The U.S. voluntary insurance market may be starting to emerge from a slump.

Sales increased 4.5% from 2010 to 2011, to $5.5 billion, according to analysts at Eastbridge Consulting Group Inc., Avon, Conn.

About 80% of the sales came from the top 15 voluntary products sellers, and sales at those companies increased an average of 5% in 2011, the analysts say.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.