Western & Southern was founded in 1888 and is a mutual insurance firm owned by its members. Whether cowboy or Southern belle, if it's insurance and investment advice you seek, Western & Southern Financial Group wants to be your destination. Through its subsidiaries the company offers a variety of life insurance products and annuities; accident and supplemental health coverage; mutual funds; and other investment management products and services. Western & Southern's financial services include mutual fund administration, trust services, financial advisory, and real estate development; it owns or manages some $43 billion in assets. Western & Southern Financial Group, Inc. is licensed in most states and the District of Columbia.

ICW Group provides multiple lines of property/casualty insurance, including commercial property, workers' compensation, surety bonds, catastrophe coverage, and personal and corporate auto insurance; customers are primarily in the western US. Its member companies are flagship Insurance Company of the West (licensed in about 50 states), Explorer Insurance (about 20 states), and Independence Casualty and Surety (Texas and select other states). The companies have offices in about a dozen states, mostly California and Texas. ICW Group is a subsidiary of Western Insurance Holdings.

AXA UK helps to insure assets and assure wealth protection. The company provides insurance and other financial products and services throughout the UK. Its offerings include property/casualty, life, travel, and health insurance, as well as asset management and financial planning products. AXA UK sells these products through subsidiaries including AXA Insurance UK (general personal and commercial insurance), AXA Sun Life (investments and pensions), AXA PPP healthcare (health insurance), and AXA Ireland (primarily auto insurance). French firm AXA, one of Europe's largest insurance companies, owns AXA UK.

The company wrote medical professional-liability insurance through subsidiary American Physicians Assurance Corporation. Operating principally in a handful of states in the Midwest, it concentrated on individual and small-group practices and had more than 9,000 policies in force. Other subsidiaries dealt with income portfolio management, health care consulting, and physician and medical staff credential verification and review. Founded in 1975, the company was known as Mutual Insurance Corporation until 2000, when it was demutualized. APCapital was acquired by The Doctors Company in 2010.

First American provides financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment. The First American Family of Companies’ core business lines include title insurance and closing/settlement services; property data and automated title plant records and images; valuation products and services; home warranty products; property and casualty insurance; and banking, trust and investment advisory services.First American serves homebuyers and sellers, real estate professionals, loan originators and servicers, commercial property professionals, homebuilders and others involved in residential and commercial property transactions with products and services specific to their needs.

OM Financial Life Insurance is the flagship insurer in the Old Mutual Financial Network (OMFN), which makes up the US life insurance and annuity operations of London-based Old Mutual. Formerly known as Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance, the company sells life insurance through a group of master general agents with operations in 49 states and Washington, DC. In the Empire State, though, the company's products are offered through subsidiary OM Financial Life Insurance Company of New York. Its Old Mutual Financial Network Securities subsidiary provides variable annuity products.

Prudential Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. The company operates through three divisions: The U.S. Retirement Solutions and Investment Management, The U.S. Individual Life and Group Insurance, and The International Insurance and Investments. The U.S. Retirement Solutions and Investment Management division offers individual variable and fixed annuity products, as well as provides retirement investment and income products and services to retirement plan sponsors in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. This division also provides investment management and advisory services to the public and private marketplace. The U.S. Individual Life and Group Insurance division provides individual variable life, term life, and universal life insurance products; and group life, long-term and short-term group disability, long-term care, and group corporate-owned and trust-owned life insurance products to institutional clients. It also sells accidental death and dismemberment, and other ancillary coverages, as well as provides plan administrative services. In addition, this division offers preferred provider and indemnity dental coverage plans to clients. The International Insurance and Investments division provides international individual life insurance products in Japan, Korea, and other foreign countries; and provides proprietary and non-proprietary asset management and investment advice and services to retail and institutional clients internationally. In addition, the company engages in real estate brokerage franchise business, which involves marketing its franchises to the real estate companies. Further, it provides institutional clients and government agencies with various services in connection with the relocation of their employees. Prudential Financial was founded in 1875 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

NKSJ Holdings was created to hold two insurance companies: Sompo Japan and Nipponkoa Insurance. While each was a strong player in Japan's property/casualty and life insurance markets, when merger mania hit the industry they didn't want to be left out and formed the joint holding company in 2010. Eventually the two companies will merge into one entity, but until then, the two company brands remain separate. Its businesses include both domestic property/casualty and life insurance as well as overseas insurance products, asset and risk management services, pension plans, and some supplemental health insurance products.

Insurance Australia Group (IAG) provides business and personal insurance lines, including auto, home, marine, and workers' compensation insurance, in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and four countries in Asia (China, Thailand, India, Malaysia). Brands include CGU, SGIC, SGIO, State, Swann Insurance, NZI, CAA, Safety, and Equity. The Buzz is the company's online insurance brand. IAG's products are sold by company agents and through brokers, representatives, auto dealers, and financial institutions. The company's history goes back to 1925 when it was the National Roads and Motorists' Association (NRMA).

Through its many titles, the companies of North American Title Group (NATG) have accommodated all sides of the home buying and building process for many years. As a title agency, the company operates in more than a dozen states, offering title insurance policies from all major underwriters in addition to its own underwriting subsidiary. That subsidiary, North American Title Insurance Company (NATIC) does business in more than 20 states. NATG supports both residential and commercial transactions and, in addition to issuing title insurance, provides other real-estate settlement services to lenders, realtors, and builders. North American Title Company is a subsidiary of homebuilder Lennar.

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