RAC is best known for providing roadside assistance for stranded motorists in the UK and also offers the same deal in around 50 European countries. It serves some 7 million customers. In addition, the company provides advice on car buying and car care, sells insurance (including auto, home, travel), offers drivers' training courses, and repairs windshields. RAC is a subsidiary of insurance titan Aviva, which acquired RAC to expand the offerings of the insurer's Norwich Union brand. The RAC name comes from the UK's Royal Automobile Club, which sold its breakdown assistance unit to the company in 1999.

Through subsidiaries that include Aspen Re, Aspen Bermuda, Aspen UK, and Aspen Specialty, Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited provides property/casualty insurance, specialty insurance, and reinsurance to customers around the world. Its property/casualty reinsurance lines are offered in global markets, as are its specialty insurance products, which include marine, energy and liability, aviation, and specialty reinsurance. Aspen offers commercial property/casualty insurance primarily in the US and UK domestic markets.

From the mighty sea to the blue skies above, this insurance provider offers coverage for services. With offices in more than 90 countries, AXA Corporate Solutions Assurance provides commercial insurance coverage in two broad areas -- Marine and Aviation and Property/Casualty. Its marine and aviation unit also offers marine risk management. The property/casualty division specializes in coverage for companies in the construction, transportation, and financial services industries, as well as offering surety bonds. About 75% of the company's sales are in France and Germany. AXA Corporate Solutions Assurance is a subsidiary of French insurance giant AXA group.

Assured Guaranty Ltd. (AGL or, together with its subsidiaries, Assured Guaranty) is a Bermuda-based holding company whose subsidiaries provide credit enhancement products to the capital markets through its three principal insurance subsidiaries: Assured Guaranty Corp. (AGC), Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. (AGM) and Assured Guaranty Re Ltd. (AG Re). In addition to its headquarters in Hamilton, Bermuda, Assured Guaranty has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Madrid, Sydney and Tokyo.

Physicians' Reciprocal Insurers (PRI) was founded by the doctors, for the doctors. The company is one of the largest writers of medical malpractice insurance in the state of New York, serving more than 12,500 physicians, chiropractors, dentists, and other health care professionals. PRI also offers general and specialty liability coverage for hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities. The company's day-to-day operations are conducted by a third party, Administrators for the Professions (AFP), and its policies are distributed through independent brokers. PRI was founded by a group of physicians in 1982 and is owned by its policyholders.

Jackson National Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of UK insurer Prudential plc, offers financial services (fixed, indexed, and variable annuities) and life insurance products through banks, financial planners, regional broker/dealers, and independent agents. The company also provides asset management, mutual fund, and brokerage services. Its subsidiaries include Jackson National Life Distributors (the company's wholesale distribution arm) and National Planning Holdings (broker relationship management), as well as investment consulting and account management units Curian Capital, Jackson National Asset Management, and PPM America.

StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides group insurance products and services in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Insurance Services and Asset Management. The Insurance Services segment offers group and individual disability, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, and group dental and vision insurance products, as well as absence management services to individuals and employer groups. Its Asset Management segment provides 401(K) plans, 403(b) plans, 457 plans, defined benefit plans, money purchase pension plans, profit sharing plans, and non-qualified deferred compensation products and services through an affiliated broker-dealer. This segment also offers investment management and advisory services, financial planning services, commercial mortgage loan origination and servicing, individual fixed-rate annuity products, group annuity contracts, and retirement plan trust products. The company sells its products through master general agents, brokers, consultants, and financial institutions primarily to physicians, lawyers, executives, employer groups, professionals, small business owners, and individuals. StanCorp Financial Group was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

In 1935, George Petersen was the founding partner of the agency that still bears his name—and which still upholds his ideals of intensely focused customer service and cultivation of long-term relationships. Founded in Eureka, California and gradually branching out through the entire north coast, the agency today offers comprehensive insurance services from seven offices.As one of the largest independently owned brokerage firms in Northern California, we enjoy the kind of access to markets that brings tremendous value to clients. That translates into competitive pricing, but just as important is our value as a trusted resource for our clients.

Comprised of Axis Insurance and Axis Re, AXIS Capital Holdings offers specialty insurance and treaty reinsurance. Its specialty coverage includes terrorism, aviation and marine war, and political risk; commercial property; professional liability; and onshore and offshore energy. AXIS Capital's reinsurance products, which allow for risk-sharing among insurance companies, include catastrophe, property, liability, credit, auto, and engineering lines. The company, which has operations in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Ireland, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK, and the US, sells its products through brokers including Marsh, Aon, and Willis Group.

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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