Life & Health Insurance Companies

Compliments of G. Barry Klein, CPCU, CLU

For corrections or additions, please e-mail barry@barryklein.com

• Acacia Life (Life and annuity products, company goes back to 1869)

• Academy Life   (Specializing in active & retired military personnel)

• Advance Insurance Company   (BCBS subsidiary, writes in about 38 states)

• Advocate Health Care   (Chicago-based HMO)

• AEGON (Home site for this large, international life and financial services company)

• Aetna (Life, health, financial services, but no longer any property/casualty insurance)

• AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company) (Supplemental insurance)

• agentLIFE.com   (Resource center for the professional life insurance agent)

• Aid Association for Lutherans (Includes a genealogy section for Lutherans)

• Alexander Hamilton Life (Now part of the Jefferson-Pilot group)

• Allianz Life of North America (L & H division of this German goliath)

• Allmerica Financial (Big, Worcester, Mass-based L & H and P & C conglomerate)

• Allstate (The 'good hands' people)

• Amalgamated Life   ("America's Labor Insurance Company")

• AmeriBest Life Insurance Company   (Big in annuities, part of ING)

• American Chambers Life Insurance Company (Coverage for Chambers of Commerce)

• American Community Mutual Insurance Company   (Medical & life plans)

• American Fidelity (L & H, P & C from this company, soon be called American Mercury)

• American General Annuity Insurance Company   (Annuities from American General Corporation)

• American General Life & Accident (Life & health from American General Corporation)

• American Heritage Life   (One of the Allstate companies)

• American Home Life   (Topeka, KS life insurance company)

• American Income Life Insurance Company (Big in supplemental insurance)

• American Industries Life Insurance Company   (Houston, TX life company)

• American Insurance Company of Texas   (Part of the Ascent Assurance group)

• American Medical Security (HMO based in Green Bay, WI, operating in lots of states)

• American National Insurance Company (Large life company, in Galveston, Texas)

• American Network Insurance Company (ANIC) (Part of the Penn Treaty American group)

• American Republic Insurance Company   (Des Moines-based life & health carrier)

• American Savings Life Insurance Company   (Youth & college life products)

• American Security Insurance Company (One of the Fortis group of companies)

• American Skandia Life   (U. S. life subsidiary of the Skandia group)

• American Term Quotes   (Online, real-time term life comparative quotes)

• American United Life (This Indianapolis-based carrier traces it's roots back to 1877)

• Americo Life (Holding company for Great Southern Life, College Life, and Ohio State Life)

• Ameritas Life Insurance (Formerly Bankers Life of Nebraska)

• AmerUs Life (Life subsidiary of AmerUs Group)

• Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield   (BC/BS licensee in CO, CT, IN, KY, ME, NH,  NV, OH)

• ARAG Insurance Company   (Group legal & other employee benefit plans)

• Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield  

• Army & Air Force Mutual Aid Association (For both officers and enlisted personnel)

• Assumption Life  (Canadian mutual life insurance company) 

• Assurity Life (Subsidiary of Lincoln, Nebraska’s Woodmen Accident & Life)

• Atlanta Life   (Minority owned & operated since 1905)

• Atlantic Blue Cross   (Covering the Canadian Atlantic provinces)

• Aurora Life (Life, tax deferred annuities from this Santa Monica, CA company)

• Baltimore Life   (Since 1882, in Baltimore, MD)

• Banker’s Fidelity Life (Part of Georgia’s Atlanta American Group)

• Bankers Life & Casualty (Part of the Conseco group)

• Bankers Life Insurance Co.   (Part of St. Petersburg, FL Bankers Insurance Group)

• Bankers Life of New York (NY mutual, affiliate of Indianapolis Life) 

• Bankers National Life (Part of the Conseco group)

• Banner Life (One of the companies of the Legal & General America group)

• Baptist Life   (Christian fraternal life association)

• Beneficial Life   (Salt Lake City, UT, since 1905)

• Berkshire Life   (Mutual life company, located in Massachusetts)

• Best Life & Health Insurance Company   (Irvine, CA health carrier)

• Blue Cross Blue Shield (Find local  'Blues' by Zipcode search) 

• Blue Cross of California  

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin

• Blue Shield of California  

• Boston Mutual Life ('Bigger Than Life', for over 100 years)

• Business Men’s Assurance Company (Variable products & fixed annuities, a Generali subsidiary)

• Canada Life (Very large Canadian company, also writes in the US and other countries)

• Catholic Family Life   (Oldest Catholic fraternal benefit society) 

