Group life in force, top life writers, United States--2005.

Group Life in Force, Top Life
Writers, United States--2005

Group life insurance most often is issued to a group of
employees, but it may be issued to any group, provided
that it is not formed for the purpose of buying insurance.

($ Thousands)

                                                                      %
Rank   Group Name                        AMB#         In Force   Change

   1   Metropolitan Life & Affiliated
         Cos                            70192   $2,161,919,465     12.8
   2   Prudential of America Group      70189    1,228,312,165     13.1
   3   Hartford Life Group              70116      596,449,388      3.0
   4   Aetna Inc                        70202      559,570,575      9.1
   5   UnumProvident Group              69743      557,402,068    -12.2
   6   Securian Finl Group              69763      405,952,883     17.1
   7   ING USA Life Group               70153      379,326,544     18.8
   8   Cigna Group                      70173      337,794,948      0.2
   9   AIG Life Group                   70342      249,027,194    -19.7
  10   NY Life Group                    69714      240,822,034     26.1
  11   Standard Ins Group               70398      239,383,513     15.7
  12   Sun Life AM Group                69740      204,340,918      0.3
  13   Jefferson-Pilot Corp             70156      155,772,335      2.4
  14   Reliance Standard Life Group     69825      132,110,673     11.2
  15   Health Care Service Corp         69584      125,863,635      1.9
  16   Guardian Life                    69685      105,718,411      6.6
  17   WellPoint Health Networks Inc    70064       96,681,918      6.0
  18   Principal Life Ins Co            06150       93,627,843     16.2
  19   Assurant                         70135       90,631,318     -4.8
  20   Mutual of Omaha Group            70203       80,539,567      5.5
  21   Kemper Investors Life Ins Co     06225       75,725,788     -9.2
  22   MassMutual Finl Group            69702       58,524,978      4.0
  23   UnitedHealth Group               69973       56,645,388     98.3
  24   Aegon USA Inc                    69707       54,474,965     -1.0
  25   Genworth Finl Group              69555       51,521,907    -24.1

       Top 25 Life Writers                        $338,140,421      7.3
       Total U.S. Life Industry                 $9,247,840,018      6.1

Source: A.M. Best Co.