Hurricanes and Tropical Storms	61		41		102		62		42		104



Wildfires	22		63		85		24		64		88
Other	1		—		1		2		—		2
Total catastrophe losses	$	107	$	122	$	229	$	355	$	196	$	551


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Unfavorable (Favorable) Prior Accident Year Development for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2020
	Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Property & Casualty Other Operations		Total Property & Casualty Insurance
Workers’ compensation	$	(34)	$	—	$	—	$	(34)
Workers’ compensation discount accretion	9		—		—		9
General liability	(2)		—		—		(2)
Marine	—		—		—		—
Package business	(18)		—		—		(18)
Commercial property	(4)		—		—		(4)
Professional liability	(21)		—		—		(21)
Bond	—		—		—		—
Assumed Reinsurance	—		—		—		—
Automobile liability	—		(32)		—		(32)
Homeowners	—		3		—		3
Net asbestos reserves	—		—		—		—
Net environmental reserves	—		—		—		—
Catastrophes	—		—		—		—
Uncollectible reinsurance	—		—		(6)		(6)
Other reserve re-estimates, net	(1)		—		17		16
Prior accident year development before change in deferred gain	(71)		(29)		11		(89)
Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance included in other liabilities	14		—		—		14
Total prior accident year development	$	(57)	$	(29)	$	11	$	(75)


Unfavorable (Favorable) Prior Accident Year Development for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020
	Commercial Lines		Personal Lines		Property & Casualty Other Operations		Total Property & Casualty Insurance
Workers’ compensation	$	(72)	$	—	$	—	$	(72)
Workers’ compensation discount accretion	27		—		—		27

General liability	112		—		—		112
Marine	1		—		—		1
Package business	(24)		—		—		(24)
Commercial property	(6)		—		—		(6)
Professional liability	(16)		—		—		(16)
Bond	(10)		—		—		(10)
Assumed reinsurance	(7)		—		—		(7)
Automobile liability	27		(53)		—		(26)
Homeowners	—		3		—		3
Net asbestos reserves	—		—		—		—
Net environmental reserves	—		—		—		—
Catastrophes	(72)		(341)		—		(413)
Uncollectible reinsurance	—		—		(8)		(8)
Other reserve re-estimates, net	4		(5)		23		22
Total prior accident year development	(36)		(396)		15		(417)
Change in deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance included in other liabilities	97		—		—		97
Total prior accident year development	$	61	$	(396)	$	15	$	(320)

For discussion of the factors contributing to unfavorable (favorable) prior accident year reserve development for both the 2021 and 2020 nine month periods, please refer to Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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Underwriting Summary


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Written premiums	$	2,532	$	2,199	15	%	$	7,529	$	6,772	11	%
Change in unearned premium reserve	83		(52)		NM		501		99		NM
Earned premiums	2,449		2,251		9	%	7,028		6,673		5	%
Fee income	8		8		—	%	25		21		19	%
Losses and loss adjustment expenses
Current accident year before catastrophes	1,351		1,366		(1	%)	3,986		4,181		(5	%)
Current accident year catastrophes [1]	222		107		107	%	490		355		38	%
Prior accident year development [1]	122		(57)		NM		255		61		NM
Total losses and loss adjustment expenses	1,695		1,416		20	%	4,731		4,597		3	%
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs	348		344		1	%	1,038		1,051		(1	%)
Underwriting expenses	432		391		10	%	1,231		1,221		1	%
Amortization of other intangible assets	7		8		(13	%)	21		22		(5	%)
Dividends to policyholders	5		8		(38	%)	17		23		(26	%)

Underwriting gain (loss)	(30)		92		(133	%)	15		(220)		107	%
Net servicing income	2		1		100	%	11		2		NM
Net investment income [2]	421		316		33	%	1,130		797		42	%
Net realized gains (losses) [2]	51		(26)		NM		142		(105)		NM


Other expenses	(5)		(8)		38	%	(15)		(25)		40	%
Income before income taxes	439		375		17	%	1,283		449		186	%
Income tax expense [3]	82		52		58	%	228		71		NM


Net income	$	357	$	323	11	%	$	1,055	$	378	179	%

[1]For additional information on current accident year catastrophes and prior accident year development, see MD&A - Critical Accounting Estimates, Property and Casualty Insurance Product Reserves Development, Net of Reinsurance and Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

[2]For discussion of consolidated investment results, see MD&A - Investment Results.

[3]For discussion of income taxes, see Note 12 - Income Taxes of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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Premium Measures


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021			2020			2021			2020
Small Commercial:
Net new business premium	$	165		$	129		$	511		$	404
Policy count retention [1]	84		%	84		%	84		%	83		%
Policy count retention, net of cancellations [1]	93		%	79		%	87		%	84		%
Renewal written price increases	3.2		%	1.6		%	2.9		%	1.9		%
Renewal earned price increases	2.7		%	2.2		%	2.4		%	2.1		%

Policies in-force as of end of period (in thousands)	1,352			1,278
Middle Market [2]:
Net new business premium	$	139		$	131		$	408		$	355
Policy count retention [1]	87		%	79		%	83		%	79		%
Policy count retention, net of cancellations [1]	90		%	77		%	84		%	78		%
Renewal written price increases	6.0		%	8.0		%	6.1		%	7.7		%
Renewal earned price increases	7.2		%	7.2		%	7.6		%	6.0		%

Policies in-force as of end of period (in thousands)	61			59
Global Specialty:
Global specialty gross new business premium [3]	$	234		$	185		$	687		$	568
U.S. global specialty renewal written price increases	9.9		%	20.5		%	12.4		%	17.0		%
U.S. global specialty renewal earned price increases	16.0		%	15.0		%	17.7		%	11.5		%
International global specialty renewal written price increases [4]	17.3		%	52.6		%	22.7		%	38.8		%
International global specialty renewal earned price increases [4]	38.3		%	47.3		%	48.4		%	35.8		%

[1]Policy count retention represents the ratio of the number of renewal policies issued during the current year period divided by the number of policies issued in the previous calendar year period before considering policies cancelled subsequent to renewal. Policy count retention, net of cancellations, represents the ratio of the number of renewal policies issued net of cancellations during the current year period divided by the number of policies issued net of cancellations in the previous calendar year period.

[2]Except for net new business premium, metrics for middle market exclude loss sensitive and programs businesses.

[3]Excludes Global Re and Continental Europe Operations and is before ceded reinsurance.

[4]Excludes offshore energy policies, political violence and terrorism policies, and any business under which the managing agent of our Lloyd's Syndicate delegates underwriting authority to coverholders and other third parties.

Underwriting Ratios


	Three Months Ended September 30,			Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021	2020	Change	2021	2020	Change
Loss and loss adjustment expense ratio
Current accident year before catastrophes	55.2	60.7	(5.5)	56.7	62.7	(6.0)
Current accident year catastrophes	9.1	4.8	4.3	7.0	5.3	1.7
Prior accident year development	5.0	(2.5)	7.5	3.6	0.9	2.7
Total loss and loss adjustment expense ratio	69.2	62.9	6.3	67.3	68.9	(1.6)
Expense ratio	31.8	32.7	(0.9)	32.2	34.1	(1.9)
Policyholder dividend ratio	0.2	0.4	(0.2)	0.2	0.3	(0.1)
Combined ratio	101.2	95.9	5.3	99.8	103.3	(3.5)
Impact of current accident year catastrophes and prior year development	(14.1)	(2.3)	(11.8)	(10.6)	(6.2)	(4.4)

Underlying combined ratio	87.2	93.7	(6.5)	89.2	97.1	(7.9)


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Net Income

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Net income for the three months ended September 30, 2021 increased, primarily due to an increase in net investment income and a change from net realized losses to net realized gains, partially offset by a change from an underwriting gain to an underwriting loss.

Net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 increased primarily due to higher net investment income, a change from an underwriting loss to an underwriting gain and a change from net realized losses to net realized gains. For further discussion of investment results, see MD&A - Investment Results.

Underwriting Gain (Loss)

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Underwriting loss for the three month period ended September 30, 2021 compared to an underwriting gain for the prior year three month period with the deterioration primarily driven by a change to net unfavorable prior accident year development in the 2021 period, principally driven by the new agreement-in-principle to settle BSA claims in third quarter 2021, higher current accident year catastrophes, driven by hurricane Ida, and increased underwriting expenses, partially offset by the impact of higher earned premiums and lower current accident year losses before catastrophes, including a reduction in direct COVID-19 incurred losses. Underwriting expenses increased in 2021 as higher commissions, incentive compensation and technology costs were partially offset by cost savings from Hartford Next and a decrease in the allowance for credit losses on premiums receivable in the 2021 period compared to an increase in the 2020 period.

Underwriting gain for the nine month period ended September 30, 2021 compared to an underwriting loss for the prior year nine month period with the improvement primarily due to lower current accident year losses before catastrophes, driven by $250 before tax of COVID-19 incurred losses in the first nine months of 2020 compared with $30 before tax of COVID-19 incurred losses in the first nine months of 2021, and the impact of higher earned premium, partially offset by higher net unfavorable prior accident year development and higher current accident year catastrophes in the current year period. Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs decreased from the prior year period primarily due to lower average base commissions despite higher earned premiums. Underwriting expenses increased due to higher contingent and supplemental commissions, incentive compensation and technology costs, partially offset by a decrease in the allowance for credit losses on premiums receivable in the 2021 period compared to an increase in the 2020 period and savings from Hartford Next initiatives.


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Earned Premiums

[1]Other earned premiums of $12 and $10, for the three months ended September 30, 2020, and 2021, respectively, and $33 and $32 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2021, respectively, is included in the total.

Written Premiums

[1]Other written premiums of $10 and $11, for the three months ended September 30, 2020, and 2021, respectively, and $31 and $32 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2021, respectively, is included in the total.

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Earned premiums for the three and nine month periods increased in 2021 due to written premium increases over the prior 12 months as well as due to higher premiums from audits and endorsements, principally in workers’ compensation due to an increasing exposure base from higher payrolls as the economy recovers from the pandemic.

Written premiums for the three and nine month periods increased in 2021 driven by growth in small commercial, middle & large commercial and global specialty across most lines of business.

The Company recognized renewal written pricing increases in all lines in third quarter 2021 with moderating price increases in middle market and global specialty. In global specialty, our U.S. wholesale book achieved an approximate 14% renewal written price increase, led by excess casualty and property. Global specialty international lines achieved a 17% price increase, led by D&O. In small commercial, renewal written price increases were higher in 2021 than 2020, with workers' compensation pricing slightly positive in the third quarter of 2021 due to rising wages, along with mid-single digit increases in most other lines. In middle market, the Company recognized high single-digit to low double-digit rate increases in most middle market lines other than workers’ compensation, which experienced low single-digit written pricing increases.

New business premium increased in 2021 in both the three and nine month periods driven by growth in small commercial, led by increases in package business and workers' compensation. In addition, new business growth in middle & large commercial was led by construction and general liability in the three month period and nearly all lines grew in the nine month period. Global specialty gross new business premium increased in both the three and nine month periods driven by financial lines and wholesale.

•Small commercial written premium increased in 2021 in all lines in the three month period and in all lines except automobile in the nine month period, with the most growth in package business and workers’ compensation.

•Middle & large commercial written premium increased in 2021 in both the three and nine month periods driven by growth in most lines of business, with the most significant growth in general industries, large and complex solutions and industry verticals.

•Global specialty written premium increased in 2021 in both the three and nine month periods driven by growth in U.S. wholesale, global reinsurance and financial lines.


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Current Accident Year Loss and LAE Ratio before Catastrophes

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Current accident year loss and LAE ratio before catastrophes decreased in 2021 in the three month period primarily due to lower loss ratios in global specialty, workers’ compensation, general liability and non-catastrophe property losses written as part of small commercial package business. Current accident year loss and LAE ratio before catastrophes decreased in 2021 in the nine month period primarily due to lower COVID-19 incurred losses in 2021 as well as due to lower loss ratios in global specialty, workers’ compensation, and general liability. The lower loss ratios in global specialty for both periods were largely the result of rate and underwriting actions to improve profitability in those lines and was driven by international, global reinsurance, U.S. wholesale and U.S. financial lines.

The three months ended September 30, 2021 included $3 before tax of COVID-19 incurred losses, all within financial and other lines. The nine months ended September 30, 2021 included COVID-19 incurred losses of $30 before tax, including losses of $20 in workers’ compensation and $10 in financial and other lines.

The three month period in 2020 included COVID-19 incurred losses of $37 before tax, including $17 of losses in workers' compensation, net of favorable frequency on other workers' compensation claims, and $20 of losses in financial and other lines. The nine month period in 2020 included COVID-19 incurred losses of $250 before tax, including losses of $141 in property, $52 in workers’ compensation, net of favorable frequency on other workers' compensation claims, and $57 in financial and other lines.

Included in the $141 of COVID-19 property incurred losses and loss adjustment expenses in the nine months ended September 30, 2020 were $101 of losses arising from a small number of property policies that do not require direct physical loss or damage and from policies intended to cover specific business needs, including crisis management and performance disruption as well as a reserve of $40 for legal defense costs. Workers’ compensation COVID-19 incurred losses include claims in both states with presumptive coverage and in other states where the claimant must prove their COVID-19 illness was contracted at

work. Financial lines COVID-19 claims include exposures in D&O, E&O and employment practices liability and the recessionary impacts on the surety book of business.

Catastrophes and Unfavorable (Favorable) Prior Accident Year Development

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Current accident year catastrophe losses for the three months ended September 30, 2021 included losses from hurricane Ida and, to a lesser extent, losses from tropical storms and wind and hail events in the Midwest and Mountain West.

Current accident year catastrophe losses for the three months ended September 30, 2020 included losses from hurricane Laura, Pacific Coast wildfires, tropical storm Isaias, a Midwest derecho, and other wind and hail events mostly in the Central Plains.

Current accident year catastrophe losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 included losses from hurricane Ida, tropical storms and February winter storms primarily in the South, with the remaining losses largely from tornado, wind and hail events, mostly concentrated in Texas, the Southeast and Midwest.

Current accident year catastrophe losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 were primarily from civil unrest, hurricane Laura, Pacific Coast wildfires, tropical storm Isaias and from tornado, wind and hail events in the South, Midwest and Central Plains.

Prior accident year development was net unfavorable for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021. Reserve development in both 2021 periods included an increase in general liability that included a reserve increase related to the settlement with Boy Scouts of America on sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims, partially offset by reserve decreases for workers' compensation, package business, bond and, for the nine month period, reserve decreases for catastrophes and commercial property.


