Largest U.S. Life, Accident; and Health Insurance Companies, Consolidated

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Largest U.S. Life, Accident; and Health Insurance Companies, Consolidated

Largest U.S. Life, Accident; and Health Insurance Companies, Consolidated
By net admitted assets on Dec. 31, 2004. Dollars in thousands
Published September 30, 2005
Related Table: Top 20 in Assets and Growth
Rank   Dec. 31, 2004 Year earlier Change
1 American International Houston $327,113,067 $277,924,346 17.70%
2 Metropolitan Life Tampa 308,574,822 286,478,062 7.71
3 Prudential of America Newark, N.J. 282,080,003 217,670,000 29.59
4 Hartford Fire and Casualty Conn. 192,748,605 168,436,583 14.43
5 TIAA New York 166,940,398 154,395,820 8.12
6 Aegon USA Inc. Cedar Rapids, Iowa 166,932,232 160,145,661 4.24
7 John Hancock Life Insurance Boston 163,559,106 86,202,988 89.74
8 Netherlands Insurance Atlanta 159,011,867 145,674,218 9.16
9 New York Life 155,647,415 136,756,386 13.81
10 Northwestern Mutual Milwaukee 123,965,816 113,822,071 8.91
11 Axa Insurance Group New York 123,825,906 96,936,941 27.74
12 Mass Mutual Life Insurance Co. Springfield, Mass. 108,220,230 96,818,363 11.78
13 Nationwide Corp. Columbus, Ohio 106,481,010 101,866,770 4.53
14 Principal Financial Des Moines 101,509,398 90,561,356 12.09
15 Citigroup Insurance Holding Corp. Hartford, Conn. 93,866,557 84,768,712 10.73
16 Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. Fort Wayne, Ind. 91,650,942 82,376,365 11.26
17 GE Global Insurance Holding Richmond 86,469,555 80,230,068 7.78
18 Allstate Insurance Northbrook, Ill. 84,025,836 73,192,372 14.80
19 Pacific Life Insurance Newport Beach, Calif. 69,508,111 60,549,993 14.79
20 American Express Group Minneapolis 65,419,542 60,803,184 7.59
21 Cigna Philadelphia 56,769,651 75,497,307 -24.81
22 Jackson National Life Insurance Lansing, Mich. 55,796,047 51,058,127 9.28
23 Sun Life Assurance of the U.S. Wellesley Hills, Mass. 54,016,506 51,407,169 5.08
24 American Family Corp. Columbus, Ga. 49,379,344 41,875,775 17.92
25 Allianz Insurance Minneapolis 42,175,597 31,381,808 34.40
26 State Farm Bloomington, Ill. 38,797,381 36,096,797 7.48
27 Great West Life Assurance Englewood, Colo. 38,663,663 38,108,592 1.46
28 Guardian Life Insurance New York 35,417,242 33,525,972 5.64
29 Jefferson Pilot Greensboro, N.C. 29,500,297 27,398,973 7.67
30 UnumProvident Life Chattanooga, Tenn. 29,310,371 29,389,405 -0.27
31 Aetna Life and Casualty Hartford, Conn. 28,376,965 27,512,913 3.14
32 Swiss Reinsurance Armonk, N.Y. 26,444,952 22,584,246 17.09
33 Zurich Insurance Group Long Grove, Ill. 25,628,127 24,439,140 4.87
34 Conseco Carmel, Ind. 24,940,900 24,274,622 2.74
35 Western Southern Life Cincinnati 24,910,837 23,708,155 5.07
36 Phoenix Cos. Hartford, Conn. 24,331,736 23,750,336 2.45
37 Midland National Life Insurance Sioux Falls, S. D. 21,528,150 18,276,316 17.79
38 Protective Life Insurance Birmingham, Ala. 20,549,408 18,725,429 9.74
39 Minnesota Mutual Cos. St. Paul 20,050,333 19,140,508 4.75
40 American Mutual Holding Des Moines 19,543,138 18,537,567 5.42
41 Safeco Insurance Seattle 19,532,350 19,556,493 -0.12
42 Mutual of Omaha 16,364,669 16,120,170 1.52
43 Old Mutual Life Insurance Baltimore 16,036,825 10,000,891 60.35
44 Merrill Lynch Insurance Pennington, N.J. 15,571,604 15,446,388 0.81
45 Allmerica Insurance Worcester, Mass. 15,199,574 16,785,359 -9.45
46 American National Insurance Co. Galveston, Tex. 13,776,070 12,349,356 11.55
47 Assurant Group Kansas City, Mo. 13,148,441 13,207,811 -0.45
48 Fidelity Invest Insurance and Annuity Boston 12,645,977 12,238,582 3.33
49 American United Life Insurance Indianapolis 12,473,483 11,572,536 7.79
