AMENDMENT TO THE PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT DATED MAY 1, 2004 BY AND AMONG PREMIER VIT, ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS DISTRIBUTORS LLC AND MERRILL LYNCH LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY This is an amendment to the May 1, 2004 Participation Agreement ("Agreement") among...

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                    AMENDMENT TO THE PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
                                DATED MAY 1, 2004
                                  BY AND AMONG
                                  PREMIER VIT,
                  ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS DISTRIBUTORS LLC AND
                      XXXXXXX XXXXX LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

     This is an amendment to the May 1, 2004 Participation Agreement
("Agreement") among Premier VIT (the "Fund"), Allianz Global Investors
Distributors LLC, and Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Life Insurance Company.

     Article XI. Notices. of the Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

          If to the Company: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Esquire
                             Vice President & General Counsel
                             0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
                             Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
                             Email: xxxxx_xxxxxxxx@xx.xxx
                             Fax: 000.000.0000

     Schedule 2 is amended to add the following Portfolio of the Fund as
permitted in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement for investment by
the separate accounts listed on Schedule 1:

NFJ Dividend Value Portfolio

May 1, 2007



                                       PREMIER VIT


                                       By:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                       Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
                                       Title: President & CEO


                                       ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS DISTRIBUTORS LLC


                                       By:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                       Name: E. Xxxxx Xxxxx, Jr.
                                       Title: Managing Director & CEO


                                       XXXXXXX XXXXX LIFE INSURANCE
                                       COMPANY


                                       By:
                                           -------------------------------------
                                       Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
                                       Title: Vice President & Senior Counsel


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