Headquarters: 400 Broadway, Cincinnati, OH 45202
http://www.westernsouthern.com/

2009 life and health premiums: $820,400,000

Key officers: John F. Barrett, Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer; Robert L. Walker, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

Through its web of subsidiary companies, the Western & Southern Financial Group offers assorted products to meet the insurance, investment, and financial needs of customers throughout the United States. The group’s family of companies offers health-related protection in the form of critical illness, long-term care, Medicare Supplement, disability income, individual and group health insurance.

Some quick facts about Western & Southern:

The company was founded in 1888. Its current family of insurance companies consists of The Western & Southern Life Insurance Company, Columbus Life Insurance Company, Integrity Life Insurance Company, National Integrity Life Insurance Company, and The Lafayette Life Insurance Company.

The group’s critical illness coverage provides financial protection against conditions that may not be included in traditional health policies. These include heart attacks, life-threatening cancer, stroke, being on a recipient list for a major organ transplant, or being diagnosed with end-stage renal failure.

Standard & Poor recently granted the Western & Southern Financial Group with an “A++” (very strong) rating.

Source: Westernsouthern.com, hoovers.com

Compiled by Life Quotes, Inc. staff