Founded in 1991, Direct General offers non-standard personal automobile coverage and motorcycle insurance through such subsidiaries as Direct General Insurance, Cash Register Auto, Right Choice Insurance, and Florida No Fault. Direct General also offers a bit of term life insurance and premium financing products. It has also branched out into offering tax preparation services. Direct General sells its products through more than 400 locally-based sales offices in 13 southern states. The company was acquired by private investment partnerships Calera Capital and TPG Capital in 2007.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is a not-for-profit association that provides hail and windstorm coverage to Texan gulf coast property owners. The company is a pool of all property/casualty insurers that are authorized to write such policies in the state of Texas. The association has seen its policyholders triple to hundreds of thousands since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the gulf coast several years ago. State legislators founded Texas Windstorm Insurance Association as a last resort provider -- providing coverage when other carriers pull out of high risk areas -- in 1971.

Chartis is a world leading property-casualty and general insurance organisation serving more than 45 million clients in over 160 countries and jurisdictions. With a 90-year history, one of the industry’s most extensive ranges of products and services, deep claims expertise and excellent financial strength, Chartis enables its commercial and personal insurance clients alike to manage risk with confidence. Chartis is the marketing name for the worldwide property-casualty and general insurance operations of Chartis Inc.

Delta Lloyd is majority-owned (57%) by Aviva, the UK's largest insurance company. Delta Lloyd divides its energies between providing insurance and financial services. The company provides life, health, and other types of insurance, as well as pension, asset management, and banking products and services, to customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Delta Lloyd's operating subsidiaries include Delta Lloyd Insurance, OHRA Insurance, ABN AMRO Insurance, Delta Lloyd Asset Management, Delta Lloyd Banking, and others. Its products are sold through independent insurance brokers and affiliated financial service providers.

Arch Capital Group Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment offers casualty; construction; executive assurance; healthcare; national accounts casualty; professional liability; programs; property, energy, marine, and aviation; surety; travel and accident; and other insurance products, such as collateral protection, excess workers' compensation, and employers' liability business. Its products are marketed through a network of licensed independent retail and wholesale brokers. The Reinsurance segment reinsures third party liability and worker’s compensation exposures; individual property risks that include personal lines and commercial property exposures; other specialty lines, including non-standard automobile, surety, accident and health, trade credit, and political risk; catastrophic perils, such as hurricane, earthquake, flood, tornado, hail, and fire; marine business, which includes coverage for hull, cargo, and transit and offshore oil and gas operations, as well as aviation business that includes coverage for airline and general aviation risks; and non-traditional business to provide insurers with risk management solutions. This segment markets its reinsurance products through brokers, as well as directly with the ceding companies. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

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.

Jackson National Life Distributors (JNLD) offers the retail variable, fixed, and equity-indexed annuity and life insurance products of its parent Jackson National Life Insurance Company's to financial institutions, independent securities brokers, and independent agents. Its operations are divided into Registered wholesalers, who focus on selling variable annuities to securities brokers, and Guaranteed wholesalers, who market fixed annuities and traditional life insurance. JNLD's Seminar Systems offer training programs for financial advisers while its Wealth Strategies unit helps agents advise their clients on wealth management and retirement planning.

Allianz was the first European country to offer life insurance in China, opening Allianz China Life in 1999. You only have one life to live, and Allianz China Life (AZCL) wants to be the one to insure it. The company -- a joint venture between Allianz and China's financial services firm CITIC Trust & Investment -- provides universal and term life insurance as well as participating, annuity, pension, accident, travel, health, medical, and group insurance products. Banks, brokers, and company agents sell AZCL products; they are also available through direct sales. Its 13,000 agents operate from seven offices and 60 sales centers located in mostly southern and eastern China.

You might say that it's not the size of the business that counts, but the quality of the retirement plan. Geller Group, a subsidiary of Focus Financial Partners, helps companies design, establish, and maintain employee benefit plans. Targeting small to midsized employers, the firm specializes in pension plans, welfare benefit plans, and 401(k) plans. It provides regulatory compliance, recordkeeping, plan administration, and investment advice, among other services. Geller Group was founded in 1984 and has offices in Boston; Los Angeles; New York City; and Washington, DC.

Liberty National Life Insurance Company, headquartered in McKinney, Texas, traces its origin back to 1900 when its predecessor was founded as the Heralds of Liberty, a fraternal organization. In 1929 Liberty National was incorporated as a stock company. Read about our history. Today Liberty National is a wholly owned subsidiary of Torchmark Corporation (NYSE: TMK). TMK is one of the largest publicly held holding companies in the nation, specializing in life and supplemental health insurance, including Medicare Supplements. Every year since 1995, Liberty National has been named to Ward's 50 Life-Health List. The Ward’s 50 analysis is based on financial performance over a five-year period. More than 800 insurance companies were included in this year’s analysis.

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