Established in 1902 to insure doctors and dentists, Physicians Mutual now provides general and supplemental health insurance products such as cancer, dental, long-term care, and Medicare supplements to members nationwide. It offers packaged insurance products for consumers and small business employees. The company's Physicians Life Insurance subsidiary provides individual life insurance and annuity products. Physicians Mutual has a nationwide agency distribution and is boosting its online and direct marketing efforts. Although the name seems narrow, Physicians Mutual Insurance Company offers insurance to a wide range of customers.

From the mighty sea to the blue skies above, this insurance provider offers coverage for services. With offices in more than 90 countries, AXA Corporate Solutions Assurance provides commercial insurance coverage in two broad areas -- Marine and Aviation and Property/Casualty. Its marine and aviation unit also offers marine risk management. The property/casualty division specializes in coverage for companies in the construction, transportation, and financial services industries, as well as offering surety bonds. About 75% of the company's sales are in France and Germany. AXA Corporate Solutions Assurance is a subsidiary of French insurance giant AXA group.

The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company was founded in 1888 and is held by diversified financial services firm Western & Southern Financial Group. Easterners and Northerners need not apply? Nah, The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company offers life insurance, critical illness insurance, annuities, investment funds, and related products in nearly half of the states in the Union (it's also licensed in about 45 states). The Western and Southern Life Insurance company and its Western-Southern Life Assurance (universal and term life and annuity products) subsidiary market their products through W&S Agency Group, its own sales force of more than 2,000 career agents.

Insurance holding company Bancinsurance Corporation underwrites niche insurance products through its subsidiary Ohio Indemnity Company. Operating throughout the US, it provides coverage to protect auto dealers, banks, and other lenders by insuring collateralized personal property against damage and theft. It also bonds employers that elect not to pay unemployment taxes and provides waste management coverage. Policies are sold directly to lenders through subsidiary Ultimate Services Agency; Bancinsurance also sells insurance through independent agents. CEO John Sokol (son of founder Si Sokol) and his family own a controlling stake in the firm and plan to take the company private.

One of the largest surety companies in the US, CNA Surety offers contract and commercial surety bonds, which guarantee fulfillment of contracts. The company's Western Surety unit handles fidelity, commercial, and contract bonds and international surety and credit insurance; Surety Bonding, another subsidiary, specializes in commercial and contract bonds to small businesses. Contract surety (for construction contractors) accounts for nearly two-thirds of CNA Surety's premiums. CNA Surety sells its products in all 50 states through a network of independent agents and brokers. CNA Financial owns 62% of CNA Surety and has offered to acquire the balance.

Bermuda: sun, sand, and reinsurance. In 1998 struggling Annuity and Life Re (Holdings) was the first life reinsurer to hang its shingle in the tax-sheltered haven of Bermuda. However, it has ceased writing new coverage and in 2008 dissolved Annuity and Life Re America, which was once the company's flagship subsidiary. Previously it covered term, whole, and universal life insurance policies.

MullinTBG helps executives benefit from their benefit plans. Offering more than 600 customized plans, MullinTBG helps both large corporations and emerging growth companies retain personnel with executive benefits, retirement, and compensation packages. It offers such specialty insurance products as company-owned life insurance and customized nonqualified deferred compensation plans. MullinTBG also specializes in plan design, enrollment, record keeping, reporting, and communications. Through subsidiary MullinTBG Advisors, the firm offers financial planning and investment advice. It has offices throughout the US. Prudential Financial acquired MullinTBG in 2008 and made it part of its Prudential Retirement business.

Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation has provided automobile insurance to New England drivers for nearly 25 years. We are the flagship company of the Plymouth Rock Group of Companies, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.Customers consistently choose Plymouth Rock because we provide more than just insurance – we offer the added assurance of great value, ease, and service. Our commitment to delivering more than just insurance has made our agents and policyholders among the most loyal in the industry, and earned us praise from Boston Consumers’ Checkbook. We have also received an "A-/Excellent" rating from the A.M. Best Company, the insurance industry’s premier rating service.

Founder, chairman, and CEO Bruno Rousset owns a controlling stake in April Group company. April Group provides services for insurers that design and administer health, accident, and savings plans. April Group distributes its products and services through brokers and agents, as well as through partnerships with retailers, banks, and travel agencies. When "avril" showers bring a flood of insurance claims, April can help you. The firm owns more than 40 companies that operate in four areas: individual personal protection insurance, corporate insurance, life insurance and savings, and individual property and casualty.

Oregon Mutual Insurance operates within and outside of the Oregon territory. The company provides personal and commercial property/casualty insurance coverage to customers in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, partially through subsidiary Western Protectors Insurance. Its offerings include standard and specialty automobile, homeowners, farmowners, and liability policies. More than 550 independent agents produce and sell the company's products; it has over a dozen administrative, regional, and claims offices in operation. As a mutual insurer, the company is owned by the approximately 120,000 policyholders it insures. A group of businessmen founded Oregon Mutual Insurance in 1894.

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