Top 50 insurance companies and best insurance companies of United States

Below are the top 50 insurance companies and best insurance companies in the United States ranked by total assets. Metlife is the largest insurance company in the US by assets and direct premiums written. The company offers a wide array of insurance products and services including life and health insurance, accident insurance, auto insurance, home insurance, annuities as well as retirement and savings products. Prudential, based in Newark, is the second largest insurance company in the US with assets of over $750 billion. With more than 48,000, employees, the company has about $3.5 trillion of gross life insurance in force.

Rank	Company	Total assets, US$b	Balance sheet
1	Metlife	882.46	09/30/2015
2	Prudential Financial	754.527	09/30/2015
3	Berkshire Hathaway	545.468	09/30/2015
4	American International Group (AIG)	501.985	09/30/2015
5	New York Life	294.365	09/30/2015
6	John Hancock Financial (1)	273.343	09/30/2015
7	TIAA-CREF	268.200	09/30/2015
8	Aegon USA	252.737	12/31/2014
9	Lincoln National	249.532	09/30/2015
10	Northwestern Mutual	235.833	09/30/2015
11	Hartford Financial	231.453	09/30/2015
12	Jackson National	218.900	09/30/2015
13	Voya Financial (2)	218.711	09/30/2015
14	MassMutual	217.73	09/30/2015
15	Principal Financial	215.365	09/30/2015
16	AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company	193.181	09/30/2015
17	Nationwide Mutual	192.283	09/30/2015
18	Ameriprise Financial	145.320	09/30/2015
19	State Farm	138.798	12/31/2014
20	Pacific Life	137.048	12/31/2014
21	Allianz Life Insurance Co of North America	135.200	12/31/2014
22	USAA (United Services Automobile Association)	130.253	12/31/2014
23	Liberty Mutual Holding Company	122.311	09/30/2015
24	Aflac	117.455	09/30/2015
25	Genworth Financial	108.222	09/30/2015
26	Allstate Corp	105.849	09/30/2015
27	Travelers Companies	102.110	09/30/2015
28	Loews Corp	77.532	09/30/2015
29	Thrivent Financial	76.994	12/31/2014
30	Protective Life Corp (3)	69.304	06/30/2015
31	Unum Group	61.504	09/30/2015
32	CNA Financial	54.812	09/30/2015
33	Chubb Corp	51.192	09/30/2015
34	American Financial Group	50.557	09/30/2015
35	Reinsurance Group of America (RGA)	47.606	09/30/2015
36	American Equity Investment Life	47.128	09/30/2015
37	Guardian Life Insurance Co of America	45.657	12/31/2014
38	Western & Southern Financial	42.772	12/31/2014
39	Securian Financial	39.077	12/31/2014
40	Ohio National Financial	36.080	12/31/2014
41	Symetra Financial	34.963	09/30/2015
42	Mutual of Omaha Insurance	34.481	12/31/2014
43	OneAmerica Financial Partners	32.934	09/30/2015
44	CNO Financial Group	31.011	09/30/2015
45	Assurant	30.586	09/30/2015
46	Progressive Corp	29.935	09/30/2015
47	Markel Corporation	25.182	09/30/2015
48	Fidelity & Guaranty Life	24.925	09/30/2015
49	National Life Group (NLV Financial Corp)	24.561	09/30/2015
50	Humana Inc	24.296	09/30/2015
51	Ambac Financial Group	24.267	09/30/2015
52	Alleghany Corporation	23.434	09/30/2015
53	American National Insurance Company (ANICO)	23.432	09/30/2015
54	Stancorp Financial	22.882	09/30/2015
55	W.R. Berkley Corporation	21.739	09/30/2015

1 - John Hancock is the U.S. Division of Manulife Financial, a Canada-based financial services company.
2 - Voya Financial, Inc was formerly known as ING U.S.
3 - In February 2015, Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company completed acquisition of Protective Life Corporation.