Horace Mann Educators Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a multiline insurance company in the United States. It markets and underwrites personal lines of property and casualty insurance that primarily include automobile and homeowners insurance products; retirement annuities, which principally comprise tax-qualified fixed and variable deposits; and life insurance products. The company offers its products directly through its sales force and through independent agents primarily to K-12 teachers, administrators, and other employees of public schools and their families. Horace Mann Educators Corporation was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Springfield, Illinois.