• Catholic Knights Insurance Society (Fraternal order, based in Milwaukee)

• Catholic Life Insurance   (Fraternal benefit society)

• Catholic Order of Foresters   (Fraternal benefit society)

• CCN   (Large preferred provider managed health care system)

• Celtic Life (Specializing in individual major medical coverage)

• Central Reserve Life (Specializing in health insurance)

• Central Security Life Insurance Company   (Part of Maximum Corporation)

• Central States Health & Life (Now national - except NY - and all L & H lines)

• Central United Life   (Houston, TX life company)

• Champions Life Insurance Company   (One of the Maximum Corporation companies)

• Cheap Life Insurance (Canada)   (Free, returns the 25 best Canadian quotes)

• Cherokee National Life   (Specializing in products sold thru auto dealers)

• CIGNA (Healthcare, employee benefits, financial products)

• Clarica   (Formerly The Mutual Group, before it de-mutualized)

• CNA Annuity Products   (Contemporary variable annuity products)

• CNA Life (Life insurance from the good folks at CNA)

• CNA Life (Canada) (Home page for the Canadian operation of CNA Life)

• College Life (One of the Americo companies)

• Colonial Life & Accident   (One of the Unum companies)

• Colonial Life of Texas (Formerly Mortgage Bankers Life, writes mortgage protection coverage)

• Colorado Bankers Life   (Employee-funded voluntary benefit programs)

• Columbia Universal Life   (Subsidiary of American Heritage Life)

• Columbian Mutual Life   (Binghamton, NY, part of Columbian Financial Group)

• Columbus Life (Site has FREE continuing education courses; what a great idea!)

• Combined Insurance Company (Health & life carrier that W. Clement Stone built, part of AON)

• Commercial Travelers Mutual Insurance Company (America's oldest travel accident carrier)

• Commercial Union Life ('Over 300 Years of Heritage & Integrity')

• Conseco (Large life & health insurance holding company, based in Carmel, Indiana)

• Continental American Insurance Group   (Voluntary products for the worksite)

• Continental General Insurance Company (Specializing in health insurance)

• The Co-operators (L & H, P & C insurance in Canada)

• Cotton States Insurance (Serving 10 southeastern states from their home office in Atlanta, GA)

• Country Financial (L&H and P&C, formerly known as Country Companies)

• Cova Life   (One of the MetLife companies)

• Coventry Healthcare (Managed care provider based in Bethesda, MD)

• CPIC Life (Life insurance subsidiary of Blue Shield of California)

• Delta Dental (Main site, with links to the various state Delta Dental plans)

• Educators Mutual Life   (Insuring teachers, from Lancaster, PA)

• Equitable Companies (This is the big Equitable, part of AXA, try their 'Fit for Life' game)

• Equitable Life & Casualty (Specializing in senior citizens)

• Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield   (Serving New York state)

• Empire Life of Canada   (Canadian life carrier)

• Erie Insurance (P&C, life & Annuities from this Erie, PA large carrier)

• F & G (Fidelity & Guaranty) Life   (Now part of the St. Paul group)

• Family Heritage Life Insurance Company of America   (Supplemental health & accident coverages)

• Farm Bureau (Locator map for the various state Farm Bureau and Farm Bureau Life companies)

• Farmers & Traders Life (A mutual company, and staying that way)

• Federated Life Insurance Company of Canada (Candadian life subsidiary of Fairfax Holdings)

• FHP (Now owned by PacifiCare)

• FIC Group   (Family Life and Investors Life)

• First Colony Life (All states but NY, one of the GE Financial Assurance companies)

• First Penn-Pacific Life (One of the Lincoln Financial Group companies)

• First Variable Life Insurance Company   (First to write variable life policies)

• Florists' Life Insurance Company (Specializing, of course, in the florist industry)

• Forethought Life (Life insurance products offered through funeral homes)

• Fortis Healthcare ("To Protect Everyone in your Castle")

• Fort Dearborn Life   (Life & group health company in Chicago, IL)

• Fortune Life Insurance Company   (Life insurance in Florida & Arizona)

• Foundation Heath Systems (FHS) (Includes Health Net, QualMed, PHS, & M.D. Health Plans)

• 4InsuranceAgents.com   (Leads, resources for insurance agents)

• Franklin Life   (Life, annuities, financial products)

• Freedom Life Insurance Company   (Part of the Ascent Assurance group)

• Frontier Healthcare (New health care provider, part of Rock Hill, NY's Frontier Insurance Group)

• Garden State Life (Life products sold through direct marketing only)

• GE Financial Assurance (Various insurers in the GE Financial Assurance family of companies)

• GE Life & Annuity (Formerly Life of Virginia)

• General American Life (Large mutual company in St. Louis, MO)

• Gerling Insurance Companies (P&C, life, & credit insurance from this large German group)

• Gerber Life Insurance  (Family coverages from the baby food people)

• Gleaner Life Insurance Society   (Fraternal order in Adrian, MI)

• Globe Life & Accident Insurance Company   (Oklahoma City subsidiary of Torchmark Corp.)

