EXHIBIT 24

                     POWER OF ATTORNEY

We, the undersigned directors and/or officers of Aetna Life
and Casualty Company (the "Company"), hereby severally
constitute and appoint Zoe Baird, Senior Vice President and
General Counsel, John W. Campbell, Vice President and
Counsel, and Kirk P. Wickman, Counsel, and each of them
individually, with full powers of substitution and
resubstitution, our true and lawful attorneys, with full
power to them and each of them to sign for us, in our names
and in the capacities indicated below, the Registration
Statement on Form S-3 to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, and any and all amendments to said
Registration Statement (including post-effective
amendments), in connection with the registration under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of up to $500,000,000 of
preferred limited liability company interests in Aetna
Capital L.L.C. guaranteed to the extent set forth in the
Registration Statement by the Company (and other specified
securities of the Company) and to file or cause to be filed
the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in
connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorneys, and each of them,
full power and authority to do and perform each and every
act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in
connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes
as each of them might or could do in person, and hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys, and each
of them, or their substitute or substitutes, shall do or
cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney.

WITNESS our hands on this 25th day of March, 1994.

/s/ RONALD E. COMPTON
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Ronald E. Compton                  Michael H. Jordan
Chairman, President and Director   Director
(Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ WALLACE BARNES                 /s/ JACK D. KUEHLER
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Wallace Barnes                     Jack D. Kuehler
Director                           Director

/s/ JOHN F. DONAHUE                /s/ FRANK R. O'KEEFE, JR.
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John F. Donahue                    Frank R. O'Keefe, Jr.
Director                           Director

/s/ WILLIAM H. DONALDSON           /s/ DAVID M. RODERICK
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William H. Donaldson               David M. Roderick
Director                           Director

/s/ BARBARA HACKMAN FRANKLIN       /s/ PATRICK W. KENNY
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Barbara Hackman Franklin           Patrick W. Kenny
Director                           Group Executive, Finance and
                                     Administration
                                   (Principal Financial Officer)

/s/ EARL G. GRAVES                 /s/ ROBERT E. BROACH
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Earl G. Graves                     Robert E. Broach
Director                           Senior Vice President, Finance
                                     and Corporate Controller
                                   (Principal Accounting Officer)

/s/ GERALD GREENWALD
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Gerald Greenwald
Director