Hartville Group, Inc. Announces 2005 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Conference Call.

CANTON, Ohio -- -Hartville Group, Inc. (OTCBB: HTVL) announced today that management will hold a conference call to discuss its 2005 fourth quarter and year end results at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday, March 31, 2006. Financial results will be released prior to the call.

To participate in the conference call, please dial 800-475-3716 five to ten minutes prior to the scheduled conference call time. International callers should dial 719-457-2728. There is no pass code required for this call.

If you are unable to listen to the live teleconference at its scheduled time, there will be a replay available through April 7, 2006, and can be accessed by dialing 888-203-1112 (U.S.), 719-457-0820 (Int'l), passcode 3824225.

This call is being webcast by ViaVid Broadcasting and can be accessed at Hartville's website at http://www.hartvillegroup.com. The webcast may also be accessed at ViaVid's website at http://www.viavid.net. The webcast can be accessed through April 30, 2006 on either site. To access the webcast, you will need to have the Windows Media Player on your desktop. For the free download of the Media Player please visit:

www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/download/default.asp.

Hartville Group, Inc. (Hartville Group) is a holding company whose wholly owned subsidiaries include Hartville Re Ltd. (Hartville) and Petsmarketing Insurance.com Agency, Inc. (the Agency). Hartville is a reinsurance company that is registered in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Hartville was formed to reinsure pet health insurance that is being marketed by the Agency. The Agency is primarily a marketing/administration company concentrating on the sale of its proprietary health insurance plans for domestic pets. Its business plan calls for introducing its product effectively and efficiently through a variety of distribution systems. The Company accepts applications, underwrites and issues policies.