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The Hanover Names Mark Fitzgerald Chief Underwriting Officer, Surety Bonds

WORCESTER, Mass. November 5, 2007 – The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG), a leading super regional property and casualty company, today announced that Mark Fitzgerald has been named chief underwriting officer for the company’s surety bond business.

Fitzgerald, who will work out of The Hanover’s headquarters in Worcester, Massachusetts, will oversee the company’s contract and commercial surety bond business.

“The arrival of Mark adds significant depth to our already-strong bond team at The Hanover,” said Mary Jeanne Anderson, vice president, Bonds. “Among the ways we strive to provide agent partners with a total solution in commercial lines is with an exceptionally talented and dedicated bond team. With his market knowledge and experience, Mark will very quickly become a valuable asset to our agents and our company, as we continue to build our bond business and our partnerships together over the long term.”

Fitzgerald joins The Hanover from CNA Surety, where he served as director, New York City-Metro region. In this capacity, he led the company’s re-entry into the market after a 30 year absence, building a solid contractor book working in close collaboration with the company’s agent partners.

Prior to that, Fitzgerald served as senior vice president-national surety leader at Travelers Indemnity’s Gulf Surety Unit, where helped he streamlined the company’s underwriting operations. Similarly, at St. Paul Surety, where he served as regional underwriting director for the New York market, Fitzgerald restructured and refocused the company’s underwriting teams and compliance systems for greater efficiency and improved service.

Fitzgerald earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

About The Hanover

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG), based in Worcester, Mass., is the holding company for a group of insurers that includes The Hanover Insurance Company, also based in Worcester, Citizens Insurance Company of America, headquartered in Howell, Michigan, and their affiliates. The Hanover offers a wide range of property and casualty products and services to individuals, families and businesses through an extensive network of independent agents, and has been meeting its obligations to its agent partners and their customers for more than 150 years. Taken as a group, The Hanover ranks among the top 40 property and casualty insurers in the United States.

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