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.

National Guardian Life was founded in 1910. National Guardian Life Insurance wants to protect its customers' financial security to the very end. National Guardian Life (also known as NGL Insurance) is a mutual insurance company specializing in senior life products including pre-need and final expense insurance as well as group dental and vision benefits, and a pharmaceutical discount program. The company is licensed in all US states (except New York) and Washington, DC, and markets its products through independent agencies and funeral directors. Its Settlers Life Insurance subsidiary markets final expense products through agents in more than 25 states.

MARC my words: If the subject is reinsurance, MARC is ready to talk. Munich American Reassurance Company (MARC) is the US-based life reinsurance subsidiary of global industry giant Munich Re (its sister company Munich Reinsurance America provides property/casualty reinsurance). MARC provides life, annuity, disability, and health reinsurance for insurance companies throughout the US. The company, founded in 1959, writes reinsurance for annuities, credit insurance, and long-term care insurance. It also provides risk management services. Munich American Reassurance Company has offices in Atlanta and Chicago.

Great-West Life Assurance's two major subsidiaries, Canada Life and London Life Insurance, provide individual insurance and wealth-management products in Canada, Germany, Ireland, and the UK. Great-West writes policies for the Great White North and beyond. Holding company Great-West Lifeco, majority-owned by Power Financial, is one of Canada's largest insurance organizations, but its reach extends to the US and to Europe. Through subsidiaries (including Great-West Life Assurance in Canada and Great-West Life & Annuity in the US), the company offers a range of individual and group life and health insurance, retirement savings and investment products, reinsurance, and services to financial institutions.

Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company (GNY) underwrites and markets commercial insurance lines. GNY and its subsidiaries Insurance Company of Greater New York, Strathmore Insurance, and GNY Custom Insurance Company, offer business owners such coverage as multi-peril, auto, excess and surplus, umbrella, mechanical breakdown. The GNY companies specialize in multi-peril policies for operators of light industrial and office buildings, residential properties, shopping centers, microbreweries, restaurants, and other industries. GNY has licensed operations in nearly every state but primarily serves commercial customers in the Northeast and Midwest through its Brite Insurance Agency and independent brokers.

Allianz Life became a subsidiary of Allianz SE in 1979. There's more to Allianz Life than life. The subsidiaries and affiliates of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz Life) offer a range of insurance, investment, and savings products to individuals throughout the US. Allianz Life boasts a network of more than 100,000 independent agents and financial planners selling such products as life insurance, variable and fixed life annuity products, and long-term care insurance. It offers mutual funds and other broker-dealer services through its Questar Capital affiliate. Allianz Life operates in New York through its Allianz Life Insurance Company of New York unit.

Bolton & Company can make the search for risk reduction products smooth and easy. An employee-owned insurance brokerage, Bolton & Company offers property/casualty insurance policies, employee benefit programs, estate planning, surety bonding, risk management services, and human resources consulting to both corporations and individuals. It also provides claims handling and loss prevention programs. The company maintains licenses throughout the US but does most of its business in Southern California. Dorance Bolton founded the company, which is a member of brokerage consortium Assurex Global, in 1931.

Founded in 1851, MassMutual's US and global clients include individuals and businesses. The company also offers disability income insurance, long-term care insurance, structured settlement annuities, and trust services. Its subsidiaries include OppenheimerFunds (mutual funds), Babson Capital Management (investor services), Baring Asset Management (international investment), and Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors (real estate investment management). Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, sometimes known as MassMutual Financial Group, but usually called by its nickname, MassMutual, provides financial services including life insurance, annuities, money management, and retirement planning.

Companion Life Insurance Company was founded in 1971. Companion Life Insurance makes sure no one has to face death, disability, or the dentist all alone. Companion Life Insurance, one of several subsidiaries of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina, specializes in employee benefits, including life, disability, dental, vision, and accidental-death coverage. It has packages for small and large employers, and a complete line of voluntary products and plans. Independent and affiliated brokers, agents, and managing general underwriters (MGUs) sell the company's products. Companion Life operates in most US states and the District of Columbia.

Northwestern Mutual also offers brokerage and trust services through its investment services and wealth management subsidiaries. Keep an eye on the quiet ones. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, touting itself as "The Quiet Company," is one of the largest US life insurers, with more than $1 trillion in individual policies in force. Its 7,000 representatives sell a lineup of life, disability, long-term care, and employee benefits products (health, dental, 401(k) plans). It also offers retirement products, including annuities and mutual funds, to a clientele of small businesses and prosperous individuals. Its institutional asset manager Frank Russell Company is known for the Russell 2000 stock index.

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