BATON ROUGE, La.—This year, for the fifth time, Starmount Life Insurance Company has been recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in America. Starmount, and its sister company, AlwaysCare Benefits, Inc., has experienced continued growth during the recent rough economic climate. With a reported growth of 39.8 percent during the last three years, Starmount ranks as number 3,881 on the 2012 Inc. 5,000 list.

Starmount Life is a privately owned and operated insurance carrier, and AlwaysCare is an employee benefits provider of supplemental group plans including vision, dental, critical illness, accident, life, short and long term disability and limited benefit medical coverage, with employer-sponsored and voluntary plans that the company describes as fitting almost any need.