Great-West Life Assurance has a great big array of insurance, benefits, and investment products for individuals and businesses large and small in Canada and Europe. Through its operating subsidiaries Canada Life and London Life, Great-West Life Assurance company provides group and individual life insurance, supplemental health insurance, disability and critical illness insurance, and investment and retirement plans. Its European business is focused on the UK, Ireland, and Germany where it provides asset management, individual insurance, and reinsurance. Great-West Life Assurance is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco and part of the Power Financial group of companies.

United Investors Life Insurance, which was founded in 1961, markets its products through more than 4,000 representatives across the US. A bad breakup with a significant customer in 2001 reduced revenues, and several of the company's products are operating in run-off. United Investors Life Insurance company is a subsidiary of Torchmark Corporation, but is being sold to Protective Life for $316 million. United Investors Life Insurance presents a united front in the battle for life insurance and a peaceful retirement for middle-income Americans. United Investors Life Insurance company sells a variety of life insurance and annuity products, including variable universal life, variable annuities, term life, whole life, and fixed annuities.

CNO Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, marketing, and administration of supplemental health insurance, annuity, individual life insurance, and other insurance products for senior and middle-income markets in the United States. The company markets and distributes Medicare supplement insurance, life insurance, and long-term care insurance products, as well as fixed annuities through career agents and sales managers; Medicare Part D prescription drug plans through a distribution and reinsurance arrangement with Coventry Health Care (Coventry); and Medicare advantage plans through a distribution arrangement with Humana Inc. (Humana). In addition, it markets primarily graded benefit and simplified issue life insurance products directly to customers through television advertising, direct mail, Internet, and telemarketing; and markets and distributes specified disease, accident, disability, and life insurance products, as well as annuities to middle-income consumers at home and at the worksite through independent marketing organizations and insurance agencies. Further, the company offers reinsurance products, a swell as sells products through professional independent producers and direct marketing. CNO Financial Group, Inc. has strategic alliances with Coventry and Humana. CNO Financial Group, Inc. was formerly known as Conseco, Inc. and changed its name to CNO Financial Group, Inc. on May 11, 2010. CNO Financial Group was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Carmel, Indiana.

One of the largest surety companies in the US, CNA Surety offers contract and commercial surety bonds, which guarantee fulfillment of contracts. The company's Western Surety unit handles fidelity, commercial, and contract bonds and international surety and credit insurance; Surety Bonding, another subsidiary, specializes in commercial and contract bonds to small businesses. Contract surety (for construction contractors) accounts for nearly two-thirds of CNA Surety's premiums. CNA Surety sells its products in all 50 states through a network of independent agents and brokers. CNA Financial owns 62% of CNA Surety and has offered to acquire the balance.

The leading US personal lines property/casualty company (by premiums), State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the #1 provider of auto insurance. It also is the leading home insurer and offers nonmedical health and life insurance through its subsidiary companies. Its products are marketed via some 17,000 agents in the US and Canada. Competition has increased with the fall of barriers between the banking, securities, and insurance industries. State Farm's efforts to diversify include a federal savings bank charter (State Farm Bank) that offers consumer and business loans through its agents and by phone, mail, and the Internet.

Argo Group International Holdings provides specialty property/casualty insurance and reinsurance products in the US and Europe. Argo Group operates seven subsidiaries which focus on four well-defined markets: excess and surplus (the riskier stuff no one else likes to insure like day care centers and contractors), industry-specific insurance (catering to such niches as mining, dry cleaners, public entities, and grocers), international property and liability coverage, and reinsurance. The company markets and distributes its products through independent agents and brokers.

FBL Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, sells individual life insurance and annuity products in the United States. The company provides whole life, term life, and universal life policies; annuity and investment products; supplementary contracts; traditional fixed rate and index annuities; and a line of personal and commercial property-casualty insurance products. It also offers variable universal life insurance and variable annuity contracts. The company markets its individual annuity products through independent agents and brokers; and variable products through alliances with other insurance companies. As of December 31, 2009, its Farm Bureau life distribution channel consisted of 2,020 exclusive agents and agency managers; and EquiTrust life independent distribution channel consisted of 20,195 independent agents. FBL Financial Group was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Boston Mutual has remained a mutual company since it was founded in 1891. What Boston Mutual knows about life insurance amounts to a whole lot more than a hill of beans. The company sells traditional group and individual life insurance, as well as disability and supplemental accident and illness coverage. The company distributes its products to individuals through its in-house General Agencies division, while its Group and Worksite Divisions distribute to employers. Additional products include employee assistance programs and voluntary supplemental insurance products.

Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides personal automobile insurance with a concentration on nonstandard auto insurance in the United States. Its products include personal automobile insurance for individuals, commercial vehicle insurance for businesses, and classic collector insurance for individuals with classic or antique automobiles. The company’s products provide insurance coverage for liability to others for bodily injury and property damage, and for physical damage to an insured’s vehicle from collision and various other perils. It distributes its products primarily through a network of independent agencies and brokers, as well as through contingent commission arrangements. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

MetLife, Inc. is a leading global provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs, serving 90 million customers in over 60 countries. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

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