Since our founding in 1866, Hartford Steam Boiler has had a culture that values technical expertise. Our engineering knowledge and experience enables us to understand the causes for loss. We then recommend risk management and loss prevention solutions that help our customers reduce their losses and improve their underwriting results.Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) is headquartered in Hartford, Conn. We serve businesses, industries and institutions worldwide.Review HSB At-a-Glance for an overview of Hartford Steam Boiler's capabilities. HSB Group, Inc., the parent company of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, was acquired by Munich Re on April 1, 2009.

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.

Lombard International Assurance S.A. has expanded from its traditional European operating base to include operations in Latin America and the Asia/Pacific region. Lombard International Assurance S.A. is a subsidiary of UK insurer Friends Provident. Don't look to Lombard unless you live the "luxe" life. Lombard International Assurance targets Europe's high-net-worth and ultra high-net-worth individuals with its international life insurance products, which are sold through private banks and financial advisors. Lombard company's offerings include insurance policies and wealth preservation and investment advisory services, including tax and inheritance planning services. Its partnerships with financial advisors allow for the coordination of asset management services.

Great-West Life Assurance has a great big array of insurance, benefits, and investment products for individuals and businesses large and small in Canada and Europe. Through its operating subsidiaries Canada Life and London Life, Great-West Life Assurance company provides group and individual life insurance, supplemental health insurance, disability and critical illness insurance, and investment and retirement plans. Its European business is focused on the UK, Ireland, and Germany where it provides asset management, individual insurance, and reinsurance. Great-West Life Assurance is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco and part of the Power Financial group of companies.

Count the rings on Woodmen and you'll get back to 1890. Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society is a life insurance company formed to benefit the members of Woodmen of the World, a fraternal organization with some 750,000 members across the US. The company provides its members with traditional life insurance, as well as annuities for both individuals and small businesses. It also offers mutual funds and 529 college savings accounts through its Woodmen Financial Services subsidiary. Additionally, members have access to major medical coverage and disability insurance via marketing agreements with some third-party insurers.

ERGO is controlled by reinsurance giant Munich Re; the two companies have formed joint venture MEAG MUNICH ERGO AssetManagement to provide financial services. ERGO Insurance Group thinks logically: people need insurance, ergo they sell it! The company comprises a number of firms specializing in life, health, property, casualty, and legal expenses insurance, as well as pensions. Property/casualty and life policies are offered under the ERGO brand, while health, legal, and travel insurance are provided through the DKV, D.A.S., and ERV divisions. ERGO Insurance Group targets individuals and small to midsized businesses.

GeoVera Holdings, Inc. is a provider of specialty residential property insurance products, focused on catastrophe exposed property in the homeowners and residential earthquake markets, operating on both an admitted and surplus lines basis. GeoVera Holdings, Inc. is a subsidiary of GeoVera Insurance Holdings, Ltd. and is headquartered in Fairfield, CA with offices in Sheboygan, WI and Tallahassee, FL.

AEGON N.V., through its subsidiaries, provides life insurance, pensions, and investment products in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company also involves in accident, supplemental health, general insurance, and banking activities. Its life insurance products include permanent and universal insurance; traditional life products, such as life insurance sold as part of defined benefit pension plans, endowment policies, post-retirement annuity products, and group risk products; endowment insurance; term and whole life insurance; annuity insurance; endowment savings; variable unit linked products; and health insurance products. The company also offers individual savings and retirement products, including savings accounts and investment contracts, fixed and variable annuities, and retail mutual funds; pensions and asset management products, such as individual and corporate pensions, investment, and asset management products, as well as institutional and retail funds, and life and pensions products; and guaranteed investment contracts, funding agreements, and medium-term notes. AEGON also provides employer solutions, such as single premium group annuities; and reinsurance products and solutions to life insurance and financial services companies. In addition, it offers asset management services, including general account assets, unit-linked portfolio, and guaranteed fund; general insurance products, such as house, car, and fire insurance; supplemental health insurance; and investment advisory services. The company offers its products through financial advice channel, specialist employee benefit consultancies, independent and career agents, financial planners, registered representatives, independent marketing organizations, banks, regional and independent broker-dealers, benefit consulting firms, wirehouses, and affinity groups, as well as through online, and direct and worksite marketing. AEGON was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands.

MGIC (www.mgic.com), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation, is the founder and leader of the private mortgage insurance industry, serving more than 3,300 lenders with locations across the country and Puerto Rico. MGIC provides a critical component of our country's residential mortgage finance system, protecting mortgage investors from credit losses. Mortgage insurance from MGIC also benefits consumers by helping them achieve homeownership sooner with low-down-payment loans.

GuideOne provides personal and commercial lines of property/casualty and liability insurance, including standard auto and homeowners coverage. The company targets churches of all faiths (it insures nearly 45,000 -- nearly a fifth of the nation's churches) as well as faith-based private schools and colleges, and church-affiliated senior living facilities. GuideOne's FaithGuard products offer coverage for people who actively attend church. A network of more than 1,500 independent and company agents sell its products. GuideOne was founded in 1947.

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