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 Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect ...
as their primary business.


History

In 1752,
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founded the first American insurance company as Philadelphia Contributionship. In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the state of
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, many of which would subsequently fail. Between 1870 and 1872, 33 US
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companies failed, in part fueled by bad practices and incidents such as the
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of 1871. 3,800 property-liability and 2,270 life insurance companies were operating in the United States by 1989.


U.S. insurance companies


Property and casualty insurance


Life and annuity

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Aflac Aflac Incorporated (American Family Life Assurance Company) is an American insurance company and is the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States. It was founded in 1955 and is based in Columbus, Georgia. In the U.S., it ...
* Afro-American Life Insurance Company * Allianz Life *
Allstate The Allstate Corporation is an American insurance company, headquartered in Glenview, Illinois (with a Northbrook, Illinois address) since 2022. Founded in 1931 as part of Sears, Roebuck and Co., it was spun off in 1993, but was still pa ...
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American Family Insurance American Family Mutual Insurance Company, also abbreviated as AmFam, is an American private mutual company that focuses on property, casualty, and auto insurance, and also offers commercial insurance, life, health, and homeowners coverage ...
* 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 * Gerber Life Insurance Company *
Globe Life And Accident Insurance Company Globe Life, based in McKinney, Texas, provides life and health insurance coverage nationwide, and has earned the A (Excellent) Financial Strength Rating as of June 2020. Globe Life and Accident Insurance Company has executive offices in Oklahoma C ...
* The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America * Horace Mann Educators Corporation *
ING Group ING Group N.V. () is a Dutch multinational corporation, multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking, investment banking, whol ...
* Jackson National Life * John Hancock Life Insurance * Kansas City Life Insurance Company *
Lincoln National Corporation Lincoln National Corporation is a ''Fortune'' 200 American holding company, which operates multiple insurance and investment management businesses through subsidiary companies. Lincoln Financial Group is the marketing name for LNC and its subsi ...
* Manhattan Life Insurance Company * MEGA Life and Health Insurance *
MetLife MetLife, Inc. is the Holding company, holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, Annuity (US financial produ ...
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Mutual of Omaha Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company is an American Fortune 500 mutual insurance and financial services company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1909 as Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association, Mutual of Omaha is a financial organization o ...
* National Life Group * National Western Life Insurance Company *
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and affiliated companies, commonly shortened to Nationwide, is a group of large U.S. insurance and financial services companies based in Columbus, Ohio. The company also operates regional headquarters in ...
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New York Life Insurance Company New York Life Insurance Company (NYLIC) is the third-largest life insurance company and the largest mutual insurance, mutual life insurance company in the United States, and is ranked #69 on the 2025 Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporat ...
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Northwestern Mutual Northwestern Mutual is an American financial services mutual organization headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The financial security company provides consultation on wealth and asset income protection, education planning, retirement planning ...
* Ohio National Financial Services Company *
Pacific Life Pacific Life Insurance Company is an American insurance company. History Pacific Mutual Life was founded in 1868 by former California Governor, Leland Stanford in Sacramento, California. Stanford also was the first policy holder of the company. ...
* Physicians Mutual *
Primerica Primerica, Inc. is a multi-level marketing company that provides insurance, Investment management, investment and financial services to middle-income families in the United States and Canada. Primerica is the parent company of National Bene ...
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Protective Life Protective Life Corporation is a financial service holding company in Birmingham, Alabama.https://protective.newshq.businesswire.com/sites/protective.newshq.businesswire.com/files/press_kit/file/We_Are_Protective_Life_-_Company_Overview_and_Finan ...
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Prudential Financial Prudential Financial, Inc. is an American financial services company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, retirement planning, investment management, and other products and services to both Investor#Retail_investor, retail and institutional cus ...
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Securian Financial Group Securian Financial Group is an American financial service group that provides a range of financial products and services such as insurance Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party a ...
* Standard Insurance Company * State Farm Insurance *
Thrivent Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (marketing name Thrivent) ( ), is an American Fortune 500 not-for-profit financial services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Appleton, Wisconsin, and founded by Lutherans. As a member-own ...
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TIAA-CREF The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA, formerly TIAA-CREF) is an American financial services organization that is a private provider of financial retirement services in the academic, resea ...
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Transamerica Corporation Transamerica Corporation is an American holding company for various life insurance companies and investment firms operating primarily in the United States, offering life and supplemental health insurance, investments, and retirement services. The ...
* UNIFI Companies * United of Omaha *
Western & Southern Financial Group Western & Southern Financial Group, also commonly referred to as Western & Southern, is the Cincinnati, Ohio-based parent company of a diversified group of financial services subsidiaries. Through its subsidiaries, Western & Southern offers a var ...


