Churchill Insurance provides coverage for your car, home, and even for travel. Other services include pet insurance (making at least one bulldog very happy), breakdown coverage (think of a British version of AAA), and van and motorcycle insurance. The company has some interesting marketing techniques, and even sells a nodding-head (aka a bobble head) version of Churchill (the dog) on its Web site, as well as Churchill ringtones and wallpaper for cell phones. Churchill Insurance is a subsidiary of The Royal Bank of Scotland.

Platinum Underwriters provides property/casualty, marine, and finite risk reinsurance through subsidiaries Platinum Underwriters Reinsurance and Platinum Underwriters Bermuda. Another unit, Platinum Re UK, has stopped writing new policies. The company's products are distributed through reinsurance intermediaries. Platinum Underwriters was formed when, taking advantage of the friendly reinsurance climate, business insurer Travelers Companies (formerly St. Paul Travelers) spun off its ailing reinsurance unit (St. Paul Re) into Platinum Underwriters Holdings. Set up in tax-friendly Bermuda, Platinum Underwriters does about three-fourths of its business in the US.

Founded in 1941, Cotton States Life Insurance, through subsidiaries Cotton States Mutual Insurance and Shield Insurance, the company operates in a handful of southeastern states, offering personal lines of property/casualty insurance, such as auto and homeowners coverage, as well as traditional life insurance products. The company sells its insurance products through exclusive agents in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida. Its agents also sell the products of its parent company, national insurance provider COUNTRY Financial, which acquired Cotton States in 2005.

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association is a not-for-profit association that provides hail and windstorm coverage to Texan gulf coast property owners. The company is a pool of all property/casualty insurers that are authorized to write such policies in the state of Texas. The association has seen its policyholders triple to hundreds of thousands since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit the gulf coast several years ago. State legislators founded Texas Windstorm Insurance Association as a last resort provider -- providing coverage when other carriers pull out of high risk areas -- in 1971.

Sun Life Financial Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides various life and health insurance, savings, investment management, retirement, and pension products and services to individuals and corporate customers. Its product portfolio includes individual life insurance, individual annuity and saving products, group life and health insurance, group pension and retirement products, mutual funds, asset management services, individual health insurance, and reinsurance-life retrocession. The company distributes its products through direct sales agents; independent and managing general agents; financial intermediaries, such as brokers; banks; pension and benefit consultants; and direct sales, including Internet and telemarketing. Sun Life Financial Inc. operates primarily in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Asia. It has a joint venture agreement with CIMB Group Sdn Bhd. Sun Life Financial Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Ohio Casualty underwrites a variety of commercial property/casualty insurance products including property and general liability, equipment breakdown, workers' compensation, schools, and commercial farm policies. The company also offers loss prevention programs to its customers. Ohio Casualty sells its products through independent agents in seven mid-central and eastern states and Washington D.C. Historically, half of its customers are contractors or artisans, the rest are typically smaller business owners, including merchants and service providers. The company is owned by Liberty Mutual.

Evoking tree and shop-lined boulevards, The Main Street America Group provides a range of personal and commercial property/casualty products including coverage for small and midsized businesses and individual auto and homeowners insurance plans. The company operates through regional subsidiaries Great Lakes Casualty, Main Street America Assurance, MSA Insurance, NGM Insurance, and Old Dominion Insurance, and affiliate Grain Dealers Mutual. Along with specialized surety bonds for contractors, executors, and public officials, the company also offers fidelity bonds to protect businesses from employee dishonesty. Main Street America sells its products through more than 1,500 independent agents in 25 states.

The senior managers conceived AIX's innovative concept and mission in the summer of 2004. Combining a deep knowledge of marketing, finance and operations with 15 decades of insurance program expertise, the founder fashioned a state-of-the-art organization focused on a very specialized niche within the insurance industry.AIX soon became a magnet for exceptional underwriters, drawing talent (with a minimum of a decade of experience) from well-known underwriting companies such as General Re, Swiss Re, Employers Re, Discover Re, Chubb and Fireman's Fund.

MetLife, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, employee benefits, and financial services in the United States, Latin America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and India. It offers group life insurance products and services as employer-paid benefits, including variable life, universal life, and term life products, as well as employee paid supplemental life products; individual life insurance products and services comprising variable life, universal life, term life, and whole life products, as well as a range of mutual funds and other securities products; and non-medical health insurance products and services, such as dental insurance, group short- and long-term disability, individual disability income, long-term care, critical illness, and accidental death and dismemberment coverages, as well as employer-sponsored auto and homeowners insurance and administrative services-only arrangements to employers. MetLife company also provides retirement products consisting of variable and fixed annuities for individuals and employees of corporations, and other institutions. In addition, MetLife provides an array of annuity and investment products, including guaranteed interest products and other stable value products, income annuities, and separate account contracts for the investment management of defined benefit and defined contribution plan assets, as well as offers certain products to fund postretirement benefits. Further, it offers auto insurance and homeowners’ insurance policies, as well as personal excess liability and coverage for recreational vehicles and boat owners; and credit insurance and endowment products. Additionally, MetLife funds company initiatives, various start-up entities, and run-off entities; and banking services, such as residential mortgage loans and various deposit products. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1868 and is based in New York, New York.

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