diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/annotation/RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/annotation/RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler.java
index fd2db51..f4dac9d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/annotation/RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/annotation/RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler.java
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 
 package org.springframework.retry.annotation;
 
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+
 import org.springframework.classify.SubclassClassifier;
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationUtils;
 import org.springframework.retry.ExhaustedRetryException;
@@ -23,10 +27,6 @@ import org.springframework.retry.interceptor.MethodInvocationRecoverer;
 import org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils.MethodCallback;
 
-import java.lang.reflect.Method;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Map;
-
 /**
  * A recoverer for method invocations based on the <code>@Recover</code> annotation. A
  * suitable recovery method is one with a Throwable type as the first parameter and the
@@ -121,7 +121,11 @@ public class RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler<T> implements MethodInvocationReco
 				startingIndex = 1;
 			}
 			for (int i = startingIndex; i < parameterTypes.length; i++) {
-				if (parameterTypes[i] != args[i-1].getClass()) {
+				final Object argument = args[i-1];
+				if (argument == null) {
+					continue;
+				}
+				if (parameterTypes[i] != argument.getClass()) {
 					return false;
 				}
 			}
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/retry/annotation/RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandlerTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/retry/annotation/RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandlerTests.java
index 5b4da88..d00da5c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/retry/annotation/RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandlerTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/retry/annotation/RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandlerTests.java
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ public class RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandlerTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void multipleQualifyingRecoverMethods (){
+	public void multipleQualifyingRecoverMethods(){
 		Method foo = ReflectionUtils.findMethod(MultipleQualifyingRecovers.class,
 				"foo", String.class);
 		RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler<?> handler = new RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler<Integer>(
@@ -126,7 +126,18 @@ public class RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandlerTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void multipleQualifyingRecoverMethodsReOrdered (){
+	public void multipleQualifyingRecoverMethodsWithNull(){
+		Method foo = ReflectionUtils.findMethod(MultipleQualifyingRecovers.class,
+				"foo", String.class);
+		RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler<?> handler = new RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler<Integer>(
+				new MultipleQualifyingRecovers(), foo);
+		assertEquals(1,
+				handler.recover(new Object[] { null }, new RuntimeException("Planned")));
+
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void multipleQualifyingRecoverMethodsReOrdered(){
 		Method foo = ReflectionUtils.findMethod(MultipleQualifyingRecoversReOrdered.class,
 				"foo", String.class);
 		RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler<?> handler = new RecoverAnnotationRecoveryHandler<Integer>(