• Golden American Life (Check status of variable annuities, 24 hours a day)

• Golden Rule Insurance Company (Innovative products in health insurance)

• Golden State Mutual Life (Los Angeles-based, operating in about a third of the states)

• Government Personnel Mutual Life   (Also available to non-government people)

• Great American Life Insurance Company   (Life operation of Lindner's American Financial Group)

• Great Southern Life (One of the Americo companies)

• Great West Life & Annuity Company (U.S. subsidiary of Canada's Great West Life Assurance)

• Great West Life Assurance   (Large Canadian life company)

• Great Western Insurance Company   (Funeral pre-need insurance) 

• Greater Beneficial Union   (Fraternal order located in Pittsburgh, PA)

• Green Shield   (Canadian health & dental carrier)

• Group Heath Cooperative   (Healthcare organization in WA & ID)

• Guarantee Life (Business and personal life and health insurance from this Omaha company)

• Guarantee Trust Life   (All states but NY, from this Glenview, IL company)

• Guardian Life   (Large mutual life insurance company, since 1860)

• The Hartford Insurance Company (AARP and the Hartford stag; who could ask for more?)

• Horace Mann Insurance (Insurance America's Educational Community)

• Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey

• Humana (Well-designed site from this HMO giant)

• Illinois Mutual Life (Life, disability and annuities, from this Peoria, Illinois company)

• Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada   (Life company in Toronto, ON)

• Indianapolis Life (One of the older of the many Indiana-based life insurance companies)

• Industrial - Alliance Pacific Life   (Canadian life insurance company)

• ING   ( Dutch insurance giant, one of the world's largest)

• Ingle Life & Health   (Canadian carrier, big in travel health policies)

• Interstate Assurance Corp.   (Life & annuity products)

• Investors Heritage Life Insurance Company   (Does a lot with the Funeral Home market)

• IOA Re   (Workcomp carve-outs, medical stop loss, lots of esoteric stuff)

• IOF Foresters (The Independent Order of Foresters is one of the oldest fraternal organizations)

• Irish Life of North America (US operations of Dublin-based Irish Life)

• Jackson National Life (Information, and the gateway to their secure Broker Zone)

• Jefferson-Pilot Insurance Company (Greensboro, NC conglomerate)

• John Alden Life (With the history of John Alden, Miles Standish, & Priscilla Mullins)

• John Hancock Mutual Life (Check out their 'Portrait Planning' financial tool)

• Kaiser Permanente (Largest non-profit HMO, these folks invented the concept)

• Kanawha Insurance Company   (Life & health products, from Lancaster SC)

• Kansas City Life (Modern site from this 100+ year old company)

• Kansas Farm Bureau (Protecting Kansans for over 50 years)

• Kentucky Home Life   (Part of National Guardian Life)

• Keyport Life (Specializing in fixed, variable, and indexed annuities)

• Lafayette Life (From Lafayette, Indiana)

• Laurier   (Canadian life company)

• Liberty Health   (Canadian health subsidiary of Liberty Mutual)

• Liberty Life   (Selling through both agency and direct channels)

• Liberty National Life (From Birmingham, Alabama, part of Torchmark)

• Life Investors Insurance Company (Life & annuity products part of AEGON)

• Life Insurance Company of Georgia (Georgia’s oldest life carrier)

• Lincoln Financial Group (Fort Wayne, Indiana's big life, health, & financial group)

• Lincoln Direct Life   (Originally Lincoln Mutual Life, in Lincoln, Nebraska)

• Lincoln Mutual Life & Casualty   (Health coverages, from Fargo, ND) NEW

• Lincoln National Life   (One of the Lincoln Financial Group companies)

• Lincoln National Reinsurance (Lincoln Re)   (Very large life/health reinsurer)

• Lincoln Security Life (One of the ReliaStar companies)

• London Life (Life and annuity products in Canada)

• London Reinsurance Group (P&C, L&H reinsurance products; a subidiary of London Life)

• Long Term Care Information Center   (Resource center for LTC info)

• Loyal Christian Benefit Association   (Fraternal benefit society in Erie, PA)

• Lutheran Brotherhood (These folks have a GREAT sense of humor!)