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Net favorable reserve development for the three month period in 2020 included reserve decreases for workers' compensation, package business and professional liability. Net unfavorable reserve development for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 included reserve increases for general liability driven primarily by increases in reserves for sexual molestation and abuse claims, and increases in commercial automobile liability reserves, partially offset by reserve decreases for workers' compensation, catastrophes and package business. Favorable development on prior year catastrophe reserves in the nine month period in 2020 was due to recognizing a $29 before tax

subrogation benefit from a settlement with PG&E over certain of the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires and a reduction in estimated catastrophe losses from a number of wind and hail events that occurred in 2018 and 2019.

Prior accident year development in the three and nine month periods of both 2021 and 2020 included reserve increases related to Navigators Group on 2018 and prior accident years that was economically ceded to NICO but for which the benefit was not recognized in earnings as it has been recorded as a deferred gain on retroactive reinsurance.


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Underwriting Summary


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Written premiums	$	765	$	781	(2	%)	$	2,240	$	2,263	(1	%)
Change in unearned premium reserve	21		2		NM		24		16		50	%
Earned premiums	744		779		(4	%)	2,216		2,247		(1	%)
Fee income	8		8		—	%	24		26		(8	%)
Losses and loss adjustment expenses
Current accident year before catastrophes	479		436		10	%	1,340		1,255		7	%
Current accident year catastrophes [1]	78		122		(36	%)	152		196		(22	%)
Prior accident year development [1]	(27)		(29)		7	%	(113)		(396)		71	%
Total losses and loss adjustment expenses	530		529		—	%	1,379		1,055		31	%
Amortization of DAC	57		60		(5	%)	173		185		(6	%)
Underwriting expenses	154		146		5	%	456		447		2	%
Amortization of other intangible assets	1		—		NM		2		3		(33	%)
Underwriting gain	10		52		(81	%)	230		583		(61	%)
Net servicing income [2]	6		5		20	%	15		10		50	%
Net investment income [3]	44		41		7	%	119		110		8	%
Net realized gains (losses) [3]	4		3		33	%	17		(12)		NM
Other expenses	(1)		(2)		50	%	(1)		(1)		—	%
Income before income taxes	63		99		(36	%)	380		690		(45	%)
Income tax expense [4]	12		20		(40	%)	76		142		(46	%)
Net income	$	51	$	79	(35	%)	$	304	$	548	(45)	%

[1]For additional information on current accident year catastrophes and prior accident year development, see MD&A - Critical Accounting Estimates, Property & Casualty Insurance Product Reserves, Net of Reinsurance and Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

[2]Includes servicing revenues of $22 and $23 for the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and $62 and $63 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Includes servicing expenses of $16 and $18 for the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and $47 and $53 for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

[3]For discussion of consolidated investment results, see MD&A - Investment Results.

[4]For discussion of income taxes, see Note 12 - Income Taxes of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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Written and Earned Premiums


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
Written Premiums	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Product Line
Automobile	$	516	$	529	(2	%)	$	1,539	$	1,544	—	%
Homeowners	249		252		(1	%)	701		719		(3	%)
Total	$	765	$	781	(2	%)	$	2,240	$	2,263	(1	%)
Earned Premiums
Product Line
Automobile	$	511	$	541	(6	%)	$	1,527	$	1,533	—	%
Homeowners	233		238		(2	%)	689		714		(4	%)
Total	$	744	$	779	(4	%)	$	2,216	$	2,247	(1	%)

Premium Measures


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
Premium Measures	2021			2020			2021			2020
Policies in-force end of period (in thousands)
Automobile	1,328			1,392
Homeowners	786			846

Net new business premium
Automobile	$	58		$	55		$	167		$	178
Homeowners	$	17		$	16		$	46		$	51
Policy count retention [1]
Automobile	84		%	85		%	85		%	84		%
Homeowners	84		%	85		%	85		%	84		%
Policy count retention, net of cancellations [1] [2]
Automobile	87		%	84		%	83		%	86		%
Homeowners	86		%	84		%	84		%	86		%
Renewal written price increase
Automobile	2.2		%	2.1		%	2.1		%	2.6		%
Homeowners	8.1		%	7.1		%	8.6		%	5.7		%
Renewal earned price increase
Automobile	2.0		%	3.1		%	2.0		%	3.7		%
Homeowners	8.6		%	5.3		%	7.9		%	5.6		%

[1]Policy count retention represents the ratio of the number of renewal policies issued during the current year period divided by the number of policies issued in the previous calendar period before considering policies cancelled subsequent to renewal. Policy count retention, net of cancellations, represents the ratio of the number of renewal policies issued net of cancellations during the current year period divided by the number of policies issued net of cancellations in the previous calendar period.

[2]Policy count retention, net of cancellations decreased in the three month period ended September 30, 2020 largely due to policy cancellations for non-payment of premium that had been temporarily suspended to provide policyholders additional time to pay their premium (until May 31, 2020 in most states).


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Underwriting Ratios


	Three Months Ended September 30,			Nine Months Ended September 30,
Underwriting Ratios	2021	2020	Change	2021	2020	Change
Loss and loss adjustment expense ratio
Current accident year before catastrophes	64.4	56.0	8.4	60.5	55.9	4.6
Current accident year catastrophes	10.5	15.7	(5.2)	6.9	8.7	(1.8)
Prior year development	(3.6)	(3.7)	0.1	(5.1)	(17.6)	12.5
Total loss and loss adjustment expense ratio	71.2	67.9	3.3	62.2	47.0	15.2
Expense ratio	27.4	25.4	2.0	27.4	27.1	0.3
Combined ratio	98.7	93.3	5.4	89.6	74.1	15.5
Impact of current accident year catastrophes and prior year development	(6.9)	(12.0)	5.1	(1.8)	8.9	(10.7)
Underlying combined ratio	91.8	81.4	10.4	87.9	83.0	4.9

Product Combined Ratios


	Three Months Ended September 30,			Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021	2020	Change	2021	2020	Change
Automobile
Combined ratio	96.5	81.3	15.2	89.8	84.6	5.2
Underlying combined ratio	99.7	84.9	14.8	92.7	87.4	5.3
Homeowners
Combined ratio	103.4	122.9	(19.5)	90.8	52.1	38.7
Underlying combined ratio	74.6	74.0	0.6	77.0	73.4	3.6

Net Income

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Net income decreased in both the three and nine month periods, largely driven by a decrease in underwriting gain, partially offset by an increase in net investment income and, for the nine month period, a change from net realized losses to net realized gains and an increase in net servicing income.

Underwriting Gain

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Underwriting gain decreased in both the three and nine month periods, primarily due to higher personal automobile loss costs, an increase in underwriting expenses, the effect of a decrease in earned premiums and, for the nine month period, higher current accident year non-catastrophe property losses and less favorable prior accident year reserve development, partially offset by lower current accident year catastrophe losses in both the three and nine-month periods. Contributing to the increase in underwriting expenses in both the three and nine


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month periods was higher costs for AARP direct marketing, incentive compensation, and technology, partially offset by cost savings from the Hartford Next initiative.

Earned Premiums

Written Premiums

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Earned premiums decreased in both the three and nine month periods due to the effect of a decline in written premium over the prior twelve months in both Agency channels and in AARP Direct. For the nine month period, the decrease was partially offset by the effect of $81 of premium credits given to

automobile policyholders in the second quarter of 2020 in recognition of shelter-in-place guidelines that reduced miles driven in 2020.

Written premiums decreased in automobile for both the three and nine month periods due to the effect of non-renewed premium exceeding new business which, for the nine month period, was partially offset by the effect of the premium credits given in the 2020 period. Written premium declined in homeowners in both the three and nine month periods due to the effect of non-renewed premium exceeding new business. Both new business and policy count retention, net of cancellations, increased in the three month period while decreasing in the nine month period. Policy count retention, net of cancellations, was depressed in third quarter 2020 due to processing cancellations for non-payment of premium that had been suspended in second quarter 2020.

Renewal written pricing increases were relatively flat in automobile for the three months period and modestly lower for the nine month period. Renewal written pricing increases for homeowners were higher for both the three and nine month periods in response to recent loss cost trends.

Policies in-force decreased in the 2021 period in both automobile and homeowners driven by not generating enough new business to offset the loss of non-renewed policies.

Current Accident Year Loss and LAE Ratio before Catastrophes

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Current accident year Loss and LAE ratio before catastrophes increased in automobile and was flat in homeowners for the three month period and increased in both automobile and homeowners for the nine month period. The increase in automobile for both the three and nine month periods was principally due to higher claim frequency with miles driven increasing as we emerge from the pandemic and an increase in average claim severity. For the three month period, the homeowners current accident year loss and LAE ratio before catastrophes was essentially flat to prior year. Earned pricing


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increases and lower weather and non-weather frequency were offset by an increase in both weather and non-weather severity. For the nine month period, the homeowners current accident year loss and LAE ratio before catastrophes increased due to an increase in severity, partially offset by the effect of earned pricing increases. Contributing to the increase in homeowners severity was the effect of higher rebuilding costs and a greater number of large losses.

Current Accident Year Catastrophes and Unfavorable (Favorable) Prior Accident Year Development

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Current accident year catastrophe losses decreased for the both the three and nine month periods. Current accident year catastrophe losses for the third quarter of 2021 primarily included losses from hurricane Ida, California wildfires, tropical storms and wind and hail events in the Midwest and Mountain West. Current accident year catastrophe losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 included losses from hurricane Ida, tropical storms, California wildfires, and February winter storms, primarily in the South, with the remaining losses largely from tornado, wind and hail events, mostly concentrated in Texas, the Southeast, Midwest and Mountain West.

Current accident year catastrophe losses for the three months ended September 30, 2020 were primarily from Pacific Coast wildfires, tropical storm Isaias, hurricane Laura, a Midwest derecho, and other wind and hail events, mostly in the Central Plains. Current accident year catastrophe losses for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 were primarily from Pacific Coast wildfires, tropical storm Isaias, hurricane Laura, and various tornado, wind and hail events in the South, Midwest and Central Plains.

Prior accident year development was relatively flat in the three month period and less favorable in the nine month period, with the decrease in the nine month period largely due to lower reserve reductions for prior year catastrophes. Prior accident year development was favorable for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, with reserve reductions in personal automobile liability and, for the nine month period, a reduction in catastrophe reserves including the benefit of higher expected subrogation recoveries related to the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires. Prior accident year development was favorable in both the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2020 with reserve reductions in personal automobile liability and, for the nine month period, a reduction in catastrophe reserves. The reduction in catastrophe reserves for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was driven by lower estimated losses for the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires, including a $260 subrogation benefit from PG&E, as well as a reduction in losses for various 2018 and 2019 wind and hail events.


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Underwriting Summary


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change



Losses and loss adjustment expenses
Prior accident year development [1]	$	(5)	$	11	(145	%)	$	28	$	15	87	%
Total losses and loss adjustment expenses	(5)		11		(145	%)	28		15		87	%
Underwriting expenses	2		2		—	%	6		8		(25	%)
Underwriting gain (loss)	3		(13)		123	%	(34)		(23)		(48	%)
Net investment income [2]	22		14		57	%	58		40		45	%
Net realized gains (losses) [2]	2		2		—	%	7		(3)		NM

Income before income taxes	27		3		NM		31		14		121	%
Income tax expense [3]	5		1		NM		5		2		150	%
Net income	$	22	$	2	NM		$	26	$	12	117	%

[1]For additional information on prior accident year development, see Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

[2]For discussion of consolidated investment results, see MD&A - Investment Results.

[3]For discussion of income taxes, see Note 12 - Income Taxes of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Net income

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Net income increased in the three months ended September 30, 2021, primarily from favorable prior accident year reserve development in the 2021 period compared to unfavorable prior accident year reserve development in the 2020 period, as well as higher net investment income.

Net income increased in the nine months ended September 30, 2021, primarily due to higher net investment income and a change from net realized losses to net realized gains, partially offset by higher unfavorable prior accident year reserve development.

Underwriting gain in the three months ended September 30, 2021 compared to an underwriting loss in the prior year period primarily due to favorable prior accident year development in the current year period compared to unfavorable prior accident year development in the prior year period that was primarily driven by reserve increases for runoff assumed reinsurance business.

Underwriting loss increased in the nine months ended September 30, 2021, due to an increase in unfavorable prior accident year development, with unfavorable development in the 2021 period driven by an increase in reserves for sexual molestation and sexual abuse claims, primarily on assumed reinsurance, partially offset by a reduction in the allowance for uncollectible reinsurance

Asbestos and environmental reserve comprehensive annual reviews will occur in the fourth quarter of 2021. For information on A&E reserves, see MD&A - Critical Accounting Estimates, Asbestos and Environmental Reserves included in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.


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Operating Summary
	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Premiums and other considerations	$	1,415	$	1,361	4	%	$	4,260	$	4,175	2	%
Net investment income [1]	159		117		36	%	422		324		30	%
Net realized gains [1]	13		9		44	%	60		4		NM
Total revenues	1,587		1,487		7	%	4,742		4,503		5	%
Benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses	1,199		1,005		19	%	3,414		3,045		12	%
Amortization of DAC	11		13		(15	%)	32		39		(18	%)
Insurance operating costs and other expenses	336		312		8	%	1,015		991		2	%
Amortization of other intangible assets	10		10		—	%	30		30		—	%
Total benefits, losses and expenses	1,556		1,340		16	%	4,491		4,105		9	%
Income before income taxes	31		147		(79	%)	251		398		(37	%)
Income tax expense [2]	3		28		(89	%)	44		74		(41	%)
Net income	$	28	$	119	(76	%)	$	207	$	324	(36	%)

[1]For discussion of consolidated investment results, see MD&A - Investment Results.

[2]For discussion of income taxes, see Note 12 - Income Taxes of Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


Premiums and Other Considerations
	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Fully insured – ongoing premiums	$	1,372	$	1,316	4	%	$	4,122	$	3,988	3	%
Buyout premiums	—		1		(100	%)	2		55		(96	%)
Fee income	43		44		(2	%)	136		132		3	%
Total premiums and other considerations	$	1,415	$	1,361	4	%	$	4,260	$	4,175	2	%
Fully insured ongoing sales, excluding buyouts	$	82	$	134	(39	%)	$	693	$	668	4	%


Ratios, Excluding Buyouts
	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change	2021		2020		Change
Group disability loss ratio	68.4	%	65.3	%	3.1	67.0	%	66.4	%	0.6
Group life loss ratio	110.9	%	87.5	%	23.4	100.9	%	82.6	%	18.3
Total loss ratio	84.7	%	73.8	%	10.9	80.1	%	72.6	%	7.5
Expense ratio [1]	25.2	%	24.3	%	0.9	25.2	%	25.4	%	(0.2)

[1]Integration and transaction costs related to the acquisition of Aetna's U.S. group life and disability business are not included in the expense ratio.


