In March 1917, Ford introduced the Model TT truck just in time for Wolverine Mutual to insure it. Inspired by the new horseless carriages rattling across American roads, E. Bruce Laing and his friends Charles Heddon, Clare F. Pugsley, W.E. Sweet, and Dr. N. Bonine established an insurance company to serve new automobile owners. Riding the automobile's growth in the Roaring '20s, then enduring the economic woes of the Great Depression and World War II, Wolverine Mutual outgrew its original Front Street offices and moved to a large historic home on Main Street in Dowagiac.

California Title Company underwrites title insurance and provides related real estate services for homebuyers throughout Southern California. Among its offerings are property listings and lending information. The company also provides services for commercial builders and investment buyers. California Title Company has offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County and is a member of the Orange Coast Title family of companies.

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.

Genworth help borrowers buy a home—and we help them stay there. By putting less than 20% down, borrowers can responsibly buy a home years sooner, and our MI products make it possible. Even after closing, our innovative HomeOpeners products and services help keep borrowers in their home if times get tough.

Triad Guaranty Insurance, sold private mortgage insurance on residential mortgage loans when buyers could put up less than 20% of the down payment. Its customers have been residential mortgage lenders, including commercial banks and mortgage bankers and brokers. Triad Guaranty marketed its products across the US through its in-house sales force. The company is in the operating in run-off, which means it no longer writes new policies, but continues to service existing customers.

ING Groep N.V., a financial services company, provides banking, investment, life insurance, and retirement services worldwide. The company offers wealth accumulation, savings, and mortgage products and services to individuals, and small-and medium-sized businesses, as well as a range of banking products through independent banking agents; and credit products through agents, brokers, and vendors. It provides current account services and payments systems, such as savings accounts, mortgage loans, consumer loans, credit card services, investment products, and life and non-life insurance products, as well as asset management services. The company also provides wealth management services to high net worth individuals. In addition, it offers various financial products, such as mutual funds, e-brokerage, payment accounts, and pensions; and lending, payments and cash management, structured finance, leasing and commercial finance, and financial markets products and services. Further, the company offers life insurance, investments, and retirement services for retail customers; a range of traditional, unit-linked, and variable annuity policies written for individual and group customers; mandatory and voluntary pension funds; fire, motor, disability, transport, and third party liability insurance for individual and commercial/group clients; and disability insurance products and complementary services for employers and self-employed professionals, such as dentists, general practitioners, and lawyers, as well as manages equity, fixed income, and structured investments for institutional investors and private label investment funds. As of December 31, 2009, ING Groep N.V. had approximately 250 retail banking branches in the Netherlands; 800 in Belgium; 430 in Poland/central Europe; and 460 in Asia. ING Groep N.V. was founded in 1991 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Established in 1902 to insure doctors and dentists, Physicians Mutual now provides general and supplemental health insurance products such as cancer, dental, long-term care, and Medicare supplements to members nationwide. It offers packaged insurance products for consumers and small business employees. The company's Physicians Life Insurance subsidiary provides individual life insurance and annuity products. Physicians Mutual has a nationwide agency distribution and is boosting its online and direct marketing efforts. Although the name seems narrow, Physicians Mutual Insurance Company offers insurance to a wide range of customers.

Personal Group Holdings may seem like an oxymoron to some, but not to these folks. Established in 1984, Personal Group Holdings provides employee benefits administration, insurance brokerage services, mortgage services, and financial planning through subsidiaries such as Personal Insurance & Reinsurance Brokers, Personal Group Benefits, Personal Assurance, and Personal Assurance Financial Services. Clients include Game Stores, Universal Music, and Marston's. In 2005 Personal Group Holdings bought Berkeley Morgan Group, an insurance and finance advising company.

Balboa Insurance Group has been helping lenders for more than 60 years by providing industry-leading risk management and loss mitigation solutions to financial institutions in the mortgage and auto finance industries. Balboa Insurance Group is a part of a Fortune 500 diversified financial services organization, that is financially sound and strong. The company's affliated underwriters include Balboa Insurance Company, Meritplan Insurance Company, Newport E&S Insurance Company, Newport Insurance Company, Balboa Life Insurance Company and Balboa Life Insurance Company of New York.

PICO Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and development of water resources and water storage operations in the southwestern United States and Europe. It identifies end users, such as water utilities, municipalities, or developers who require water and develops new sources of water for municipal and industrial usage, as well as constructs and develops water storage infrastructure to facilitate the allocation of available water supplies. The company also develops and sells real estate, and water and geothermal rights; and leases properties for grazing and agricultural uses. In addition, it acquires and develops residential lots, primarily in California. Further, PICO Holdings engages in the acquisition and financing of businesses. PICO Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in La Jolla, California.

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