SBLI was founded in 1907. The Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts! Originally selling life insurance only through savings banks, SBLI now sells a variety of life insurance products and annuities directly to consumers. Its products include term life, whole life, group life, and specialty children's life insurance, and it is the top writer of ordinary life insurance in Massachusetts. However, SBLI has expanded to sell its products in more than 35 states. While the company now sells its products directly and through independent brokers and agents, it still sells through banks and has partnership agreements with several regional banking associations.

Founded in 1867, the mutual life insurer operates throughout the US, offering a range of individual and commercial life and disability insurance products. Union Central Life Insurance also provides employee and executive benefit planning, estate planning, and retirement planning. It distributes its products through independent general agencies. Union Central keeps dry under the umbrella of UNIFI Mutual Holding, along with its sister companies Ameritas Life Insurance and Acacia Life Insurance.

The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company (VALIC) is anything but boring. The firm is a major provider of group retirement plan services to elementary and high schools, colleges, and hospitals. It provides annuities and life insurance to more than 25,000 client groups (representing some 2 million investors) throughout the US. VALIC is part of AIG American General, the domestic life insurance operations of American International Group. AIG has announced that it will sell all of its domestic life insurance operations, including VALIC.

The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company was founded in 1888 and is held by diversified financial services firm Western & Southern Financial Group. Easterners and Northerners need not apply? Nah, The Western and Southern Life Insurance Company offers life insurance, critical illness insurance, annuities, investment funds, and related products in nearly half of the states in the Union (it's also licensed in about 45 states). The Western and Southern Life Insurance company and its Western-Southern Life Assurance (universal and term life and annuity products) subsidiary market their products through W&S Agency Group, its own sales force of more than 2,000 career agents.

Torchmark Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides individual life and supplemental health insurance products, and annuities to middle income households. It offers various life insurance products, including traditional and interest sensitive whole-life insurance, term life insurance, and other life insurance. Torchmark Corporation also provides various health insurance products, including juvenile and senior life coverage; medicare supplement; supplemental limited-benefit health insurance products that include hospital/surgical plans, cancer, and accident plans sold to individuals under age 65; and medicare supplement and medicare part D prescription drug insurance. In addition, it offers a range of annuity products comprising single-premium deferred annuities and flexible-premium deferred annuities. Torchmark Corporation sells its products through direct response, exclusive agents, and independent agents in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Torchmark Corporation was founded in 1900 and is based in McKinney, Texas.

Transamerica Life Insurance Company (TLIC) gives its American touch to Dutch insurance giant AEGON's life insurance operations. TLIC, which began operations in 1961, is part of the AEGON USA group of companies. Transamerica Life Insurance Company provides individual and group life insurance and annuities. The Transamerica Life Insurance Company is licensed to provide insurance throughout the US, except for New York and Washington DC which are covered by its sister Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company. Its products are distributed through agents and brokers, as well as via direct marketing efforts.

UNIFI Mutual Holding respects the individuality of its subsidiaries, but likes to keep them all in one place. UNIFI Mutual Holding owns Ameritas Holding, which in turn owns three subsidiaries: Ameritas Life, Acacia Life, and Union Central Life. All three companies provide life insurance and annuity products nationwide. Through its companies, UNIFI also offers such services as financial planning and workplace investing, and has some $30 billion of assets under management. Other companies under its umbrella include socially responsible mutual fund manager Calvert Group, Acacia Federal Savings Bank in Virginia, and Ameritas Group, which offers dental and eye care insurance.

Its Unipol Banca has about 300 branches. The acquisitive company continues to target insurance firms and banks. Holding company Holmo SpA controls Unipol through a second holding company, Finanziaria dell'Economia Sociale (Finsoe). In need of some insurance or financial services? Rally 'round the Unipol! Unipol Gruppo Finanziario (better known simply as Unipol) is transforming itself from a multiline insurance company to a financial services firm. While the company's main focus is offering life, auto, property/casualty, health, and other general insurance, Unipol also has expanded its reach by adding asset management and merchant banking, as well as consumer banking services.

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.

Founded in 1958, United Teacher Associates Insurance Company became a subsidiary of Great American Financial Resources in 1999. For United Teacher Associates (UTA), the three "Rs" are really reading, writing, and retirement. Doing business as United Teacher Associates Insurance Company, it offers a mix of life insurance, disability insurance, and other products. The company helps teachers prepare for their golden years with tax-deferred annuities, long-term care, and Medicare supplement insurance. UTA is licensed to operate throughout most of the US (46 states) but its business is concentrated in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Its products are distributed through independent agents.

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