List of United States insurance companies
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This is a list of insurance companies based in the United States. These are companies with a strong national or regional presence, having insurance as their primary business.
History
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin founded the first American insurance company as Philadelphia Contributionship. In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the state of New York, many of which would subsequently fail. Between 1870 and 1872, 33 US life insurance companies failed, in part fueled by bad practices and incidents such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 3,800 property-liability and 2,270 life insurance companies were operating in the United States by 1989.{{Citation|title=Historical Development Of Insurance |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/insurance/Historical-development-of-insurance }}
U.S. insurance companies
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- 21st Century Insurance{{Citation|title=AIG selling 21st Century Insurance to Farmers Insurance |work=Los Angeles Times |date=17 April 2009 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-apr-17-fi-aig-21st-century17-story.html }}{{Citation|title=21st Century Insurance lays off 50 in WIlmington |publisher=Delaware Online |url=https://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/2016/02/05/21st-century-insurance-lays-off-50-wilmington/79869170/ }}{{Citation|title=21st Century Car Insurance Reviews |work=Auto Insurance |url=https://www.autoinsurance.com/companies/21st-century/ }}
- Acuity Insurance
- Aflac{{cite news |url = https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=AFL%3AUS&sid=aAKpYxJb6IRU |title = Aflac Profit Rises 20% on Japanese Currency Strength |work = Bloomberg |date = April 29, 2009 }}
- Allianz Life{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=832337|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106011700/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=832337|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 6, 2009|title=Business Week Company Profile}}
- Allied Insurance{{Citation|title=Insurance Journal: Wisconsin's Robertson Ryan & Associates Acquires Allied Insurance Centers |date=12 January 2017 |publisher=Insurance Journal |url=http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2017/01/12/438727.htm }}
- Allstate{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/06/03/allstate-initial-offering-priced-at-the-top/|title=Allstate Initial Offering Priced At The Top|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|access-date=2017-12-08|language=en|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171209044451/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-06-03/business/9306030069_1_concurrent-international-offering-allstate-sears|archive-date=2017-12-09}}
- American Automobile Association (AAA){{cite news |first=Jim |last=Stratton |title=AAA Junks Its Formal Name, Soups Up Logo |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1997/07/23/aaa-junks-its-formal-name-soups-up-logo/ |publisher=Orlando Sentinel |year=1997 |access-date=September 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121002163014/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997-07-23/business/9707221164_1_aaa-logo-hotel-signs |archive-date=October 2, 2012 |url-status=live }}
- American Family Insurance{{Cite web|url=https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2017/12/14/american-family-insurance-acquires-software-firm-networked-insights/953108001/|title=American Family Insurance acquires software firm Networked Insights|website=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|language=en|access-date=2019-03-21}}
- American Income Life Insurance Company
- American International Group (AIG){{cite news |last1=Hollmer |first1=Mark |title=AIG CEO Duperreault 'Encouraged' by Hardening Market, Plans Operational Overhaul |url=https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/08/13/535634.htm |accessdate=September 4, 2019 |work=Insurance Journal |date=August 13, 2019}}{{cite news|title=AIG Announces Changes to Its Organizational Structure |url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170925005616/en/|work=AIG|issue=September 25, 2017}}
- American National Insurance Company{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/american-national-insurance/|title=American National Insurance|website=Fortune|access-date=2019-02-15}}
- American Strategic Insurance (ASI){{Cite news|title = Progressive Unveils Plans To Buy Home Insurer ASI|url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/progressive-unveils-plans-to-buy-home-insurer-asi-1418740224|newspaper = Wall Street Journal|access-date = 2015-11-18|issn = 0099-9660|first = Chelsey|last = Dulaney}}
- Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance
- Ameriprise Financial{{cite news| url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2011/industries/31/index.html | work=CNN | title=Fortune 500 2011 - Industry: Diversified Financials}}{{cite press release |title=Ameriprise to Sell Securities America |work=The New York Times |date=2011-04-25 |url=https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/ameriprise-to-sell-securities-america/ |accessdate=2011-05-09| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110427035307/http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/ameriprise-to-sell-securities-america/| archive-date= 27 April 2011 | url-status= live}}
