The mutual insurance company serves 7.7 million member customers, primarily military personnel, military retirees, and their families. Its products and services include property/casualty and life insurance, banking, discount brokerage, and investment management. It offers such specialty products as life insurance for soldiers deployed in war zones and financial planning services to invest hazardous duty pay. USAA relies largely on direct marketing to sell its products, reaching clients via the telephone and Internet. The company's USAA Alliance Services unit provides discount shopping (floral, jewelry, and safety items), and travel and delivery services to its members.

Companion Life Insurance Company was founded in 1971. Companion Life Insurance makes sure no one has to face death, disability, or the dentist all alone. Companion Life Insurance, one of several subsidiaries of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina, specializes in employee benefits, including life, disability, dental, vision, and accidental-death coverage. It has packages for small and large employers, and a complete line of voluntary products and plans. Independent and affiliated brokers, agents, and managing general underwriters (MGUs) sell the company's products. Companion Life operates in most US states and the District of Columbia.

Capitol Transamerica does business across the US but mostly in the middle. The insurance holding company operates in 50 states and Washington, DC, but its business is concentrated in the Midwest and Plains states. Its primary operating subsidiaries, Capitol Indemnity and Capitol Specialty Insurance, offer property/casualty coverage for such niches as barber and beauty shops, bowling alleys, and taverns. It also offers fidelity and surety bonds to commercial entities through Capital Indemnity and another unit, Platte River Insurance.

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.

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.

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.

Royal Neighbors of America is not referring to Canadians. The company, a not-for-profit fraternal benefit society established in 1895, is all-American. Formed to offer affordable life insurance to US women, who were largely excluded from the life insurance market of the time, today Royal Neighbors sells traditional life insurance products and annuities to both men and women. Its 250,000 policyholders benefit from a number of other membership privileges, including scholarship opportunities and fraternal aid in the wake of illness or disaster. In addition to life insurance, the organization sells Medicare supplemental insurance.

AFBA's for-profit 5Star Financial division, founded in 1989, sells to the general public, offering individual life insurance, supplemental health insurance, and other financial services such as banking and mutual funds. Taking risks that might scare off other commercial insurance companies, Armed Forces Benefit Association (AFBA) provides group life insurance products for military personnel, government employees, police officers and firefighters, and defense department contractors. The not-for-profit membership association was established in 1947 and has some 300,000 members; its policies contain no war or terrorism restrictions. It sells property/casualty policies through affiliate Armed Forces Insurance.

Wilton Re began operations in January 2005 to fill a growing need in the U.S. life reinsurance market. At that time, the number of life reinsurers had decreased materially due to consolidation and decisions by a number of primary companies to eliminate non-core life reinsurance activities. The consolidation reduced the options for risk diversification and reinsurance, and the industry was in need of fresh sources of capital and risk diversification

Crum & Forster looks out for the best interests of employers. Through its subsidiaries, the company offers an array of property/casualty insurance products to businesses, including general liability, automobile, property, and workers' compensation coverage. Crum & Forster also offers The Defender, a broad commercial umbrella policy. The company's specialty policies include management protection, crime insurance; it also offers personal auto and homeowners policies. In addition, Crum & Forster provides risk management services. The company's products are sold through some 1,500 independent brokers across the US. Crum & Forster is a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings.

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