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{{Infobox company
|name = American Income Life Insurance Company
|logo= American Income Life logo.jpg
|type = [[Subsidiary]] of [[Torchmark Corporation]]
|foundation = 1951
|founder = [[Bernard Rapoport]]
|location = [[Waco, Texas]]
|area_served = [[United States]]<br />[[Canada]]<br />[[New Zealand]]
|key_people = Roger Smith, CEO
|industry = [[Life insurance]]
|products = supplemental [[health]]<br/>and [[life insurance]]
|homepage = [http://www.ailife.com http://www.ailife.com]
}}
'''American Income Life Insurance Company ''' (formerly NASDAQ: AINC), based in [[Waco, Texas]], provides supplemental life insurance to labor unions, credit unions, and associations. American Income Life (AIL) was founded in 1951. The company's executive offices have been located in Waco, Texas, since 1959. American Income Life is licensed in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, and is registered to carry on business in New Zealand. AIL also has two wholly owned subsidiaries: [[National Income Life Insurance Company]], licensed in the state of New York, and Union Heritage Life Assurance Company Limited, licensed in the [[Republic of Ireland]].
AIL has more than two million policyholders (as of June 2013).<ref>http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130822/OPINION/308220333</ref> With its New York subsidiary, National Income Life Insurance Company (NILICO), the company has combined assets of more than $2.6 billion, with more than $41.3 billion of life insurance in force (as of April 2013).<ref>http://www.ailife.com/about-ail/who-we-are/company-growth.aspx</ref> American Income Life is a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Torchmark Corporation]] (NYSE: TMK), based in [[McKinney, Texas]].<ref name="ReferenceA">Rapoport, Bernard (2002). ''Being Rapoport''. University of Texas Press. {{ISBN|0-292-77117-7}}</ref>
==History==
The company's history began in 1951 under the name American Income. American Income was chartered as a mutual assessment association in Indiana with $25,000 of borrowed [[Capital (economics)|capital]]. It was reinsured through American Standard Insurance Company as a new mutual reserve company in March 1951. American Income Insurance Company was officially founded in May 1951 by the company's president, Harold Goodman, and executive vice president, [[Bernard Rapoport]] (Goodman's nephew). The company's home offices were located in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]].
American Income originally sold low-cost hospital insurance plans. During its first year, the company took in about $95,000 worth of premium income. The company reached $1 million worth of insurance premiums in 1953. By 1954, the company was receiving 6,000 insurance policy applications per month.
In September 1954, with $200,000 in capital and $100,000 of surplus, Goodman and Rapoport formed a new company called American Income Life Insurance Company (AIL). American Income Life reinsured the policies of American Income and was transformed from a mutual reserve company to a stock company. American Standard, the company's original insurer, was merged with American Income Life, and the company acquired about $400,000 worth of premiums.
Between 1954 and 1955, AIL's assets had doubled, its net reserve had tripled, its capital and surplus more than doubled, and it had about $15 million of insurance in force.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> In 1956, Rapoport desired to take the Indiana-based company national. He obtained a license in Ohio and opened a central office in Columbus. By the close of 1956, American Income Life was operating in thirteen states with 300 sales personnel in the field operating out of 96 general agencies. In March 1958, the company's home offices were moved from Indianapolis, Indiana, to Waco, Texas.
In 1961, AIL began providing supplemental insurance to members of [[labor unions]] and serving union policyholders in ways unfamiliar to the industry. For example, AIL waived payment of premiums by union members during an authorized [[strike action]], a benefit still offered in 2017. AIL also developed a college scholarship program for children of union members, and the company contributed to the [[strike fund]]s of unions engaged in lawful strikes.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> The company was positioned as the only 100% union insurance company, and termed the phrase, “Be Union-Buy Union." In 1963, AIL's income was about $6 or $7 million.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> By 1973, income reached $31.5 million.
In June 1966, the [[Office and Professional Employees International Union]] (OPEIU) organized the Home Office staff, making AIL the only insurance company with all union employees. In October 1973, the company was granted an official designation as a [[union label|Union Label]] company by the AFL-CIO. AIL was one of only two insurance companies in the entire United States with the official Union Label.
