AmerUs (also known as AmerUs Life or AmerUs Group) was an American

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company based in

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The

Brotherhood of American Yeomen Brotherhood of American Yeomen (acronym, BAY; originally, Farmer's Mutual), was a coeducational North American secret societies, secret List of general fraternities, fraternal benefit society organized in 1897. In 1932, the organization was change ...

was established in 1897. It was renamed "Yeoman Mutual Life" in 1932, and "American Mutual Life" in 1938. American Mutual Life merged with Central Life Insurance in 1994, forming AmerUs Life. In 2006, AmerUs was purchased by

Aviva Aviva plc is a British multinational insurance company headquartered in London, England. It has about 19 million customers across its core markets of the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada. In the United Kingdom, Aviva is the largest general ...

for $2.9 billion.

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