• Madison National Life   (Madison, WI life carrier)

• MAMSI (Mid-Atlantic Medical Services)   (HMO, life & health insurance)

• Manulife (Manufacturers Life) (Gateway to US, Canada, and worldwide Manulife sites)

• Maritime Life (Life and investment products from Halifax, Nova Scotia)

• Massachusetts Casualty (Disability insurance, all states,  from this Sun Life of Canada company)

• Mass Mutual (Beautiful - and fast - site, take a look at their Norman Rockwell exhibit)

• Maxicare   (Large HMO)

• Medical Savings Insurance Company   (Specializing in MSAs)

• Medico Life (Part of Mutual Protective Life)

• Mennonite Mutual Aid Society   (For Anabaptist congregations)

• Met Life (Life & health, property & casualty ….. and Snoopy, of course!)

• Midland National Life (Insuring the country, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota)

• MII Life   (Group life carrier, part of BCBS of Michigan)

• Minnesota Mutual (All 50 states for life, disability and financial products, since 1880)

• Mission Life Insurance Company   (Specializing in senior citizens)

• Modern Woodmen of America   (A fraternal life insurance society)

• Monumental Life   (One of the Aegon companies)

• Munich American Reassurance Company (Munich Re’s life/health reinsurance arm)

• Mutual of America Life Insurance Company (Annuities, savings plans, pension plans)

• Mutual of New York (MONY) (Nation's first mutual life insurance company)

• Mutual of Omaha (Life & health, property & casualty insurance from the Wild Kingdom people)

• Mutual Protective Life (Coverages for seniors, even before Medicare)

• Mutual Trust Life (45 states, from Jorie, IL, first mutual company to write juvenile policies)

• National Foundation Life   (Part of the Ascent Assurance group)

• National Guardian Life   (Madison, WI-based, operates in 39 states)

• National Health Insurance Company   (Annuities, L&H, based in Dallas, TX)

• National Heritage Insurance Company   (Insuring Texas Medicaid)

• National Life Assurance Company of Canada   (Large Canadian life company)

• National Life of Vermont (Based in beautiful Montpelier, writing in all states)

• National Security Group   (Life & P*C carrier in Elba, Alabama)

• National Travelers Life   (Life, health, and annuities)

• National Western Life Insurance Company   (Austin based life company)

• Nationwide (P&C, L&H, from this very large insurance giant)

• Neighborhood Health Plan   (HMO in Massachusetts)

• Neighbors of Woodcraft   (Northwest's only fraternal life company)

• New England Financial ("Taking responsibility for retirement")

• New York Life ("The Company You Keep")

• Nippon Life Insurance of America (American subsidiary of Osaka, Japan's Nippon Life)

• North American Company for Life and Health (Protection-oriented life insurance products)

• North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company   (Since 1878) 

• North Coast Life (Life and annuity products from this Spokane, WA insurance company)

• Northern Life (Specialists in Tax Sheltered Annuities)

• Northwestern Mutual Life ("The Quiet Company")

• Northwestern National Life (Now ReliaStar Insurance Company)

• Norwich Union   (Canadian life company, subsidiary of UK's CGNU)

• ODS Health Plans   (Oregon health care provider)

• Ohio National Life (Life & disability from this Cincinnati financial services company)

• Ohio State Life (Whole & universal life, annuities from this Americo subsidiary)

• Old American Insurance Company   (Subsidiary of Kansas City Life)

• Old Republic Insurance Group (Chicago-based group of P&C and L&H companies)

• Old United Insurance Companies   (Specialized P&C & L&H company)

• Ontario Blue Cross

• Order of the Sons of Hermann in Texas   (Fraternal order)

• Oxford Health Plans   (HMO in NJ, NY, CT)

• Oxford Life (Life & annuities from Amerco, the U-Haul family of companies)

• Ozark National Life   (Does business as 'Life of the Ozarks')

• Pacific Blue Cross   (Blue Cross in British Columbia, Canada)

• Pacific Guardian   (Hawaii's largest life and health insurance company)

• Pacific Life (A Pacific Mutual company)

• PacifiCare (One of the leading managed health care companies)

• Pan-American Life   (American, with many South American offices)

• Pekin Insurance (Midwest company, L&H and P&C)

