If AEGON USA was an Argonaut, its quest would be to conquer the US insurance market. AEGON USA, LLC company, a subsidiary of Dutch insurance giant AEGON that operates under the AEGON Americas moniker, provides life insurance and accident and health insurance (such as cancer and long-term care policies) to some 30 million customers throughout the US. Its products include traditional whole life, universal life, variable universal life, and term life insurance for individuals and groups. AEGON USA also offers annuity and investment products, such as mutual funds, as well as asset management services. Subsidiaries include Monumental Life, Transamerica Life, and Western Reserve Life.

OdysseyRe is a leading worldwide underwriter of property and casualty treaty and facultative reinsurance, as well as specialty insurance. OdysseyRe operates through its subsidiaries Odyssey America Reinsurance Corporation, Hudson Insurance Company, Hudson Specialty Insurance Company, Newline Underwriting Management Limited, OdysseyRe's managing agent at Lloyd's, Newline Insurance Company Limited, Newline Asia Services Pte. Ltd. and Odyssey America Reinsurance Corporation Escritório de Representação no Brasil Ltda.

Indiana Farmers Mutual underwrites personal auto, homeowners, farmowners, and commercial insurance for customers in (and only in) Indiana. The company sells its products exclusively through independent agents throughout the state. Indiana Farmers Mutual traces its roots back to 1877 when a group of farmers banded together for protection against fire loss.

Austin Mutual Insurance sells personal and commercial property/casualty insurance. Products include automobile, homeowners, farmowners, and mobile home and other dwellings coverage. Other offerings include businessowners coverage, commercial and personal umbrella liability, and workers' compensation. The company does business in Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin. Its policies are distributed through a network of independent insurance agents. Austin Mutual Insurance was founded in 1896 as the Farmers United Township Mutual Hail Association of Minnesota to provide crop insurance.

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.

The Fuji Fire and Marine Insurance Company offers property/casualty insurance including automobile, medical, personal accident, and other lines, as well as life insurance, offered through its Fuji Life subsidiary. The company sells to individuals and to businesses and their employees, and operates "walk-in" insurance retail stores. The Fuji Fire and Marine Insurance Company has roots that run back to 1918, when Nippon Kan-i Kasai Insurance was established as a specialist fire insurer.

Burlington Insurance Group, Inc. ("BIG") is headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina and operates primarily through contracted producers. BIG offers a broad portfolio of insurance products through its Binding Authority Division and its Submit/Brokerage Division. Admitted and non-admitted coverages are provided through First Financial Insurance Company, The Burlington Insurance Company, Alamance Insurance Company and Guilford Insurance Company.

The country's leading animal health insurer, Petplan covers more than a million dogs, cats, and rabbits. Veterinary fees, death from illness or injury, boarding kennel fees, and loss by theft or straying are just some of Petplan's coverage plans. The company was established in 1976 in response to the high cost of veterinary care, and it commands a 45% market share of the UK small-animal market. Founder Patsy Bloom (who started Petplan with a £250 loan) sold the company to Allianz Insurance in 1996 for £32 million.

Samsung Fire & Marine is the largest casualty insurance company in the region, offering auto, injury, and long-term health coverage. The company has streamlined operations to compete in an increasingly deregulated market -- one that allows foreign competition. The firm has entered foreign markets such as China, Europe, Indonesia, Japan, and Vietnam, forming business alliances with People's Insurance Company of China and Tokio Marine.

Hochheim (pronounced "Hoe Hime") Prairie Insurance provides property/casualty insurance to residents of rural Texas towns. Products include auto, homeowner, farmowner, small business, and machinery coverage, as well as insurance for hay, feed, seed, and fertilizer; water and irrigation systems; and windmills. The company sells its products through a network of some 200 independent agents across the state. Subsidiary Texana Financial provides non-insurance services. Hochheim Prairie Insurance was founded by a group of rural Texans in 1892 to help protect members from property losses due to storms and fires; it is mutually-owned by its 120,000 policyholders.

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