National Life Group
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 National Life Group facts

• It emphasizes that it doesn’t make widgets or cars or computers
• Instead, it makes promises
• The company states its goal is to work to create a better future through innovative financial solutions that can be delivered on 10, 20 or 50 years down the road
• The company’s first death claim was that of Rowland Allen, who died in 1850 while seeking fortune in the California Gold Rush
• National Life Insurance Co
• had been chartered just two years earlier, so the claim pushed the company to its limits
• But the directors used their personal credit to ensure the claim was paid and the promise was kept
• National Life has paid a dividend on its participating life insurance policies every year since 1855
• Through the Civil War, the great flu epidemic of 1918, the Great Depression, two World Wars and most recently the Great Recession, National Life has paid
• National Life is mutually organized and remains independent