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Margin
	Three Months Ended September 30,					Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change	2021		2020		Change
Net income margin	1.8	%	8.0	%	(6.2)	4.4	%	7.2	%	(2.8)
Adjustments to reconcile net income margin to core earnings margin:
Net realized losses (gains) excluded from core earnings, before tax	(0.9	%)	(0.6	%)	(0.3)	(1.3	%)	(0.1	%)	(1.2)
Integration and other non-recurring M&A costs, before tax	0.1	%	0.3	%	(0.2)	0.1	%	0.3	%	(0.2)
Income tax benefit	0.2	%	0.2	%	—	0.3	%	—	%	0.3
Impact of excluding buyouts from denominator of core earnings margin	—	%	—	%	—	—	%	0.1	%	(0.1)
Core earnings margin	1.2	%	7.9	%	(6.7)	3.5	%	7.5	%	(4.0)

Net Income

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Net income decreased from the third quarter of 2020 largely driven by an increase in excess mortality losses and short-term disability losses related to COVID-19 and higher operating expenses, partially offset by higher net investment income and increased premium volume.

For the nine month period ended September 30, 2021, net income decreased largely driven by higher excess mortality and short-term disability losses and higher operating expenses, partially offset by an increase in net investment income, an increase in net realized gains and increased premium volume.

Insurance operating costs and other expenses for both the three and nine month periods were higher year over year as an increase in incentive compensation, technology costs and claim costs to handle elevated claim levels resulting from the pandemic was partially offset by lower staffing and other costs due to the Hartford Next operational transformation and cost reduction program and a decrease in integration costs.

In the three month period, expenses were also unfavorably impacted by a lower decrease in the allowance for credit losses on premiums receivable. In the nine month period, a decrease in the allowance for credit losses on premiums receivable in the current year compared to an increase in the allowance in the prior year.

Fully Insured Ongoing Premiums

[1] Other of $70 and $79 is included in the three months ended September 30, 2020, and 2021, respectively, and $200 and $235 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2021, respectively, which includes other group coverages such as retiree health insurance, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity and participant accident coverages.

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Fully insured ongoing premiums increased primarily due to an increase in exposure on existing accounts as our customers emerge from the pandemic, as well as strong persistency and sales.

Fully insured ongoing sales, excluding buyouts decreased for the three month period, as the prior year included two large national account sales. For the nine month period, fully insured ongoing sales, excluding buyouts, increased with increases in group disability and other partially offset by a decrease in group life.


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Ratios

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Total loss ratio increased 10.9 points for the three month period reflecting a higher loss ratio in both group life and group disability. The group life loss ratio increased 23.4 points compared to prior year due to increased excess mortality, partially offset by reserve strengthening related to late reported death claims in the third quarter of 2020. Excess mortality recognized in the three months ended September 30, 2021 was $212, or 35.9 points, compared to $42, or 7.1 points, in the same prior year period. Included in the excess mortality estimate for the three months ended September 30, 2021 were estimated losses of $233, or 39.4 points, for claims with dates of loss in the third quarter, partially offset by favorable

development of $21, or 3.6 points, on excess mortality estimates related to prior quarters, the majority of which relates to favorable development on second quarter 2021 claims. The disability loss ratio increased 3.1 points due to an increase in short-term disability claim incidence as the prior year period was more favorably impacted by fewer elective procedures during the early stages of the pandemic. The increased short-term disability claim incidence is partially offset by lower long-term disability claim incidence and stronger recoveries related to prior incurral year reserves.

Total loss ratio increased 7.5 points for the nine month period reflecting a higher group life loss ratio and a slightly higher group disability loss ratio. The group life loss ratio increased 18.3 points driven by a 18.7 point increase in excess mortality claims compared to the nine month period ended September 30, 2020. For the nine month period ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, excess mortality losses were $422 and $87, respectively. The group disability loss ratio increased 0.6 points due to an increase in short-term disability claim incidence as the prior year period was more favorably impacted by fewer elective procedures during the early stages of the pandemic. The increased short-term disability claim incidence was partially offset by a higher New York Paid Family Leave risk adjustment recognized in the 2021 period.

Expense ratio increased for the three month period and was relatively flat for the nine month period. Both the three and nine month periods included an increase in incentive compensation, technology costs and claim costs to handle elevated claim levels resulting from the pandemic, offset by lower staffing and other costs as a result of the Hartford Next operational transformation and cost reduction program, and higher earned premiums. The three month period included a lower decrease in the allowance for credit losses on premium receivables. The nine month period included a decrease in the allowance for credit losses on premiums receivable compared to an increase in the allowance in the prior year period.


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\|HARTFORD FUNDS - RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Operating Summary


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Fee income and other revenue	$	306	$	250	22	%	$	884	$	724	22	%
Net investment income	2		1		100	%	3		3		—	%
Net realized gains (losses)	(3)		5		(160	%)	1		2		(50	%)
Total revenues	305		256		19	%	888		729		22	%
Amortization of DAC	3		4		(25	%)	9		11		(18	%)
Operating costs and other expenses	232		197		18	%	684		569		20	%
Total benefits, losses and expenses	235		201		17	%	693		580		19	%
Income before income taxes	70		55		27	%	195		149		31	%
Income tax expense [1]	14		11		27	%	40		30		33	%
Net income	$	56	$	44	27	%	$	155	$	119	30	%
Daily average Hartford Funds AUM	$	155,041	$	122,528	27	%	$	149,599	$	117,693	27	%
ROA [2]	14.4		14.4		—	%	13.8		13.5		2	%
Adjustment to reconcile ROA to ROA, core earnings:
Effect of net realized losses excluded from core earnings, before tax	0.8		(1.6)		150	%	(0.1)		(0.2)		50	%
Effect of income tax expense (benefit)	(0.2)		0.3		(167	%)	—		—		—	%
ROA, core earnings [2]	15.0		13.1		15	%	13.7		13.3		3	%

[1]For discussion of income taxes, see Note 12 - Income Taxes of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

[2]Represents annualized earnings divided by a daily average of assets under management, as measured in basis points.

Hartford Funds Segment AUM


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Mutual Fund and ETP AUM - beginning of period	$	138,511	$	104,721	32	%	$	124,627	$	112,533	11	%
Sales - mutual fund	7,086		5,878		21	%	24,938		21,505		16	%
Redemptions - mutual fund	(6,778)		(7,064)		4	%	(21,506)		(24,599)		13	%
Net flows - ETP	(13)		(80)		84	%	77		(271)		128	%
Net flows - mutual fund and ETP	295		(1,266)		123	%	3,509		(3,365)		NM
Change in market value and other	(1,520)		6,586		(123	%)	9,150		873		NM
Mutual fund and ETP AUM - end of period	137,286		110,041		25	%	137,286		110,041		25	%
Talcott Resolution life and annuity separate account AUM [1]	14,800		13,669		8	%	14,800		13,669		8	%
Hartford Funds AUM - end of period	$	152,086	$	123,710	23	%	$	152,086	$	123,710	23	%

[1]Represents AUM of the life and annuity business sold in May 2018 that is still managed by the Company's Hartford Funds segment.

Mutual Fund and ETP AUM by Asset Class


	As of September 30,
	2021		2020		Change
Equity	$	91,600	$	70,649	30	%
Fixed Income	19,632		15,655		25	%
Multi-Strategy Investments [1]	22,925		21,116		9	%
Exchange-traded Products	3,129		2,621		19	%
Mutual Fund and ETP AUM	$	137,286	$	110,041	25	%

[1] Includes balanced, allocation, and alternative investment products.


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Net Income

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Net income increased for the three month period primarily due to higher fee income as a result of an increase in daily average assets under management, partially offset by higher variable costs and a change from net realized gains to net realized losses. Realized gains (losses) consist of changes in the market value of Company assets invested in certain funds, which was driven by changes in equity markets. For the nine month period, net income increased primarily due to higher fee income, partially offset by higher variable costs and the effect of

a $12 reduction in contingent consideration payable associated with the acquisition of Lattice that was recognized in first quarter 2020.

Hartford Funds AUM

September 30, 2021 compared to September 30, 2020

Hartford Funds AUM increased primarily due to net inflows and an increase in market values over the previous twelve months. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company recognized net inflows on mutual fund and ETP of $3.5 billion, compared to net outflows of $3.4 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2020.


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Operating Summary


	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020		Change		2021		2020		Change
Fee income [1]	$	12	$	13	(8	%)	$	38	$	38	—	%


Other revenue (loss)	—		(21)		100	%	(10)		54		(119	%)
Net investment income	2		3		(33	%)	8		16		(50	%)
Net realized gains (losses)	3		13		(77	%)	70		(2)		NM
Total revenues	17		8		113	%	106		106		—	%
Benefits, losses and loss adjustment expenses [2]	1		1		—	%	4		13		(69	%)

Insurance operating costs and other expenses [1]	17		9		89	%	75		59		27	%



Interest expense [3]	58		58		—	%	172		179		(4	%)
Restructuring and other costs	(12)		87		(114	%)	(1)		87		(101	%)
Total benefits, losses and expenses	64		155		(59	%)	250		338		(26	%)
Loss before income taxes	(47)		(147)		68	%	(144)		(232)		38	%
Income tax benefit [4]	(15)		(39)		62	%	(33)		(51)		35	%


Net loss	(32)		(108)		70	%	(111)		(181)		39	%
Preferred stock dividends	6		6		—	%	16		16		—	%
Net loss available to common stockholders	$	(38)	$	(114)	67	%	$	(127)	$	(197)	36	%

[1] Includes investment management fees and expenses related to managing third party business, including management of the invested assets of Talcott Resolution.

[2] Includes benefits expense on life and annuity business previously underwritten by the Company.

[3] For discussion of debt, see Note 11 - Debt of Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and Note 14- Debt of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in The Hartford's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

[4] For discussion of income taxes, see Note 12 - Income Taxes of Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Net Loss

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Net loss available to common stockholders for the third quarter of 2021 decreased from the third quarter of 2020 primarily due to a decrease in restructuring and other costs and the effect of a loss from the Company’s previously owned equity interest in Talcott Resolution in the 2020 period, partially offset by a decrease in net realized gains. Net loss available to common stockholders decreased in the nine month period as a decrease in restructuring and other costs and a change from net realized losses to net realized gains was partially offset by a change from income to loss from the Company’s previously owned equity interest in Talcott Resolution, an increase in operating costs and other expenses and lower net investment income.

Income (loss) from the Company’s previously owned equity interest in Talcott Resolution was $(21) for the three months ended September 30, 2020 and was $(11) and $43, respectively, for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020. The increase in operating costs and other expenses for the nine month period was primarily driven by legal and consulting costs associated with the unsolicited proposals from Chubb Limited to acquire the Company, partially offset by lower consulting fees. Net realized gains for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 included a $46 gain on sale of the Company’s 9.7% retained equity interest in Talcott Resolution.


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Interest Expense

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 compared to the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

Interest expense was flat year over year for the three month period and decreased for the nine month period primarily due to the repayment of our 5.5% senior notes in March of 2020.

ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT

The Company’s Board of Directors has ultimate responsibility for risk oversight, as described more fully in our Proxy Statement, while management is tasked with the day-to-day management of the Company’s risks.

The Company manages and monitors risk through risk policies, controls and limits. At the senior management level, an Enterprise Risk and Capital Committee (“ERCC”) oversees the risk profile and risk management practices of the Company.

The Company's enterprise risk management ("ERM") function supports the ERCC and functional committees, and is tasked with, among other things:

•risk identification and assessment;

•the development of risk appetites, tolerances, and limits;

•risk monitoring; and

•internal and external risk reporting.

The Company categorizes its main risks as insurance risk, operational risk and financial risk. Insurance risk and financial risk are described in more detail below. Operational risk, including cybersecurity and business resiliency response to COVID-19, and specific risk tolerances for natural catastrophes and pandemic risk are described in the ERM section of the MD&A in The Hartford’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

|INSURANCE RISK

Insurance risk is the risk of losses of both a catastrophic and non-catastrophic nature on the P&C and Group Benefits products the Company has sold. Catastrophe insurance risk is the exposure arising from both natural (e.g., weather, earthquakes, wildfires, pandemics) and man-made catastrophes (e.g., terrorism, cyber-attacks) that create a concentration or aggregation of loss across the Company's insurance or asset portfolios.

Sources of Insurance Risk Non-catastrophe insurance risks exist within each of the Company's segments except Hartford Funds and include:

•Property- Risk of loss to personal or commercial property from automobile related accidents, weather, explosions, smoke, shaking, fire, theft, vandalism, inadequate installation, faulty equipment, collisions and falling objects, and/or machinery mechanical breakdown resulting in physical damage and other covered perils.

•Liability- Risk of loss from automobile related accidents, uninsured and underinsured drivers, lawsuits from accidents, defective products, breach of warranty, negligent acts by professional practitioners, environmental claims, latent exposures, fraud, coercion, forgery, failure to fulfill obligations per contract surety, liability from errors and omissions, losses from political and credit coverages, losses from derivative lawsuits, and other securities actions and covered perils.

•Mortality- Risk of loss from unexpected trends in insured deaths impacting timing of payouts from group life insurance, personal or commercial automobile related accidents, and death of employees or executives during the course of employment, while on disability, or while collecting workers compensation benefits.

•Morbidity- Risk of loss to an insured from illness incurred during the course of employment or illness from other covered perils.

•Disability- Risk of loss incurred from personal or commercial automobile related losses, accidents arising outside of the workplace, injuries or accidents incurred during the course of employment, or from equipment, with each loss resulting in short term or long-term disability payments.

•Longevity- Risk of loss from increased life expectancy trends among policyholders receiving long-term benefit payments.

•Cyber Insurance- Risk of loss to property, breach of data and business interruption from various types of cyber-attacks.


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Catastrophe risk primarily arises in the property, automobile, workers' compensation, casualty, group life, and group disability lines of business.

Impact Non-catastrophe insurance risk can arise from unexpected loss experience, underpriced business and/or underestimation of loss reserves and can have significant effects on the Company’s earnings. Catastrophe insurance risk can arise from various unpredictable events and can have significant effects on the Company's earnings and may result in losses that could constrain its liquidity.

Management The Company's policies and procedures for managing these risks include disciplined underwriting protocols, exposure controls, sophisticated risk-based pricing, risk modeling, risk transfer, and capital management strategies. The Company has established underwriting guidelines for both individual risks, including individual policy limits, and risks in the aggregate, including aggregate exposure limits by geographic zone and peril. The Company uses both internal and third-party models to estimate the potential loss resulting from various catastrophe events and the potential financial impact those events would have on the Company's financial position and results of operations across its businesses.

