The Hartford Financial Services Group is an insurer with a range of personal and commercial life and property/casualty insurance products. Through its Hartford Life subsidiary, the company offers individual and group life insurance and annuities, as well as the financial services mentioned in its name (asset management, retirement plans, and mutual funds). Its property/casualty operations include both personal (homeowners, auto) and business coverage (workers' compensation) and specialty commercial coverage for large companies. The Hartford, in business since 1810, sells its products through about 11,000 independent agencies and more than 100,000 registered broker-dealers.

Northwestern Mutual also offers brokerage and trust services through its investment services and wealth management subsidiaries. Keep an eye on the quiet ones. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, touting itself as "The Quiet Company," is one of the largest US life insurers, with more than $1 trillion in individual policies in force. Its 7,000 representatives sell a lineup of life, disability, long-term care, and employee benefits products (health, dental, 401(k) plans). It also offers retirement products, including annuities and mutual funds, to a clientele of small businesses and prosperous individuals. Its institutional asset manager Frank Russell Company is known for the Russell 2000 stock index.

Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company is a market leader in providing benefits solutions in one neat package: excellence in communications, enrollments, service, and personal insurance products and services that make benefits count for employers and their employees alike. For employees whose insurance plans leave them feeling vulnerable, Colonial Life can help restore peace of mind through personal insurance products that complete their coverage. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C, and founded in 1939, Colonial Life offers a broad line of personal insurance products including disability, accident, life, cancer, critical illness, hospital confinement and limited benefit medical coverage.

Swiss Re America is the North American subsidiary of Swiss Re, the Zurich, Switzerland-based reinsurance giant. The company handles Swiss Re's business in the Americas in the areas of property/casualty and life and health. It reinsures life, health, property, motor, and liability policies for global and regional insurance firms, as well as US-based companies with global operations. Swiss Re America specializes in ocean marine reinsurance. In addition, the company provides financial planning and analysis services, as well as claims handling. Swiss Re's operations in the Americas account for about 40% of its total global insurance premiums.

Austin Mutual Insurance sells personal and commercial property/casualty insurance. Products include automobile, homeowners, farmowners, and mobile home and other dwellings coverage. Other offerings include businessowners coverage, commercial and personal umbrella liability, and workers' compensation. The company does business in Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. Its policies are distributed through a network of independent insurance agents. Austin Mutual Insurance was founded in 1896 as the Farmers United Township Mutual Hail Association of Minnesota to provide crop insurance.

COPIC Companies comprises COPIC Insurance CCOPIC Financial Service Group, Ltd., and COPIC Medical Foundation.Together, COPIC Companies strives to be the premier diversified service organization providing for the professional liability insurance and other needs of the health care community through advocacy, through innovation and through the commitment and dedication of our employees.

In 1993, a joint venture was created with South Staffordshire Water in response to a perceived gap in the home emergency market. Home insurers did not offer customers a complete home emergency solution. With this in mind, the HomeServe vision - to offer customers home emergency related insurance products, and give them peace of mind - was born. From selling the first plumbing and drains policy in 1994, the business has transformed into a successful, fast moving FTSE 250 company, with over 9 million emergency insurance policies sold across the UK, France, Spain and the US. Partnerships have been formed with utility, energy and insurance companies.

Regence Life & Health Insurance is a provider of group life, disability, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance. It also offers supplemental programs in weight management, hearing aid service discounts, child safety and health products, dental care products, and laser vision correction services. Regence Life & Health is active in four states in the Pacific Northwest: Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Regence Life and Health Insurance Company is the life and disability subsidiary of The Regence Group, which operates the largest group of Blue Cross Blue Shield companies in the region.

A-ten-schun! American General Life Companies is still among the top brass of US life insurance and financial services firms. It is the marketing name for the domestic life insurance companies and affiliates group of American International Group. American General Life offers clients a variety of products to build their nest eggs, including fixed and deferred annuities. Life insurance offerings include individual and group policies for families, businesses, and affiliation groups. Other products include accident and health insurance and worksite benefits programs.

Through its three subsidiaries,RLI Corp. mainly offers coverage for US niche markets -- risks that are hard to place in the standard market and are otherwise underserved. It focuses on public and private companies as well as non-profit organizations. RLI's property/casualty lines include commercial and personal liability, commercial property, directors and officers liability, general liability, and surety. Transportation, employers excess indemnity, and residential property are among its other lines.

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