Health insurance (major medical insurance)

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AARP AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons, is an interest group in the United States focusing on issues affecting those 50 and older. The organization, which is headquartered in Washington, D.C., said it had more than 38  ...
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Aetna Aetna Inc. ( ) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, ...
* American National Insurance Company * Amerigroup * Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association *
Bright Health Bright Health Group, Inc. is an American health insurance company based in Bloomington, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. History The company was founded by Bob Sheehy, the former CEO of United Healthcare, with partners Kyle Rolfing, Tom Valdiv ...
* CareSource * Cambia Health Solutions * Centene Corporation *
Cigna The Cigna Group is an American multinational for-profit managed healthcare and insurance company based in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Its insurance subsidiaries are major providers of medical, dental, disability, life and accident insurance and r ...
* Compass Rose Benefits Group * Delta Dental * Elevance Health * EmblemHealth * Fallon Health * Geisinger * Golden Rule Insurance Company * Harvard Pilgrim Health Care *
Health Net Health Net, LLC, a subsidiary of Centene, is an American health care insurance provider. Health Net and its subsidiaries provide health plans for individuals, families, businesses and people with Medicare (United States), Medicare and Medicaid, as ...
* HealthMarkets *
HealthPartners HealthPartners is an integrated, nonprofit health care provider and health insurance company located in Bloomington, Minnesota offering care, coverage, research and education to its members, patients and the community. History HealthPartners ...
* Highmark *
Humana Humana Inc. is an American for-profit health insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2024, the company ranked 92 on the Fortune 500 list, which made it the highest ranked (by revenues) company based in Kentucky. It is the fourth l ...
* Independence Blue Cross *
Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente (; KP) is an American integrated delivery system, integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California. Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield, Sidney R. Garfield, the ...
* Kaleida Health * MassHealth * Medical Mutual of Ohio *
Molina Healthcare Molina Healthcare, Inc. is a managed care company headquartered in Long Beach, California, United States. The company provides health insurance to individuals through government programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. History Molina Healthcar ...
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Oscar Health Oscar Health, Inc. is an American health insurance company, founded in 2012 by Joshua Kushner, Kevin Nazemi and Mario Schlosser, and is headquartered in New York City. The company focuses on the health insurance industry through telemedicine, ...
* Oxford Health Plans *
Premera Blue Cross Premera Blue Cross is a not-for-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield licensed health insurance company based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, United States. It sells health insurance plans under the Blue Cross license in Washington state except Clar ...
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Principal Financial Group Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG) is an American global financial investment management and insurance company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. History PFG was first founded under the name Bankers Life Insurance Company. Ba ...
* Thrivent Financial for Lutherans *
UnitedHealth Group UnitedHealth Group Incorporated is an American Multinational corporation, multinational for-profit company specializing in health insurance and health care services based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Selling insurance products under UnitedHealth ...
* Unitrin * WellCare


Medicare

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Aetna Aetna Inc. ( ) is an American managed health care company that sells traditional and consumer directed health care insurance and related services, such as medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, long-term care, and disability plans, ...
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American Family Insurance American Family Mutual Insurance Company, also abbreviated as AmFam, is an American private mutual company that focuses on property, casualty, and auto insurance, and also offers commercial insurance, life, health, and homeowners coverage ...
* Bankers Life and Casualty * CareSource * Conseco * Fidelis Care *
Kaiser Permanente Kaiser Permanente (; KP) is an American integrated delivery system, integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California. Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield, Sidney R. Garfield, the ...
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Mutual of Omaha Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company is an American Fortune 500 mutual insurance and financial services company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in 1909 as Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association, Mutual of Omaha is a financial organization o ...
* Physicians Mutual *
Premera Blue Cross Premera Blue Cross is a not-for-profit Blue Cross Blue Shield licensed health insurance company based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, United States. It sells health insurance plans under the Blue Cross license in Washington state except Clar ...
* Thrivent Financial for Lutherans * United American Insurance Company


Workers' compensation

* Accident Fund Insurance Company of America *
American International Group American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is an American multinational finance and insurance corporation with operations in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. As of 2023, AIG employed 25,200 people. The company operates through three core ...
(AIG) * AmTrust Financial Services * Cincinnati Financial Corporation * Erie Insurance Group * GUARD Insurance Group *
Hanover Insurance The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. is an insurance company based in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was the original name of a property-liability insurance firm established in 1852, and it remained a publicly traded company under that name until the e ...
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The Hartford The Hartford Insurance Group, Inc., usually known as The Hartford, is an American investment and insurance company. The Hartford is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in its namesake city of Hartford, Connecticut. It was ranked 160th in Fortune ...
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Liberty Mutual Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is an American diversified global insurer and the sixth-largest Property insurance, property and Casualty insurance, casualty insurer in the world. It ranks 87th on the Fortune 100, ''Fortune'' 100 list of larges ...
* Merchants Insurance Group * Missouri Employers Mutual *
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company and affiliated companies, commonly shortened to Nationwide, is a group of large U.S. insurance and financial services companies based in Columbus, Ohio. The company also operates regional headquarters in ...
* 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 The State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) is a workers' compensation insurer that was created as a " public enterprise fund" by the U.S. state of California, and today has partial autonomy from the rest of the state government. It is req ...
* United Heartland * Zenith Insurance Group


See also

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Insurance in the United States Insurance in the United States refers to the market for risk in the United States, the world's largest insurance market by premium volume. According to Swiss Re, of the $7.186 trillion of global direct premiums written worldwide in 2023, $3.22 ...
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List of Canadian insurance companies This is a list of Canadian insurance companies. The top insurance providers in Canada are Manulife Financial, Manulife, Canada Life (subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco), Sun Life Financial, Desjardins Insurance, Desjardins, and IA Financial Group (ak ...
* List of health insurance chief executive officers in the United States


References

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