In addition, certain insurance products offered by The Hartford provide coverage for losses incurred due to cyber events and the Company has assessed and modeled how those products would respond to different events in order to manage its aggregate exposure to losses incurred under the insurance policies we sell. The Company models numerous deterministic scenarios including losses caused by malware, data breach, distributed denial of service attacks, intrusions of cloud environments and attacks of power grids.

Among specific risk tolerances set by the Company, risk limits are set for natural catastrophes, terrorism risk and pandemic risk.

Reinsurance as a Risk Management Strategy

The Company uses reinsurance to transfer certain risks to reinsurance companies based on specific geographic or risk

concentrations. A variety of traditional reinsurance products are used as part of the Company's risk management strategy, including excess of loss occurrence-based products that reinsure property and workers' compensation exposures, and individual risk (including facultative reinsurance) or quota share arrangements, that reinsure losses from specific classes or lines of business. The Company has no significant finite risk contracts in place and the statutory surplus benefit from all such prior year contracts is immaterial. The Hartford also participates in governmentally administered reinsurance facilities such as the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (“FHCF”), the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (“TRIPRA”) and other reinsurance programs relating to particular risks or specific lines of business.

Reinsurance for Catastrophes- The Company utilizes various reinsurance programs to mitigate catastrophe losses including excess of loss occurrence-based treaties covering property and workers’ compensation, and an aggregate property catastrophe treaty as well as individual risk agreements (including facultative reinsurance) that reinsure losses from specific classes or lines of business. The aggregate property catastrophe treaty covers the aggregate of catastrophe events designated by the Property Claim Services office of Verisk and, for international business, net losses arising from two or more risks involved in the same loss occurrence totaling at least $500 thousand, in excess of a $700 retention. The occurrence-based property catastrophe treaties respond in excess of $100 per occurrence for all perils other than named storm and earthquake (subject to a $50 annual aggregate deductible). The Company has per risk and quota share reinsurance that would respond to certain COVID-19 related losses; however, communicable diseases are excluded from our per occurrence property catastrophe treaty, aggregate property treaty and workers' compensation catastrophe treaty that incepted on January 1, 2021. The Company has reinsurance in place to cover individual group life losses in excess of $1 per person.


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Primary Catastrophe Treaty Reinsurance Coverages as of September 30, 2021 [1]


	Portion of losses reinsured	Portion of losses retained by The Hartford
Per Occurrence Property Catastrophe Treaty from 1/1/2021 to 12/31/2021 [2]
Losses of $0 to $100	None	100% retained
Losses of $100 to $350 for earthquakes and named hurricanes and tropical storms [6]	None	100% retained
Losses of $100 to $350 from one event other than earthquakes and named hurricanes and tropical storms (subject to a $50 Annual Aggregate Deductible ("AAD")) [6]	70% of $250 in excess of $100	30% co-participation
Losses of $350 to $500 from one event (all perils)	75% of $150 in excess of $350	25% co-participation
Losses of $500 to $1.1 billion from one event [3] (all perils)	90% of $600 in excess $500	10% co-participation
Aggregate Property Catastrophe Treaty for 1/1/2021 to 12/31/2021 [4]
$0 to $700 of aggregate losses	None	100% retained
$700 to $900 of aggregate losses	100%	None
Workers' Compensation Catastrophe Treaty for 1/1/2021 to 12/31/2021
Losses of $0 to $100 from one event	None	100% retained
Losses of $100 to $450 from one event [5]	80% of $350 in excess of $100	20% co-participation

[1]These treaties do not cover the assumed reinsurance business which purchases its own retrocessional coverage.

[2]In addition to the Per Occurrence Property Catastrophe Treaty, for Florida wind events, The Hartford has purchased the mandatory FHCF reinsurance for the annual period starting at July 1,2021. Retention and coverage varies by writing company. The writing company with the largest coverage under FHCF is Hartford Insurance Company of the Midwest, with coverage estimated at approximately $55 of per event losses in excess of a $24 retention (estimates are based on best available information at this time and are periodically updated as information is made available by Florida).

[3]Portions of this layer of coverage extend beyond a traditional one year term.

[4]The aggregate treaty is not limited to a single event; rather, it is designed to provide reinsurance protection for the aggregate of all catastrophe events (up to $350 per event), either designated by the Property Claim Services office of Verisk or, for international business, net losses arising from two or more risks involved in the same loss occurrence totaling at least $500 thousand. All catastrophe losses, except assumed reinsurance business losses, apply toward satisfying the $700 attachment point under the aggregate treaty.

[5]In addition to the limits shown, the workers' compensation reinsurance includes a non-catastrophe, industrial accident layer, providing coverage for 80% of $30 in per event losses in excess of a $20 retention.

[6]Named hurricanes and tropical storms are defined as any storm or storm system declared to be a hurricane or tropical storm by the US National Hurricane Center, US Weather Prediction Center, or their successor organizations (being divisions of the US National Weather Service).

In addition to the property catastrophe reinsurance coverage described in the above table, the Company has other reinsurance agreements that cover property catastrophe losses. The Per Occurrence Property Catastrophe Treaty, and Workers' Compensation Catastrophe Treaty include a provision to reinstate one limit in the event that a catastrophe loss exhausts limits on one or more layers under the treaties.

Reinsurance for Terrorism- For the risk of terrorism, private sector catastrophe reinsurance capacity is generally limited and largely unavailable for terrorism losses caused by nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological attacks. As such, the Company's principal reinsurance protection against large-scale terrorist attacks is the coverage currently provided through TRIPRA to the end of 2027.

TRIPRA provides a backstop for insurance-related losses resulting from any “act of terrorism”, which is certified by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General, for losses that exceed a threshold of industry losses of $200. Under the program, in any one calendar year, the federal government will pay a percentage of losses incurred from a certified act of terrorism after an insurer's losses exceed 20% of the Company's eligible direct commercial earned premiums of the prior calendar year up to a combined annual aggregate limit for the federal government and all insurers of $100 billion. The

percentage of losses paid by the federal government is 80%. The Company's estimated deductible under the program is $1.6 billion for 2021. If an act of terrorism or acts of terrorism result in covered losses exceeding the $100 billion annual industry aggregate limit, Congress would be responsible for determining how additional losses in excess of $100 billion will be paid.

Reinsurance for A&E and Navigators Group Reserve Development - The Company has two adverse development cover (“ADC”) reinsurance agreements in place, both of which are accounted for as retroactive reinsurance. One agreement covers substantially all A&E reserve development for 2016 and prior accident years (the “A&E ADC”) and the other covers substantially all reserve development of Navigators Insurance Company and certain of its affiliates for 2018 and prior accident years (“Navigators ADC”). For more information on the A&E ADC and the Navigators ADC, see Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, included in The Hartford's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report and Note 9 - Reserve for Unpaid Losses and Loss Adjustment Expenses of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.


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|FINANCIAL RISK

Financial risks include direct and indirect risks to the Company's financial objectives from events that impact financial market conditions and the value of financial assets. Some events may cause correlated movement in multiple risk factors. The primary sources of financial risks are the Company's invested assets.

Consistent with its risk appetite, the Company establishes financial risk limits to control potential loss on a U.S. GAAP, statutory, and economic basis. Exposures are actively monitored and managed, with risks mitigated where appropriate. The Company uses various risk management strategies, including limiting aggregation of risk, portfolio re-balancing and hedging with over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives with counterparties meeting the appropriate regulatory and due diligence requirements. Derivatives are utilized to achieve the following Company-approved objectives: hedging risk arising from interest rate, equity market, commodity market, credit spread and issuer default, price or currency exchange rate risk or volatility; managing liquidity; controlling transaction costs; and engaging in income generation covered call transactions and synthetic replication transactions. Derivative activities are monitored and evaluated by the Company’s compliance and risk management teams and reviewed by senior management. The Company identifies different categories of financial risk, including liquidity, credit, interest rate, equity, and foreign currency exchange.

Liquidity Risk

Liquidity risk is the risk to current or prospective earnings or capital arising from the Company's inability or perceived inability to meet its contractual funding obligations as they come due.

Sources of Liquidity Risk Sources of liquidity risk include funding risk, company-specific liquidity risk and market liquidity risk resulting from differences in the amount and timing of sources and uses of cash as well as company-specific and general market conditions. Stressed market conditions may impact the ability to sell assets or otherwise transact business and may result in a significant loss in value.

Impact Inadequate capital resources and liquidity could negatively affect the Company’s overall financial strength and its ability to generate cash flows from its businesses, borrow funds at competitive rates, and raise new capital to meet operating and growth needs.

Management The Company has defined ongoing monitoring and reporting requirements to assess liquidity across the enterprise under both current and stressed market conditions. The Company measures and manages liquidity risk exposures and funding needs within prescribed limits across legal entities, taking into account legal, regulatory and operational limitations to the transferability of liquid assets among legal entities. The Company also monitors internal and external conditions, and identifies material risk changes and emerging risks that may impact operating cash flows or liquid assets. The liquidity requirements of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. ("HFSG Holding Company") have been and will continue to be met by the HFSG Holding Company's fixed maturities, short-term investments and cash, and dividends

from its subsidiaries, principally its insurance operations, as well as the issuance of common stock, debt or other capital securities and borrowings from its credit facilities as needed. The Company maintains multiple sources of contingent liquidity including a revolving credit facility, an intercompany liquidity agreement that allows for short-term advances of funds among the HFSG Holding Company and certain affiliates, and access to collateralized advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston ("FHLBB") for certain affiliates. The Company's CFO has primary responsibility for liquidity risk.

Refer to the Capital Resources & Liquidity section of MD&A for the discussion of what the Company is doing to manage liquidity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Credit Risk and Counterparty Risk

Credit risk is the risk to earnings or capital due to uncertainty of an obligor’s or counterparty’s ability or willingness to meet its obligations in accordance with contractually agreed upon terms. Credit risk is comprised of three major factors: the risk of change in credit quality, or credit migration risk; the risk of default; and the risk of a change in value due to changes in credit spreads.

Sources of Credit Risk The majority of the Company’s credit risk is concentrated in its investment holdings and use of derivatives, but it is also present in the Company’s ceded reinsurance activities and various insurance products.

Impact A decline in creditworthiness is typically reflected as an increase in an investment’s credit spread and an associated decline in the investment's fair value, potentially resulting in recording an ACL and an increased probability of a realized loss upon sale. In certain instances, counterparties may default on their obligations and the Company may realize a loss on default. Premiums receivable, including premiums for retrospectively rated plans, reinsurance recoverable and deductible losses recoverable are also subject to credit risk based on the counterparty’s inability to pay.

For a discussion of impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, refer to the Impact of COVID-19 on Our Financial Condition, Results of Operations and Liquidity section of this MD&A.

Management The objective of the Company’s enterprise credit risk management strategy is to identify, quantify and manage credit risk in aggregate and to limit potential losses in accordance with the Company's credit risk management policy. The Company manages its credit risk by managing aggregations of risk, holding a diversified mix of issuers and counterparties across its investment, reinsurance and insurance portfolios and limiting exposure to any specific reinsurer or counterparty. Potential credit losses can be mitigated through diversification (e.g., geographic regions, asset types, industry sectors), hedging and the use of collateral to reduce net credit exposure.

The Company manages credit risk through the use of various surveillance, analyses and governance processes. The investment, derivatives and reinsurance areas have formal policies and procedures for counterparty approvals and authorizations, which establish criteria defining minimum levels of creditworthiness and financial stability for eligible counterparties. Potential investments are subject to underwriting


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reviews and private securities are subject to management approval. Mitigation strategies vary across the three sources of credit risk, but may include:

•Investing in a portfolio of high-quality and diverse securities;

•Selling investments subject to credit risk;

•Hedging through use of credit default swaps;

•Clearing derivative transactions through central clearing houses that require daily variation margin;

•Entering into derivative and reinsurance contracts only with strong creditworthy institutions;

•Requiring collateral; and

•Non-renewing policies/contracts or reinsurance treaties.

The Company has developed credit exposure thresholds which are based upon counterparty ratings. Aggregate counterparty credit quality and exposure are monitored on a daily basis utilizing an enterprise-wide credit exposure information system that contains data on issuers, ratings, exposures, and credit limits. Exposures are tracked on a current and potential basis and aggregated by ultimate parent of the counterparty across investments, reinsurance receivables, insurance products with credit risk, and derivatives.

As of September 30, 2021, the Company had no investment exposure to any credit concentration risk of a single issuer or counterparty greater than 10% of the Company’s stockholders' equity, other than the U.S. government and certain U.S. government agencies. For further discussion of concentration of credit risk in the investment portfolio, see the Concentration of Credit Risk section in Note 5 - Investments of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Credit Risk of Derivatives

The Company uses various derivative counterparties in executing its derivative transactions. The use of counterparties creates credit risk that the counterparty may not perform in accordance with the terms of the derivative transaction.

Downgrades to the credit ratings of the Company’s insurance operating companies may have adverse implications for its use of derivatives. In some cases, downgrades may give derivative counterparties for over-the-counter ("OTC") derivatives and clearing brokers for OTC-cleared derivatives the right to cancel and settle outstanding derivative trades or require additional collateral to be posted. In addition, downgrades may result in counterparties and clearing brokers becoming unwilling to engage in or clear additional derivatives or may require additional collateralization before entering into any new trades.

The Company also has derivative counterparty exposure policies which limit the Company’s exposure to credit risk. Credit exposures are generally quantified based on the prior business day’s net fair value, including income accruals, of all derivative positions transacted with a single counterparty for each separate legal entity. The Company enters into collateral arrangements in connection with its derivatives positions and collateral is pledged to or held by, or on behalf of, the Company to the extent the exposure is greater than zero, subject to minimum transfer thresholds. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company incurred no losses on derivative instruments due to counterparty default. For further

discussion, see the Derivative Commitments section of Note 13 - Commitments and Contingencies of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Use of Credit Derivatives

The Company may also use credit default swaps to manage credit exposure or to assume credit risk to enhance yield.

Credit Risk Reduced Through Credit Derivatives

The Company uses credit derivatives to purchase credit protection with respect to a single entity or referenced index. The Company purchases credit protection through credit default swaps to economically hedge and manage credit risk of certain fixed maturity investments across multiple sectors of the investment portfolio.

Credit Risk Assumed Through Credit Derivatives

The Company also enters into credit default swaps that assume credit risk as part of replication transactions. Replication transactions are used as an economical means to synthetically replicate the characteristics and performance of assets that are permissible investments under the Company’s investment policies. These swaps primarily reference investment grade single corporate issuers and indexes.