- Ameritas Life Insurance Company{{Citation|title=In brief: Nebraska Ameritas location begins $1 million renovation |date=6 March 2015 |publisher=Omaha World-Herald |url=https://www.omaha.com/money/in-brief-nebraska-ameritas-location-begins-million-renovation/article_76e2c7a8-4e3f-5117-9b06-072b7f3bd416.html }}{{Citation|title=Lincoln-based Ameritas discloses data breach |date=30 July 2019 |publisher=Lincoln Journal-Star |url=https://journalstar.com/business/local/lincoln-based-ameritas-discloses-data-breach/article_d0ac4d30-7e26-59ad-8fed-7ffebb2d0835.html }}
- Amica Mutual Insurance
- Amtrust Financial Services{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/amtrust-financial-services/|title=AmTrust Financial Services|website=Fortune|access-date=2018-12-31}}{{cite web|title=The World's Biggest Public Companies|url=https://www.forbes.com/companies/amtrust-financial-services/|work=Forbes|accessdate=29 June 2016|date=1 May 2016}}
- Applied Underwriters{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-unit-settles-with-california-regulator-over-workers-comp-insurance-1496937653|title=Berkshire Unit Settles With California Regulator Over Workers Comp Insurance|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|date=June 8, 2017|author=Nicole Friedman|accessdate=June 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170613073653/https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-unit-settles-with-california-regulator-over-workers-comp-insurance-1496937653|archive-date=June 13, 2017|url-status=live}}
- Arbella Insurance Group"Arbella Insurance and UMass: Partnering to Drive out Distractions on the Road - Boston Business Journal." Business News - The Business Journals. American City Business Journals, 9 Sept. 2011 http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/print-edition/2011/09/09/partnering-to-drive-out-distractions.html
- Assurant{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/01/23/dutch-insurer-amev-is-buying-vsb-groep/|title=Dutch insurer Amev is buying VSB Groep NV bank for...|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|access-date=2017-07-12|language=en}}
- Assurity Life Insurance Company{{cite news|last=Pascale|first=Jordan|title=Journalist|url=http://journalstar.com/business/local/public-city-officials-get-look-at-assurity-building/article_c2c6d4b1-3e38-5110-bab6-21bcff5d0df3.html|accessdate=January 26, 2012|newspaper=Lincoln Journal Star|date=January 26, 2012}}
- Auto-Owners Insurance{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/auto-owners-insurance/|title=Auto-Owners Insurance|website=Fortune|access-date=December 18, 2018}}
- AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company{{cite news| issn=0362-4331| last1=Malkin| first1=Lawrence| last2=Neher| first2=Jacques| title=French Insurer To Put $1 Billion Into Equitable: Axa Buys Stake in U.S. Firm| newspaper=The New York Times| accessdate=April 19, 2015| date=July 19, 1991| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/19/news/19iht-axa_.html}}
- Bankers Life and Casualty Company{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/cno-financial-group-608/|title=CNO Financial Group|date=2015-06-04|website=Fortune|language=en-US|access-date=2016-04-26}}
- Berkshire Hathaway{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2017/10/03/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-pilot-flying-j-truck-stops/726378001/|title=Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway buying Pilot Flying J truck stops|publisher=USA Today|access-date=October 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619045916/https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2017/10/03/warren-buffett-berkshire-hathaway-pilot-flying-j-truck-stops/726378001/|archive-date=June 19, 2018|url-status=live}}
- Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company{{cite book | last=Smith | first=W.H. | title=Mennonites in Illinois | publisher=Wipf & Stock Publishers | series=Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite history | year=2001 | isbn=978-1-57910-771-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ErBKAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA296 | access-date=August 21, 2017 | page=296}}
- Burns & Wilcox
- CareSource{{cite web|url=https://www.daytondailynews.com/business/caresource-names-new-ceo-replacing-morris/O9bn1DL7c1kb40t1tRAIAP/|title=CareSource names new CEO, replacing Morris|publisher=Dayton Daily News}}
- Chubb Corp{{Cite news|url=https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/01/15/395209.htm|title=ACE and Chubb Are Now One; New Chubb Brand Logo Unveiled|date=2016-01-15|work=Insurance Journal|access-date=2018-08-15|language=en-US}}
- Citizens Property Insurance Corporation{{cite news|last=Ostrow|first=Nicole|title=State-run insurer shedding policies|url=http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/032299/bus_1H8Healt.html|accessdate=18 February 2013|newspaper=Florida Times-Union|date=March 22, 1999}}
- CNA FinancialBloomberg News, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-10-fi-46041-story.html Allstate to Buy CNA's Personal Insurance Unit], published in the Los Angeles Times (June 10, 1999). Retrieved on August 18, 2012.
