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Union Central Life Insurance Company was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1867. It was established as a mutual insurance company. Among its founders were Norman Wait Harris, founder of Harris Bank. [1] In 2005, it formed a mutual insurance holding company the Union Central Mutual Holding Company and converted the life insurance company to a ...
Ullico Inc. is a privately held insurance and financial services holding company in the United States.Formerly known as Union Labor Life Insurance Company, it was founded in 1927 [1] by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and its then president, Samuel Gompers, to offer health and life insurance products specifically to working men and women.
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.
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Union Mutual Life Insurance was incorporated in 1848 in Maine. [8] The company issued its first policy, which covered the life of founder and company president Elisha B. Pratt for $5000 (equivalent to $183,120 in 2023), on October 1, 1849. [8] Union Mutual's principal office at the time was located in Boston, Massachusetts, where Pratt resided.
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The company, formerly known as Fortis, Inc., was spun off from Dutch and Belgian financial-services company Fortis Insurance N.V. in 2004. The company's initial public offering on Feb. 5, 2004 at $1.76 billion was the fourth largest that year. In connection with the public offering, the company changed its name to Assurant, Inc. [4] [5]
In 1999, the company acquired Texas-domiciled National Specialty Insurance Company (NSIC), an insurance company then licensed to write business in 21 states, and later expanded its licensing to 50 states and D.C. In 2006, the company formed Delaware-domiciled United Specialty Insurance Company (USIC) to write coverage on an excess and surplus ...