AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH) helps its clients hold onto their assets. It provides life and property/casualty insurance, retirement funds, and investment products to individuals and businesses. The company has operations through subsidiaries and partnerships in Australia, China, Indonesia, Macao, New Zealand, and other Asia/Pacific countries. The company partners with AllianceBernstein to provide asset management services in Australia and New Zealand. French insurance giant AXA owns 54% of the firm. AXA APH has become an object of desire for local banks, and AXA would like to take over all of its Asian operations.

WISCONSIN REINSURANCE CORPORATION (WRC) markets to a broad spectrum of mutual insurance companies in the Midwest. With many years of experience in designing and implementing reinsurance contracts to fit the client company's needs, WRC is acknowledged as a leader in addressing the reinsurance and service needs for our clients.

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.

Island Insurance and its Tradewind Insurance and Island Premier Insurance affiliates operate together as the Island Insurance Companies. The insurers offer Hawaiians a range of personal and commercial coverage including auto, homeowners, liability, workers' compensation, umbrella policies, and it also provides loss control and audit services. Among its offerings are automobile, homeowners, flood, workers' compensation, and umbrella policies. Additionally, the group offers surety bonds for private and public contracts and other projects. Island Insurance was founded in 1939.

In the early 1980s, CPAs were faced with a mounting liability insurance crisis. The major insurance carriers, victims of their own rate-cutting war, found themselves with insufficient funds to cover their claims. Most companies discontinued their professional liability insurance coverage for CPAs. Those who continued to offer CPAs liability insurance imposed huge premium increases to cover cash shortfalls. As a result, liability coverage became unaffordable for many CPAs.

OneBeacon was one of the first glimmers of the insurance biz in the US. OneBeacon provides specialty property/casualty insurance policies, including marine, travel, professional liability, medical malpractice, data privacy, umbrella property, and even tuition coverage for when a student is forced to leave school unexpectedly. Its subsidiaries include International Marine Underwriters and OneBeacon Professional Insurance. Products are sold to businesses and individuals through a network of 3,400 independent agents and brokers across the US. OneBeacon was founded in 1831 as Potomac Fire Insurance Company. Holding company White Mountains Insurance owns a controlling stake in OneBeacon.

A Brief History of UIC UIC, Inc. was established by Jerold Armstrong in 1965 as a manufacturer's representative firm and has grown into a full manufacturing and R&D facility.Currently, UIC is composed of two divisions: Instruments and Pumps. The Instrument Division manufactures coulometric carbon and sulfur analysis systems, vapor pressure and membrane osmometers, and kinematic/dynamic viscosity systems. UIC is also the exclusive US distributor for Cosmo automatic asphaltene analyzers.The Pumps Division operates under the Uniquest name and has been a division of UIC since the mid-1980s. The Pumps Division manufactures products for OEM applications for HPLC and GC manufacturers worldwide.

Born in 1898, Metropolitan Holdings Limited company is one of the largest financial services conglomerates in Africa serving the low- to mid-income markets. Metropolitan Holdings provides life insurance to some 4 million residents in eight nations, including South Africa where it is a leading life insurer. Its life products are distributed directly and through intermediaries and brokers. Metropolitan also offers retirement fund benefits, asset management, and managed health-care administration. Metropolitan Holdings Limited company plans to merge with another South African insurer, FirstRand's Momentum Group, to form MMI Holdings. Metropolitan brings insurance and financial services to those who may not be accustomed to such things.

Central Mutual Insurance company is centrally located, is mutually held, and by golly, it does sell insurance through its operating subsidiaries Central Insurance Companies, All America Insurance, and CMI Lloyds. These subsidiaries offer auto, business, and homeowners insurance; underwrite commercial policies; and assess computer and electronic equipment claims. The company does business in more than 15 states; its products are sold by independent agents in the central, northeastern, southeastern, and southwestern regions of the US. The company was founded in 1876. Chairman and president Francis Purmort III is the fifth generation of his family to lead the company.

Allied Solutions doesn't feel the need to have a snazzy name in order to distribute insurance products to financial institutions. As the primary distributor for Securian Financial's institutional products, the company serves more than 3,700 credit unions and banks. Banking and credit union customers can then choose from Allied Solutions palette of products including accidental death, disability insurance, home warranty, overdraft protection, pet insurance, term life, and employee benefits. The company operates nationwide via some 20 regional offices. Allied Solutions also provides institutions with risk management services and assistance in remarketing repossessed vehicles and title tracking.

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