- CNO Financial Group{{cite news |last1=Dill |first1=Kathryn |title=America's 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathryndill/2014/04/01/americas-50-most-trustworthy-financial-companies/ |accessdate=27 October 2019 |work=Forbes |language=en}}
- Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/12/business/business-people-president-leaves-colonial-life-in-rift.html | title=President Leaves Colonial Life in Rift | author=Daniel F. Cuff | newspaper=The New York Times | date=12 November 1982 | accessdate=30 March 2014}}
- Combined InsuranceMartin, Douglas [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/business/clement-stone-dies-at-100-built-empire-on-optimism.html?pagewanted=2&src=pm] "Clement Stone Dies at 100; Built Empire on Optimism", New York Times, 5 September 2002
- Commerce Insurance Group
- Country Financial{{Cite web|url=http://fortune.com/fortune500/country-financial/|title=Country Financial|website=Fortune|access-date=2019-02-11}}
- Delta Dental
- Encompass Insurance Company
- Erie Insurance Group
- Esurance
- Evergreen USA RRG
- Farmers Insurance Group
- Federated Mutual Insurance Company
- First Insurance Company of Hawaii
- FM Global
- Fortegra Group
- GAINSCO
- GEICO
- General Re
- Genworth Financial
- Gerber Life Insurance Company
- Globe Life And Accident Insurance Company
- GMAC Insurance
- Gracy Title Company
- Grange Mutual Casualty Company
- The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
- GuideOne Insurance
- Hagerty Insurance Agency
- Hanover Insurance
- The Hartford
- HCC Insurance Holdings
- Hiscox Small Business Insurance
- Horace Mann Educators Corporation
- Ironshore
- K&K Insurance
- Kansas City Life Insurance Company
- Kemper Corporation
- Knights of Columbus
- Lemonade (insurance)
- Liberty Mutual
- Lincoln National Corporation
- Manhattan Life Insurance Company
- Markel Corporation
- MassMutual
- Merchants Insurance Group
- Mercury Insurance Group
- MetLife
- Metromile
- Modern Woodmen of America
- Mutual of Omaha
- National Flood Insurance Program
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
- New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company
- New York Life Insurance Company
- NJM Insurance Group
- The Norfolk & Dedham Group
- Omega
- Oxford Health Plans
- Pacific Life
- PEMCO
- Penn Mutual
- Penn National Insurance
- Philadelphia Contributionship for the Insurance of Houses from Loss by Fire
- Philadelphia Insurance Companies
- Physicians Mutual
- Primerica
- Principal Financial Group
- Progressive
- ProSight Specialty Insurance
- Protective Life
- Prudential Financial
- Pure Insurance
- QBE
- The Regence Group
- Reliance Insurance Company
- Reliance Partners
- RLI Corp.
