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January 20, 2010

Allstate Life Insurance Company

3100 Sanders Road

Northbrook, IL 60062

We have reviewed, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the unaudited interim financial information of Allstate Life Insurance Company and subsidiaries (the “Company”) for the three-month and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, and have issued our report
dated November 10, 2009 (which report includes an explanatory paragraph relating to a change in the Company’s presentation and method of accounting for other-than-temporary impairments of debt securities in the second quarter of 2009). As indicated in such reports, because we did not perform an audit, we expressed no opinion on that information.

We are aware that our reports referred to above, which were included in your Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 2009 and 2008, are being incorporated by reference in this Form N-4 Post-Effective Amendment No. 12 to Registration Statement No. 333-141909.

We also are aware that the aforementioned reports, pursuant to Rule 436(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, are not considered a part of the Registration Statement prepared or certified by an accountant or a report prepared or certified by an accountant within the meaning of Sections 7 and 11 of that Act.

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLPEXHIBIT 10.1

 

DESCRIPTION OF 2010 SALARIES FOR

SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

 

(Updated and restated as of January 19, 2010)

 

Annualized salary rates effective January 1, 2010 for the actively employed executive officers of the Company who are named in the executive compensation disclosures of the Company’s 2009 proxy statement in relation to fiscal year 2008 (“2008 Named Executive Officers”), and for William C. (B.J.) Losch III, the Company’s principal financial officer since January 5, 2009, are:

 

	
             
	
            Officer Name
 	
            Cash Salary
 	
            Salary Stock Units
 
	
             
	
            D. Bryan Jordan
 	
            $800,000
 	
            $1,466,667
 	
             

	
            William C. (B.J.) Losch III
 	
            400,000
 	
            400,000
 	
             

	
             
	
            Charles G. Burkett
 	
            742,650
 	
            990,200
 	
             

	
             
	
            Frank J. Gusmus, Jr.
 	
            600,000
 	
            2,733,333
 	
             

	
             
	
            Charles T. Tuggle, Jr.
 	
            475,000
 	
            475,000
 	
             

	
             
	
            Thomas D. Adams, Jr.
 	
            350,000
 	
            186,667
 	
             

																

 

Salary rates continue in effect until they are changed.Salary Stock Unit Program

(Last revised January 19, 2010)

 

	
            1.
 	
            Purpose.  The purpose of the Program is to link more of each participant’s compensation to the company’s stock performance and facilitate retention of key executives.
 

 
 

	
            2.
 	
            Committee Actions.  From time to time the Compensation Committee (CC) (a) will identify persons who are to receive a portion of salary in the form of salary stock units (SSUs), and (b) will determine the dollar amount of salary that each such person will receive in the form of SSUs, sometimes called the SSU crediting rate. The portion of salary in the form of SSUs may be in lieu of cash salary or supplemental to prior cash salary rates. The crediting of SSUs to each such person will continue while he or she is employed with FHN until the CC changes or ends the person’s participation or this SSU Program, unless the CC approves an automatic sunset date for participation or this Program or unless the CC limits participation to a specified year and fails to renew participation. It is expected that the CC
will reconsider these determinations at least once each year. The CC may change or eliminate the dollar amount of salary to be paid to a participant in the form of SSUs at any time; although such action would not affect previously-credited SSUs, no participant has any right to continue to receive new SSUs at any specific dollar level or at all. In addition, the CC may accelerate settlement of SSUs globally or for any participant based on the value of FHN stock at that time, and may change the terms of SSUs or this Program at any time.
 

 
 

	
            3.
 	
            SSU Terms and Mechanics.  
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            a.
 	
            For each person designated to participate in the Program by CC action taken in 2009, crediting of SSUs is expected to commence on that payday relating to the first full pay period of 2010. For each person designated to participate in the Program by CC action taken after 2009, crediting of SSUs is expected to commence the second payday following CC action. In all cases commencement dates are subject to delay for administrative reasons, and the CC may direct that another date be used in a particular instance.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            b.
 	
            When SSUs are credited to a participant as of a particular payday, the number of SSUs will equal the dollar amount of salary for that payday to be paid in the form of SSUs (net of any applicable withholding taxes, as provided in paragraph e below) divided by the average or closing share price of FHN stock for any day selected by the administrator which is one of the ten consecutive trading days ending with that payday. The number of credited SSUs will be calculated and rounded down (not up) as the administrator determines. The initial determinations of these matters are:  the high-low average price of stock on the third business day prior to the relevant payday will be used; and, units will be carried out to the same number of decimal places as stock dividends for ordinary shareholders, except that the number of SSUs will be
rounded down.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            c.
 	