50 National Life Insurance Dallas 11,632,017 10,795,247 7.75
51 Ohio National Life Assurance Corp. Cincinnati 11,555,686 11,358,438 1.74
52 Liberty National Life Insurance Birmingham, Ala. 11,531,544 10,969,459 5.12
53 Mutual of America Life Insurance Co.* New York 11,486,923 10,998,023 4.45
54 USAA Insurance San Antonio 10,358,197 9,664,458 7.18
55 Security Benefit Group Topeka, Kan. 10,341,393 9,369,705 10.37
56 American Financial Insurance Group Cincinnati 10,274,519 9,116,383 12.70
57 Penn Mutual Philadelphia 9,820,253 8,954,430 9.67
58 Stancorp Financial Group Portland, Ore. 9,724,102 8,528,632 14.02
59 Southern Farm Insurance Jackson, Miss. 8,777,014 8,141,777 7.80
60 Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston* Dover, N.H. 8,228,430 7,376,860 11.54
61 Iowa Farm Bureau Des Moines 8,002,072 7,060,797 13.33
62 American Equity Invest Life Holding Corp. Des Moines 7,993,909 6,320,057 26.48
63 CBD Holdings Ltd Newark, Del. 7,679,274 1,245,020 516.80
64 Cuna Mutual Life Insurance Co.* Waverly, Iowa 7,551,505 6,824,786 10.65
65 HCSC Insurance Services Co. Chicago 7,122,880 6,226,095 14.40
66 Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. Lincoln, Neb. 6,865,591 6,595,941 4.09
67 Country Cos. Insurance Group Bloomington, Ill. 6,824,814 6,224,368 9.65
68 Union Central Life Insurance Co.* Cincinnati 6,499,384 6,147,081 5.73
69 United Healthcare Insurance Hartford, Conn. 6,379,833 6,075,179 5.01
70 Continental Assurance Co.* Chicago 6,037,736 8,813,207 -31.49
71 CGU Life North Quincy, Mass. 5,646,464 4,972,956 13.54
72 Berkshire Hathaway Group Omaha 5,596,103 5,410,306 3.43
73 National Western Life Insurance Co.* Austin 5,293,472 4,658,880 13.62
74 Wellpoint Insurance Thousand Oaks, Calif. 4,984,662 2,802,368 77.87
75 Presidential Life Nyack, N.Y. 4,330,263 4,135,041 4.72
76 Horace Mann Springfield, Ill. 4,175,792 3,849,912 8.46
77 Kansas City Life Insurance Mo. 4,001,732 3,842,874 4.13
78 Thrivent Life Insurance Co.* Minneapolis 3,999,888 3,804,110 5.15
79 Cuna Mutual Insurance Madison 3,931,128 3,634,431 8.16
80 Financial Holding Kansas City, Mo. 3,529,040 3,510,498 0.53
81 Aurora National Life Assurance Co.* Wethersfield, Conn. 3,524,210 3,697,915 -4.70
82 Rbc Holding USA Greenville, S.C. 3,499,388 3,364,856 4.00
83 Forethought Financial Group Batesville, Ind. 3,416,032 3,243,759 5.31
84 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Jacksonville 3,380,981 2,854,766 18.43
85 Munich American Reassurance Co.* Atlanta 3,344,701 2,835,911 17.94
86 American Family Life Insurance Co.* Madison 3,228,194 2,996,479 7.73
87 AON Corp. Glenview, Ill. 3,102,282 2,817,573 10.10
88 Union Labor Life Insurance Co.* Washington 3,085,213 2,811,541 9.73
89 Unitrin Group Webster Groves, Mo. 2,910,963 2,782,342 4.62
90 Beneficial Life Salt Lake City 2,895,772 2,656,386 9.01
91 Scor Reinsurance Addison, Tex. 2,827,041 2,512,682 12.51
92 Household Finance Corp. Bridgewater, Ga. 2,810,200 2,786,373 0.86
93 American Fidelity Assurance Oklahoma City 2,808,524 2,506,208 12.06
94 Scottish Reinsurance Group Charlotte 2,803,131 1,895,551 47.88
95 Sentry Insurance Stevens Point, Wis. 2,700,693 2,347,545 15.04
96 Delphi Financial Group Philadelphia, Pa. 2,586,641 2,424,664 6.68
97 Physicians Mutual Insurance Co. Omaha 2,424,754 2,318,737 4.57
98 Golden Rule Insurance Co. Lawrenceville, Ill. 2,369,778 2,197,195 7.85
99 Cincinnati Life Insurance Co.* 2,155,577 1,994,255 8.09
100 Banner Life Insurance Rockville, Md. 2,086,640 1,981,001 5.33
101 Trustmark Insurance Cos. Lake Forest, Ill. 1,882,315 1,739,777 8.19
102 Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York* Binghamton 1,864,709 1,764,360 5.69