In 1994, American Income Life was sold to Torchmark Corporation for $563 million.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
in 2012, American Income Life Insurance Co. sued [[Google, Inc.]] and the unnamed owners of two websites for featuring unflattering, albeit often true, results and reviews for the company in the top page of search results.<ref name="sue">{{cite web |url=http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=323908 |title=American Income Life Sues Google For Unflattering Search Results |last=Green |first=Meg |publisher=insurancenewsnet.com |date=January 6, 2012 |accessdate=January 14, 2018}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Insurance companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Life insurance companies]]
[[Category:Companies based in Waco, Texas]]
[[Category:Financial services companies established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in Texas]]
[[Category:Torchmark Corporation Subsidiaries]]
{{more citations needed|date=March 2011}}
{{primary sources|date=March 2011}}
{{COI|date=June 2012}}
}}
{{Infobox company
|name = American Income Life Insurance Company
|logo= American Income Life logo.jpg
|type = [[Subsidiary]] of [[Torchmark Corporation]]
|foundation = 1951
|founder = [[Bernard Rapoport]]
|location = [[Waco, Texas]]
|area_served = [[United States]]<br />[[Canada]]<br />[[New Zealand]]
|key_people = Roger Smith, CEO
|industry = [[Life insurance]]
|products = supplemental [[health]]<br/>and [[life insurance]]
|homepage = [http://www.ailife.com http://www.ailife.com]
}}
'''American Income Life Insurance Company ''' (formerly NASDAQ: AINC), based in [[Waco, Texas]], provides supplemental life insurance to labor unions, credit unions, and associations. American Income Life (AIL) was founded in 1951. The company's executive offices have been located in Waco, Texas, since 1959. American Income Life is licensed in 49 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, and is registered to carry on business in New Zealand. AIL also has two wholly owned subsidiaries: [[National Income Life Insurance Company]], licensed in the state of New York, and Union Heritage Life Assurance Company Limited, licensed in the [[Republic of Ireland]].
AIL has more than two million policyholders (as of June 2013).<ref>http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130822/OPINION/308220333</ref> With its New York subsidiary, National Income Life Insurance Company (NILICO), the company has combined assets of more than $2.6 billion, with more than $41.3 billion of life insurance in force (as of April 2013).<ref>http://www.ailife.com/about-ail/who-we-are/company-growth.aspx</ref> American Income Life is a wholly owned subsidiary of [[Torchmark Corporation]] (NYSE: TMK), based in [[McKinney, Texas]].<ref name="ReferenceA">Rapoport, Bernard (2002). ''Being Rapoport''. University of Texas Press. {{ISBN|0-292-77117-7}}</ref>
==History==
The company's history began in 1951 under the name American Income. American Income was chartered as a mutual assessment association in Indiana with $25,000 of borrowed [[Capital (economics)|capital]]. It was reinsured through American Standard Insurance Company as a new mutual reserve company in March 1951. American Income Insurance Company was officially founded in May 1951 by the company's president, Harold Goodman, and executive vice president, [[Bernard Rapoport]] (Goodman's nephew). The company's home offices were located in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]].
American Income originally sold low-cost hospital insurance plans. During its first year, the company took in about $95,000 worth of premium income. The company reached $1 million worth of insurance premiums in 1953. By 1954, the company was receiving 6,000 insurance policy applications per month.
In September 1954, with $200,000 in capital and $100,000 of surplus, Goodman and Rapoport formed a new company called American Income Life Insurance Company (AIL). American Income Life reinsured the policies of American Income and was transformed from a mutual reserve company to a stock company. American Standard, the company's original insurer, was merged with American Income Life, and the company acquired about $400,000 worth of premiums.
Between 1954 and 1955, AIL's assets had doubled, its net reserve had tripled, its capital and surplus more than doubled, and it had about $15 million of insurance in force.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> In 1956, Rapoport desired to take the Indiana-based company national. He obtained a license in Ohio and opened a central office in Columbus. By the close of 1956, American Income Life was operating in thirteen states with 300 sales personnel in the field operating out of 96 general agencies. In March 1958, the company's home offices were moved from Indianapolis, Indiana, to Waco, Texas.
In 1961, AIL began providing supplemental insurance to members of [[labor unions]] and serving union policyholders in ways unfamiliar to the industry. For example, AIL waived payment of premiums by union members during an authorized [[strike action]], a benefit still offered in 2017. AIL also developed a college scholarship program for children of union members, and the company contributed to the [[strike fund]]s of unions engaged in lawful strikes.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> The company was positioned as the only 100% union insurance company, and termed the phrase, “Be Union-Buy Union." In 1963, AIL's income was about $6 or $7 million.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> By 1973, income reached $31.5 million.
In June 1966, the [[Office and Professional Employees International Union]] (OPEIU) organized the Home Office staff, making AIL the only insurance company with all union employees. In October 1973, the company was granted an official designation as a [[union label|Union Label]] company by the AFL-CIO. AIL was one of only two insurance companies in the entire United States with the official Union Label.
In 1994, American Income Life was sold to Torchmark Corporation for $563 million.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
in 2012, American Income Life Insurance Co. sued [[Google, Inc.]] and the unnamed owners of two websites for featuring unflattering, albeit often true, results and reviews for the company in the top page of search results.<ref name="sue">{{cite web |url=http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=323908 |title=American Income Life Sues Google For Unflattering Search Results |last=Green |first=Meg |publisher=insurancenewsnet.com |date=January 6, 2012 |accessdate=January 14, 2018}}</ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Insurance companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Life insurance companies]]
[[Category:Companies based in Waco, Texas]]
[[Category:Financial services companies established in 1951]]
[[Category:1951 establishments in Texas]]
[[Category:Torchmark Corporation Subsidiaries]]