            Settlement.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            (i)
 	
            General Rule.  Each SSU entitles the participant to receive the cash value of one share of FHN stock valued at the average or closing price of FHN stock on any of the first ten trading days in July (selected by the administrator) of the second year after the calendar year of crediting. Settlement of SSUs will be made within 25 business days after that settlement valuation date. For example, SSUs credited during 2010 would be settled in July or August 2012 based on the value of FHN stock in the first half of July 2012. SSUs credited during 2011 would be settled and valued in 2013, and so on. In converting SSUs to cash values when settled, dollar amounts will be calculated and rounded down (not up) as the administrator determines. Initial determinations of these matters include:  the high-low average price
of stock on the fifth trading day of July will be used to value units for payment.
 

 

 

 

	
             
 	
            (ii)
 	
            SEOs.  The General Rule above applies to participants who, in the year SSUs are credited, are “senior executive officers” (SEOs) under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) rules, subject to the changes provided in this sub-section (ii). For SEOs, SSUs credited in any given year will be paid one-half in March and one-half in September of the next year. The administrator will cause the SSUs to be paid on or about the first business day of each such month, subject to ordinary administrative considerations. The valuation date for each SSU payment will be any of the ten trading days preceding the payment date selected by the administrator. Initial determinations of these matters include:  the high-low average price of stock on the fifth trading day prior to March 1 and September 1 will be used to
value units for payment.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            d.
 	
            SSUs will not be settled in actual shares of stock, and will have no voting rights. An SSU will not be represented by any certificate or document, but instead will be credited on the books of FHN or its administrative agent. SSUs are not associated with any plan of FHN.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            e.
 	
            Taxes will be withheld in connection with a crediting or settlement event (as applicable) and remitted to government authorities as necessary or appropriate. Taxes withheld in connection with crediting may be withheld from salary paid in the form of cash or other contemporaneously paid compensation, or may reduce the number of SSUs credited, or both, as the administrator determines. Participants are not permitted to elect to be taxed on SSUs at the time of crediting. The initial determinations of these matters are: any FICA, medicare, and income taxes withheld in connection with crediting SSUs will reduce the dollar amount of salary which is to be converted into SSUs.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            f.
 	
            SSUs will be adjusted for stock dividends and splits that occur after crediting and prior to settlement in order to prevent enlargement or dilution of value. In making such adjustments, SSUs will be treated in a manner similar to ordinary shares except that calculated numbers of SSUs are to be rounded down (not up) as the administrator determines. The administrator will make appropriate adjustments for SSUs credited near dividend and split record dates to account for the effects of ex-trading dates in the market prices of FHN shares, again in order to prevent enlargement or dilution of value. 
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            g.
 	
            If cash dividends are declared on FHN shares during the time that a participant holds SSUs, a cash amount will be credited to the participant equivalent to the cash dividend that would have been paid on a like number of ordinary FHN shares, calculated and rounded down (not up) as the administrator determines. Credited cash dividend equivalent amounts will not be converted into SSUs and will not accrue interest, and will be paid to the participant at the time that the associated SSUs are paid.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            h.
 	
            SSUs are not transferable. 
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            i.
 	
            Absent other action by the CC, if FHN merges or consolidates and as a result FHN shares cease to be publicly outstanding, then outstanding SSUs will be converted into units denominated in shares of the surviving or resulting company based on the transaction value. The conversion will be accomplished, to the extent practicable, so as to prevent enlargement or dilution of value.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            j.
 	
            SSUs are a special form of deferred salary and are credited in tandem with cash salary. When cash salary no longer is paid to a participant, SSUs no longer will be credited. If cash salary previously paid to a participant were subject to forfeiture or reclamation for any reason, the associated SSUs similarly would be subject to forfeiture or reclamation. However, SSU crediting rates and cash salary rates may be adjusted independently of each other; a change in a participant’s cash salary rate does not automatically result in any change in that person’s SSU crediting rate.
 

 

 

 

	
             
 	
            k.
 	
            The timing, pricing, and other administrative determinations associated with SSU recipients who are subject to Form 4 reporting may differ from those of other program participants. Initially, no such differences have been approved by the administrator.
 

 
 

	
            4.
 	
