BATON ROUGE, LA. (June 11, 2008) — Group Insurance, Inc. has been named by UnitedHealthcare as a general agent representing the company’s products and services across the entire state through a network of independent agents.

As general agent, Group Insurance also will provide training and other services to independent agents where needed.

Group Insurance is the oldest health insurance brokerage company in Louisiana.  On behalf of its clients, it offers a full range of health insurance products, including indemnity, managed care and self-funded health plans, as well as a full line of ancillary health benefits.

“Group Insurance’s experience in offering health benefit plans to the people of Louisiana is highly regarded, and its efforts on behalf of UnitedHealthcare we  believe will further enhance our ability to provide access to affordable, quality health care services for people throughout the state,” said Glen Golemi, CEO of UnitedHealthcare of Louisiana.  

Dan Jumonville, CLU, president and CEO of Group Insurance, said, “The addition of a quality company like UnitedHealthcare to our product portfolio gives our more than 600 Louisiana brokers access to additional innovative products backed by outstanding service that will enable them to better serve our clientele.”

UnitedHealthcare of Louisiana serves more than 370,000 customers across the state through a health care network of more than 6,820 physicians and 137 hospitals.

About Group Insurance Incorporated
Group Insurance, Incorporated (GII) is located in Baton Rouge and was founded by Dan Jumonville, CLU in 1971 as a brokerage company for group health insurance products.  It is the oldest health insurance brokerage company in Louisiana.

About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services.  The company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on behalf of more than 25 million individual consumers, contracting directly with more than 560,000 physicians and care professionals and 4,800 hospitals nationwide to offer them broad, convenient access to services nationwide.  UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company.