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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.
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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 ...
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.
It was reorganized on December 28, 1899 as a legal reserve mutual company. Security Mutual Life Insurance Company changed its name to Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York in 1960. The Company is a mutual life insurance company owned by its policyholders, and operates primarily in the Northeast United States. [2]
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.
AIL also developed a college scholarship program for children of union members, and the company contributed to the strike funds of unions engaged in lawful strikes. The company was positioned as the only 100% union insurance company, and termed the phrase, “Be Union-Buy Union." In 1963, AIL's income was about $6 or $7 million. [4]
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]