In Japan, "non-life" isn't creepy, it's just car insurance, and Sompo Japan is one of the biggest players. Voluntary and compulsory automobile insurance combined account for over half of the insurance company's premiums. Though non-life is its largest segment, the company also provides life insurance through its Sompo Japan Himawari Life and Sompo Japan DIY Life Insurance subsidiaries. It also provides fire, accident, and marine insurance, as well as reinsurance, asset management, and venture capital products and services. Sompo Japan formed a joint holding company with smaller property/casualty insurer Nipponkoa in 2010. As NKSJ Holdings, the two companies hope to better compete in their markets.

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).

SunAmerica Annuity and Life Assurance (formerly AIG SunAmerica Life Assurance) never wavers in its mission to sell variable annuities. The company is one of the many subsidiaries of AIG Retirement Services and ultimately in the family of insurance giant AIG. Along with its sister company AIG VALIC, it is one of the US's top issuers of variable annuities, which are distributed through independent financial advisors, brokerages, and financial institutions. It also administers closed blocks of institutional investment products (fixed annuities and universal life policies). However, parent firm AIG has announced that it will sell all of its US life insurance operations, including SunAmerica Annuity and Life.

HM Insurance Group makes the grade in employer stop loss coverage and other group health-related insurance products. A subsidiary of health insurer Highmark, HM Insurance offers stop loss policies to help self-insured companies protect themselves from catastrophic medical claims. It also sells supplemental health plans that cover critical illness, accidents, and hospitalization; the plans also include disability and life insurance components. Additionally, the firm has introduced a customizable limited benefit medical plan and provides administrative services such as COBRA administration and claims processing for self-insured groups. HM Insurance, which consists of four operating companies, operates nationwide.

Life Insurance Company of The Southwest was founded in 1955 and is licensed to do business in 49 states and the District of Columbia. It is a subsidiary of National Life Group. Some people look to the Southwest as a potential retirement spot; others look to the Southwest as a means to get to their retirement spot. Life Insurance Company of the Southwest (LSW) provides a variety of retirement-related annuities and life insurance products. It specializes in 403(b) tax-sheltered annuities, or retirement savings programs available to schoolteachers and some not-for-profit employees. Other offerings include annuities for government employees (457 plans) and other kinds of fixed annuities, as well as traditional life insurance policies.

Japan's oldest property/casualty insurance company, Tokio Marine Holdings has one of the largest insurance sales networks in Japan and has expanded its insurance operations to about 40 additional countries in Asia, Europe, and North America. Through Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire (TMNF), Nisshin Fire, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, Kiln, and other subsidiaries, Tokio Marine Holdings provides marine, property/casualty, personal accident, fire, auto, and life insurance as well as reinsurance. It also offers asset management, pension plans, and other services.

One nation, under insurance, with financial security for all. National Life Group, the marketing name for National Life Insurance Company and its affiliated companies, is a mutually owned insurer dating back to 1848. Today, National Life Group offers a range of insurance and investment products throughout the US through its namesake National Life Insurance Company and other subsidiaries, including Equity Services (financial products broker/dealer), Life Insurance Company of the Southwest (insurance and annuities), National Retirement Plan Advisors (a third-party administrator), and Sentinel Investments (mutual funds, retirement plans, and institutional investment accounts).

National American Insurance Company (NAICO) provides commercial property and casualty insurance coverage targeted to the oil and gas, construction, retail, and trucking industries in Oklahoma and Texas. The company also writes property and casualty policies for Oklahoma school districts which, along with workers compensation and general liability, also cover school board legal liability. Having sold off its retail operations, NAICO relies upon a network of some 200 independent agents sell its products. Chairman and CEO Brent LaGere controls Chandler Insurance which owns NAICO.

Companion Life Insurance Company was founded in 1971. Companion Life Insurance makes sure no one has to face death, disability, or the dentist all alone. Companion Life Insurance, one of several subsidiaries of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina, specializes in employee benefits, including life, disability, dental, vision, and accidental-death coverage. It has packages for small and large employers, and a complete line of voluntary products and plans. Independent and affiliated brokers, agents, and managing general underwriters (MGUs) sell the company's products. Companion Life operates in most US states and the District of Columbia.

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.

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