Northwestern Mutual also offers brokerage and trust services through its investment services and wealth management subsidiaries. Keep an eye on the quiet ones. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, touting itself as "The Quiet Company," is one of the largest US life insurers, with more than $1 trillion in individual policies in force. Its 7,000 representatives sell a lineup of life, disability, long-term care, and employee benefits products (health, dental, 401(k) plans). It also offers retirement products, including annuities and mutual funds, to a clientele of small businesses and prosperous individuals. Its institutional asset manager Frank Russell Company is known for the Russell 2000 stock index.

EBS-RMSCO helps businesses find the benefits that fit them best. RMSCO provides a range of third party administrator (TPA) services for companies using self-funded medical, dental, disability, workers' compensation, and liability plans. Services include administering flexible spending accounts, claims settlement, risk management, and provider payments. The company serves about 3,000 clients throughout the US from its offices in New York, Vermont, and Virginia. It distributes its services through brokers and other partners. EBS-RMSCO was created by the merger of EBS Benefit Solutions and RMSCO in 2008. Excellus, also known as The Lifetime Healthcare Companies owns the company.

Sterling National Corporation is a leading provider of lender placed hazard insurance tracking and outsourcing services, voluntary insurance products, property tax software and services, and customer experience solutions. Nationwide, we serve lenders, mortgage servicing organizations, financial institutions, and homebuilders as well as their end customers. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Sterling National has more than 1,400 employees in nine offices across the country including California, North Carolina, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas.

What if your auto insurance company could also issue you a driver's license? It can in western Canada, where Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is not only the sole provider of British Columbia's (BC) mandated basic auto insurance coverage, but is also in charge of operating the province's motor vehicle department. Formed by the provincial government in 1973, ICBC provides liability and uninsured motorist coverage to about 2.6 million customers through its required Basic Autoplan policy. The company also issues drivers' licenses and offers other standard motor vehicle services. ICBC is regulated by The BC Utilities Commission, which approves the insurance company's rates.

In Japan, "non-life" isn't creepy, it's just car insurance, and Sompo Japan is one of the biggest players. Voluntary and compulsory automobile insurance combined account for over half of the insurance company's premiums. Though non-life is its largest segment, the company also provides life insurance through its Sompo Japan Himawari Life and Sompo Japan DIY Life Insurance subsidiaries. It also provides fire, accident, and marine insurance, as well as reinsurance, asset management, and venture capital products and services. Sompo Japan formed a joint holding company with smaller property/casualty insurer Nipponkoa in 2010. As NKSJ Holdings, the two companies hope to better compete in their markets.

Through subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, PartnerRe Ltd writes treaty (groups of risks) and facultative (individual risks) reinsurance for such primary coverage as property, casualty, and life insurance, as well as catastrophe, energy, marine, and other specialty insurance. PartnerRe was one of several pure-catastrophe reinsurers founded in the tax haven of Bermuda after Hurricane Andrew made reinsurance glamorous. The company provides services for customers in more than 150 countries. PartnerRe operates from about 20 offices around the globe.

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.

For over 96 years, Swett & Crawford has delivered exceptional expertise and service to the commercial insurance marketplace. As a wholesale insurance broker, Swett & Crawford does not work directly with insureds. Rather, we serve as a key intermediary between the independent insurance agents and the nation's top insurance carriers. We work with the insured's retail insurance agent or broker to provide comprehensive, cost-effective commercial coverages and specialty programs for a wide variety of risks. For decades Swett has been the leading broker of its type in the United States, and the last four years has been voted "Best Wholesaler" by readers of the influential Business Insurance© magazine.

New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company began in 1913, founded by factory owners who wanted to purchase insurance from a reliable, local, safety-oriented carrier. The Company has worked steadily ever since to build a reputation for efficiency, integrity and superior service.NJM writes coverage directly for consumers without the expense of agents' commissions, and operates in a mutual fashion exclusively for policyholders. Approximately $4.9 billion have been paid to policyholders as dividends since 1918.

The subsidiaries of Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance Services offer a variety of personal and commercial property/casualty and life insurance products to members of the Missouri Farm Bureau (its parent company). Although the company has its roots in agricultural and farm-related insurance, it also provides automobile, homeowners, and boat coverage in addition to whole and term life policies and annuities. Group members include Farm Bureau Town & Country (property/casualty insurance, originally formed in 1946), Farm Bureau Life, and Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance Brokerage, which places health insurance. Its products are distributed through some 225 field agents across Missouri.

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