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Form 8-K for CINCINNATI FINANCIAL CORP


5-Aug-2009

Regulation FD Disclosure, Financial Statements and Exhibits


Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On August 5, 2009, Cincinnati Financial Corporation posted presentation slides in PDF format on www.cinfin.com/investors that will be used in investor presentations beginning that date. Exhibit 99.1 is a copy of the slides. The slides are being furnished pursuant to Item 7.01, and the information contained therein shall not be deemed "filed" for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. Furthermore, the information contained in Exhibit 99.1 shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the filings of the company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. This report should not be deemed an admission as to the materiality of any information contained in the news release.
Safe Harbor Statement
This is our "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Our business is subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements in this report. Some of those risks and uncertainties are discussed in our 2008 Annual Report on Form 10-K, Item 1A, Risk Factors, Page 25. Although we often review or update our forward-looking statements when events warrant, we caution our readers that we undertake no obligation to do so. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to:
• Unusually high levels of catastrophe losses due to risk concentrations, changes in weather patterns, environmental events, terrorism incidents or other causes

• Increased frequency and/or severity of claims

• Inadequate estimates or assumptions used for critical accounting estimates

• Recession or other economic conditions resulting in lower demand for insurance products or increased payment delinquencies

• Delays in adoption and implementation of underwriting and pricing methods that could increase our pricing accuracy, underwriting profit and competitiveness

• Inability to defer policy acquisition costs for our personal lines segment if pricing and loss trends would lead management to conclude this segment could not achieve sustainable profitability

• Declines in overall stock market values negatively affecting the company's equity portfolio and book value

• Events, such as the credit crisis, followed by prolonged periods of economic instability, that lead to:

o Significant or prolonged decline in the value of a particular security or group of securities and impairment of the asset(s)

o Significant decline in investment income due to reduced or eliminated dividend payouts from a particular security or group of securities

o Significant rise in losses from surety and director and officer policies written for financial institutions

• Prolonged low interest rate environment or other factors that limit the company's ability to generate growth in investment income or interest rate fluctuations that result in declining values of fixed-maturity investments, including declines in accounts in which we hold bank-owned life insurance contract assets

• Increased competition that could result in a significant reduction in the company's premium volume

• Changing consumer insurance-buying habits and consolidation of independent insurance agencies that could alter our competitive advantages

• Ability to obtain adequate reinsurance on acceptable terms, amount of reinsurance purchased, financial strength of reinsurers and the potential for non-payment or delay in payment by reinsurers

• Events or conditions that could weaken or harm the company's relationships with its independent agencies and hamper opportunities to add new agencies, resulting in limitations on the company's opportunities for growth, such as:

o Multi-notch downgrades of the company's financial strength ratings

o Concerns that doing business with the company is too difficult

o Perceptions that the company's level of service, particularly claims service, is no longer a distinguishing characteristic in the marketplace

o Delays or inadequacies in the development, implementation, performance and benefits of technology projects and enhancements

• Actions of insurance departments, state attorneys general or other regulatory agencies, including a change to a federal system of regulation from a state-based system, that:

o Restrict our ability to exit or reduce writings of unprofitable coverages or lines of business

o Place the insurance industry under greater regulatory scrutiny or result in new statutes, rules and regulations

o Increase our expenses

o Add assessments for guaranty funds, other insurance related assessments or mandatory reinsurance arrangements; or that impair our ability to recover such assessments through future surcharges or other rate changes

o Limit our ability to set fair, adequate and reasonable rates

o Place us at a disadvantage in the marketplace

o Restrict our ability to execute our business model, including the way we compensate agents

• Adverse outcomes from litigation or administrative proceedings

• Events or actions, including unauthorized intentional circumvention of controls, that reduce the company's future ability to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

• Unforeseen departure of certain executive officers or other key employees due to retirement, health or other causes that could interrupt progress toward important strategic goals or diminish the effectiveness of certain longstanding relationships with insurance agents and others


• Events, such as an epidemic, natural catastrophe or terrorism, that could hamper our ability to assemble our workforce at our headquarters location

Further, the company's insurance businesses are subject to the effects of changing social, economic and regulatory environments. Public and regulatory initiatives have included efforts to adversely influence and restrict premium rates, restrict the ability to cancel policies, impose underwriting standards and expand overall regulation. The company also is subject to public and regulatory initiatives that can affect the market value for its common stock, such as recent measures affecting corporate financial reporting and governance. The ultimate changes and eventual effects, if any, of these initiatives are uncertain.




Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(c) Exhibits Exhibit 99.1 - Investor presentation slides


Signature Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

CINCINNATI FINANCIAL CORPORATION

Date: August 5, 2009 /S/ Eric N. Mathews

Eric N. Mathews, CPCU, AIAF Vice President, Assistant Secretary and Assistant Treasurer

(Principal Accounting Officer)

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