founded 1922 headquarters glenview illinois united states area served worldwide products supplemental health life disability and accident insurance policies revenue us 926.6 million 2010 total assets us 2.9 billion 2010 number of employees 7 000 worldwide parent chubb limited website www.combinedinsurance.com combined insurance is a global provider of supplemental insurance including accident insurance life insurance and critical care coverage . combined insurance operates in north america latin america europe and the pacific . the company is headquartered in glenview illinois . history edit in 1922 w. clement stone with a borrowed 100 started combined registry company 1 in chicago . during the difficulty of the great depression stone in 1929 cut his field force to just 135 agents from more than 1 000 agents to increase efficiency . in 1939 after weathering the depression stone created the combined mutual casualty company which was established when combined registry company purchased the american casualty company in texas . in 1947 the company changed its name to combined insurance company of america . in 1956 combined insurance was expanded to include canada . the years between 1959 and 1963 marked a time of growth and expansion . the company expanded into australia then puerto rico and the bahamas then into europe with the addition of england 2 and northern ireland . in 1962 stone authored the self help book the success system that never fails . isbn 978 0 671 52462 3 in 1971 the combined life insurance company of new york was established . in 1980 shareholders of combined insurance company of america approved the formation of a holding company combined international corporation which traded publicly on the new york stock exchange under the call letters pma . two years later the company merged with ryan insurance group with stone becoming chairman of the new company and patrick ryan becoming president and ceo . the new company was renamed aon a gaelic word signifying oneness and unity in 1987 . 3 stone stepped down from day to day operations in the early 1990s and took the title chairman emeritus . in 2008 aon sold combined insurance to ace limited for 2.56 billion 4 which resulted in the closure of the uk employee benefits arm . 5 business edit combined insurance offers several types of insurance policies which vary by market and customer need including accident accident and sickness critical care cancer life and medicare supplement coverage . combined insurance also includes combined insurance worksite solutions which offers supplemental insurance to complement existing employer benefits programs and combined insurance select programs which provides niche insurance products including student accident and health insurance employer group vision insurance and other group accident and health products . notes edit wilson mark r. 1 dictionary of leading chicago businesses 1820 2000 2 history of combined insurance martin douglas 3 clement stone dies at 100 ; built empire on optimism new york times 5 september 2002 4 ace completes acquisition of combined insurance company of america 5 closure of combined benefit services retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title combined insurance & oldid 726432850 categories companies based in cook county illinoisinsurance companies of canadainsurance companies of australiainsurance companies of germanyinsurance companies of irelandinsurance companies of portugalinsurance companies of spaininsurance companies of the united kingdominsurance companies of new zealandinsurance companies of puerto ricoinsurance companies of the bahamas navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 june 2016 at 04 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view