- Safe Auto Insurance Company
- Safeco
- Safeway Insurance Group
- Securian Financial Group
- Sentry Insurance
- Shelter Insurance
- Society Insurance
- Southern Aid and Insurance Company
- SquareTrade
- Standard Insurance Company
- State Farm Insurance
- Sun Life Financial
- Symetra
- The General
- The Travelers Companies
- TIAA
- Titan Insurance Company
- Transamerica Corporation
- Tricare
- Trupanion
- UPC Insurance
- Unum
- USAA
- West Coast Life
- Western & Southern Financial Group
- Western Mutual Insurance Group
- Westfield Insurance
- White Mountains Insurance Group
- W. R. Berkley Corporation
- XL Catlin{{cite news | url=https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/au/news/breaking-news/brooklyn-underwriting-announces-expansion-to-melbourne-brisbane-74266.aspx | title=Brooklyn Underwriting announces expansion to Melbourne, Brisbane | first=Jordan | last=Lynn | work=Insurance Business Australia | date=27 July 2017}}
- Zurich Insurance Group
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= Life and annuity =
{{Main article|Life annuity}}
- Aflac
- Afro-American Life Insurance Company
- Allianz Life
- Allstate
- American Family Insurance
- American Fidelity Assurance
- American Income Life Insurance Company
- Ameritas Life Insurance Company
- Amica Mutual Insurance
- Assurity Life Insurance Company
- AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company
- Bankers Life and Casualty
- Banner Life Insurance Company
- Central Life Insurance Company of Florida
- Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company
- Colonial Penn
- Conseco
- Farmers Insurance Group
- Genworth Financial
- The Great-West Life Assurance Company{{Citation|title=CPP-owned Wilton Re buys Transamerica's Canadian business |date=16 October 2014 |publisher=Advisor |url=https://www.advisor.ca/news/industry-news/cpp-owned-wilton-re-buys-transamericas-canadian-business/ }}
- Gerber Life Insurance Company
- Globe Life And Accident Insurance Company
- The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
- Horace Mann Educators Corporation
- ING Group
- Jackson National Life
- John Hancock Life Insurance
- Kansas City Life Insurance Company
- Lincoln National Corporation
- Manhattan Life Insurance Company
- MEGA Life and Health Insurance
- MetLife
- Mutual of Omaha
- National Life Group
- National Western Life Insurance Company
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
- New York Life Insurance Company
- Northwestern Mutual
- Ohio National Financial Services Company
- Pacific Life
- Physicians Mutual
- Primerica
- Protective Life
- Prudential Financial
- Securian Financial Group
- Standard Insurance Company
- State Farm Insurance
- Thrivent
- TIAA-CREF
- Transamerica Corporation
- UNIFI Companies
- United of Omaha
- Western & Southern Financial Group
= Health insurance (major medical insurance) =
{{Main article|Health insurance|Health insurance in the United States|Managed care}}
- AARP
- Aetna
- American National Insurance Company
- Amerigroup
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
- Bright Health
- CareSource
- Cambia Health Solutions
- Centene Corporation
- Cigna
- Compass Rose Benefits Group
- Delta Dental
- Elevance Health
- EmblemHealth
- Fallon Health
- Geisinger
- Golden Rule Insurance Company
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Health Net
- HealthMarkets
- HealthPartners
- Highmark
- Humana
- Independence Blue Cross
- Kaiser Permanente
- Kaleida Health
- MassHealth
- Medical Mutual of Ohio
- Molina Healthcare
- Oscar Health
- Oxford Health Plans
- Premera Blue Cross
- Principal Financial Group
- Thrivent Financial for Lutherans
- UnitedHealth Group
- Unitrin
- WellCare
== Medicare ==
= Workers' compensation =
{{Main article|Workers' compensation}}
- Accident Fund Insurance Company of America
- American International Group (AIG)
- AmTrust Financial Services
- Cincinnati Financial Corporation
- Erie Insurance Group
- GUARD Insurance Group
- Hanover Insurance
- The Hartford
- Liberty Mutual
- Merchants Insurance Group
- Missouri Employers Mutual
- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
- New York State Insurance Fund
- The Norfolk & Dedham Group
- Penn National Insurance
- Puerto Rico State Insurance Fund
- Sentry Insurance
- Society Insurance
- State Farm Insurance
- State Compensation Insurance Fund
- United Heartland
- Zenith Insurance Group
See also
References
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