AXA, through its subsidiaries, provides insurance and asset management services worldwide. The company’s Life and Savings segment offers term life, whole life, universal life, endowment, disability, deferred annuities, immediate annuities, and other investment-based products, as well as critical illness and permanent health insurance products for individuals and commercial clients. Its Property and Casualty segment provides motor, household, property, and general liability insurance for personal and commercial customers, as well as health products and engineering services to support prevention policies in companies. The company’s International Insurance segment offers coverage for various insurance risks, such as property damage, third party liability, marine, aviation and transport, construction risks, financial risks, and directors and officers liability to national and international corporations, as well as provides loss-prevention and risk management services. It also provides assistance services, including medical aid for travelers, automobile-related road assistance, home assistance, and health-related services primarily to banking and insurance companies, tour operators, telecommunication operators, and automobile manufacturers, as well as to gas, water, and electricity utilities. Its Asset Management segment provides investment management and related services to individual investors, private clients, and institutional clients; independent research and brokerage-related services for institutional investors; and equity capital markets services for issuers of publicly traded securities. It also manages mutual funds for individual investors and investments on behalf of institutional investors. The company’s Banking segment provides a range of retail banking products, including deposit, current, saving, term, and pension savings accounts, as well as mortgage loans and mutual funds. AXA was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Protective Life Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the production, distribution, and administration of insurance and investment products in the United States. It operates in five segments: Life Marketing, Acquisitions, Annuities, Stable Value Products, and Asset Protection. The Life Marketing segment markets level premium term insurance, universal life, variable universal life, and bank owned life insurance products through various distribution channels, as well as a network of independent personal producing general agents. The Acquisitions segment focuses on acquiring, converting, and servicing life insurance policies and annuity products sold to individuals, which are acquired from other companies. The Annuities segment markets, supports, and sells fixed and variable annuity products through broker-dealers, financial institutions, and independent agents and brokers. Its fixed annuities include modified guaranteed annuities, single premium deferred annuities, single premium immediate annuities, and equity indexed annuities; and variable annuities offer the opportunity to the policyholder to invest in various investment accounts. The Stable Value Products segment sells guaranteed funding agreements to special purpose entities, as well as markets fixed and floating rate funding agreements directly to the trustees of municipal bond proceeds, institutional investors, bank trust departments, and money market funds. It also markets guaranteed investment contracts and other qualified retirement savings plans. The Asset Protection segment primarily markets extended service contracts and credit life and disability insurance to protect consumers’ investments in automobiles, watercraft, and recreational vehicles; and markets a guaranteed asset protection product. It markets its products through a network of approximately 3,750 automobile, marine, and recreational vehicle dealers. Protective Life Corporation was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

ACMAT Corporation underwrites surety bonds in the United States. It provides surety bonds for prime contractors, specialty trade, environmental remediation, and asbestos abatement contractors. The company also offers miscellaneous surety, such as workers' compensation bonds, supply bonds, subdivision bonds, and license and permit bonds. In addition, it provides general liability insurance; and leases office space. The company is based in New Britain, Connecticut.

Pacific Life & Annuity can turn your wishes into a plan. Along with parent company Pacific Life Insurance, Pacific Life & Annuity (PL&A) offers annuity and life insurance products to individuals and groups. Unlike Pacific Life, however, PL&A is licensed in the state of New York and offers many of its products only in the New York market. In addition to individual life insurance and annuities, PL&A issues structured settlement annuities, which are used to make payments to injured parties in personal injury and workers' compensation cases, and other financial investment products.

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.

What if your auto insurance company could also issue you a driver's license? It can in western Canada, where Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is not only the sole provider of British Columbia's (BC) mandated basic auto insurance coverage, but is also in charge of operating the province's motor vehicle department. Formed by the provincial government in 1973, ICBC provides liability and uninsured motorist coverage to about 2.6 million customers through its required Basic Autoplan policy. The company also issues drivers' licenses and offers other standard motor vehicle services. ICBC is regulated by The BC Utilities Commission, which approves the insurance company's rates.

In 1909, Iowa grain elevator and farm leaders needed a way to stop the financial devastation caused by frequent and destructive wooden elevator fires that were occurring across the nation. Together, they created an alternative source of dependable, affordable insurance to protect against their losses.Founded in Aurelia, Iowa, the Farmers Cooperative Elevator Mutual Insurance Association was the seed that became Farmland Insurance. The company built a solid reputation by focusing on the needs of American agriculture.

American Physicians Service Group is a liability insurance writer and provider for medical professionals through its wholly-owned subsidiary American Physicians Insurance Company (API). It insures about 6,400 individual doctors and group practices primarily in Texas, but also in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Approximately 90% of its premiums are written through purchasing groups. About one-fifth of its premiums come from selling directly to policyholders. American Physicians Service Group has agreed to be acquired by ProAssurance for about $230 million.

CNA Financial is the umbrella organization for a wide range of insurance providers, including Continental Casualty. The company primarily provides commercial coverage, with such standard offerings as workers' compensation, auto, general, and professional liability, and other products for businesses and institutions. CNA also sells specialty insurance including professional liability for doctors, lawyers, and architects, and vehicle warranty service contracts. The company offers commercial surety bonds, risk and health care claims management, claims administration, and information services. Its products are sold by independent agents and brokers. Holding company Loews owns about 90% of CNA.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company has offices throughout the US. The company is a leading US property/casualty insurer that also provides life insurance and retirement products through its Nationwide Financial Services subsidiary. Its property/casualty products range from general personal and commercial coverage to such specialty lines as professional liability, workers' compensation, agricultural insurance and loss-control, pet insurance, and other coverage. The company sells its products and provides services through such subsidiaries as ALLIED Group, Nationwide Agribusiness Insurance, GatesMcDonald, and Scottsdale Insurance.

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