McAuley Woods pride ourselves on being a privately held boutique wholesaler with a select number of retail partners throughout the U.S. As a result of working with a small group of independent retailers who are the best in their class, we have the time and flexibility to design insurance programs that meet the insured’s long term goals. Our exclusivity has helped fuel our growth, expand our service and write and retain business for the long term.

West Bend Mutual helps protect the property and other assets for its members in nine midwestern states. The company provides personal and commercial property/casualty insurance, including auto, homeowners, workers' compensation, and umbrella coverage. Its National Specialty Insurance (NSI) division offers specialty policies for businesses including child care centers, tanning parlors, not-for-profit organizations, and athletic leagues. Some 700 independent agencies sell the company's products. West Bend Mutual was founded in 1894.

Security Mutual Insurance provides personal and commercial property/casualty insurance in the northeastern US. Its offerings include homeowners, business owners, liability, umbrella, and marine coverage. The member-owned company also offers specialty multi-peril programs for small businesses. It co-owns another property/casualty insurance firm, New York Mutual Underwriters, with Sterling Insurance. More than 300 independent agencies represent the company throughout the state of New York and in northern Pennsylvania. Security Mutual Insurance Company was founded in 1887 as Tompkins County Co-Operative Fire Insurance.

When other insurance carriers reject you, don't cry a river, call one! James River Group writes specialty property/casualty insurance through its two primary operating subsidiaries. James River Insurance offers excess & surplus lines (policies that have been rejected by standard carriers), including general casualty, professional liability, and environmental coverage in 49 states and Washington, DC. Stonewood Insurance provides workers' compensation in North Carolina and Virginia, primarily for homebuilders. The company distributes its products through a network of independent brokers and agents. Private investment firm D. E. Shaw owns James River.

Manulife Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a life insurance company. It provides a range of financial products and services, including individual life insurance, group life and health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension products, annuities, and mutual funds to individual and group customers in the United States, Canada, and Asia. The company also offers reinsurance services, specializing in life retrocession, and property and casualty reinsurance, as well as provides investment management services to mutual funds and institutional customers. Manulife Financial Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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.

A personal auto insurer operating in a dozen states, First Acceptance specializes in providing non-standard auto insurance -- that is, insurance for drivers who have trouble getting coverage because of poor driving records or payment histories, but who must have the minimum coverage required by state laws. First Acceptance sells its policies, branded Acceptance Insurance, through some 400 retail offices staffed by its own employee agents. In the Chicago area it uses the names Yale Insurance and Insurance Plus.

Texas Life was founded in 1901 and for its first 80 years operated primarily in Texas and Oklahoma. Now Texas Life is authorized to do business in 49 states and Washington DC. Its products are sold through independent agents. Texas Life Insurance company is the oldest legal reserve life insurance company from Texas and holds Charter Number 1 from the state's banking commission prior to the establishment of an insurance department.

The subsidiaries of Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance Services offer a variety of personal and commercial property/casualty and life insurance products to members of the Missouri Farm Bureau (its parent company). Although the company has its roots in agricultural and farm-related insurance, it also provides automobile, homeowners, and boat coverage in addition to whole and term life policies and annuities. Group members include Farm Bureau Town & Country (property/casualty insurance, originally formed in 1946), Farm Bureau Life, and Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance Brokerage, which places health insurance. Its products are distributed through some 225 field agents across Missouri.

Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services covers all of Canada with its individual and group insurance, savings, and retirement products. The company, through its Industrial Alliance Pacific and Excellence Life subsidiaries, sells life, health, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and annuities to individuals and employers across the country and, to a much lesser extent, in parts of the US. The company manages mutual funds through its IA Clarington unit, and it brokers securities and funds through Investia, FundEX Investments, and Industrial Alliance Securities. Additionally, Industrial Alliance sells auto and homeowners insurance, primarily in Quebec.

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