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In 1851, the oldest predecessor of The Phoenix Companies, The American Temperance Life Insurance Company, was founded.The American Temperance Life Insurance Company was a part-mutual, part-stock company that insured only those who abstained from alcohol and was founded by a group of prominent Hartford businessmen as well as religious and civic leaders.
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 Travelers Insurance Company was founded in Hartford by James G. Batterson, a stone contractor [12] who became aware for the first time of accident insurance for travelers (i.e., an early form of travel insurance) while traveling in England in 1859 from Leamington to London. [13]
Auto-Owners began writing insurance in Indiana, its first state outside of Michigan, in 1935. They now offer insurance in 26 states through local, independent insurance agents. [4] The company has been a member of the Fortune 500 since 2003. [5] In 2020, Auto-Owners Insurance was listed at number 320. [5]
Amica Mutual Insurance Company is a Rhode Island–based mutual insurance company that offers auto, home and life insurance. [ 1 ] Amica was founded as the Automobile Mutual Insurance Company of America by A.T. Vigneron in 1907 and originally offered auto, fire and theft insurance. [ 2 ]
Ipswich Bancshares, 8 branches north of Boston, 2002; Warren Bancorp, Essex County, Massachusetts, 2002; Community Insurance Agencies, Inc. May 2002; Bancorp Connecticut, seven branches and $663 million in assets, 2002; American Savings Bank, New Britain, Connecticut, 2003. Added $4 billion in assets and 47 branches in central Connecticut.
Insurance Company of North America (INA) is the oldest capital stock insurance company in the United States, [2] founded in Philadelphia in 1792. It was one of the largest American insurance companies of the 19th and 20th centuries before merging with Connecticut General Life to form CIGNA in 1982, and was acquired by global insurer ACE Limited (currently Chubb Limited) [3] in 1999.
Risk Strategies (officially incorporated as RSC Insurance Brokerage, Inc.) is a private insurance brokerage and risk management advisor. The firm was founded 1997 (27 years ago) in Boston, Massachusetts, by its current chairman, Mike Christian, as a specialty risk management consultancy.