New York Life Insurance has been in the Big Apple since it was just a tiny seed. Although the top mutual life insurer in the US has branched out somewhat, it has retained its core business: life insurance and annuities. Its products include long-term care insurance and special group policies sold through AARP and other affinity groups and professional associations. New York Life Investments offers products and services ranging from mutual funds for individuals to investment management services for institutional investors. The company, through New York Life International, is also reaching out geographically, targeting areas such as Mexico and India where the life insurance markets are not yet mature.

Family owned and operated, Burns & Wilcox was founded by Herbert W. Kaufman in 1969. Herbert’s son Alan Jay Kaufman has served as Chairman, President and CEO since 2001. From humble beginnings more than 40 years ago, Burns & Wilcox has grown to become North America’s largest independently owned wholesale broker, with 37 offices stretching across the continent. An autonomous entity not beholden to Wall Street, private equity or any financial institutions, Burns & Wilcox is a privately owned company whose standards of service and depth of underwriting and management talent are unsurpassed in the specialty insurance sector.

The NIA Group is a Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh, the world's largest insurance broker. At The NIA Group, we create customized insurance and financial solutions that fit your unique needs and make it possible for you, your company, your employees and your family to flourish in business, at home and in life. Our 500 insurance and financial services professionals, employed at NIA offices throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Florida, are passionate about their work and highly dedicated to delivering the very best in client service.

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.

Enumclaw Insurance Group provides commercial and personal property/casualty insurance in four western states (Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington). Through subsidiaries Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance Company and Enumclaw Property and Casualty Insurance, the company writes a variety of lines, including auto, homeowners, liability, and umbrella insurance. Enumclaw also offers specialty package policies for churches, farms, and business owners. Farmers' Mutual Insurance, the group's Washington-based predecessor, was founded in 1898.

Title provides real estate title insurance and escrow closing services for residential and commercial property transactions. The company operates offices throughout the US. Along with the basic title insurance and escrow services, the company also offers other title-related services. The company was a subsidiary of LandAmerica Financial Group from 2003 until 2008 when it was sold to Fidelity National Financial. It now operates alongside Fidelity National's other title operations.

Operating from more than 300 local offices and focusing on the rural UK market, The National Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Society Limited (or NFU Mutual) provides life and property/casualty coverage. It provides both individual and commercial products and half of its customers are farmers. Lines include homeowners insurance (including coverage for thatched-roof houses), auto insurance, pet and horse insurance, and farm and tractor insurance. Dedicated agents distribute NFU Mutual's insurance products. The company also provides pension and investment products sold through financial consultants. NFU Mutual's roots reach back to 1910, when it was formed to lure local farmers to join the farmers' union.

RGA posted $2.3 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of more than $25 billion. In October, RGA announced an agreement with ReliaStar Life Insurance Company to acquire ReliaStar’s U.S. and Canadian group life, accident and health reinsurance business, which operated under the name ING Reinsurance. The acquisition was finalized January 1, 2010. RGA’s mortality expertise and facultative experience continued to lead the industry. Company-wide, RGA processed 286,756 facultative submissions in 2009.RGA was named “Life Reinsurance Company of the Year” at The Review Worldwide Reinsurance Awards. This was the third time in six years RGA has received this award. RGA Reinsurance Company was named “Best Overall Life Reinsurer” for the third consecutive time by North American life insurers in the 2009 Flaspöhler Cedant Survey (Life – North America).

Through its Renaissance Reinsurance subsidiary, the Bermuda-based firm indemnifies insurance companies around the globe against excess losses on natural catastrophes, paying insurance claims after they exceed a certain retained amount. Top Layer Re, a joint venture with State Farm, provides excess non-US property catastrophe reinsurance. Another RenaissanceRe venture, DaVinci Reinsurance, covers catastrophes and specialty risks such as terrorism. Subsidiary RenRe offered primary-property insurance in the US until the company agreed to sell it in 2010 to QBE for about $275 million.

Since its predecessor was founded as Columbus Mutual in 1906, Columbus Life Insurance Company has consistently grown and prospered for 100 years. Today, we have more than 2,000 financial service representatives marketing our insurance products and services, supported by a diverse and talented home office team of insurance professionals.At Columbus Life we believe that we best serve our policyowners through continued support of our financial service representatives. We believe that if they are treated as we would want to be treated, they will market the Company's products and services with greater enthusiasm. More importantly, a strong and friendly relationship with the field representatives will encourage them to develop a long-term relationship with their clients and Columbus Life.

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