• Penn Mutual Life ("A Better Way of Life")

• Penn Treaty American (Specializing in long-term care)

• PennCorp Canada   (Canadian subsidiary of Pennsylvania Life)

• PersonalCare   (HMO in Champaign, IL)

• Pharmacists Life Insurance Company (Part of the Pharmacists Mutual group)

• The Philanthropic Insurance Companies   (Life, some P&C, in PA and DE)

• Phoenix Home Mutual Life (9^th largest mutual life company)

• Physicians Life   (Subsidiary of Physicians Mutual)

• Pioneer Mutual Life   (Since 1868, in Fargo, ND) 

• Polish National Alliance   (Fraternal life organization)

• Polish Roman Catholic Union of America   (Oldest of the Polish fraternal organizations)

• Polish Union of America   (Fraternal life company in West Seneca, NY)

• Premera Blue Cross   (Serving Washington State & Alaska)

• Presidential Life (The thought in Nyack NY is, "Why name yourself after only ONE president?")

• Principal Financial Group (Big Des Moines, Iowa life, health and financial services company)

• Protective Life (Life holding company, with many life company subsidiaries)

• The Provident (This 'Provident' is from Norristown, PA, goes back to 1889)

• Provident Life (This is the big Provident, located in Chattanooga, TN)

• Provident Mutual Life (This 'Provident' is from Berwyn, PA, goes back to 1717)

• Prudential (Insurance - P&C and L&H - from 'The Rock')

• Pyramid Life (Specializing in senior citizens)

• QualChoice of North Carolina   (HMO in Winston-Salem, NC) 

• QualMed   (Healthcare provider in CO, NM, OR, PA, WA)

• Regence Group   (Blue Cross/Blue Shield licensee in WA, OR, ID, UT)

• ReliaStar Insurance (Formerly Northwestern National, this is the Minneapolis-based conglomerate)

• Republic Standard Life Insurance   (Subsidiary of Delphi Financial)

• Royal & Sun Alliance (Canada) (P & C, Life and Investments)

• Royal Maccabees Life (Part of Royal & SunAlliance Financial Services)

• SAFECO (Seattle's very large national P&C, L&H, and surety carrier) 

• Savings Bank Life Insurance of Massachusetts ('The No-Nonsense Life Company')

• Sage Life   (Variable annuities & offshore investment products)

• Saskatchewan Blue Cross   (Health provider in Saskatchewan, Canada)

• SBLI USA Mutual Life   (Life insurance in NY state only) 

• Scottish Re   (Life reinsurance solutions)

• Security-Connecticut Life (One of the ReliaStar companies)

• Security Financial Life (Life, financial products, formerly Security Mutual Life)

• Security First Group   (Annuities & more, from this MetLife company)

• Security Life of Denver ("Life without Limits")

• Sentry Insurance (P&C and L&H from the good folks in Stevens Point, WI)

• Settlers Life Insurance Company   (Part of National Guardian Life)

• Shenandoah Life (Spreading westward from Roanoke, now in all of the south and most of the east)

• Sierra Health (Large, diversified health care company, based in Las Vegas)

• Sons of Norway   (Fraternal benefit society, in Minneapolis, MN)

• Southland Life   (A member of the Dutch ING banking & insurance holdings company)

• Southwestern Life (Since 1903, based in Dallas)

• Standard Guaranty Insurance Company (One of the Fortis group of companies)

• Standard Life Insurance Company of Indiana   (Operates in 48 states & D.C.)

• Starmount Life (Specializing in large, accidental death policies)

• State Farm Insurance (Like a good neighbor, this is a friendly site)

• Sun Life (Canada's major life insurance company)

• SunAmerica (Specializing in fixed and variable annuities)

• Sunset Life   (Life & Annuities, a subsidiary of Kansas City Life)

• Teachers Life   (Insuring Ontario's teachers)

• Teachers Protective Mutual Life Insurance Company (guess their specialty?)

• Tennessee Farmers   (Insuring Tennessee farmers, of course)

• Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies   (Personal lines, farm, L&H)

• TIAA-CREF (Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, for employees of educational organizations)

• TMG Life (American subsidiary of Canada's The Mutual Group)

• Toronto Mutual Life   (Term & permanent products)

• Transamerica (Owner of San Francisco’s famous pyramid building, one of the Aegon companies)

• Travelers (The good old red umbrella)

• Trigon   (Large HMO in Virginia)

• Triple-S   (Blue Cross/Blue Shield licensee in Puerto Rico)