103 Consumers United Insurance Spokane 1,823,413 2,321,672 -21.46
104 Inviva Group Louisville 1,789,747 1,801,413 -0.65
105 Uici Group North Richland Hills, Tex. 1,764,972 1,623,138 8.74
106 Standard Life Insurance of Indiana Indianapolis 1,730,919 1,733,471 -0.15
107 Savings Bank Life Insurance Co. of Massachusetts* Woburn 1,697,939 1,576,174 7.73
108 Lafayette Life Insurance Co.* Lafayette, Ind. 1,672,672 1,597,101 4.73
109 National Guardian Life Insurance Madison, Wis. 1,613,459 1,502,222 7.40
110 Indiana Farm Bureau Indianapolis 1,599,065 1,530,999 4.45
111 Pan American Life New Orleans 1,595,133 1,586,636 0.54
112 SBLI USA New York 1,522,418 1,475,238 3.20
113 Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co. of Michgain* Lansing 1,512,451 1,386,548 9.08
114 Auto Owners Life Insurance Co.* Lansing, Mich. 1,508,270 1,330,110 13.39
115 Erie Family Life Insurance Co.* Erie, Pa. 1,459,744 1,437,311 1.56
116 Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. Roanoke, Va. 1,406,593 1,248,499 12.66
117 IASD Health Des Moines 1,404,776 1,232,220 14.00
118 United Life Insurance Co.* Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1,395,965 1,337,344 4.38
119 Hannover Life Reasurance Co. of America* Orlando 1,225,052 1,159,265 5.67
120 First Investors Life Insurance Co.* New York 1,208,907 1,138,740 6.16
121 Mutual Trust Life Insurance Co.* Oak Brook, Ill. 1,177,404 1,125,814 4.58
122 Intercontinental Life Insurance Co.* Austin 1,171,614 1,229,412 -4.70
123 Universal American Financial Corp. Orlando 1,155,396 1,130,163 2.23
124 Wells Fargo Insurance Des Moines 1,143,230 1,095,436 4.36
125 Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Co.* Peoria 1,116,234 1,057,116 5.59
126 Assurity Life Insurance Co.* Lincoln, Neb. 1,103,232 1,060,800 4.00
127 Tennessee Farmers Life Insurance Co. Columbia 1,077,818 985,974 9.32
128 Homesteaders Life Co.* Des Moines 1,070,229 940,531 13.79
129 Humana Inc. Louisville 1,029,590 972,114 5.91
130 Regal Reinsurance Co. Springfield, Mass. 1,013,016 1,044,402 -3.01
131 Gerber Life Insurance Co.* White Plains, N.Y. 937,797 788,509 18.93
132 Geneve Holdings Inc. New York 933,901 860,754 8.50
133 Alfa Life Insurance Corp.* Montgomery, Ala. 904,589 834,387 8.41
134 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas Topeka 877,227 757,850 15.75
135 Shelter Life Insurance Co.* Columbia, Mo. 861,883 821,932 4.86
136 Amica Life Insurance Co.* Providence, R.I. 800,880 744,700 7.54
137 Baltimore Life Insurance Co.* Owings Mills, Md. 795,245 793,745 0.19
138 Boston Mutual Insurance Corp. Canton, Mass. 785,582 732,778 7.21
139 Amerco Corp. Phoenix 775,615 838,499 -7.50
140 Security Financial Life Insurance Co.* Lincoln, Neb. 765,124 722,495 5.90
141 Federated Life Insurance Co.* Owatonna, Minn. 762,922 714,784 6.73
142 Central United LifeHouston 740,125 706,170 4.81
143 Pekin Life Insurance Co.* Pekin, Ill. 724,095 679,545 6.56
144 Government Personnel Mutual Life Insurance* San Antonio, Tex. 711,503 668,400 6.45
145 Xl Life Insurance and Annuity Co.* Schaumburg, Ill. 705,539 647,806 8.91
146 Vantislife Insurance Co.* East Hartford, Conn. 691,374 646,022 7.02
147 American Republic Mutual Group Omaha 673,778 221,219 204.58
148 Emc National Life Co.* Des Moines 652,215 561,031 16.25
149 Generali USA Life Reassurance Co.* Kansas City, Mo. 635,155 621,983 2.12
150 Nationsbanc Insurance Group Charlotte 593,823 620,325 -4.27

*Data from NIAC annual statements for individual companies. All others from Standard & Poor's.

Source: National Underwriter Insurance Data Services (877-305-6657)

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