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The Hanover Insurance Group Names David Bradford Regional Vice President for Sales and Distribution, Southeast

June 12, 2006

WORCESTER, Mass., June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG), a leading super regional property and casualty insurance company, today announced that David H. Bradford, CPCU, has been named regional vice president for sales and distribution for the company's Southeast Region. Bradford will work out of The Hanover's Charlotte, North Carolina office, reporting directly to Douglas McDonough, regional president. The Hanover's Southeast region includes the states of Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

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"We are very pleased to welcome David to our company," said Douglas McDonough, regional president for The Hanover's Southeast Region. "David's skills and experience, and especially his passion for building outstanding agent relationships, make our already strong Southeast team that much stronger, and will help us to deliver on The Hanover promise of performance for our agent partners and their customers."

Bradford joins The Hanover from The Hartford, where he was, most recently, Houston, Texas branch manager. Under Bradford's leadership, Houston was one of The Hartford's top performing field offices in the country.

Prior to that, Bradford served as The Hartford's sales director for national client practices, where he responsible for driving relationship management and national sales planning with some of the company's key distributors.

Bradford holds a CPCU designation and earned a Master's degree in business administration from E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University.

About The Hanover

The Hanover Insurance Group is the holding company for a group of insurance companies headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Hanover companies include The Hanover Insurance Company, founded in 1852, also headquartered in Worcester, and Citizens Insurance Company of America, founded in 1915 and headquartered in Howell, Michigan. The Hanover companies offer a wide range of property and casualty products and services to individuals, families and businesses through an extensive network of independent agents. Taken as a group, The Hanover ranks among the top 35 of the over 950 property and casualty insurers in the United States. The Hanover has been meeting its obligations to policy holders and agents for over 150 years. For more information about The Hanover, visit http://www.hanover.com.

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SOURCE The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.