Unum Group is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Fortune 500 insurance company formerly known as UnumProvident.Unum Group was created by the 1999 merger of Unum Corporation and The Provident Companies and comprises three distinct businesses – Unum US, Unum UK, and Colonial Life. Its underwriting insurers include The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company. Unum is the top disability insurer in both the United States and United Kingdom and also offers other insurance products including accident, critical illness and life insurance.
In each of these cases, either the Plaintiff(s) or Defendant Unum has moved to compel arbitration since all the Plaintiffs in these cases executed identical arbitration agreements. Likewise, there are currently pending before the Court two Motions to Consolidate the above-referenced cases. All the parties to the above-referenced cases agree that the Plaintiffs [sic] claims are due to be arbitrated. Because there are now so many separate outstanding motions relating to consolidating and arbitrating these cases, in an effort to simplify, Unum, with