Group life issued, top life writers, United States--2004.

Group Life Issued, Top Life Writers,
United States--2004

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

($ Thousands)
                                                                     %
Rank   Group Name                       AMB#           Issued   Change

   1   Metropolitan Life               70192     $149,193,167      2.4
   2   Hartford Life Group             70116      134,453,713    102.9
   3   Prudential of America Group     70189       76,309,279      4.7
   4   Aetna Inc                       70202       75,037,702     -1.6
   5   UnumProvident Group             69743       73,933,041    -32.5
   6   Jefferson-Pilot Corp            70156       73,755,880    192.5
   7   ING USA Life Group              70153       54,904,332     19.0
   8   Cigna Group                     70173       48,276,218    -32.8
   9   Standard Ins Group              70398       46,184,813     56.6
  10   AIG Life Group                  70342       35,872,876    -31.1
  11   Sun Life Finl Group             69740       30,640,923     19.1
  12   MN Mutual Group                 69763       27,408,631    -18.9
  13   Reliance Standard Life Group    69825       24,893,890     -6.2
  14   Guardian Life                   69685       23,605,533     19.7
  15   Assurant                        70135       19,685,635     38.7
  16   Health Care Service Corp        69584       17,166,279     80.4
  17   Genworth Finl Group             69555       14,977,020     50.9
  18   NY Life Group                   69714       14,548,915      7.1
  19   UnitedHealth Group              69973       11,795,631     -4.9
  20   Mutual of Omaha Group           70203       11,776,015    -35.1
  21   WellPoint Health Networks Inc   70064       11,656,442    -16.2
  22   Amer United Life Group          70399       11,242,699     81.2
  23   Principal Life Ins Co           06150       10,879,788    -16.5
  24   Torchmark Corp                  70265        8,097,730     53.5
  25   Liberty Life Assur Co of
         Boston                        06627        7,769,388     90.2

       Top 25 Life Writers                     $1,014,065,540     10.1
       Total Life Industry                     $1,100,879,388      4.9

Source: A.M. Best Co.