Lincoln Benefit Life Company is a specialized firm under Allstate Insurance. The company offers a wide range of products and services including annuities. By the end of 2008, the company protected its policy owners with $344.3 billion of life insurance in-force. The company has been in business since 1938. Annuity-based products include fixed annuities, variable annuities, market value adjusted annuities, equity indexed annuities and immediate annuities.