To protect your home on the range from damages and crop failures, just say "hail, no!" and call The Home Agency. The Home Agency sells crop insurance through offices in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Additionally, the company offers personal and commercial property/casualty lines, including automobile, homeowners, liability, and workers' compensation coverage, as well as health, disability, and life products. With about a half dozen office locations, the firm has more than 6,000 individual and family policyholders. The Home Agency was founded in 1974.

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.

American Hardware Mutual Insurance knows the nuts and bolts of commercial property/casualty insurance, including auto, liability, specialty lines, and workers' compensation. The company caters to small and midsized businesses, selling through employed sales representatives in 35 states, primarily in the western, midwestern, and northeastern US. American Hardware Mutual was founded in 1899 to protect hardware dealers from fire losses; it still provides specialized coverage for hardware stores, as well as for farm machinery dealers, car and boat dealers, repair shops, and several other niche businesses.

Affirmative Insurance Holdings, through its subsidiaries, writes and sells non-standard auto insurance policies -- that is, coverage for drivers in high-risk categories due to their age, driving records, and other factors -- in 10 states. It markets its own policies, as well as non-standard coverage from other insurers, through some 200 company-owned retail locations (including A-Affordable, Driver's Choice, InsureOne, and USAgencies stores) and through independent and unaffiliated agents. Investment firm J.C. Flowers controls more than half of the company.

Through its three subsidiaries,RLI Corp. mainly offers coverage for US niche markets -- risks that are hard to place in the standard market and are otherwise underserved. It focuses on public and private companies as well as non-profit organizations. RLI's property/casualty lines include commercial and personal liability, commercial property, directors and officers liability, general liability, and surety. Transportation, employers excess indemnity, and residential property are among its other lines.

Combined Insurance Company of America markets and underwrites a combination of supplemental accident, disability, health, and life insurance products. Combined Insurance offers a variety of low premium, low limit accident and health products for middle-income individuals. Its Combined Worksite Solutions division markets exclusively to small businesses while its Combined Select programs offer student insurance products through colleges. Combined Insurance Company of America operates in Europe, North America, and Asia/Pacific. Overseas, Combined Insurance Company of America distributes its products through some 3,000 independent agents while in North America it uses a dedicated sales force of more than 2,000 agents. Combined Insurance is held by ACE Limited.

Farm Bureau Property & Casualty (formerly Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance) offers property/casualty insurance products, primarily to farmers, ranchers, and agricultural businesses in the Midwest and West. Its lines of coverage include farmowners, homeowners, commercial liability, crop, auto, and disability. Farm Bureau Property & Casualty operates in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah. The insurance provider and its sister company, Western Agricultural Insurance, are managed by FBL Financial Group. The company is headed by former Allstate Financial CEO James Hohmann.

Tenet Insurance Company sells a range of business and individual insurance products, including home, liability, vehicle, travel, and medical insurance. The company's business packages provide comprehensive coverage catered to the food and beverage, retail, and light industrial industries. Tenet sells its products through in-house agents to individuals and small to midsized businesses. Other lines include coverage for domestic helpers and overseas coverage for students. Formerly owned by Singapore investment firm Hwa Hong, Tenet Insurance was acquired by Japanese insurance company.

The world's oldest mutual life insurance company isn't aging well. The Equitable Life Assurance Society, founded in 1762, provided life insurance, annuities, pensions, and permanent health insurance to some 650,000 customers in the UK, Germany, and Ireland, until it ceased writing new business in 2000 after a House of Lords ruling that it underpaid some 90,000 guaranteed-annuity policyholders. After losing its court battle, it sought a buyer. Mortgage bank Halifax plc bought much of the troubled company and formed Halifax Equitable (part of Lloyds Banking Group, formerly HBOS plc). Equitable Life has given up hopes of a buyer and intends to just let its business continue until there are no more policy holders.

They’ve met the needs of some of the world’s fastest-growing companies and industries. In the process, we’ve developed a skill set and service ethic that drives every one of our nearly 100 employees.It’s a get-it-done approach. Our staff has unparalleled technical expertise and is always at the cutting edge of the insurance industry. No company has deeper relationships with the carriers or a greater commitment to the success of its clients.

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