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Unitrin Management to Speak at Raymond James' 31st Annual Institutional Investors Conference - Presentation to be Webcast

March 1, 2010

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Unitrin, Inc. (NYSE: UTR) announced today that two members of its senior management team will speak at Raymond James' 31st Annual Institutional Investors Conference on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 10:25 a.m. (EST). Presenters for the company will be Donald Southwell, Unitrin's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Eric Draut, Unitrin's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. The presentation will be webcast live on Unitrin's website, www.unitrin.com, and available on an archived basis for one year.

More information on the Raymond James Conference can be gathered from the Raymond James website at www.RJcapitalmarkets.com.

Unitrin is a diversified insurance holding company, with subsidiaries that provide life, health, auto, homeowners and other insurance products for individuals and small businesses.

Unitrin's principal businesses are:

    --  Kemper1 , which provides auto, homeowners and other insurance products
        to individuals through a network of independent agents,
    --  Unitrin Direct, which markets auto and homeowners insurance to consumers
        via direct mail, the Internet, employer-sponsored employee benefit
        programs and other affinity relationships,
    --  Unitrin Specialty, which provides auto insurance through a network of
        independent agents and brokers to individuals and small businesses which
        have had difficulty procuring insurance through traditional channels,
        usually due to adverse driving records or claim or credit histories, and
    --  Unitrin's Career Agency Companies, which specialize in the sale of life
        insurance products to persons of modest incomes through a network of
        employee agents.

1Unitrin uses the registered trademark "Kemper" under license, for personal lines insurance only, from Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company, which is not affiliated with Unitrin.

Additional information about Unitrin is available by visiting its website (www.unitrin.com).

    Source: Unitrin, Inc.
Contact: Unitrin, Inc. Frank J. Sodaro, (312) 661-4930 investor.relations@unitrin.com