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## Selected Financial Data ITEM 6 

The selected financial data should be read in conjunction with Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the Consolidated Financial Statements and accompanying notes included elsewhere herein. 

## Highlights 

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Effective December 31, 2012, the Company changed its external reporting segments. See Note 23 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. Prior year segment information has been conformed to the new segment structure. 

See Note 2 to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion of changes resulting from the retrospective adoption of amended accounting guidance for deferred policy acquisition costs in 2012. 

Beginning in 2010, the Company began reporting the expense associated with its frozen pension plans in Corporate. Prior periods were not restated. The effect on prior periods was not material. 

In 2008, the Company recorded significant charges related to the guaranteed minimum income benefits and guaranteed minimum death benefits businesses of the Run-off Reinsurance segment, as well as an after-tax litigation charge of $52 million in Corporate related to the Cigna pension plan. 

