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V, the leading mutual insurer, has set up a joint-stock company, though not a publicly traded one.
ECONOMIST: Demutualisation in Germany
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Secondly, Halifax has extended its reach in the long-term savings market by acquiring the sales force and unit-linked business of Equitable Life, the troubled mutual life insurer.
ECONOMIST: Bank mergers
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On February 3rd Standard Life, Europe's biggest mutual life-insurer, reduced bonuses for the third time in a year.
ECONOMIST: European insurers
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Miguel and Linda Delgado created a fake entity to hide staff at their San Antonio, Tex. janitorial outfit, Border Maintenance Services, thereby reducing workers' comp premiums, says a suit filed by its insurer, Texas Mutual.
FORBES: Workers' Con
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Weak companies are still failing, like insurer Dai-ichi Mutual Fire and Marine earlier this month.
CNN: You Need Two Legs To Walk
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Since Toho Mutual, a medium-sized insurer, collapsed in 1999, consumers have become nervous about the safety of their policies.
ECONOMIST: Life insurers in Japan
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Virtus Investment Partners is a lucky casualty of the financial crisis--a sleepy mutual fund company spun off from insurer Phoenix Companies on Dec. 31, 2008, just as financial markets neared their depths.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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In the 2011 Insurance Shopping Study, American Family (a mutual company) was the top ranked insurer.
FORBES: Are Mutually Owned Car Insurance Companies More Successful?
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It would help, says Rowan Gormley of Virgin Direct (a joint venture between Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Australian Mutual Provident, Australia's biggest insurer), if regulation promoted clarity.
ECONOMIST: Tax and saving