A U.S. arm of a French insurance giant is tiptoeing back into the U.S. life and health market.
AXA Partners US is marketing health insurance through Health Elect, a website that serves as a digital storefront for products distributed by Benefytt. Benefytt is the insurance agency responsible for the product sales.
For now, AXA Partners is focusing on offering short-term health insurance, limited-benefit medical indemnity insurance and Affordable Care Act major medical insurance.
The short-term health and indemnity policies offered through the site come from Standard Life and Accident Insurance, a subsidiary of American National.
The AXA Health Elect program will provide help through a call center Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time.
The History
AXA is one of the world's top insurers. The Paris-based company became the owner of Equitable, one of the biggest U.S. life, health and annuity issuers, in 1991.
