Samsung Life Insurance and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance earned a combined 3.27 trillion won ($2.3 billion) in the first half of the year, both posting double-digit profit growth despite sharply different earnings drivers. Samsung Life reported 1.89 trillion won in net profit attributable to controlling shareholders, a 35.8 percent increase from a year earlier, according to disclosures released Thursday. Its consolidated net profit rose 33.8 percent to 1.97 trillion won.