**EXHIBIT 31.1**

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**SECTION302 CERTIFICATION**

 

**CERTIFICATION**

 

I,Robert A. Cornell, certify that:

 
| 1.     |   | I have reviewed this report on Form 10-K  and all reports on Form 8-K required to be filed in respect of the period  covered by this report on Form 10-K of Hartford Life Global Funding Trust  2004-001 (the “Exchange Act periodic reports”);                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
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| 2.     |   | Based on my knowledge, the Exchange Act  periodic reports, taken as a whole, do not contain any untrue statement of a  material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the  statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements  were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
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| 3.     |   | Based on my knowledge, all of the  distribution, servicing and other information required to be provided under  Form 8-K for the period covered by this report is included in the Exchange  Act periodic reports;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
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| 4.     |   | Based on my knowledge and the servicer  compliance statement required in this report under Item 1123 of Regulation  AB, and except as disclosed in the Exchange Act periodic reports, the  servicer has fulfilled its obligations under the servicing agreement in all  material respects;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
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| 5.     |   | All of the reports on assessment of  compliance with servicing criteria for asset-backed securities and their  related attestation reports on assessment of compliance with servicing  criteria for asset-backed securities required to be included in this report  in accordance with Item 1122 of Regulation AB and Exchange Act Rule 13a-18 and  15d-18 have been included as an exhibit to this report, except as otherwise  disclosed in this report. Any material instances of noncompliance described  in such reports have been disclosed in this report on Form 10-K. |

 

Ingiving the certification above, I have reasonably relied on informationprovided to me by the following unaffiliated parties:

 

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., andits officers and agents

 
| Date:  September 8, 2010                 |
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| /s/ Robert A. Cornell                         |   |
| Robert A. Cornell                             |
| Senior officer in charge of securitization    |
| Hartford Life Insurance Company, as depositor |

 

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