The Cincinnati Financial Corporation voted to increase its regular quarterly cash dividend 6 percent to 35.5 cents per share, making the annual level $1.42 per share.

Chief Executive Officer John J. Schiff said the move indicated the board's “continuing confidence in our long-term outlook.”

The company said its common stock total return to shareholders over the past five years ending in 2006 was 49.4 percent, compared with a 35 percent total return for the Standard and Poor's 500 Index.

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