Talk:List of United States insurance companies

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This article was nominated for deletion on 8 June 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

Notes[edit]

I took the liberty to reorganize the discussions. If you don't like it please feel free to revert it back to the previous form. I in no way intend to cause any difficulties over this action. Les Hayden (talk) 19:27, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Organization[edit]

Gosh, quite a lot of red links, despite my best efforts at finding articles. :(

This is probably not the best way to arrange this, especially considering so many larger insurance companies dabble in different types of insurance. (E.g. MetLife.)

This is just an attempt. Please tear apart as necessary.

KeithTyler 18:26, May 28, 2004 (UTC)

Is Expatriate Insurance and Travel Insurance the same thing or at least close enough to combine sections? HornColumbia (talk) 01:05, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be more useful to organize this as a single long table with the list of companies as the rows, the products as columns and then put some indicator about which products the companies market? Les Hayden (talk) 19:27, 28 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Viability[edit]

Since the list of insurance companies changes frequently and, if complete, would contain thousands of entries, I suggest Wikipedia's bandwidth might be best served by eliminating this article. What say you? Johnwhunt 02:50, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree. Ellsworth 20:08, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure on that. I think that the list ought to be modified several ways, but the intent of this article, I believe, is to help consumers differentiate companies that are legitimate and reputable from the "discount card" companies that have come up in the news lately, which collect premiums and don't pay claims. I suggest that we convert to a table-style format. Also, I think we should differentiate some of the companies (do they offer group, individual, small business etc.), status (do they offer multiple plans like metlife, or just auto like aflac...) or (are they mutual companies or not etc.). Just some ideas. I think this list definitely needs some work in order for the article to be beneficial, but I think it's a potentially very beneficial page. I, for one, am trying to get some information on the company I just signed with, and would like some other information beyond what is provided by the corporation and the state dept. of insurance.

This article will never be kept as current as the states' websites which are required to provide information to the public about specific insurance companies. In comparison keeping this article usefully updated is without any inkling of doubt a futile practice. It would be absolutely silly to purchase or not purchase an insurance policy based on casual peer editing, and to think that any Wikipedia article's purpose is consumer protection is, I feel, a misguided assumption. I support deletion. Ponydepression (talk) 06:30, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Specific Companies[edit]

Medica[edit]

The link to Medica is terribly wrong. I want to fix it myself but I'm using an iPad, and can't get it to format right, which is also the reason the formatting of this note is garbage. My apologies for that. Could someone fix the link to Medica so that it shows up as one of those red does not exist links? Dbrain64 (talk) 18:29, 25 December 2015 (UTC) dbrain64[reply]

National Union Insurance[edit]

Looking for information on Insurance Company that went out of business some time in 1994:

                          National Union Insurance 
                          New York, New York

Does anyone know when and why. Thanks

Valley Forge Life Insurance[edit]

Anybody know how to contact this company or the company that bought it?

What counts as US based?[edit]

Is this just companies with US headquarters, or (as the description in the top says) anything with a large US presence?

For example, Zurich isn't based in the US, per se, but is a significant player.

-KaJunl (talk) 18:46, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Health Insurance Companies[edit]

AARP, Kaleida Health, Liberty Medical, Shelter Insurance, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans should probably be removed from the Health insurance (major medical insurance) list. According to their articles, they either are not insurance companies or they do not sell Health Insurance. 2600:1702:3790:1520:2093:EF87:FBEF:65DD (talk) 04:01, 28 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]