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                                                                     Exhibit 3
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                               [FACE OF SECURITY]



THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED
IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE
LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY.


Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The
Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to the Company (as
defined below) or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment,
and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such
other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any
payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an
authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.


                               HARTFORD LIFE, INC.
                         7.375% Notes due March 1, 2031


No. R-1                                                             $400,000,000
                                                           CUSIP No. 416592 AE 3


         HARTFORD LIFE, INC., a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of Delaware (hereinafter called the "Company", which term includes any
successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value
received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the
principal sum of Four Hundred Million Dollars on March 1, 2031, and to pay
interest thereon from March 1, 2001, or from the most recent Interest Payment
Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semiannually on March
1 and September 1 in each year, commencing September 1, 2001, at the rate of
7.375% per annum, on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day
months, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for or made
available for payment and (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall
be legally enforceable) at the rate of 7.375% per annum on any overdue principal
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premium and on any overdue installment of interest. The interest so payable, and
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as
provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the February 15 or
August 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding
such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly
provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular
Record Date and may either be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or
one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by
the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this
series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at
any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed
and, upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully
provided in said Indenture.

         Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this
Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that
purpose in The City of New York, in such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and
private debts; provided however, that at the option of the Company payment of
interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities Register.

         Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

         Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.

[SEAL]                                          HARTFORD LIFE, INC.,


                                                By
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Attest:


By
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                     TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION


         This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

Dated:  March 1, 2001


                                                     CITIBANK, N.A., as Trustee,


                                                     By
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                                                       Authorized Signatory














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                             [REVERSE OF SECURITY]


         This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more
series under a Senior Indenture dated as of May 19, 1997 (herein called the
"Indenture"), between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as Trustee (herein called
the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture),
to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby
made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the
Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on
the face hereof, limited in aggregate principal amount to $400,000,000.

         The Company may, at its option, upon not less than 30 days' notice by
mail, redeem the Securities of this series on any Interest Payment Date in whole
at any time or in part from time to time at a redemption price equal to any
accrued and unpaid interest plus the greater of (a) the principal amount thereof
and (b) an amount equal to the Discounted Remaining Fixed Amount Payments.

         "Discounted Remaining Fixed Amount Payments" means, in respect of a
Security of this series, an amount equal to the sum of the Current Values of the
amounts of interest and principal that would have been payable by the Company
pursuant to the terms of this Security on each Interest Payment Date after the
redemption date and at the Stated Maturity of the final payment of principal
thereof (assuming that the Company had not redeemed such Security prior to such
Stated Maturity).

         "Current Value" means, in respect of any amount, the present value of
that amount on the redemption date after discounting that amount on a semiannual
basis from the originally scheduled date for payment on the basis of the
Treasury Rate plus 10 basis points.

         "Treasury Rate" means a per annum rate (expressed as a decimal and, in
the case of United States Treasury bills, converted to a per annum yield)
determined on the redemption date to be the per annum rate equal to the
semiannual bond equivalent yield to maturity for United States Treasury
securities maturing at the Stated Maturity of the final payment of principal of
this series of Securities, as determined by reference to the weekly average
yield to maturity for United States Treasury securities maturing on such Stated
Maturity if reported in the most recent Statistical Release H.15 (519) of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (or any successor release), or, if no
such securities weekly average yield is so reported (but such release, or any
successor release, continues to be published), by interpolation between the most
recent weekly average yields to maturity for two series of United States
Treasury securities, (i) one maturing as close as possible to, but earlier than,
such Stated Maturity and (ii) the other maturing as close as possible, but later
than, such Stated Maturity, in

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each case as published in the most recent Statistical Release H.15 (519) of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (or any successor release). If the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve ceases publication of the weekly
average yield to maturity for United States Treasury securities in Statistical
Release H.15 (519) (or any successor release), then the Treasury Rate shall be
determined by a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City
selected by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.

         Notice of any redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more
than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be
redeemed at such Holder's registered address. Unless the Company defaults in
payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest shall
cease to accrue on such Securities or portions thereof called for redemption.

         In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof will be
issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

         The Indenture contains provisions for satisfaction, discharge and
defeasance of the entire indebtedness on this Security, upon compliance by the
Company with certain conditions set forth therein.

         If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall
occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture.

         The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at
the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company
with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration
of transfer hereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not
notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

                  No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and
in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.


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         As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Securities
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Securities Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his
or her attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new
Securities of this series, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.

         The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount
of Securities of this series of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

         No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

         Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

         All capitalized terms used in this Security and not defined herein
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.


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