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.

Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers workers’ compensation and group benefits insurance and reinsurance products in the United States. Its Workers’ Compensation Insurance segment provides traditional workers’ compensation insurance coverage products, including guaranteed cost policies, policyholder dividend policies, retrospectively-rated policies, large deductible policies, and alternative market products to employers primarily in Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, Maryland, Indiana, and Virginia. Eastern Insurance Holdings company’s Segregated Portfolio Cell Reinsurance segment provides program design, fronting, claims administration, risk management, segregated portfolio cell rental, investment, and segregated portfolio management services. Its Group Benefits Insurance segment offers group benefits insurance products, such as dental, short-term and long-term disability, vision, and term life insurance products to employer groups primarily in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, and Midwest regions of the continental United States. Eastern Insurance Holdings company offers its products through a network of independent insurance producers and general agencies. Eastern Insurance Holdings is headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

HM Insurance Group makes the grade in employer stop loss coverage and other group health-related insurance products. A subsidiary of health insurer Highmark, HM Insurance offers stop loss policies to help self-insured companies protect themselves from catastrophic medical claims. It also sells supplemental health plans that cover critical illness, accidents, and hospitalization; the plans also include disability and life insurance components. Additionally, the firm has introduced a customizable limited benefit medical plan and provides administrative services such as COBRA administration and claims processing for self-insured groups. HM Insurance, which consists of four operating companies, operates nationwide.

Illinois Mutual is a McCord family affair. O.L. McCord, the great-grandfather of current chairman and president Michel A. McCord, founded Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1910, and four consecutive generations of McCord men have done their family proud by helming the insurer. Illinois Mutual specializes in disability income insurance, but also offers life insurance and annuity products. Illinois Mutual Life Insurance company's offerings include personal income protection, business expense coverage, and special risk income protection for those with medical conditions. Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company distributes its products nationwide through more than 18,000 independent agents.

Mutual of Omaha, which is owned by its policyholders, offers its products through both its agency sales force and independent agents, as well as direct marketing. In the wild kingdom that is today's insurance industry, Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company wants to distinguish itself from the pack. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company provides individual, group, and employee benefits products through a range of affiliated companies. It offers Medicare supplement, disability, and long-term care coverage as well as life insurance and annuities through its United of Omaha Life Insurance unit. Its Mutual of Omaha Investor Services offers brokerage services, pension plans, and mutual funds, while the Mutual of Omaha Bank operates regionally.

Penn Treaty American Corporation and its subsidiaries provide long term care insurance in the United States. Its principal products include individual, defined benefit accident, and health insurance policies, which cover long-term care services, including confinement to nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, as well as home healthcare. The company’s policies are primarily designed to provide benefits when the insured is no longer capable of functioning independently. It also sells medicare supplement policies. In addition, Penn Treaty American Corporation also owns insurance agencies that sell senior-market insurance products issued by the company, as well as other insurers. It markets its long-term care insurance products through field marketing organizations. Penn Treaty American Corporation was founded in 1965. It was formerly known as Greater Keystone Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Penn Treaty American Corporation in 1987. Penn Treaty American Corporation is based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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.

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.

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.

StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides group insurance products and services in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Insurance Services and Asset Management. The Insurance Services segment offers group and individual disability, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, and group dental and vision insurance products, as well as absence management services to individuals and employer groups. Its Asset Management segment provides 401(K) plans, 403(b) plans, 457 plans, defined benefit plans, money purchase pension plans, profit sharing plans, and non-qualified deferred compensation products and services through an affiliated broker-dealer. This segment also offers investment management and advisory services, financial planning services, commercial mortgage loan origination and servicing, individual fixed-rate annuity products, group annuity contracts, and retirement plan trust products. The company sells its products through master general agents, brokers, consultants, and financial institutions primarily to physicians, lawyers, executives, employer groups, professionals, small business owners, and individuals. StanCorp Financial Group was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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