Direct Line Insurance plc was founded in 1985 with a simple idea in mind -- selling car insurance over the phone. It is the UK's leading private automobile insurer, and it has more than 5 million customers across its lines of business. Since its founding, the company has expanded its business to include home, pet, travel, and life insurance. Other products and services include home mortgages, loans, savings, online car buying, and car breakdown service. Direct Line has also expanded geographically by offering services in Germany and Italy. The company is an affiliate of The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Central Mutual Insurance company is centrally located, is mutually held, and by golly, it does sell insurance through its operating subsidiaries Central Insurance Companies, All America Insurance, and CMI Lloyds. These subsidiaries offer auto, business, and homeowners insurance; underwrite commercial policies; and assess computer and electronic equipment claims. The company does business in more than 15 states; its products are sold by independent agents in the central, northeastern, southeastern, and southwestern regions of the US. The company was founded in 1876. Chairman and president Francis Purmort III is the fifth generation of his family to lead the company.

Deutscher Ring sells its products through its own sales force and through German marketing companies OVB and ZEUS. In 2005 the group acquired former AEGON Lebensversicherungs-AG from Dutch insurance group AEGON. The acquisition included the MoneyMaxx brand of the unit, which markets pension and life insurance products to about 112,000 customers. It took Wagner 30 years to write his Ring, but Deutscher Ring can write life insurance policies all day long. Deutscher Ring offers insurance and pension products for private customers, targeting average-income clients. A part of Baloise-Holding's Basler insurance group since 1985, the company is affiliated with Deutscher Ring Sachversicherungs-AG.

MARC my words: If the subject is reinsurance, MARC is ready to talk. Munich American Reassurance Company (MARC) is the US-based life reinsurance subsidiary of global industry giant Munich Re (its sister company Munich Reinsurance America provides property/casualty reinsurance). MARC provides life, annuity, disability, and health reinsurance for insurance companies throughout the US. The company, founded in 1959, writes reinsurance for annuities, credit insurance, and long-term care insurance. It also provides risk management services. Munich American Reassurance Company has offices in Atlanta and Chicago.

Hilltop Holdings Inc., through its subsidiary, NLASCO, Inc., operates as property and casualty insurance company in the United States. The company’s personal line products include homeowners, dwelling fire, manufactured home, flood, and vacant policies. Its commercial line products comprise commercial, builders risk, builders risk renovation, sports liability, and inland marine policies. Hilltop Holdings Inc. distributes its insurance products through a network of independent agents and managing general agents. The company was formerly known as Affordable Residential Communities Inc. and changed its name to Hilltop Holdings Inc. in July 2007. Hilltop Holdings Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Southern California home buyers aren't the only ones who can partake of Orange Coast Title's (OCT) services. OCT and its subsidiaries provide commercial and consumer title insurance and closing services to homebuyers and lenders in more than 40 states from dozens of offices located mostly in the West, though the company does have offices in Pennsylvania and Texas. Its operating subsidiaries include California Title Company, Advantage Title, Equity Title, and First Centennial Title. OCT's Lender Services division, headed by subsidiary National Asset Management Group, offers foreclosure processing, appraisals, and other services nationwide. Chairman and CEO John Marconi founded Orange Coast Title in 1974.

With one of the world's leading insurers and one of India's leading makers of motorcycles as its investors, Bajaj Allianz knows a thing or two about property insurance. The company is a joint venture between Allianz and Bajaj Auto subsidiary Bajaj Finserv. Bajaj Allianz provides an array of general insurance services via a domestic network of some 200 offices. Its product line includes auto, homeowners, commercial, health, and travel insurance. Automotive insurance comprises the bulk of the company's annual revenue. Since its founding in 2001, Bajaj Allianz has grown to become one of the leading general insurance agencies in the country. Bajaj Auto owns about 75% of the company.

First Mercury Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides insurance products and services to the specialty commercial insurance markets in the United States. The company underwrites and provides various classes of general liability insurance for the security industry, including security guards and detectives, alarm installation and service businesses, and safety equipment installation and service businesses. It also offers general liability insurance for specialty classes, such as contractor classes of business comprising roofing, plumbing, electrical, energy, and other artisan and service contractors. In addition, the company provides liability and property insurance for contract underwriting classes consisting of primarily legal and miscellaneous professional liability, hospitality, employer general liability, habitational, and outdoor recreation and other classes of business. Further, it offers insurance products for casualty, excess/umbrella casualty, and property lines of businesses, as well as for miscellaneous professional liability, non-standard auto, and hospitality businesses. Additionally, the company operates a wholesale insurance agency, which produces commercial lines business primarily on an excess and surplus lines basis for non-affiliated insurers. It also provides underwriting, claims, and other insurance services to third parties that comprise insurance carriers and customers. First Mercury Financial Corporation markets its insurance policies through a network of wholesale and retail insurance brokers under the CoverX brand name. The company is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.

China Life Insurance Company Limited provides life, annuities, accident, and health insurance products in China. It operates in three segments: Individual Life Insurance, Group Life Insurance, and Short-Term Insurance. The Individual Life Insurance segment offers participating and non-participating life insurance and annuities to individuals. This segment offers long-term products, including long-term health and long-term accident insurance products. The Group Life Insurance segment provides participating and non-participating life insurance and annuities products to companies and institutions. This segment offers various long-term insurance products. The Short-Term Insurance segment provides short-term accident insurance and health insurance to individuals and groups. This segment offers short-term products having a term of one year or less at the date of their execution. It distributes its products through its direct sales force, exclusive agent force, insurance agencies, insurance brokerage companies, and various intermediaries, as well as through bancassurance arrangements. China Life Insurance company was founded in 1949 and is based in Beijing, China. China Life Insurance Company Limited is a subsidiary of China Life Insurance (Group) Company.

Workmen's Auto Insurance Company has been steering drivers in the right direction since 1949. Now in our 60th year of business, the Company continues an established tradition of customer satisfaction, technological innovation, and financial stability. Workmen's is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is licensed in 23 states and active in 10, from Washington to Florida. We provide personal lines automobile insurance distributed through independent agents in those states, as well as offer homeowners and renters products in California!

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