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<LEGEND>
     This schedule  contains summary  financial  information  extracted from the
financial  statements for the year ended December 31, 1996 as filed on Form 10-K
and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such 10-K.
</LEGEND>
<CIK>                         0000913601
<NAME>                        Security-Connecticut Corporation

       
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