Count the rings on Woodmen and you'll get back to 1890. Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society is a life insurance company formed to benefit the members of Woodmen of the World, a fraternal organization with some 750,000 members across the US. The company provides its members with traditional life insurance, as well as annuities for both individuals and small businesses. It also offers mutual funds and 529 college savings accounts through its Woodmen Financial Services subsidiary. Additionally, members have access to major medical coverage and disability insurance via marketing agreements with some third-party insurers.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is a not-for-profit association that provides hail and windstorm coverage to Texan gulf coast property owners. The company is a pool of all property/casualty insurers that are authorized to write such policies in the state of Texas. The association has seen its policyholders triple to hundreds of thousands since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the gulf coast several years ago. State legislators founded Texas Windstorm Insurance Association as a last resort provider -- providing coverage when other carriers pull out of high risk areas -- in 1971.

RSUI is a leading underwriter of wholesale specialty insurance. We work with insurance wholesalers to provide a wide range of insurance products, including: property, casualty, professional liability and directors and officers ("D&O") liability coverage. RSUI provides insurance to thousands of companies nationwide. With over fifteen years of commitment to wholesale specialty insurance, we're focused on service and underwriting integrity. By working with a select number of wholesale producers and reinsurers, we are able to provide high levels of support and service--something critical to wholesalers' success.

United Investors Life Insurance, which was founded in 1961, markets its products through more than 4,000 representatives across the US. A bad breakup with a significant customer in 2001 reduced revenues, and several of the company's products are operating in run-off. United Investors Life Insurance company is a subsidiary of Torchmark Corporation, but is being sold to Protective Life for $316 million. United Investors Life Insurance presents a united front in the battle for life insurance and a peaceful retirement for middle-income Americans. United Investors Life Insurance company sells a variety of life insurance and annuity products, including variable universal life, variable annuities, term life, whole life, and fixed annuities.

Crum & Forster looks out for the best interests of employers. Through its subsidiaries, the company offers an array of property/casualty insurance products to businesses, including general liability, automobile, property, and workers' compensation coverage. Crum & Forster also offers The Defender, a broad commercial umbrella policy. The company's specialty policies include management protection, crime insurance; it also offers personal auto and homeowners policies. In addition, Crum & Forster provides risk management services. The company's products are sold through some 1,500 independent brokers across the US. Crum & Forster is a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings.

Through its collection of regional insurance subsidiaries, Concord Group Insurance provides personal and commercial lines of property/casualty insurance to customers in northern New England. The companies offer personal insurance covering individuals' homes, cars, and RVs, as well as providing umbrella liability coverage. Concord Group's subsidiaries also sell commercial auto insurance and insurance packages for small businesses, including those designed for electricians, plumbers, merchants, and florists. With a history going back to 1928, the company sells through a network of some 300 independent agents.

MS&AD Insurance Group has insurance in Japan covered. MS&AD Insurance Group is the holding company for several large Japanese insurance companies including Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance. Together, the insurance companies offer property/casualty (e.g. auto, personal, fire, marine) and life insurance, as well as asset management (mutual funds, financial consulting) and risk management services. MS&AD Insurance's subsidiaries, which serve individuals and businesses in Japan, also offer their products and services to customers in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

Radian Asset Assurance backs up bonds. The Radian Group subsidiary, is in the financial guaranty business, meaning that it insures and reinsures state and municipal bonds and provides direct financial guarantees of smaller debt obligations. The company reinsures in the US and Puerto Rico; its UK-based subsidiaries, Radian Asset Assurance Limited and Radian Financial Products Limited, provide financial guaranty products in Europe. As Radian Asset Assurance was heavily involved in insuring collateralized debt obligations and asset-backed securities, in 2008 its ratings were downgraded and the company ceased writing new financial guaranty business.

Founded in 1999, the company is controlled by CEO Alan Buerger and family. Coventry First LLC is one of the largest players in the secondary insurance market, and as such it actively invests in high-premium life insurance policies, written on elderly executives or wealthy individuals desiring to sell them rather than maintain them. The seller gets a lump sum (only a portion of what they would have received otherwise), Coventry pays the remaining premiums, and when that person dies, Coventry gets the payout.

MGIC (www.mgic.com), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation, is the founder and leader of the private mortgage insurance industry, serving more than 3,300 lenders with locations across the country and Puerto Rico. MGIC provides a critical component of our country's residential mortgage finance system, protecting mortgage investors from credit losses. Mortgage insurance from MGIC also benefits consumers by helping them achieve homeownership sooner with low-down-payment loans.

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