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What has happened in the past when insurance companies have gone under? What might happen to your life policy or annuity in a worst case scenario?

Is there anything you can do to protect yourself?

The Dutch government said Sunday it will inject 10 billion euros ($13.4 billion) into ING Groep NV in exchange for an 8.5 percent stake amid market rumors the bank and insurance company was running out of capital.

Banking and insurance company ING Groep NV said Sunday it will receive a capital injection from the Netherlands' central bank.

A medium-sized Japanese insurance company says it has gone bankrupt, becoming the first Japanese financial company to collapse on the fallout from the U.S. credit crisis.

Peter Wood admits he walked unchallenged into an insurance company and was able to steal all their data. He is not in trouble though, it was part of a security exercise and he was hired to try and steal that data.

Of course, as Wood says, very often companies "unwittingly hire people whose sole purpose is to steal data" without even realizing it.

Wood explains how some people in the banking community have "quietly and anonymously said to me" that they have found employees who have "been placed in their company by criminal gangs and they have been operating as moles over that...

Sue, San Jose, Calif.

On Tuesday the U.S. government agreed that the Federal Reserve would supply $85 billion to bail out American International Group, the world's largest insurance company.

Does the government really have a spare $85 billion lying around just in case?

After World War II, a far-flung insurance company in China run by an American businessman took a risky bet insuring that about 20 boats filled with Americans would make it back to the United States.

In an extraordinary turn, the Federal Reserve agreed Tuesday night to take a nearly 80 percent stake in the troubled giant insurance company, the American International Group, in exchange for an $85 billion loan.

It's no surprise to me that USAA hits the top again year after year. Other insurance companies, like State Farm and Amica always place high as well.

I was insured with State Farm for many years, then found USAA premiums to be lower and the claims service to be just as good.