| Unum Group is a provider of group and individual disability insurance products in the United States and the United Kingdom. It also provides a portfolio of other insurance products, including long-term care insurance, life insurance, employer and employee-paid group benefits, and other related services. The Company's principal operating subsidiaries in the United States are Unum Life Insurance Company of America (Unum America), Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company (Provident), The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company (Paul Revere Life), and Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company, and in the United Kingdom, Unum Limited. It operates in three business segments: Unum US, Unum UK, and Colonial Life. Its other segments are the Individual Disability ' Closed Block segment, the Other segment and the Corporate segment. During the year ended December 31, 2007, Unum Group completed the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary, GENEX Services, Inc. (GENEX). |