RAC is best known for providing roadside assistance for stranded motorists in the UK and also offers the same deal in around 50 European countries. It serves some 7 million customers. In addition, the company provides advice on car buying and car care, sells insurance (including auto, home, travel), offers drivers' training courses, and repairs windshields. RAC is a subsidiary of insurance titan Aviva, which acquired RAC to expand the offerings of the insurer's Norwich Union brand. The RAC name comes from the UK's Royal Automobile Club, which sold its breakdown assistance unit to the company in 1999.

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).

Monumental Life Insurance markets its products through general career agents and independent marketing groups. It also markets its final expense and funeral costs coverage through funeral directors. Many of its general agents are former military personnel who sell life insurance to service members. Even ordinary life insurance sounds more impressive when it's monumental life. Monumental Life Insurance offers life insurance, annuities, disability and disease insurance, final expense coverage, and other products. A subsidiary of Dutch insurance giant AEGON, Monumental Life Insurance targets lower- and middle-income markets. It is licensed in all states (except New York) and Washington, DC.

Western & Southern was founded in 1888 and is a mutual insurance firm owned by its members. Whether cowboy or Southern belle, if it's insurance and investment advice you seek, Western & Southern Financial Group wants to be your destination. Through its subsidiaries the company offers a variety of life insurance products and annuities; accident and supplemental health coverage; mutual funds; and other investment management products and services. Western & Southern's financial services include mutual fund administration, trust services, financial advisory, and real estate development; it owns or manages some $43 billion in assets. Western & Southern Financial Group, Inc. is licensed in most states and the District of Columbia.

Hiscox focuses on niche risks rarely placed by other insurers. The company also provides reinsurance and operates a Lloyd's of London syndicate. Products include personal accident, travel, and kidnapping coverage for high net-worth individuals and a variety of protection for businesses (small and medium-sized), including fine art, marine, liability, political risk, professional indemnity, and terrorism policies. Hiscox's biggest market is the US, where it has expanded its presence through acquisitions and new operations, including offering professional liability coverage to the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

BMI Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 1973 by chairman Tony Sierra. ¡Habla español! BMI Financial Group specializes in providing life and health insurance and other financial products to businesses and individuals in Latin America, and (to a lesser extent) in Asia and Europe. The company's primary subsidiary is Best Meridian Insurance, which targets Latin American upper-income business professionals through a network of approximately 300 general agencies. Best Meridian Insurance's offerings include life, credit, accident, health, and reinsurance products. Other subsidiaries offer investment products and third-party administration (TPA) services.

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.

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.

Ageas N.V. (formerly Fortis N.V.) is hoping to offer insurance throughout the ages. ageas N.V. company provides life, health, and property/casualty insurance in Belgium and other European and Asian countries. While still operating as Fortis N.V., ageas N.V. company was laid low by high debt and the contraction of credit markets in 2008. After receiving a hefty bailout from the Benelux governments, ageas N.V. company sold its Dutch units to the Netherlands government and its remaining bank operations to BNP Paribas. Ageas N.V. is the Dutch half of the larger Ageas holding organization. Ageas N.V. and its sister company, Belgian-traded Ageas SA/NV, have identical operations and are known simply as Ageas.

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.

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