One of the largest fraternal benefit societies in the US, Modern Woodmen provides annuities and life insurance to more than 750,000 members through some 1,500 agents. The group, founded in 1883, is organized into "camps" (or chapters) that provide social, recreational, and service -- as well as financial -- benefits to members. Founder Joseph Cullen Root chose the society's name to compare pioneering woodmen clearing forests to men using life insurance to remove the financial burdens their families could face upon their deaths. Modern Woodmen offerings also include mutual funds, brokerage, and retirement and educational savings plans.

Risk management issues can force an organization’s focus to shift away from its core business. In today’s world, the threats of a constantly evolving global marketplace are rapidly growing in scope and magnitude. The reality is that risk management concerns build anxiety in companies.Unmanaged risk will blindside, steal resources, diminish profits, and keep skilled managers laboring in areas outside their expertise. It’s a recipe for executive insomnia.

Operating through half a dozen property/casualty insurance subsidiaries, American Modern Insurance Group provides specialty insurance products and services to owners of boats, classic cars, motorcycles, RVs, manufactured homes, rental properties, and vacation homes. Its Financial Institutions division also offers credit life insurance. The company is licensed throughout the US. It distributes its products through a network of agents, as well as through financial institutions, manufacturers, and other dealers. American Modern Insurance is a subsidiary of Munich Re America.

Fort Dearborn Life Insurance was founded in 1969. Fort Dearborn Life is there for those who want to provide for their dear ones. Fort Dearborn Life Insurance offers employee benefits including group life and disability insurance products throughout the US. Its products include annuities, dental plans, discount prescription drug programs, and critical illness benefit plans. Fort Dearborn Life also offers individual life insurance and annuity products. Along with its sister companies Colorado Bankers Life Insurance and Dental Network of America, the company is part of Health Care Service Corporation and their products are marketed under the Dearborn National brand.

In the mid-1970s, physicians nationwide faced an insurance crisis that threatened their very livelihood. With claims and judgments escalating dramatically, many commercial insurance companies ceased to offer medical professional liability coverage. The practice of medicine was under attack. Something had to be done.

The Phoenix Companies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides life insurance and annuity products in the United States. The Phoenix Companies company’s life insurance products include universal life, variable universal life, and other products. It also offers single life, first-to-die, and second-to-die insurance products. Its annuity products include fixed, variable, and other types of annuities, which it offers in deferred and immediate varieties. In addition, the company offers a hybrid insurance/investment product, which adds a lifetime income guarantee to an investor’s managed account assets; and manages fixed income investments for third parties, including mutual funds, pension plans, and endowments. The Phoenix Companies company offers its products through third-party distributors, wholesalers, and financial planning specialists. The Phoenix Companies, Inc. was founded in 1851 and is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut.

Founded in 1992 by the Dental Society of Massachusetts, as a "by dentists, for dentists,®" company, Eastern Dentists Insurance Company (EDIC) has grown to thousands of members in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The company was expressly formed to control the rising costs of dental malpractice insurance and allow our colleagues to control our own destinies.

Burlington Insurance Group, Inc. ("BIG") is headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina and operates primarily through contracted producers. BIG offers a broad portfolio of insurance products through its Binding Authority Division and its Submit/Brokerage Division. Admitted and non-admitted coverages are provided through First Financial Insurance Company, The Burlington Insurance Company, Alamance Insurance Company and Guilford Insurance Company.

Comprised of Axis Insurance and Axis Re, AXIS Capital Holdings offers specialty insurance and treaty reinsurance. Its specialty coverage includes terrorism, aviation and marine war, and political risk; commercial property; professional liability; and onshore and offshore energy. AXIS Capital's reinsurance products, which allow for risk-sharing among insurance companies, include catastrophe, property, liability, credit, auto, and engineering lines. The company, which has operations in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, sells its products through brokers including Marsh, Aon, and Willis Group.

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.

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