The Western Reserve Group sells personal and commercial property/casualty coverage to policyholders in Ohio and Indiana. The group consists of three property/casualty insurers -- Lightning Rod Mutual Insurance, Western Reserve Mutual Casualty, and Sonnenberg Mutual Insurance -- that pool their premiums, expenses, losses, and other liabilities. The Western Reserve companies offer personal auto, homeowners, and umbrella policies, as well as commercial and farm coverage, including workers' compensation. The company sells its products through some 400 independent agents. The Western Reserve Group traces its roots back to 1859, when Sonnenberg Mutual Insurance was founded.

CNinsure Inc. (Nasdaq: CISG), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Guangzhou, is a leading independent insurance intermediary company operating in China. It distributes a wide variety of property and casualty insurance products and life insurance products underwritten by both domestic and foreign insurance companies operating in China, and offer insurance claims adjusting services, such as assessment, survey, authentication and loss estimation, as well as other insurance-related services to individuals and institutions. As an insurance intermediary, the Company is not exposed to any underwriting risks.

HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty, surety, group life, accident, and health insurance coverage, as well as related agency and reinsurance brokerage services to commercial customers and individuals worldwide. It underwrites financial insurance risks in its financial products line of business, which includes directors’ and officers’ liability, employment practices liability, errors and omissions liability, surety and credit, and fidelity insurance products. The company writes medical stop-loss insurance that provides coverage to companies, associations, and public entities that elect to self-insure their employees’ medical coverage for losses. It also engages in insuring aviation risks, which include coverage for antique and vintage military aircrafts, cargo operators, commuter airlines, corporate aircrafts, fixed base operations, military and law enforcement aircrafts, private aircraft owners, and rotor wing aircrafts. The company offers hulls, engines, avionics and other systems, liabilities, and cargo and other ancillary coverage. Its London market account business consists of marine, energy, property, and accident and health businesses. In addition, HCC Insurance Holdings underwrites property and liability businesses, such as event cancellation, contingency, public entity, and U.K. liability; and writes facultative or individual account reinsurance, and treaty reinsurance businesses. The company markets its products directly to customers, as well as through a network of independent and affiliated brokers, producers, agents, and third party administrators. HCC Insurance Holdings was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services covers all of Canada with its individual and group insurance, savings, and retirement products. The company, through its Industrial Alliance Pacific and Excellence Life subsidiaries, sells life, health, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and annuities to individuals and employers across the country and, to a much lesser extent, in parts of the US. The company manages mutual funds through its IA Clarington unit, and it brokers securities and funds through Investia, FundEX Investments, and Industrial Alliance Securities. Additionally, Industrial Alliance sells auto and homeowners insurance, primarily in Quebec.

CNO Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, marketing, and administration of supplemental health insurance, annuity, individual life insurance, and other insurance products for senior and middle-income markets in the United States. The company markets and distributes Medicare supplement insurance, life insurance, and long-term care insurance products, as well as fixed annuities through career agents and sales managers; Medicare Part D prescription drug plans through a distribution and reinsurance arrangement with Coventry Health Care (Coventry); and Medicare advantage plans through a distribution arrangement with Humana Inc. (Humana). In addition, it markets primarily graded benefit and simplified issue life insurance products directly to customers through television advertising, direct mail, Internet, and telemarketing; and markets and distributes specified disease, accident, disability, and life insurance products, as well as annuities to middle-income consumers at home and at the worksite through independent marketing organizations and insurance agencies. Further, the company offers reinsurance products, a swell as sells products through professional independent producers and direct marketing. CNO Financial Group, Inc. has strategic alliances with Coventry and Humana. CNO Financial Group, Inc. was formerly known as Conseco, Inc. and changed its name to CNO Financial Group, Inc. on May 11, 2010. CNO Financial Group was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana.

Nationwide Financial Services (NFS) oversees the life insurance and banking services business of insurance giant Nationwide Mutual. Through Nationwide Life Insurance, it offers long-term savings and retirement products including individual variable annuity contracts. It also offers group and individual protective life insurance policies. Retirement plans are offered to individuals and through employer-sponsored plans. Nationwide Financial Services also provides banking services (savings, mortgage loan origination) while its Nationwide Better Health offers workplace health management products. Its products are sold through direct sales and brokers.

Companion Property & Casualty Insurance Group was founded in Columbia, South Carolina in 1984, to provide workers' compensation insurance in South Carolina. At that time, we capitalized on extensive distribution channels and health-based relationships with South Carolina employers, in order to establish a successful insurance business in our chosen market.

Through four regional insurance companies, the company, which operates as Western National Insurance Group, sells commercial and personal lines of property/casualty insurance in eight states of the Upper Midwest, Northwest, and Mountain West. Offerings include commercial and personal automobile, homeowners, renters, general liability, and workers' compensation insurance, as well as inland marine, snowmobile and ATV, and personal umbrella coverages. Its MainStreetXpress package offering is specially designed for small businesses.

PICO Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and development of water resources and water storage operations in the southwestern United States and Europe. It identifies end users, such as water utilities, municipalities, or developers who require water and develops new sources of water for municipal and industrial usage, as well as constructs and develops water storage infrastructure to facilitate the allocation of available water supplies. The company also develops and sells real estate, and water and geothermal rights; and leases properties for grazing and agricultural uses. In addition, it acquires and develops residential lots, primarily in California. Further, PICO Holdings engages in the acquisition and financing of businesses. PICO Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in La Jolla, California.

Unity Mutual Life Insurance was founded in 1903 as Imperial Order Tycoons, a fraternal benefit society; it converted to a mutual life insurance company in 1957. Unity Mutual has agreed to merge with Columbian Mutual Life Insurance, a unit of Columbian Financial Group. Unity Mutual Life Insurance prefers working with mature individuals. Focusing on customers over 50 years of age, the company provides whole life insurance policies, and both fixed-rate and variable annuities, and It also provides final expense coverage insurance through its affiliate Unity Financial Life Insurance. Unity Mutual Life Insurance company is licensed to do business throughout the US. Some 5,000 independent agents represent the company's products.

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