Rain and Hail Insurance Service is among the largest crop insurers; it is an underwriter for multiple lines of insurance for agents and rural policyholders in Canada and the US. Covering family farms to corporate farms its products run the gamut from low farm revenue to agribusiness risk management, from crop hail insurance to livestock risk protection. The company also provides claims adjusting and accounting services. It operates about 10 divisional offices across the US, as well as in Canada. Rain and Hail has agreed to be acquired by ACE Limited, which already holds 20% of the company's stock.

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.

FBD Holdings is one of the largest providers of property/casualty, life, commercial, and health insurance in Ireland. The company offers specialized insurance policies for homeowners, drivers, pub owners, farmers, and business owners. The company has some 50 independent retail offices nationwide. Other operations include reinsurance, asset financing, financial services, and captive insurance management, as well as some property and leisure holdings. FBD also sells retirement products and offers investment advice. Farmer Business Developments, an Irish insurance collective, owns about a quarter of FBD Holdings.

Unity Mutual Life Insurance was founded in 1903 as Imperial Order Tycoons, a fraternal benefit society; it converted to a mutual life insurance company in 1957. Unity Mutual has agreed to merge with Columbian Mutual Life Insurance, a unit of Columbian Financial Group. Unity Mutual Life Insurance prefers working with mature individuals. Focusing on customers over 50 years of age, the company provides whole life insurance policies, and both fixed-rate and variable annuities, and It also provides final expense coverage insurance through its affiliate Unity Financial Life Insurance. Unity Mutual Life Insurance company is licensed to do business throughout the US. Some 5,000 independent agents represent the company's products.

In Japan, "non-life" isn't creepy, it's just car insurance, and Sompo Japan is one of the biggest players. Voluntary and compulsory automobile insurance combined account for over half of the insurance company's premiums. Though non-life is its largest segment, the company also provides life insurance through its Sompo Japan Himawari Life and Sompo Japan DIY Life Insurance subsidiaries. It also provides fire, accident, and marine insurance, as well as reinsurance, asset management, and venture capital products and services. Sompo Japan formed a joint holding company with smaller property/casualty insurer Nipponkoa in 2010. As NKSJ Holdings, the two companies hope to better compete in their markets.

Doing right by employees and employers is the simple philosophy behind Nationwide Better HealthSM. We're dedicated to helping you protect your most valuable asset: the health and well-being of your employees.With the steady rise in corporate health care costs, it's a simple truth that healthier employees are more productive and less costly to insure. And the easier it is to help your employees improve their health, the better.As the first population health management company to truly integrate the best array of health and productivity services available, Nationwide Better Health can help you plan your health and absence management programs more effectively, reduce health care costs and increase productivity.

Meadowbrook Insurance Group's Star, Savers, Williamsburg, and Ameritrust subsidiaries write a variety of specialty commercial property/casualty products including excess and surplus products for high-risk clients. With products tailored to fit small to midsize businesses, its customers include self-insured companies, trade groups, and associations. The company also offers reinsurance brokering, risk management consulting, and insurance management services including claims handling and administrative services. Meadowbrook distributes its products through a network of independent agencies, brokers, and its own retail agency operations.

Founded in 1925 by the American Federation of Labor (which became the AFL-CIO) to provide life insurance to union members, ULLICO has since grown into an insurance and financial services holding company. The company serves unionized employers, individual union members, and jointly managed trust funds nationwide through its subsidiaries, including Union Labor Life Insurance and ULLICO Investment Advisors. ULLICO offers an array of individual and commercial insurance products, including annuities, group life and health insurance, property & casualty insurance, liability coverage for unions, and investment services. The company has more than $5.4 billion in total assets under management.

Alliant Insurance Services' specialty is commercial and specialty insurance. The company brokers multi-line commercial property/casualty insurance, as well as surety bonds and employee benefits through more than 30 offices scattered across the US and in Canada. Offering several specialty programs, the company operates a large public entity business, and it has expertise in providing insurance for energy and health care companies, tribal nations, law firms, and the real estate and construction industries

The National Motorcycle Dealers Association (NMDA), MBA's subsidiary, was created to provide to the large existing network of motorcycle dealerships, manufacturers and associated industry businesses in the U.S. and Canada an integrated platform of programs to deliver insurance, finance and business solutions backed by nationally recognized vendors.MBA's experience in the insurance field plus the company's existing operations infrastructure have provided the network and tools to build the NMDA rapidly from its formation in early fall 2004. Partners and program members of the NMDA already include GEICO, Aon, Aegon, Zurich, the Van Tuyl Group and many additional service providers.

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