For further information on credit derivatives, see Note 6 - Derivatives of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Credit Risk of Business Operations

The Company is subject to credit risk related to the Company's commercial business that is written with large deductible policies or retrospectively-rated plans (referred to as "loss sensitive business"). The Company’s results of operations could be adversely affected if a significant portion of such contract holders failed to reimburse the Company for the deductible amount or the retrospectively rated policyholders failed to pay additional premiums owed. While the Company attempts to manage the risks discussed above through underwriting, credit analysis, collateral requirements, provision for bad debt, and other oversight mechanisms, the Company’s efforts may not be successful.

Interest Rate Risk

Interest rate risk is the risk of financial loss due to adverse changes in the value of assets and liabilities arising from movements in interest rates. Interest rate risk encompasses exposures with respect to changes in the level of interest rates, the shape of the term structure of rates and the volatility of interest rates. Interest rate risk does not include exposure to changes in credit spreads.

Sources of Interest Rate Risk The Company has exposure to interest rate risk arising from investments in fixed maturities and commercial mortgage loans, issuances by the Company of debt securities, preferred stock and similar securities, discount rate assumptions associated with the Company’s claim reserves and pension and other post-retirement benefit obligations, and assets that support the Company's pension and other post-retirement benefit plans.

Impact Changes in interest rates from current levels can have both favorable and unfavorable effects for the Company.

For a discussion of impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, refer to the Impact of COVID-19 on Our Financial

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Management The Company manages its exposure to interest rate risk by constructing investment portfolios that seek to protect the Company from the economic impact associated with changes in interest rates by setting portfolio duration targets that are aligned with the duration of the liabilities that they support. The Company analyzes interest rate risk using various models including parametric models and cash flow simulation under various market scenarios of the liabilities and their supporting investment portfolios. Key metrics that the Company uses to quantify its exposure to interest rate risk inherent in its invested assets and the associated liabilities include duration, convexity and key rate duration.

The Company utilizes a variety of derivative instruments to mitigate interest rate risk associated with its investment portfolio or to hedge liabilities. Interest rate caps, floors, swaps, swaptions, and futures may be used to manage portfolio duration.

Equity Risk

Equity risk is the risk of financial loss due to changes in the value of global equities or equity indices.

Sources of Equity Risk The Company has exposure to equity risk from invested assets, assets that support the Company’s pension and other post-retirement benefit plans, and fee income derived from Hartford Funds assets under management. In addition, up until June 30, 2021, the Company had equity exposure through a 9.7% ownership interest in Talcott Resolution. The sale of Talcott Resolution was completed on June 30, 2021, and the Company received a total of $217 in connection with the sale of its 9.7% ownership interest, resulting in a realized gain of $46.

Impact The investment portfolio is exposed to losses from market declines affecting equity securities and derivatives, which could negatively impact the Company's reported earnings. In addition, investments in limited partnerships and other alternative investments generally have a level of correlation to domestic equity market levels and can expose the Company to losses in earnings if valuations decline; however, earnings impacts are recognized on a lag as results from private equity investments and other funds are generally reported on a three-month delay. For assets supporting pension and other post-retirement benefit plans, the Company may be required to make additional plan contributions if equity investments in the plan portfolios decline in value. Hartford Funds earnings are also significantly influenced by the U.S. and other equity markets. Generally, declines in equity markets will reduce the value of average daily assets under management and the amount of fee income generated from those assets. Increases in equity markets will generally have the inverse impact.

For a discussion of impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, refer to the Impact of COVID-19 on Our Financial Condition, Results of Operations and Liquidity section of this MD&A.

Management The Company uses various approaches in managing its equity exposure, including limits on the proportion of assets invested in equities, diversification of the equity portfolio, and, at times, hedging of changes in equity indices. For assets supporting pension and other post-retirement benefit plans, the asset allocation mix is reviewed on a periodic basis. In order to minimize risk, the pension plans maintain a listing of permissible and prohibited investments and impose concentration limits and investment quality requirements on permissible investment options.

Foreign Currency Exchange Risk

Foreign currency exchange risk is the risk of financial loss due to changes in the relative value between currencies.

Sources of Currency Risk The Company has foreign currency exchange risk in non-U.S. dollar denominated cash, fixed maturities, equities, and derivative instruments. In addition, the Company has non-U.S. subsidiaries, some with functional currencies other than U.S. dollar, and which transact business in multiple currencies resulting in assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies.

Impact Changes in relative values between currencies can create variability in cash flows and realized or unrealized gains and losses on changes in the fair value of assets and liabilities.

Management The Company manages its foreign currency exchange risk primarily through asset-liability matching and through the use of derivative instruments. However, legal entity capital is invested in local currencies in order to satisfy regulatory requirements and to support local insurance operations. The foreign currency exposure of non-U.S. dollar denominated investments will most commonly be reduced through the sale of the assets or through hedges using foreign currency swaps and forwards.

Investment Portfolio Risk

The following table presents the Company’s fixed maturities, AFS, by credit quality. The credit ratings referenced throughout this section are based on availability and are generally the midpoint of the available ratings among Moody’s, S&P, and Fitch. If no rating is available from a rating agency, then an internally developed rating is used. Accrued interest receivable related to fixed maturities are recorded in other assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and are not included in the amortized cost or fair value of the fixed maturities. For further information refer to Note 5 - Investments of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Fixed Maturities, AFS by Credit Quality
	September 30, 2021						December 31, 2020
	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Percent of Total Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Percent of Total Fair Value
United States Government/Government agencies	$	6,433	$	6,640	15.1	%	$	4,872	$	5,214	11.6	%
AAA	5,941		6,183		14.1	%	6,482		6,848		15.2	%
AA	7,338		7,794		17.7	%	7,840		8,453		18.8	%
A	10,260		11,068		25.2	%	10,500		11,595		25.7	%
BBB	9,199		9,895		22.5	%	9,831		10,856		24.1	%
BB & below	2,314		2,362		5.4	%	2,036		2,069		4.6	%
Total fixed maturities, AFS	$	41,485	$	43,942	100.0	%	$	41,561	$	45,035	100.0	%

The fair value of fixed maturities, AFS decreased as compared to December 31, 2020, primarily due to a decrease in valuations due to higher interest rates, partially offset by tighter credit spreads. Fixed maturities, FVO, included within other investments on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, are not included in the preceding table. For further discussion on FVO securities, see Note 4 - Fair Value Measurements of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Fixed Maturities, AFS by Type
	September 30, 2021												December 31, 2020
	Amortized Cost		ACL		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Percent of Total Fair Value		Amortized Cost		ACL		Gross Unrealized Gains		Gross Unrealized Losses		Fair Value		Percent of Total Fair Value
Asset-backed securities ("ABS")
Consumer loans	$	1,026	$	—	$	17	$	—	$	1,043	2.4	%	$	1,396	$	—	$	35	$	—	$	1,431	3.2	%


Other	161		—		3		—		164		0.3	%	129		—		4		—		133		0.3	%

Collateralized loan obligations ("CLOs")	3,002		—		10		(1)		3,011		6.9	%	2,780		—		7		(7)		2,780		6.2	%



CMBS
Agency [1]	1,489		—		90		(3)		1,576		3.6	%	1,779		—		117		(6)		1,890		4.2	%
Bonds	2,238		—		126		(5)		2,359		5.3	%	2,160		—		159		(13)		2,306		5.1	%
Interest only	242		—		15		(1)		256		0.6	%	280		—		10		(2)		288		0.6	%
Corporate
Basic industry	755		—		45		(2)		798		1.8	%	727		—		69		(1)		795		1.8	%
Capital goods	1,426		—		99		(5)		1,520		3.5	%	1,488		—		148		(11)		1,625		3.6	%
Consumer cyclical	1,253		—		72		(3)		1,322		3.0	%	1,434		(1)		108		(1)		1,540		3.4	%
Consumer non-cyclical	2,571		—		196		(4)		2,763		6.3	%	2,878		—		314		(4)		3,188		7.1	%
Energy	1,434		(1)		128		(1)		1,560		3.6	%	1,474		(1)		147		(4)		1,616		3.6	%
Financial services	4,329		—		265		(10)		4,584		10.4	%	4,523		(21)		398		(4)		4,896		10.9	%
Tech./comm.	2,715		(3)		255		(9)		2,958		6.7	%	2,651		—		370		(3)		3,018		6.7	%
Transportation	730		—		53		(1)		782		1.8	%	747		—		85		(3)		829		1.8	%
Utilities	1,854		—		168		(6)		2,016		4.6	%	1,999		—		250		—		2,249		5.0	%
Other	530		—		29		(1)		558		1.3	%	480		—		37		—		517		1.1	%
Foreign govt./govt. agencies	916		—		40		(3)		953		2.2	%	842		—		77		—		919		2.0	%
Municipal bonds
Taxable	1,073		—		96		(2)		1,167		2.7	%	1,084		—		109		(1)		1,192		2.6	%
Tax-exempt	7,040		—		680		(9)		7,711		17.5	%	7,480		—		831		—		8,311		18.5	%
RMBS
Agency	1,455		—		60		(6)		1,509		3.4	%	1,829		—		92		(2)		1,919		4.3	%
Non-agency	1,538		—		18		(5)		1,551		3.5	%	1,755		—		41		(1)		1,795		4.0	%
Alt-A	15		—		1		—		16		—	%	27		—		2		—		29		0.1	%
Sub-prime	204		—		6		—		210		0.5	%	355		—		9		—		364		0.8	%
U.S. Treasuries	3,489		—		83		(17)		3,555		8.1	%	1,264		—		141		—		1,405		3.1	%
Total fixed maturities, AFS	$	41,485	$	(4)	$	2,555	$	(94)	$	43,942	100.0	%	$	41,561	$	(23)	$	3,560	$	(63)	$	45,035	100.0	%
Fixed maturities, FVO [2]									$	75											$	—

[1]Includes securities with pools of loans issued by the Small Business Administration which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

[2]Included within other investments on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

The fair value of fixed maturities, AFS decreased as compared with December 31, 2020, primarily due to a decrease in valuations due to higher interest rates, partially offset by tighter credit spreads. The Company decreased holdings of corporate bonds, RMBS, consumer loans, agency CMBS, and tax-exempt municipal bonds, while increasing holdings in U.S. treasuries and CLOs.

Commercial & Residential Real Estate

The following table presents the Company’s exposure to CMBS and RMBS by current credit quality included in the preceding Fixed Maturities, AFS by Type table.

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Exposure to CMBS & RMBS Bonds as of September 30, 2021
	AAA				AA				A				BBB				BB and Below				Total
	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value
CMBS
Agency [1]	$	1,485	$	1,572	$	4	$	4	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	1,489	$	1,576
Bonds	951		1,011		576		609		440		462		183		190		88		87		2,238		2,359
Interest Only	143		152		90		94		—		—		8		9		1		1		242		256
Total CMBS	2,579		2,735		670		707		440		462		191		199		89		88		3,969		4,191
RMBS
Agency	1,433		1,486		22		23		—		—		—		—		—		—		1,455		1,509
Non-Agency	576		589		458		461		376		374		114		113		14		14		1,538		1,551
Alt-A	1		1		—		—		—		—		—		—		14		15		15		16
Sub-Prime	8		8		34		35		71		73		28		29		63		65		204		210
Total RMBS	2,018		2,084		514		519		447		447		142		142		91		94		3,212		3,286
Total CMBS & RMBS	$	4,597	$	4,819	$	1,184	$	1,226	$	887	$	909	$	333	$	341	$	180	$	182	$	7,181	$	7,477


Exposure to CMBS & RMBS Bonds as of December 31, 2020
	AAA				AA				A				BBB				BB and Below				Total
	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Amortized Cost		Fair Value
CMBS
Agency [1]	$	1,771	$	1,882	$	8	$	8	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	1,779	$	1,890
Bonds	1,009		1,101		541		582		423		430		170		179		17		14		2,160		2,306
Interest Only	177		183		90		93		8		7		4		4		1		1		280		288
Total CMBS	2,957		3,166		639		683		431		437		174		183		18		15		4,219		4,484
RMBS
Agency	1,807		1,894		22		25		—		—		—		—		—		—		1,829		1,919
Non-Agency	1,034		1,063		371		380		313		315		36		36		1		1		1,755		1,795
Alt-A	—		—		3		3		2		2		2		2		20		22		27		29
Sub-Prime	1		1		25		26		114		116		102		105		113		116		355		364
Total RMBS	2,842		2,958		421		434		429		433		140		143		134		139		3,966		4,107
Total CMBS & RMBS	$	5,799	$	6,124	$	1,060	$	1,117	$	860	$	870	$	314	$	326	$	152	$	154	$	8,185	$	8,591

[1]Includes securities with pools of loans issued by the Small Business Administration which are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

The Company also has exposure to commercial mortgage loans. These loans are collateralized by real estate properties that are diversified both geographically throughout the United States and by property type. These commercial loans are originated by the Company as high quality whole loans, and the Company may sell participation interests in one or more loans to third parties. A loan participation interest represents a pro-rata share in interest and principal payments generated by the participated loan, and the relationship between the Company as loan originator, lead participant and servicer and the third party as a participant are governed by a participation agreement.

As of September 30, 2021, mortgage loans had an amortized cost of $5.1 billion and carrying value of $5.1 billion, with an ACL of $26. As of December 31, 2020, mortgage loans had an amortized cost of $4.5 billion and carrying value of $4.5 billion, with an ACL of $38. The decrease in the allowance is primarily attributable to improved economic scenarios, partially offset by

an increase driven by net additions of new loans.

The Company funded $949 of commercial mortgage loans with a weighted average loan-to-value (“LTV”) ratio of 56% and a weighted average yield of 2.8% during the nine months ended September 30, 2021. The Company continues to originate commercial mortgage loans in high growth markets across the country focusing primarily on institutional-quality industrial, retail, and multi-family properties with strong LTV ratios. There were no mortgage loans held for sale as of September 30, 2021 or December 31, 2020.

Municipal Bonds

The following table presents the Company's exposure to municipal bonds by type and weighted average credit quality included in the preceding Securities by Type table.

