Top Insurers Recognized for Financial Strength and Stability
Horace Mann Property/Casualty, Life Companies Honored For Sixth Consecutive Year
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1999--Both the life insurance and the property & casualty insurance companies of Horace Mann Educators Corporation (NYSE:HMN - news) have been named to the ``Ward's 50' lists of the nation's outstanding insurers. Horace Mann is one of only two corporations nationally to be recognized on both lists for last six straight years.
Ward Financial Group is a Cincinnati-based investment banking and management consulting firm specializing in the insurance industry. Ward analyzed more than 1,400 life insurers and more than 2,700 property/casualty insurers and placed the top 50 of each on its lists based on their financial safety, consistency and performance over the past five-year period.
``We're very pleased to be included on both Ward's 50 lists for the sixth consecutive year,' says Paul J. Kardos, Horace Mann's Chairman of the Board, President and C.E.O. ``We're proud of our consistency and view this as continued acknowledgment of Horace Mann's outstanding financial strength.'
Founded in 1945 and headquartered in Springfield, Ill., Horace Mann provides retirement annuities and automobile, homeowners and life insurance to the nation's educators through an exclusive sales force of more than 1,100 agents.
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