GBG Insurance Limited and Global Benefits Group Inc.  have announced a strategic partnership with Independence Holding Company to provide health, life, disability and travel insurance products to clients based in the United States. The partnership will allow GBG to offer, subject to necessary product approvals, corporate group clients the ability to offer U.S. citizens living abroad a suite of insurance products that is U.S. compliant while maintaining their overseas workforce on an international platform according an article in sfgate.com