American General Life and Accident Insurance Company (AGLA) is the product of the consolidation of two large insurers, The National Life and Accident Insurance Company and Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee, along with a number of other insurance companies.  AGLA’s roots run deep.

First incorporated in 1900, The National Life and Accident Insurance Company was a stalwart pillar of the Nashville, Tennessee community.  The National Life and Accident provided insurance to millions of Americans of modest means and was known for visiting in tens of thousands of living rooms weekly via its Grand Ole Opry^® program on its clear channel radio station, WSM. It also owned a Nashville television station, now known as WSMV.

Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee was also a notable part of the Nashville business community with its competing radio station, WLAC, and competing television station, now known as WTVF.  The Life & Casualty Tower in downtown Nashville, once the tallest building in the southeastern United States and blazoned with the trademark L&C logo, remains to this day as an enduring reminder of L&C’s importance to its home town. 

In addition, AGLA has grown through mergers, successfully acquiring Equitable Life Insurance Company of McLean, VA, Gulf Life Insurance Company, Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company, and Home Beneficial Life Insurance Company. In 2001, AGLA and its parent company and affiliates were acquired by American International Group, Inc. 

Today, AGLA provides a wide variety of affordable and innovative life insurance, annuity, accident and supplemental health insurance products to millions of Americans. AGLA is known for its highly differentiated Quality of Life…Insurance^® product suite, personal customer service and a tradition of excellence spanning more than a century.

Grand Ole Opry^® is a registered trademark of Gaylord Entertainment Company.
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