AmerUs' predecessor companies -- Central Life Assurance and American Mutual Life -- had each been serving customers' needs for almost a century when the two companies merged in 1994. Other companies that have joined AmerUs Group over the past several years can also boast of strong legacies. AmerUs Group is a holding company whose subsidiaries are engaged in the business of marketing, underwriting and distributing a broad range of individual life insurance and annuity products to individuals and businesses in 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Our primary product offerings consist of whole life, interest-sensitive whole life, equity-indexed life, universal life and term life insurance policies, fixed annuities and variable annuities.