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Available For Sale Investments in Municipal Bonds
	September 30, 2021					December 31, 2020
	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Weighted Average Credit Quality	Amortized Cost		Fair Value		Weighted Average Credit Quality
General Obligation	$	1,010	$	1,129	AA	$	1,082	$	1,232	AA+
Pre-refunded [1]	679		715		AAA	889		940		AAA
Revenue
Transportation	1,617		1,791		A	1,441		1,636		A+
Health Care	1,250		1,370		A+	1,273		1,407		A+
Leasing [2]	855		916		AA	905		985		AA-
Education	702		770		AA+	732		824		AA
Water & Sewer	509		543		AA	644		694		AA
Sales Tax	363		424		AA	394		464		AA
Power	318		356		A+	401		450		A+
Housing	106		111		AA	102		109		AA+
Other	704		753		AA-	701		762		A+
Total Revenue	6,424		7,034		AA-	6,593		7,331		AA-
Total Municipal	$	8,113	$	8,878	AA-	$	8,564	$	9,503	AA-

[1]Pre-refunded bonds are bonds for which an irrevocable trust containing sufficient U.S. treasury, agency, or other securities has been established to fund the remaining payments of principal and interest.

[2]Leasing revenue bonds are generally the obligations of a financing authority established by the municipality that leases facilities back to a municipality. The notes are typically secured by lease payments made by the municipality that is leasing the facilities financed by the issue. Lease payments may be subject to annual appropriation by the municipality, or the municipality may be obligated to appropriate general tax revenues to make lease payments.

As of September 30, 2021, the largest issuer concentrations were the State of California, the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, and the Pennsylvania State Turnpike Commission, which each comprised less than 3% of the municipal bond portfolio and were primarily comprised of general obligation and revenue bonds. As of December 31, 2020, the largest issuer concentrations were the New York State Dormitory Authority, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority, which each comprised less than 3% of the municipal bond portfolio and were primarily comprised of general obligation and revenue bonds. In total, municipal bonds make up 15% of the fair value of the Company's investment portfolio. While COVID-19 has had an impact on many municipal issuers, credit fundamentals in this sector have broadly stabilized due to an unprecedented influx of federal relief funds and a strong economic recovery in the second half of 2020 and year-to-date in 2021.

Limited Partnerships and Other Alternative Investments

The following table presents the Company’s investments in limited partnerships and other alternative investments which include hedge funds, real estate funds, and private equity funds. Real estate funds consist of investments primarily in real estate joint ventures and, to a lesser extent, equity funds. Private equity funds primarily consist of investments in funds whose assets typically consist of a diversified pool of investments in small to mid-sized non-public businesses with high growth potential and strong owner sponsorship, as well as limited exposure to public markets.

Income or losses on investments in limited partnerships and alternative investments are recognized on a lag as results from

private equity investments and other funds are generally reported on a three-month delay.

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Limited Partnerships and Other Alternative Investments - Net Investment Income
	Three Months Ended September 30,								Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021				2020				2021				2020
	Amount		Yield [1]		Amount		Yield [1]		Amount		Yield [1]		Amount		Yield [1]
Hedge funds	$	7	15.6	%	$	6	15.1	%	$	26	19.7	%	$	4	3.9	%
Real estate funds	85		39.3	%	19		18.6	%	111		20.4	%	33		10.7	%
Private equity funds	144		53.0	%	37		16.9	%	358		52.8	%	29		4.5	%
Other alternative investments [2]	23		19.4	%	21		22.2	%	67		21.3	%	4		1.3	%
Total	$	259	39.6	%	$	83	18.3	%	$	562	33.7	%	$	70	5.2	%

[1]Yields calculated using annualized net investment income divided by the monthly average invested assets.


Investments in Limited Partnerships and Other Alternative Investments
	September 30, 2021				December 31, 2020
	Amount		Percent		Amount		Percent
Hedge funds	$	215	7.3	%	$	158	7.6	%
Real estate funds	1,073		36.2	%	563		27.0	%
Private equity and other funds	1,192		40.3	%	944		45.4	%
Other alternative investments [2]	481		16.2	%	417		20.0	%
Total	$	2,961	100.0	%	$	2,082	100.0	%

[2]Consists of an insurer-owned life insurance policy which is primarily invested in fixed income, private equity, and hedge funds.

Fixed Maturities, AFS — Unrealized Loss Aging

The total gross unrealized losses were $94 as of September 30, 2021 and have increased $31, from December 31, 2020, primarily due to higher interest rates, partially offset by tighter credit spreads. As of September 30, 2021, $91 of the gross unrealized losses were associated with fixed maturities, AFS depressed less than 20% of amortized cost. The remaining $3 of gross unrealized losses were associated with fixed maturities, AFS depressed greater than 20%, primarily related to commercial real estate securities that were purchased at tighter credit spreads.

As part of the Company’s ongoing investment monitoring process, the Company has reviewed its fixed maturities, AFS in an unrealized loss position and concluded that these fixed maturities are temporarily depressed and are expected to recover in value as the investments approach maturity or as market spreads tighten. For these fixed maturities in an unrealized loss position where an ACL has not been recorded, the Company’s best estimate of expected future cash flows are sufficient to recover the amortized cost basis of the investment. Furthermore, the Company neither has an intention to sell nor does it expect to be required to sell these Investments. For further information regarding the Company’s ACL analysis, see the Credit Losses on Fixed Maturities, AFS and Intent-to-Sell Impairments section below.


Unrealized Loss Aging for Fixed Maturities, AFS Securities
	September 30, 2021									December 31, 2020
Consecutive Months	Items	Amortized Cost		ACL		Unrealized Loss		Fair Value		Items	Amortized Cost		ACL		Unrealized Loss		Fair Value
Three months or less	560	$	6,346	$	—	$	(49)	$	6,297	102	$	625	$	—	$	(3)	$	622
Greater than three to six months	116	660		—		(3)		657		46	367		—		(5)		362
Greater than six to nine months	180	1,102		—		(22)		1,080		8	6		—		(1)		5
Greater than nine to eleven months	26	89		—		(3)		86		186	1,275		(1)		(27)		1,247
Twelve months or more	175	586		—		(17)		569		205	994		—		(27)		967
Total	1,057	$	8,783	$	—	$	(94)	$	8,689	547	$	3,267	$	(1)	$	(63)	$	3,203

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Unrealized Loss Aging for Fixed Maturities, AFS Continuously Depressed Over 20%
	September 30, 2021							December 31, 2020
Consecutive Months	Items	Amortized Cost		Unrealized Loss		Fair Value			Items	Amortized Cost		Unrealized Loss		Fair Value
Three months or less	—	$	—	$	—	$	—		2	$	2	$	(1)	$	1

Greater than six to nine months	—	—		—		—			1	46		(10)		36
Greater than nine to eleven months	1	2		(1)		1			2	5		(1)		4
Twelve months or more	21	4		(2)		2			24	5		(2)		3
Total	22	$	6	$	(3)	$	3		29	$	58	$	(14)	$	44

Credit Losses on Fixed Maturities, AFS and Intent-to-Sell Impairments

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021

There were no changes to the ACL for the three months ended September 30, 2021. For the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company recorded a net decrease in the ACL of $4, driven by increases in the fair value of corporate issuers that had an ACL in prior periods, partially offset by new expected credit losses on a media/entertainment company. Unrealized losses on securities with an ACL recognized in other comprehensive income were less than $1 for both the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021. For further information, refer to Note 5 - Investments of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

There were no intent-to-sell impairments in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021.

The Company incorporates its best estimate of future performance using internal assumptions and judgments that are informed by economic and industry specific trends, as well as our expectations with respect to security specific developments.

Future intent-to-sell impairments or credit losses may develop as the result of changes in our intent to sell specific securities that are in an unrealized loss position or if modeling assumptions, such as macroeconomic factors or security specific developments, change unfavorably from our current modeling assumptions, resulting in lower cash flow expectations. For a discussion of impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, refer to the Impact of COVID-19 on our financial condition, results of operations and liquidity section of this MD&A.

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

The Company recorded net credit losses on fixed maturities, AFS of $1 and $33, respectively, for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020. The losses for the three months ended September 30, 2020, were primarily attributable to one tax-exempt municipal bond impacted by COVID-19, partially offset by increases in the fair value of securities that had an ACL recorded in prior periods. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, net credit losses primarily include an increase in ACL for corporate fixed maturities, mainly one private regional and commercial aircraft lessor and one cruise line issuer. Unrealized losses on securities with an ACL

recognized in other comprehensive income were $0 and $1 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020.

Intent-to-sell impairments were $0 and $5 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, respectively, with impairments in the nine month period primarily related to one corporate issuer in the energy sector and one issuer with exposure to India.

ACL on Mortgage Loans

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2021

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company recorded an increase (decrease) in the ACL on mortgage loans of $2 and ($12), respectively. The increase in the allowance for the three months ended September 30, 2021, was driven by net additions of new loans. The decrease in the allowance for the nine months ended September 30, 2021, was primarily the result of improved economic scenarios, partially offset by an increase driven by net additions of new loans. The Company did not record an ACL on any individual mortgage loans.

Three and nine months ended September 30, 2020

For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company recorded an increase (decrease) in the ACL on mortgage loans of ($5) and $19, respectively. The decrease in the allowance for the three months ended September 30, 2020, was the result of improved property valuations in certain industry sectors that have been less impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and modestly improved economic forecasts. The increase in the allowance for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, was due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the economic forecasts, as well as lower estimated property values and operating income. The Company did not record an ACL on any individual mortgage loans.

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CAPITAL RESOURCES AND LIQUIDITY

The following section discusses the overall financial strength of The Hartford and its insurance operations including their ability to generate cash flows from each of their business segments, borrow funds at competitive rates and raise new capital to meet operating and growth needs over the next twelve months.

|SUMMARY OF CAPITAL RESOURCES AND LIQUIDITY

Capital available to the holding company as of September 30, 2021:

•$2.1 billion in fixed maturities, short-term investments, investment sales receivable and cash at The HFSG Holding Company.

•A senior unsecured revolving credit facility that provides for borrowing capacity up to $750 of unsecured credit through March 29, 2023 (which was subsequently extended through October 27, 2026). As of September 30, 2021, there were no borrowings outstanding; and

•An intercompany liquidity agreement that allows for short-term advances of funds among the HFSG Holding Company and certain affiliates of up to $2.0 billion for liquidity and other general corporate purposes. As of September 30, 2021, there were no borrowings outstanding.

2021 expected dividends and other sources of capital:

The future payment of dividends from our subsidiaries is dependent on several factors including the extent to which COVID-19 impacts our business, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity.

•P&C - The Company's U.S. property and casualty insurance subsidiaries have dividend capacity of $1.7 billion for 2021, with approximately $1.1 billion of net dividends expected in 2021, including $780 paid to HFSG Holding Company through September 30, 2021.

•Group Benefits - HLA has dividend capacity of $295 in 2021 with approximately $295 of dividends expected in 2021, including $220 paid to HFSG Holding Company through September 30, 2021.

•Hartford Funds - HFSG Holding Company expects to receive approximately $165 in dividends from Hartford Funds in 2021, including $121 received through September 30, 2021.

•As part of the sale of Talcott Resolution, which was completed on June 30, 2021, the Company received $217 of proceeds.

Expected liquidity requirements for the next twelve months as of September 30, 2021:

•$220 of interest on debt;

•$21 dividends on preferred stock, subject to the discretion of the Board of Directors;

•$520 of common stockholders' dividends, subject to the discretion of the Board of Directors and before share repurchases; and

•$600 7.875% junior subordinated debentures expected to be called at par in April of 2022.

Equity repurchase program:

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company repurchased 19 million common shares for $1.2 billion under the share repurchase program authorized in December 2020, which is effective through December 31, 2022. The share repurchase program was initially authorized at $1.5 billion and, in April 2021, was increased to $2.5 billion. In October 2021, the Company announced an additional increase in the share repurchase authorization to $3.0 billion, which remains effective until December 31, 2022. The Company expects to utilize approximately $1.5 billion of this share repurchase authorization during 2021, subject to market conditions. During the period October 1, 2021 through October 27, 2021, the Company repurchased approximately 1.5 million common shares for $108.

The timing of any future repurchases will be dependent upon several factors, including the market price of the Company's securities, the Company's capital position, consideration of the effect of any repurchases on the Company's financial strength or credit ratings, the Company's blackout periods, and other considerations.

|LIQUIDITY REQUIREMENTS AND SOURCES OF CAPITAL

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. ("HFSG Holding Company")

The liquidity requirements of the holding company of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. will primarily be met by HFSG Holding Company's fixed maturities; short-term investments and cash; and dividends, principally from its subsidiaries.

The Company maintains sufficient liquidity and has a variety of contingent liquidity resources to manage liquidity across a range of economic scenarios. We continue to expect to successfully manage our liquidity throughout the pandemic.

The HFSG Holding Company expects to continue to receive dividends from its operating subsidiaries in the future and manages the capital and surplus in each of its operating subsidiaries to be sufficient under significant economic stress scenarios. Dividends from subsidiaries and other sources of

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funds at the Holding Company may be used to repurchase shares under the authorized share repurchase program at the discretion of management.

Under significant economic stress scenarios that could arise due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has the ability to meet short-term cash requirements, if needed, by borrowing under its revolving credit facility or by having its insurance subsidiaries take collateralized advances under a facility with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (“FHLBB”). The Company could also choose to have its insurance subsidiaries sell certain highly liquid, high quality fixed maturities or the Company could issue debt in the public markets under its shelf registration.

During the second quarter, the Company contributed €15 million ($18) to Navigators Holdings (Europe) N.V., a Belgium holding company.

Debt

On September 21, 2021, The Hartford issued $600 of 2.9% senior notes (“2.9% Notes”) due September 15, 2051 for net proceeds of approximately $588, after deducting underwriting discounts and expenses from the offering. Interest is payable semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15, commencing March 15, 2022. The Hartford, at its option, can redeem the 2.9% Notes at any time, in whole or part, at a redemption price equal to the greater of 100% of the principal amount being redeemed or a make-whole amount based on a comparable maturity US Treasury plus 20 basis points, plus any accrued and unpaid interest, except the 2.9% Notes may be redeemed at par within six months of maturity. The Hartford intends to use the net proceeds along with other available resources to repay The Hartford's $600 7.875% junior subordinated debentures (“7.875% Notes”), which are redeemable at par on or after April 15, 2022. The Hartford expects to recognize a loss on extinguishment of debt of $9, before tax, on redemption.

For additional information on Debt, see Note 11 - Debt of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

|DIVIDENDS

The Hartford's Board of Directors declared the following quarterly dividends since July 1, 2021:

Common Stock Dividends


Declared	Record	Payable	Amount per share





July 21, 2021	September 1, 2021	October 4, 2021	$	0.350
October 28, 2021	December 1, 2021	January 4, 2022	$	0.385

Preferred Stock Dividends


Declared	Record	Payable	Amount per share





July 21, 2021	November 1, 2021	November 15, 2021	$	375.00

There are no current restrictions on the HFSG Holding Company's ability to pay dividends to its stockholders.

