Western & Southern Financial Group

Western & Southern Financial Group, also commonly referred to as Western & Southern, is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned, managed and under care in excess of $52 billion as of March, 2015. It is one of the eight highest-rated life insurance groups in the world based on Standard & Poor's rating.

With heritage dating back to 1888, Western & Southern is a Fortune 500 company ranking at 482 as of 2015. Through its member companies, Western & Southern offers a variety of financial services such as life insurance, annuities, mutual funds and investment management. Western & Southern's member companies include The Western & Southern Life Insurance Co, Western-Southern Life Assurance Co, Columbus Life Insurance Co, Lafayette Life Insurance Co, IFS Financial Services, Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Eagle Realty Group, Integrity Life Insurance Co, and National Integrity Life Insurance Co.

Western & Southern's annual report is available at "Western Southern Annual Report". Western & Southern Financial Group. Retrieved 2015-05-20.

Western & Southern hosts the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament. This tennis event has contributed more than $5.5 million to charities in the Greater Cincinnati community.

Western & Southern played a key role in the development of the Great American Tower at Queen City Square project in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.

Farmers Insurance Group

Farmers Insurance Group (informally Farmers) is an American insurance and financial services company headquartered in Los Angeles, California and a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Group. It provides home, auto, commercial and life insurance and other financial services throughout the United States.

Farmers is the third-largest provider of both private passenger auto and homeowners insurance in the U.S., servicing over 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies. It has around 24,000 employees and 50,000 exclusive and independent agents.

Operations   

• The Farmers Exchanges, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, are three reciprocal insurers or inter-insurance exchanges (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange) owned by their policyholders. The Farmers Exchanges, directly or through their subsidiaries and affiliates, offer homeowners insurance, auto insurance, commercial insurance, and financial services throughout the United States. Farmers Group, Inc. (dba Farmers Underwriters Association) and its subsidiaries, Truck Underwriters Association and Fire Underwriters Association, provide certain non-claims administrative services for the Farmers Exchanges as their attorneys-in-fact. The Farmers Exchanges do not hold an ownership interest in Farmers Group, Inc., and neither Farmers Group, Inc. nor its ultimate parent, Zurich Financial Services Ltd., a Swiss company, holds an ownership interest in any of the Farmers Exchanges.
• The Foremost Insurance Group, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a group of companies that primarily insure specialty products such as mobile homes, motor homes, travel trailers and specialty dwellings, motorcycles, off-road vehicles, boats and personal watercraft. It was founded in 1952 and was acquired by the Farmers Exchanges in March 2000. The Foremost companies are subsidiaries of the Farmers Exchanges.
• The Bristol West Insurance Group became a part of Farmers in July 2007. In 1973, it began providing private passenger auto insurance to residents in Florida and now provides liability and physical damage insurance - focusing exclusively on private passenger vehicles - across the United States. The Bristol West companies are subsidiaries of the Farmers Exchanges.
• 21st Century Insurance, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, became a part of Farmers in July 2015. Using the internet and direct response marketing channels, 21st Century markets personal auto insurance to consumers throughout the United States. The 21st Century Insurance companies are subsidiaries of the Farmers Exchanges.
• Farmers New World Life Insurance Company started as Catholic Life Insurance Company in Spokane, Washington in 1910. Later that year it was renamed New World Life Insurance Company. In 1953, it was acquired by Farmers Group, Inc. In 1954, its name was changed to the current Farmers New World Life Insurance Company. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company is now based in the Seattle suburb of Mercer Island, Washington. It offers flexible universal life insurance, traditional term life insurance, whole life insurance and annuities. Farmers New World Life Insurance Company is a subsidiary of Farmers Group, Inc.
• Farmers Financial Solutions, LLC. was created by the Farmers Exchanges in 2000 to provide financial products to customers.

Farmers' products and services include:

• auto insurance;
• home insurance, including homeowners, condominium and renters insurance, mobile and manufactured home insurance, specialty home insurance, including landlord and rental properties, seasonal homes, and vacation homes, and flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program;
• motorcycle insurance;
• life insurance, including term, whole and universal life insurance;
• recreational insurance, such as insurance for boats, ATVs, RVs, and travel trailers;
• business insurance for small and medium sized businesses, such as liability and property insurance, commercial auto and workers compensation insurance for apartment and commercial property owners, artisan contractors, condominium homeowner associations, offices, religious organizations, educational and non-profit organizations, and other businesses in the light manufacturing, service, restaurant, retail, wholesale, and auto service & repair industries; and
• financial services and products, such as mutual funds and variable annuities.

Tips for Easy Processing of Life Insurance Claims

A lot of people are investing in life insurance policies, so that it can help their loved ones financially in case of their death. Life insurance companies can easily collect their payments from you but claiming the insurance benefits can be hard if you do not have the necessary documents at hand. There are a lot of processes that the beneficiary has to go through before the claims can be received. Filing these paper documents is not easy if you do not know what to do.

There are also a lot of people who are processing their claims and insurance companies have to face all of these people's concerns. The amount of life insurance claims that will be received would also depend on the type of insurance that covers the beneficiary and the event that lead to these claims. In order for you to claim you benefits fast and easy, you will have to bear in mind these important reminders.

As the beneficiary, you should have the original documents related to the insurance policy. Make sure that you also have copies of those, in case they will be needed. Make sure that you have all the documents needed before processing the claims. This would also include your identification as the beneficiary who has the right to claim the benefits.

It is important that you get in contact with the insurance agent from whom the insurance policy was purchased. He or she will be able to give you the details and steps that you have to perform regarding claiming the benefits.

As the beneficiary, you should also be familiar with the insurance policy that you will be getting the claims. This information can be read in the policy documents and if you have questions you can also contact the insurance agent.

Consider also the length of time that you have to claim the benefit. There might be an unlimited time some insurance companies transfer the benefit to the state. This means that the process of claiming the benefit will be complicated. So better claim the benefit as soon as you have the documents needed such as a death certificate.

There are also different ways on how the money can reach you. You can either get it at lump sum or by installment. You can receive the claim after seven (7) days when the beneficiary has finished processing all the requirements.

Do not worry if you do not see any taxes taken from the amount you received. There would only be a tax of 55% in the excess of $1 million claim received.

Filing your claim can be hard and stressful at times, so make sure that you have copies of all documents needed. Make sure that you also know your insurance agent and the insurance company of the policy you purchased.

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