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EXHIBIT 4.11
TRUST AGREEMENT
This TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of November 7, 2000, between
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as
"Depositor" and Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation not
in its individual capacity but solely as "Trustee". The Depositor and the
Trustee hereby agree as follows:
1. The trust created hereby shall be known as Hartford
Capital V, in which name the Trustee, or the Depositor to the extent provided
herein, may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts, and
sue and be sued.
2. The Depositor hereby assigns, transfers, conveys
and sets over to the Trustee the sum of $10. The Trustee hereby acknowledges
receipt of such amount in trust from the Depositor, which amount shall
constitute the initial trust estate. The Trustee hereby declares that they
will hold the trust estate in trust for the Depositor. It is the intention of
the parties hereto that the Trust created hereby constitute a business trust
under Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del. C. Section 3801 et
seq. (the "Business Trust Act"), and that this document constitutes the
governing instrument of the Trust. The Trustee is hereby authorized and
directed to execute and file a certificate of trust with the Delaware
Secretary of State in accordance with the provisions of the Business Trust
Act.
3. The Depositor and the Trustee will enter into an
amended and restated Trust Agreement, satisfactory to each such party and
substantially in the form included as an exhibit to the 1933 Act Registration
Statement (as defined below), to provide for the contemplated operation of the
Trust created hereby and the issuance of the Preferred Securities and Common
Securities referred to therein. Prior to the execution and delivery of such
amended and restated Trust Agreement, the Trustee shall not have any duty or
obligation hereunder or with respect to the trust estate, except as otherwise
required by applicable law or as may be necessary to obtain any licenses,
consents or approvals required by applicable law or otherwise.
4. The Depositor and the Trustee hereby authorize and
direct the Depositor, as the sponsor of the Trust, (i) to file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") and execute, in each
case on behalf of the Trust, (a) the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the
"1933 Act Registration Statement"), including any pre-effective or
post-effective amendments to such 1933 Act Registration Statement (including
the prospectus and the exhibits contained therein), relating to the
registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of the Preferred
Securities of the Trust and certain other securities and (b) a Registration
Statement on Form 8-A (the "1934 Act Registration Statement") (including all
pre-effective and post-effective amendments thereto) relating to the
registration of the Preferred Securities of the Trust under Section
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12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; (ii) to file with
the New York Stock Exchange (the "Exchange") and execute on behalf of the
Trust a listing application and all other applications, statements,
certificates, agreements and other instruments as shall be necessary or
desirable to cause the Preferred Securities to be listed on the Exchange;
(iii) to file and execute on behalf of the Trust such applications, reports,
surety bonds, irrevocable consents, appointments of attorney for service of
process and other papers and documents as shall be necessary or desirable to
register the Preferred Securities under the securities or "Blue Sky" laws, and
to obtain any permits under the insurance laws of such jurisdictions as the
Depositor, on behalf of the Trust, may deem necessary or desirable and (iv) to
execute on behalf of the Trust one or more Underwriting Agreements with one or
more underwriters relating to the offering of the Preferred Securities. In the
event that any filing referred to in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above is
required by the rules and regulations of the Commission, the Exchange or state
securities or blue sky laws, to be executed on behalf of the Trust by a
Trustee, the Depositor and any Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 6 hereof
are hereby authorized to join in any such filing and to execute on behalf of
the Trust any and all of the foregoing. In connection with all of the
foregoing, the Depositor hereby constitutes and appoints Michael S. Wilder,
Michael O'Halloran, J. Richard Garrett, Robert Paiano, Brenda Furlong,
Katherine Vines Trumbull and David K. Zwiener, and each of them, as its true
and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, for the Depositor or in the Depositor's name, place and stead,
in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including
post-effective amendments) to the 1933 Act Registration Statement and the 1934
Act Registration Statement and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Commission, granting
unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents 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 the Depositor
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their respective substitute or
substitutes, shall do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
5. This Trust Agreement may be executed in one or more
counterparts.
6. The number of Trustees initially shall be one (1)
and thereafter the number of Trustees shall be such number as shall be fixed
from time to time by a written instrument signed by the Depositor which may
increase or decrease the number of Trustees; provided, however, that to the
extent required by the Business Trust Act, one Trustee shall either be a
natural person who is a resident of the State of Delaware or, if not a natural
person, an entity which has its principal place of business in the State of
Delaware and otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law.
Subject to the foregoing, the Depositor is entitled to appoint or remove
without cause any Trustee at any time. The Trustee may resign upon thirty
days' prior notice to the Depositor.
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7. This Trust Agreement shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware (without
regard to conflict of laws of principles).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Trust Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above
written.
THE HARTFORD FINANCIAL
SERVICES GROUP, INC., as Depositor
By: /s/ J. Richard Garrett
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Name: J. Richard Garrett
Title: Vice President and Treasurer
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee
By: /s/ W. Chris Sponenberg
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Name: W. Chris Sponenberg
Title: Financial Services Officer
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