For a discussion of restrictions on dividends to the HFSG Holding Company from its insurance subsidiaries, see the

following "Dividends from Subsidiaries" discussion. For a discussion of potential restrictions on the HFSG Holding Company's ability to pay dividends, see the risk factor "Our ability to declare and pay dividends is subject to limitations" in Item 1A of Part I of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020.

|DIVIDENDS FROM SUBSIDIARIES

Dividends to HFSG Holding Company from its insurance subsidiaries are restricted by insurance regulation. Upon the acquisition of Navigators Group, the Company’s principal insurance subsidiaries are domiciled in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Belgium.

The payment of dividends by Connecticut-domiciled insurers is limited under the insurance holding company laws of Connecticut. These laws require notice to and approval by the state insurance commissioner for the declaration or payment of any dividend, which, together with other dividends or distributions made within the preceding twelve months, exceeds the greater of (i) 10% of the insurer’s statutory policyholder surplus as of December 31 of the preceding year or (ii) net income (or net gain from operations, if such company is a life insurance company) for the twelve-month period ending on the thirty-first day of December last preceding, in each case determined under statutory insurance accounting principles. In addition, if any dividend of a Connecticut-domiciled insurer exceeds the insurer’s earned surplus, it requires the prior approval of the Connecticut Insurance Commissioner.

Property casualty insurers domiciled in New York, including Navigators Insurance Company ("NIC") and Navigators Specialty Insurance Company ("NSIC"), generally may not, without notice to and approval by the state insurance commissioner, pay dividends out of earned surplus in any twelve-month period that exceeds the lesser of (i) 10% of the insurer’s statutory policyholders’ surplus as of the most recent financial statement on file, or (ii) 100% of its adjusted net investment income, as defined, for the same twelve month period.

The insurance holding company laws of the other jurisdictions in which The Hartford’s insurance subsidiaries are incorporated (or deemed commercially domiciled) generally contain similar (although in certain instances more restrictive) limitations on the payment of dividends. In addition to statutory limitations on paying dividends, the Company also takes other items into consideration when determining dividends from subsidiaries. These considerations include, but are not limited to, expected earnings and capitalization of the subsidiaries, regulatory capital requirements and liquidity requirements of the individual operating company.

Corporate members of Lloyd's syndicates may pay dividends to its parent to the extent of available profits that have been distributed from the syndicate in excess of the Funds at Lloyd's ("FAL") capital requirement. The FAL is determined based on the syndicate’s solvency capital requirement ("SCR") under the E.U.'s Solvency II capital adequacy model, the current regulatory framework governing UK domiciled insurers, plus a Lloyd’s specific economic capital assessment.

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Insurers domiciled in the United Kingdom may pay dividends to their parent out of their statutory profits subject to restrictions imposed under U.K. Company law and Solvency II. Belgium domiciled insurers may only pay dividends if, at the end of their previous fiscal year, the total amount of their assets, as reduced by its provisions and debts, are in excess of certain minimum capital thresholds calculated under Belgian law.

Through the first nine months of 2021, HFSG Holding Company received approximately $1.1 billion of net dividends from its subsidiaries, including $220 from HLA, $121 from Hartford Funds and $780 from its U.S. P&C subsidiaries, excluding $100 of P&C dividends that were subsequently contributed to a P&C subsidiary and $37 of P&C dividends related to interest payments on an intercompany note owed by Hartford Holdings, Inc. ("HHI") to Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

Over the remainder of 2021, the Company anticipates receiving approximately $325 of net dividends from its U.S. P&C subsidiaries, approximately $75 of dividends from HLA and approximately $45 of dividends from Hartford Funds.

|OTHER SOURCES OF CAPITAL FOR THE HFSG HOLDING COMPANY

The Hartford endeavors to maintain a capital structure that provides financial and operational flexibility to its insurance subsidiaries, ratings that support its competitive position in the financial services marketplace (see the "Ratings" section below for further discussion), and stockholder returns. As a result, the Company may from time to time raise capital from the issuance of debt, common equity, preferred stock, equity-related debt or other capital securities and is continuously evaluating strategic opportunities. The issuance of debt, common equity, equity-related debt or other capital securities could result in the dilution of stockholder interests or reduced net income to common shareholders due to additional interest expense or preferred stock dividends.

Shelf Registrations

The Hartford filed an automatic shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("the SEC") on May 17, 2019 that permits it to offer and sell debt and equity securities during the three-year life of the registration statement.

For further information regarding Shelf Registrations, see Note 14 - Debt of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statement in The Hartford's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

Revolving Credit Facility

In 2018, The Hartford entered into a senior unsecured revolving credit facility (the "Credit Facility") that provides up to $750 of unsecured credit through March 29, 2023. As of September 30, 2021, no borrowings were outstanding and no letters of credit were issued under the Credit Facility and The Hartford was in compliance with all financial covenants. On October 27, 2021, The Hartford amended and restated the Credit Facility and extended it through October 27, 2026. For further information regarding the Credit Facility, see Note 11 – Debt of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and Note 14 -

Debt of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

Intercompany Liquidity Agreements

The Company has $2.0 billion available under an intercompany liquidity agreement that allows for short-term advances of funds among the HFSG Holding Company and certain affiliates of up to $2.0 billion for liquidity and other general corporate purposes. The Connecticut Department of Insurance ("CTDOI") granted approval for certain affiliated insurance companies that are parties to the agreement to treat receivables from a parent, including the HFSG Holding Company, as admitted assets for statutory accounting purposes.

As of September 30, 2021 there were no amounts outstanding at the HFSG Holding Company.

Collateralized Advances with Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston

The Company’s subsidiaries, Hartford Fire Insurance Company (“Hartford Fire”) and Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company (“HLA”), are members of the FHLBB. Membership allows these subsidiaries access to collateralized advances, which may be short- or long-term with fixed or variable rates. Advances may be used to support general corporate purposes, which would be presented as short- or long-term debt, or to earn incremental investment income, which would be presented in other liabilities consistent with other collateralized financing transactions. As of September 30, 2021, there were no advances outstanding.

For further information regarding collateralized advances with FHLBB, see Note 14 - Debt of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

Lloyd's Letter of Credit Facilities

The Hartford has entered into a committed credit facility agreement with a syndicate of lenders (the "Club Facility") as well as a non-committed $25 credit facility with a lender (the "Bilateral Facility"). The Club Facility has two tranches with one tranche extending a $104 commitment and the other tranche extending a £85 million ($115 as of September 30, 2021) commitment. As of September 30, 2021, letters of credit with an aggregate face amount of $104 and £83.5 million, or $113, were outstanding under the Club Facility and no letters of credit were outstanding under the Bilateral Facility.

Among other covenants, the Club Facility and Bilateral Facility contain financial covenants regarding The Hartford's consolidated net worth and financial leverage and that limit the amount of letters of credit that can support Funds and Lloyd's, consistent with Lloyd's requirements. As of September 30, 2021, The Hartford was in compliance with all financial covenants of both facilities.

For further information regarding the Club Facility and the Bilateral Facility, see Note 14 - Debt of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Company’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

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|PENSION PLANS AND OTHER POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS

The Company does not have a 2021 required minimum funding contribution for the U.S. qualified defined benefit pension plan and the funding requirements for all pension plans are expected to be immaterial. Based on the funded status of the U.S. qualified defined benefit pension plan, the Company does not anticipate making a contribution to the plan in 2021.

|DERIVATIVE COMMITMENTS

Certain of the Company’s derivative agreements contain provisions that are tied to the financial strength ratings, as set by nationally recognized statistical rating agencies, of the individual legal entity that entered into the derivative agreement. If the legal entity’s financial strength were to fall below certain ratings, the counterparties to the derivative agreements could terminate agreements and demand immediate settlement of the outstanding net derivative positions transacted under each agreement. For further information, refer to Note 13 - Commitments and Contingencies of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

As of September 30, 2021, no derivative positions would be subject to immediate termination in the event of a downgrade of one level below the current financial strength ratings. This could change as a result of changes in our hedging activities or to the extent changes in contractual terms are negotiated.

|INSURANCE OPERATIONS

While subject to variability period to period, underwriting and investment cash flows continue to provide sufficient liquidity to meet anticipated demands over the next twelve months. For information about the impact of COVID-19 on the Company's cash flows see the Risk Factors disclosed in Item 1A of Part I of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020. For a discussion and tabular presentation of the Company’s contractual obligations by period, refer to Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Aggregate Contractual Obligations within the Capital Resources and Liquidity section of the MD&A included in The Hartford’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

The principal sources of operating funds are premiums, fees earned from assets under management and investment income, while investing cash flows primarily originate from maturities and sales of invested assets. The primary uses of funds are to pay claims, claim adjustment expenses, commissions and other underwriting and insurance operating costs, to pay taxes, to

purchase new investments and to make dividend payments to the HFSG Holding Company.

The Company’s insurance operations consist of property and casualty insurance products (collectively referred to as “Property & Casualty Operations”) and Group Benefits. The Company's insurance operations hold fixed maturity securities including a significant short-term investment position (securities with maturities of one year or less at the time of purchase) to meet liquidity needs. Liquidity requirements that are unable to be funded by the Company's insurance operations' short-term investments would be satisfied with current operating funds, including premiums or investing cash flows, which includes proceeds received through the sale of invested assets. A sale of invested assets could result in significant realized losses.

The following tables represent the fixed maturity holdings, including the aforementioned cash and short-term investments available to meet liquidity needs, for each of the Company’s insurance operations.


Property & Casualty
	As of September 30, 2021
Fixed maturities	$	33,715
Short-term investments	1,232
Cash	199
Less: Derivative collateral	41
Total	$	35,105


Group Benefits Operations
	As of September 30, 2021
Fixed maturities	$	9,923
Short-term investments	224
Cash	20
Less: Derivative collateral	25
Total	$	10,142

|OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENTS AND AGGREGATE CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS

There have been no material changes to the Company’s off-balance sheet arrangements and aggregate contractual obligations since the filing of the Company’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

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|CAPITALIZATION


Capital Structure
	September 30, 2021			December 31, 2020			Change


Long-term debt	$	4,943		$	4,352		14	%
Total debt	4,943			4,352			14	%
Common stockholders' equity excluding AOCI, net of tax	17,221			17,052			1	%
Preferred stock	334			334			—	%
AOCI, net of tax	307			1,170			(74	%)
Total stockholders’ equity	17,862			18,556			(4	%)
Total capitalization	$	22,805		$	22,908		—	%
Debt to stockholders’ equity	28		%	23		%
Debt to capitalization	22		%	19		%

Total capitalization decreased $103 as of September 30, 2021 compared to December 31, 2020 primarily due to share repurchases in the period and a decrease in AOCI, partially offset by net income in excess of stockholder dividends and an increase in long-term debt due to the issuance of the 2.9% Notes.

For additional information on AOCI, net of tax, including unrealized gains from securities, see Note 15 - Changes In and

Reclassifications From Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) and Note 5 - Investments of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. For additional information on debt, see Note 14 - Debt of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statement in The Hartford's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

|CASH FLOW[1]


	Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2021		2020
Net cash provided by operating activities	$	2,889	$	2,655
Net cash used for investing activities	$	(1,748)	$	(1,007)
Net cash used for financing activities	$	(963)	$	(1,579)
Cash and restricted cash– end of period	$	397	$	270

[1] Cash activities in 2021 include cash flows related to Continental Europe Operations classified as held for sale beginning in the third quarter of 2020. See Note 17 - Business Disposition of Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for discussion of this transaction.

Cash provided by operating activities increased in 2021 as compared to the prior year period primarily driven by lower operating expenses paid including lower payroll and employee related expenditures, greater cash distributions from limited partnerships, a decline in P&C losses and loss adjustment expenses paid, the impact of Personal Lines premium refunds in the 2020 period, and an increase in Commercial Lines premiums received. Positive cash flow impacts were partially offset by an increase in income taxes paid and an increase in Group Benefits loss and loss adjustment expenses paid in excess of premiums received.

Cash used for investing activities increased in 2021 as compared to the prior year as a result of a decrease from net proceeds to net payments for equity securities, an increase in net payments for partnerships, an increase in net payments for mortgage loans, and a decrease in net proceeds for derivatives, partially offset by an increase from net payments to net proceeds for fixed maturities, a decrease in net payments for short term investments and consideration received from the sale of the Company's equity interest in Talcott Resolution.

Cash used for financing activities decreased primarily due to proceeds from the issuance of debt in 2021, debt repayments in the 2020 period, and a decrease in cash used for securities lending transactions, partially offset by an increase in share repurchases in 2021.

Operating cash flow for the nine months ended September 30, 2021 has been adequate to meet liquidity requirements.

|EQUITY MARKETS

For a discussion of the potential impact of the equity markets on capital and liquidity, see the Financial Risk section in this MD&A and the Financial Risk on Statutory Capital section of the MD&A in the Company's 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

|RATINGS

Ratings are an important factor in establishing a competitive position in the insurance marketplace and impact the

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Company's ability to access financing and its cost of borrowing. There can be no assurance that the Company’s ratings will continue for any given period of time, or that they will not be changed. In the event the Company’s ratings are downgraded, the Company’s competitive position, ability to access financing, and its cost of borrowing, may be adversely impacted.

On July 21, 2021, Moody's upgraded the insurance financial strength rating of HLA to A1 from A2. The upgrade reflects HLA’s leading market position in the group benefits and disability business, its distribution capabilities and consistent profitability, as well as implicit support from The Hartford.


Insurance Financial Strength Ratings as of October 27, 2021
	A.M. Best	Standard & Poor’s	Moody’s
Hartford Fire Insurance Company	A+	A+	A1
Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company	A+	A+	A1
Navigators Insurance Company	A+	A	Not Rated




Other Ratings:
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.:
Senior debt	a-	BBB+	Baa1

These ratings are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any of The Hartford's securities and they may be revised or revoked at any time at the sole discretion of the rating organization. Each agency's rating should be evaluated independently of any other agency's rating. The system and number of rating categories can vary across rating agencies.

