Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company is a market leader in providing benefits solutions in one neat package: excellence in communications, enrollments, service, and personal insurance products and services that make benefits count for employers and their employees alike. For employees whose insurance plans leave them feeling vulnerable, Colonial Life can help restore peace of mind through personal insurance products that complete their coverage. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C, and founded in 1939, Colonial Life offers a broad line of personal insurance products including disability, accident, life, cancer, critical illness, hospital confinement and limited benefit medical coverage.

Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS) has been watching people's backs-- and their assets-- since 1867. The only co-operative insurance company in the UK, CIS offers and manages life, home, and auto insurance, for individuals as well as businesses. Services may be procured either with the assistance of a CIS broker, or, for simplified transactions, through the company Web site. Together with Co-operative Bank, the company is a part of Co-operative Financial Services, which is the finance arm of Co-operative Group, the world's largest co-operative.

The nature of risk is increasingly complex and constantly changing. Some risk management challenges are obvious. Others less so, mostly due to events beyond your control or that have yet to be contemplated. Add the scrutiny of regulators, ratings agencies and other stakeholders, and the hurdles are even higher. With your capital at stake, you need a risk and reinsurance advisor with a track record of visionary ideas and delivering on its promises.

EMC Insurance Group with its subsidiaries EMCASCO Insurance, Illinois EMCASCO, and Dakota Fire Insurance sell property/casualty lines including automobile, property, liability, and workers' compensation insurance, primarily to small and medium-sized businesses. EMC Underwriters offers excess and surplus lines of insurance. EMC Reinsurance provides reinsurance for the group and other unaffiliated insurers. The group operates throughout the US, primarily in the Midwest; Iowa accounts for 15% of premiums. Employers Mutual Casualty, a multiple-line property/casualty insurance company, owns 60% of EMC Insurance Group.

Samsung Fire & Marine is the largest casualty insurance company in the region, offering auto, injury, and long-term health coverage. The company has streamlined operations to compete in an increasingly deregulated market -- one that allows foreign competition. The firm has entered foreign markets such as China, Europe, Indonesia, Japan, and Vietnam, forming business alliances with People's Insurance Company of China and Tokio Marine.

Delta Lloyd is majority-owned (57%) by Aviva, the UK's largest insurance company. Delta Lloyd divides its energies between providing insurance and financial services. The company provides life, health, and other types of insurance, as well as pension, asset management, and banking products and services, to customers in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Delta Lloyd's operating subsidiaries include Delta Lloyd Insurance, OHRA Insurance, ABN AMRO Insurance, Delta Lloyd Asset Management, Delta Lloyd Banking, and others. Its products are sold through independent insurance brokers and affiliated financial service providers.

Life is good at Erie Family Life Insurance. The insurer serves as the life insurance division of the Erie Insurance Group, by providing individual and group life insurance, annuities, and disability income policies. Its group insurance products include a voluntary payroll deduction program and its life insurance products include include term, whole life, and universal coverage. Erie company's insurance policies are marketed through more than 8,000 independent agents in 11 states and Washington, DC. In 2006 Erie Insurance Group formally acquired Erie Family Life and now hold nearly 80% of its shares.

Gen Re's history began in 1921 when two Norwegian companies, Norwegian Globe and Norwegian Assurance, merged and took the name General Casualty and Surety Reinsurance Corporation. Starting with $800,000 in capital and $900,000 in surplus, General Casualty and Surety set out to write casualty reinsurance. In 1923, American investors acquired the company and changed the name to General Reinsurance Corporation. In 1929 General Reinsurance affirmed that it would be only a direct reinsurer and also would write no less than 100% of a treaty. In 1945, General Reinsurance Corporation merged with Mellon Indemnity, bringing new capital to the company so that, in the face of foreign competition, it could become a stronger reinsurance force.

Gracy Title Company (which does business as Gracy Title, A Stewart Company) provides title insurance and related services to customers throughout Central Texas. Operating from about 15 offices in and around the capital city, it offers coverage for home purchases, assumptions, construction, and a number of other transactions for customers including developers and lenders. Gracy Title also participates in the SureClose online transaction management service. The oldest title company in Texas, Gracy Title was founded in 1873. In 2008 parent company Stewart Title merged sister subsidiary Stewart Title Austin into Gracy Title.

SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company began life in 1939 as The Savings Banks Life Insurance system, which had been promoted by former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis as a means to provide "ordinary working people" with life insurance sold through more than 20 savings banks in New York. Today SBLI USA and subsidiary S.USA Life Insurance serve 300,000 policyholders across the US. The company has stuck to its original mandate and sells individual and group life insurance and other products through banks, though its primary source is direct marketing. In addition to life insurance, SBLI USA's offerings also include accident insurance and annuities.

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