            Termination of Employment.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            a.
 	
            Subject to the exceptions set forth below, credited SSUs will be forfeited unless the participant is continuously employed by FHN or a subsidiary through the payment date of the SSUs. 
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            b.
 	
            Notwithstanding paragraph a., if a participant dies, his or her credited and unpaid SSUs will not be forfeited as a result of death, and settlement of the SSUs will be accelerated in an equitable and appropriate manner determined by the administrator. The valuation date for any such settlement will be the first trading day following the date of death.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            c.
 	
            Notwithstanding paragraph a., if a participant’s employment with FHN terminates as a result of normal or early retirement or disability, then his or her credited and unpaid SSUs will not be forfeited as a result of that termination, and settlement of the SSUs will occur at the ordinary times set forth in this Program. For this purpose, “normal retirement” and “early retirement” have the meanings given in procedure 43 of the Equity Award Administration Procedures (rev’d July 20, 2009), and “disability” means a disability that would qualify as a total and permanent disability under the long-term disability plan then in effect at FHN, or (if different) at the FHN subsidiary employing the participant, at the onset of such total and permanent disability.
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            d.
 	
            Notwithstanding paragraph c., a participant who has terminated employment but retained SSUs due to retirement or disability shall forfeit all of those retained SSUs if, at any time during the period prior to the latest payment date of any SSUs credited to him or her at the time of termination, the participant engages in any competitive activity. Each of the CC and the administrator has the discretion to determine whether any particular activity is competitive with FHN or any of its subsidiaries. 
 

 
 

	
             
 	
            e.
 	
            Enforcement of the vesting and forfeiture conditions above is subject to the U.S. Department of the Treasury compensation rules applicable to FHN under the TARP. At the time this Program is adopted, it is uncertain whether the TARP rules prohibit FHN from imposing vesting and forfeiture conditions upon SSUs credited to participants who are SEOs at the time of crediting. As long as such uncertainty exists, this Program will be interpreted to assume that the TARP rules prohibit the imposition of a vesting condition on SEO participants. However, if the TARP rules are later amended or interpreted so that the vesting condition is permitted with respect to SEOs, FHN retains the right to impose the vesting condition on SEOs to the maximum extent allowed, including retroactively to any time when uncertainty existed.
 

 
 

	
            5.
 	
            No Elective Deferrals.  Participants may not elect to defer the settlement of SSUs beyond the mandatory deferral period provided in the program above. SSUs are not eligible for elective deferral under any deferral plan or program of FHN, even if those plans or programs generally allow deferral of salary. Outstanding salary deferral elections shall not apply to SSUs.
 

 
 

	
            6.
 	
            Treatment of SSUs as Base Salary.  SSUs are, or are not, to be treated as base salary under the plans and programs listed below. For any plan or program not listed, SSUs shall not be treated as base salary unless the administrator determines otherwise; any such determinations must be reported to the CC at or before its next quarterly meeting.
 

 

SSUs, measured at the crediting rate and date rather than the ultimate payment amount and date, are treated as base salary for the following:

	
            a.
 	
            Retirement and retirement restoration plans.
 	
             

	
            b.
 	
            All life and disability benefit and insurance programs.
 

 

 

 

c.          Other programs treated as ‘benefit’ programs by FHN’s Human Resources division. This provision does not include severance programs.

SSUs are not treated as base salary for the following:

 

	
             
 	
            d.
 	
            Change in control severance agreements and any change in control severance plan or program that may apply to a holder of SSUs.
 

 

	
            e.
 	
            Any other present or future severance plan, program, or agreement.
 

 

	
            7.
 	
            Administration.  The EVP – Human Resources (Chief Human Resources Officer) is the program administrator, with authority to oversee all administrative matters related to the SSU program. All administrative actions must further the purposes of the program and be compatible with legal requirements and appropriate tax and accounting outcomes. The administrator may deviate from or modify the following program provisions under this authority:  any provision governing a settlement date or a date as of which FHN stock is valued to convert cash amounts into SSUs, or SSUs into cash, provided that such a provision may be changed only out of demonstrable administrative necessity and must be reported at the next quarterly CC meeting; for any calculation, any provision governing a number of decimal places or a
rounding convention; and, any provision to the extent necessary to comply with legal requirements, to avoid a legal penalty or forfeiture, or to obtain or preserve appropriate tax and accounting outcomes, provided that in no case may actual shares of stock be issued in settlement of SSUs.

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