Among other factors, rating agencies consider the level of statutory capital and surplus of our U.S. insurance subsidiaries as well as the level of a measure of GAAP capital held by the Company in determining the Company's financial strength and credit ratings. Rating agencies may implement changes to their capital formulas that have the effect of increasing the amount of capital we must hold in order to maintain our current ratings. See Risk Factors disclosed in Item 1A of Part I of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020.

|STATUTORY CAPITAL


U.S. Statutory Capital Rollforward for the Company's Insurance Subsidiaries
	Property and Casualty Insurance Subsidiaries [1] [2]		Group Benefits Insurance Subsidiary		Total
U.S statutory capital at January 1, 2021	$	10,795	$	2,601	$	13,396
Statutory income	1,015		58		1,073
Contributions from (dividends to) parent	(780)		(220)		(1,000)

Other items	364		42		406
Net change to U.S. statutory capital	599		(120)		479
U.S statutory capital at September 30, 2021	$	11,394	$	2,481	$	13,875

[1]The statutory capital for property and casualty insurance subsidiaries in this table does not include the value of an intercompany note owed by Hartford Holdings, Inc. ("HHI") to Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

[2]Excludes insurance operations in the U.K. and Continental Europe.

|CONTINGENCIES

Legal Proceedings

For a discussion regarding The Hartford’s legal proceedings, see the information contained in Note 13 -Commitments and Contingencies of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Legislative and Regulatory Developments

COVID-19 Global Pandemic

State and federal retroactive business interruption coverage and other insurance regulatory relief initiatives- State and federal lawmakers are continuing to consider legislation and regulation

in response to COVID-19. There have been proposals to impose retroactive coverage of COVID-19 claims under existing business interruption coverage provisions. If such proposals were enacted, they could represent a material exposure for the Company. Further, some states have adopted, or are considering incorporating, a presumption that if certain workers become infected with COVID-19, such infection would constitute an occupational disease triggering workers’ compensation coverage. In addition, state insurance regulators, including California, New Jersey and New York, have encouraged (and in some cases required) insurers to offer immediate relief to policyholders including refunding and offering discounts for drivers, incorporating flexible payment solutions for families, individuals, and businesses, providing additional time to make payments, waiving insurance premium late fees, pausing cancellation of coverage for personal and commercial policies due to non-payment and policy expiration, and suspending

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personal automobile exclusions for restaurant employees who are transitioning to meal delivery services using their personal automobile policy as coverage. The Hartford offered consumer financial relief including a 15 percent refund on policyholders’ April and May 2020 personal automobile insurance premiums, waived late payments fees for a period of time for business and personal insurance customers and temporarily suspended policy cancellations for policyholders of our Commercial Lines, Personal Lines and Group Benefits segments. As the COVID-19 global pandemic continues, regulators may require us or we may elect to provide additional consumer and/or business financial relief. We may also see this manifest in the review and approval of new rate filings, with regulators applying heightened scrutiny even when rate reductions are proposed. The duration and scope of such regulatory/Company actions are uncertain, and the impacts of such actions could adversely affect the Company’s insurance business.

Federal pandemic risk insurance- Congress is considering possible action for future pandemic risk insurance coverage through a risk sharing mechanism between insurers and the federal government. Timing for any Congressional action with respect to these efforts is uncertain at this time. If such a program were to be enacted, it could represent a significant obligation for the Company in terms of deductible and co-share obligations.

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021- On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. The comprehensive bill includes provisions on taxes, healthcare, unemployment benefits, direct payments, state and local funding and other issues. The American Rescue Plan also directed billions of dollars towards the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") and Targeted Economic Injury Disaster Loan Advance payments to support small businesses across the nation. Additionally, this law directed $28.6 billion for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund for industry-focused grants. On March 30, 2021, President Biden signed the PPP Extension Act of 2021 which set a new application deadline of May 31, 2021 allowing the Small Business Administration (SBA) to continue processing applications for up to 30 days past the May 31 deadline.

Federal emergency leave legislation- On March 18, 2020, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act ("FFCRA") was signed into law by the President, and was effective from April 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020. This legislation included a number of funding provisions and worker protections including mandated emergency paid sick leave and paid family and medical leave programs. For private employers with fewer than 500 employees, and most public employers, new programs were put in place to guarantee individuals 10 days of paid sick leave, and up to 10 weeks of paid family and medical leave to deal directly with COVID-19. Eligible employers have access to a tax credit to reimburse for costs related to the emergency leave programs. On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 was signed into law and included a bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill. Although the mandatory paid leave provisions from the FFCRA expired on December 31, 2020, the new law extended FFCRA tax credits through March 31, 2021, for covered employers that voluntarily continued to offer paid leave under the FFCRA framework. As part of the American Rescue Plan, Congress again extended certain FFCRA refundable tax credits between April 1 and September 30, 2021, for covered

employers who voluntarily offer emergency paid leave for reasons described under FFCRA. The American Rescue Plan also expands the allowable leaves of absence for purposes of qualifying for the tax credit. The Hartford is providing support for the administration of the family and medical leave component of these voluntary company FFCRA-type leaves for our Group Benefits customers. Congress also approved a $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security ("CARES") Act. The bill, signed into law on March 27, 2020, focused on providing financial support for small businesses, individuals, emergency workers, airlines and other industries of national security. The CARES Act included several technical corrections to the emergency leave programs and created advance refunding credits, which allow the U.S. Treasury to develop regulations or guidance to permit advancement of the tax credit for both the emergency paid sick leave and paid family and medical leave. While we do not anticipate further emergency Congressional legislative action on paid leave, we continue to closely monitor the federal legislative landscape for possible activity.

Federal tax legislation- In response to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, Congress, various states and other global jurisdictions have passed numerous pieces of legislation which contain a number of changes to the tax laws in order to aid impacted businesses and individuals, as well as provide economic stimulus. The Company deferred the employer’s portion of the Social Security tax on wages from March 27, 2020 to year-end 2020. Such deferred amounts are due and payable over a two-year period, 50% by December 31, 2021 and 50% by December 31, 2022. The U.S. Treasury and IRS continue to develop guidance implementing these new tax law provisions, and Congress may consider additional technical corrections to these laws. Tax proposals and regulatory initiatives which have been or are being considered by Congress and/or the U.S. Treasury Department could have a material effect on the Company and its insurance businesses. The nature and timing of any Congressional or regulatory action with respect to any such efforts is unclear.

Biden Administration Build Back Better Agenda

Over the last several months the Biden Administration has been calling for Congressional action on the President’s Build Back Better Agenda. The Build Back Better plan outlines funding across traditional infrastructure verticals such as roads, bridges, and highways plus spending for human infrastructure including a national Paid Family and Medical Leave program, clean energy initiatives, and childcare. While Congress is currently considering these proposals, the extent to which the proposed programs will be funded remains unclear.

The bipartisan “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” which supports traditional infrastructure spending is awaiting a final vote in the U.S. House of Representatives. The delay in passage is largely due to the ongoing debate over the second legislative vehicle under development for funding of human infrastructure programs, which could move through Congress via the budget reconciliation process.

Notably, a national Paid Family and Medical Leave program could affect existing state-based disability and paid leave programs or other products and services that the Company provides through its Group Benefits business.

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If enacted, the effect of the provisions of the Build Back Better Agenda on the Company’s operations and ability to attract new business and retain existing customers is unclear.

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (the "Affordable Care Act")

It is unclear whether the Administration, Congress or the courts will seek to reverse, amend or alter the ongoing operation of the Affordable Care Act ("ACA"). If such actions were to occur, they may have an impact on various aspects of our business, including our insurance businesses. It is unclear what an amended ACA would entail, and to what extent there may be a transition period for the phase out of the ACA. The impact to The Hartford as an employer would be consistent with other large employers. The Hartford’s core business does not involve the issuance of health insurance, and we have not observed any material impacts on the Company’s workers’ compensation business or group benefits business from the enactment of the ACA. We will continue to monitor the impact of the ACA and any reforms on consumer, broker and medical provider behavior for leading indicators of changes in medical costs or loss payments primarily on the Company's workers' compensation and disability liabilities.

US and International Tax Reform

At the end of 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 ("TCJA") was enacted. The TCJA made significant reforms to the U.S. tax code. The major areas of interest to the Company included the reduction of the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and the repeal of the corporate alternative minimum tax ("AMT") and the refunding of AMT credits. As Congress debates action on various spending initiatives, it is considering a variety of proposals to fund the cost of the spending with certain revenue raising measures, including a possible increase in the corporate

tax rate and other changes to taxes owed on income earned outside of the U.S. These and other tax proposals and regulatory initiatives that have been or are being considered by Congress and/or the U.S. Treasury Department could have a material effect on the Company and its insurance businesses. The nature and timing of any Congressional or regulatory action with respect to any such efforts is unclear. For additional information on risks to the Company related to TCJA and other tax proposals, see the risk factor entitled "Changes in federal or state tax laws could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and liquidity" under "Risk Factors" in Part I of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020. On October 8th, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") announced that 136 of 140 countries in the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting had agreed to an updated final agreement to address tax challenges arising from the digitalization of the economy, including the implementation of a global minimum tax. Since this is dependent on each country implementing the convention through domestic legislation, it is unclear at this point how quickly or uniformly such implementation might occur.

IMPACT OF NEW ACCOUNTING STANDARDS

For a discussion of accounting standards, see Note 1 - Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in The Hartford’s 2020 Form 10-K Annual Report.

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ACRONYMS


A&E Asbestos and Environmental			HIMCO Hartford Investment Management Company
ABS Asset Backed Securities			IBNR Incurred But Not Reported
ACL Allowance for Credit Losses			IT Information Technology
ADC Adverse Development Cover			LCL Liability for Credit Losses
AFS Available-For-Sale			LIBOR London Inter-Bank Offered Rate
ALAE Allocated Loss Adjustment Expenses			LTD Long-Term Disability
AMT Alternative Minimum Tax			LTV Loan-to-Value
AOCI Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income			MD&A Management's Discussion and Analysis
AUM Assets Under Management			NAIC National Association of Insurance Commissioners
CAY Current Accident Year			NIC Navigators Insurance Company
CLO Collateralized Loan Obligation			NICO National Indemnity Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (“Berkshire”)
CMBS Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities			NM Not Meaningful
DAC Deferred Policy Acquisition Costs			NOLs Net Operating Loss Carryforwards or Carrybacks
DSCR Debt Service Coverage Ratio			NSIC Navigators Specialty Insurance Company
ERCC Enterprise Risk and Capital Committee			OCI Other Comprehensive Income
ETF Exchange-Traded Funds			OTC Over-the-Counter
ETP Exchange-Traded Products			P&C Property and Casualty
FAL Funds at Lloyd's			PYD Prior Year Development
FASB Financial Accounting Standards Board			RBC Risk-Based Capital
FHLBB Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston			RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles			ROA Return on Assets
GB Group Benefits			ROE Return on Equity
HFSG Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.			SCR Solvency Capital Requirement
HHI Hartford Holdings, Inc.			ULAE Unallocated Loss Adjustment Expenses

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Item 4.

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

EVALUATION OF DISCLOSURE CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

The Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer, based on their evaluation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e)) have concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective for the purposes set forth in the definition thereof in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e) as of September 30, 2021.

CHANGES IN INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING

There were no changes in the Company's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the Company's current fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting. We have not experienced any material impact to our internal controls over financial reporting despite the fact that most employees of the Company and of our vendors have had to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic though we will continue to assess the impact on the design and operating effectiveness of our internal controls.

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Item 1.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

For a discussion regarding The Hartford’s legal proceedings, see the information contained in Note 13 -Commitments and Contingencies of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.

Item 1A.

RISK FACTORS

Investing in The Hartford involves risk. In deciding whether to invest in The Hartford, you should carefully consider the risk factors disclosed in Item 1A of Part I of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2020, (collectively the "Company's Risk Factors" or individually, the "Company's Risk Factor"), which is incorporated herein by

reference, any of which could have a significant or material adverse effect on the business, financial condition, operating results or liquidity of The Hartford. This information should be considered carefully together with the other information contained in this report and the other reports and materials filed by The Hartford with the SEC.

Item 2.

UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES BY THE ISSUER

The most recent share repurchase authorization, effective until December 31, 2022, was approved in December 2020, was increased by the Board of Directors from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion in April 2021 and then increased further to $3.0 billion in

October 2021. During the period from October 1, 2021 to October 27, 2021, the Company repurchased 1.5 million shares for $108. The timing of any repurchase of shares under the remaining equity repurchase authorization is dependent upon several factors, including the market price of the Company's securities, the Company's capital position, consideration of the effect of any repurchases on the Company's financial strength or credit ratings, the Company's blackout periods, and other considerations.


Repurchases of Common Stock by the Issuer for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
Period	Total Number of Shares Purchased	Average Price Paid Per Share		Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans or Programs	Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs[1]
					(in millions)
July 1, 2021 - July 31, 2021	2,120,221	$	61.84	2,120,221	$	1,678
August 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021	3,165,631	$	66.77	3,165,631	$	1,467
September 1, 2021 - September 30, 2021	2,442,711	$	69.17	2,442,711	$	1,298
Total	7,728,563	$	66.18	7,728,563

[1] This column reflects the $2.5 billion share repurchase authorization as of September 30, 2021. In October 2021, the Board increased this authorization to $3.0 billion. As a result of the increase, the Company had approximately $1.7 billion remaining under its share repurchase authorization as of October 27, 2021.

Item 6.

EXHIBITS


See Exhibits Index on page			119.

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THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.

FOR THE QUARTER ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

FORM 10-Q

EXHIBITS INDEX

Exhibit No.

Description

Form

File No.

Exhibit No

Filing Date

3.01

Restated Certificate of Incorporation of The Hartford, as filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on October 20, 2014.

8-K

001-13958

3.01

10/20/2014

3.02

Amended and Restated By-Laws of The Hartford, amended effective December 17, 2020.

8-K

001-13958

3.1

7/21/2016

4.01

Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 21, 2021, between The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee.

8-K

001-13958

4.4

9/21/2021

4.02

Form of global note for $600 million aggregate principal amount of 2.900% Senior Notes due 2051.

8-K

001-13958

4.5

9/21/2021

10.01

Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated October 27 , 2021, among The Hartford as borrower, Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and the other parties signatory thereto.

8-K

001-13958

10.1

10/28/2021

15.01

Deloitte & Touche LLP Letter of Awareness.**

31.01

Certification of Christopher J. Swift pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.**

31.02

Certification of Beth A. Costello pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.**

32.01

Certification of Christopher J. Swift pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.**

32.02

Certification of Beth A. Costello pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.**

101.INS

XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.

101.SCH

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema.**

101.CAL

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase.**

101.DEF

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase.**

101.LAB

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase.**

101.PRE

Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase.**

104

The cover page from the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2021, formatted in Inline XBRL.

Management contract, compensatory plan or arrangement.

Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit to this report.

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

(Registrant)

Date:

October 28, 2021

/s/ Scott R. Lewis

Scott R. Lewis

Senior Vice President and Controller

(Chief accounting officer and duly

authorized signatory)

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