AVIVA USA - AVIVA LIFE & ANNUITY COMPANY

We're the second-largest life and pensions business within the whole Aviva group. And, within the USA, we're number one for sales of both fixed-indexed annuities and fixed-indexed life insurance, with more than one million customers.

Three of Aviva’s founder companies established businesses in the USA in the 19th Century. The first was Commercial Union who, in 1869, made John Rae Hamilton of San Francisco its first American fire insurance agent. Norwich Union, began its business in California in 1874, then opened a New York office in 1879, and General Accident opened its first office in Philadelphia in 1899. Norwich Union paid out a staggering $1 million in claims made following the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

In 2001, following the merger of Norwich Union, Commercial Union and General Accident, we sold our general insurance business. In 2003, our long-term savings business based in Boston adopted the Aviva brand, and in 2006, following the acquisition of AmerUs Group in 2006, Aviva USA moved its headquarters to Des Moines.

We offer a wide choice of life insurance products and annuities. We also provide a great range of exclusive wellness products, in partnership with health specialists Mayo Clinic Health Solutions.

Why Aviva?

We put people before policies—every day, in everything we do. The proof is in the little things we do differently that bring the humanity back into insurance.

Your goals and life stage are unique to you. That’s why we won’t recommend a policy until we understand where you come from and where you’re headed.

Our everyday practices at Aviva aren't typical of other insurance companies. And that's the whole idea. So when we say you'll talk to real people, we mean it. The representatives who take your calls are Aviva employees, no exceptions.