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.

The its founding nearly a half century ago, Republic Indemnity has served the workers' compensation needs of small and medium-sized businesses in California and the western United States. That has always been our sole focus and remains so today. There customers have justifiably come to rely on our knowledgeable professionals, who combine responsive service to policyholders with innovation in developing customized programs. For its many satisfied customers, Republic Indemnity provides the peace of mind they need and they deserve.

Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance, along with subsidiary Patrons Oxford Insurance (which operates only in Maine), provides personal and commercial property/casualty coverage to more than 300,000 policyholders throughout New England. Products include auto, homeowners, specialty dwelling, workers' compensation, commercial umbrella, and business owners insurance. The company sells its products through some 500 independent agents in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island. Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance was founded in 1851.

Bermuda: sun, sand, and reinsurance. In 1998 struggling Annuity and Life Re (Holdings) was the first life reinsurer to hang its shingle in the tax-sheltered haven of Bermuda. However, it has ceased writing new coverage and in 2008 dissolved Annuity and Life Re America, which was once the company's flagship subsidiary. Previously it covered term, whole, and universal life insurance policies.

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.

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.

UNIFI Mutual Holding respects the individuality of its subsidiaries, but likes to keep them all in one place. UNIFI Mutual Holding owns Ameritas Holding, which in turn owns three subsidiaries: Ameritas Life, Acacia Life, and Union Central Life. All three companies provide life insurance and annuity products nationwide. Through its companies, UNIFI also offers such services as financial planning and workplace investing, and has some $30 billion of assets under management. Other companies under its umbrella include socially responsible mutual fund manager Calvert Group, Acacia Federal Savings Bank in Virginia, and Ameritas Group, which offers dental and eye care insurance.

The Navigators Group's various subsidiaries write marine, liability, and other lines of business, primarily in the US and the UK. Its Navigators Insurance and Navigators Underwriting Agency (a Lloyd's of London agency) units write ocean and marine insurance including hull, energy, and cargo insurance, as well as property insurance for onshore energy concerns. Navigators Specialty primarily provides excess and surplus (high risk) lines and general liability coverage for contractors. The firm's subsidiaries are also involved in professional liability, especially directors and officers coverage.

Triad Guaranty Insurance, sold private mortgage insurance on residential mortgage loans when buyers could put up less than 20% of the down payment. Its customers have been residential mortgage lenders, including commercial banks and mortgage bankers and brokers. Triad Guaranty marketed its products across the US through its in-house sales force. The company is in the operating in run-off, which means it no longer writes new policies, but continues to service existing customers.

CNP Assurances is France's top personal life insurer. In addition to life insurance and other savings products, it sells health, death and disability, and other personal risk coverage and pensions. CNP sells its products primarily through about 20,000 outlets of La Poste, the French postal service, and La Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne, the state savings banks; together these two channels account for about 75% of CNP's sales. These partners are also shareholders in the company, together owning about 35%. Another French paragovernmental organization, Caisse des Depots et Consignations, owns 40%.

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