Four European mutual companies formed White Mountains Reinsurance Company of America (formerly Folksamerica Reinsurance Company) in 1980. Since then, White Mountains Reinsurance Company of America (“White Mountains Re America”) has employed a focused, forward-looking strategy that has provided a foundation for our growth, strengthened our financial position and established our reputation for quality. In 1996, seeing the need for continued surplus growth, White Mountains Re America attracted the interest of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. (“White Mountains”).

SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company began life in 1939 as The Savings Banks Life Insurance system, which had been promoted by former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis as a means to provide "ordinary working people" with life insurance sold through more than 20 savings banks in New York. Today SBLI USA and subsidiary S.USA Life Insurance serve 300,000 policyholders across the US. The company has stuck to its original mandate and sells individual and group life insurance and other products through banks, though its primary source is direct marketing. In addition to life insurance, SBLI USA's offerings also include accident insurance and annuities.

Magna Carta Companies sells mutual commercial property and casualty insurance through Public Service Mutual Company and its subsidiaries, Paramount Insurance and Western Select Insurance. Offering services in select states, the group focuses on property, liability, and workers' compensation coverage for real estate firms and restaurants. The company also offers coverage to various small-to-medium sized businesses. Established as Public Service Mutual Company in 1925, the New York-based company was founded as a mutual insurance provider for companies in the taxicab business. The company changed its name to Magna Carta Companies in 2000.

MAPFRE, S.A., through its subsidiaries, MAPFRE provides customers with property/casualty (especially auto) coverage, life insurance, and reinsurance. The firm does business primarily in its home country of Spain, where it is a top insurer, and in about 40 other nations, including many in North and South America. Individual and group offerings include funeral, home, medical, and agricultural insurance. It additionally provides financial services such as investment and pension funds. MAPFRE also maintains a very successful alliance with Spanish banking company Caja Madrid through which the companies cross-market each other's products.

For over 30 years Total Financial has been the primary independent resource for producers who dominate their marketplace. We are one of the nation’s leading experts in developing and underwriting life insurance for wealthy individuals and corporations. The companies we represent, several of whom we lead every year, value our input and consult with us to keep them on the cutting edge of the brokerage world. Today they offer the successful insurance producer a powerful package of skill and selection. You get the most for your clients in this dynamic life insurance marketplace.

European insurance firm Helvetia Holding primarily operates through Swiss life and property/casualty subsidiaries Helvetia Leben and Helvetia Versicherungen. Its associated companies serve more than 2 million private customers and thousands of small or medium-sized businesses. As a top insurer in Switzerland, Helvetia Holding provides life, pension, auto, liability, and accident insurance policies, as well as reinsurance coverage and risk management services. Geographically, the company's core market consists of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, but it has expanded through acquisitions into other countries including France, Italy, and Spain. The Patria Cooperative owns 30% of Helvetia Holding.

MetLife, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance, employee benefits, and financial services in the United States, Latin America, the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and India. It offers group life insurance products and services as employer-paid benefits, including variable life, universal life, and term life products, as well as employee paid supplemental life products; individual life insurance products and services comprising variable life, universal life, term life, and whole life products, as well as a range of mutual funds and other securities products; and non-medical health insurance products and services, such as dental insurance, group short- and long-term disability, individual disability income, long-term care, critical illness, and accidental death and dismemberment coverages, as well as employer-sponsored auto and homeowners insurance and administrative services-only arrangements to employers. MetLife company also provides retirement products consisting of variable and fixed annuities for individuals and employees of corporations, and other institutions. In addition, MetLife provides an array of annuity and investment products, including guaranteed interest products and other stable value products, income annuities, and separate account contracts for the investment management of defined benefit and defined contribution plan assets, as well as offers certain products to fund postretirement benefits. Further, it offers auto insurance and homeowners’ insurance policies, as well as personal excess liability and coverage for recreational vehicles and boat owners; and credit insurance and endowment products. Additionally, MetLife funds company initiatives, various start-up entities, and run-off entities; and banking services, such as residential mortgage loans and various deposit products. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1868 and is based in New York, New York.

Genworth Financial, Inc., a financial security company, provides insurance, wealth management, investment, and financial solutions in the United States and internationally. The company operates in three segments: Retirement and Protection, International, and U.S. Mortgage Insurance. The Retirement and Protection segment offers various protection products, including life, long-term care, Medicare supplement insurance, and senior supplemental products, as well as care co-ordination services; and wealth management and retirement income products, such as managed account programs and advisor services, financial planning services, fixed and variable deferred and immediate individual annuities, and group variable annuities. The International segment provides mortgage insurance products in Canada, Australia, Mexico, and European countries, as well as offers payment protection coverages. This segment also provides various services, analytical tools, and technology that enable lenders to manage risk. The U.S. Mortgage Insurance segment offers mortgage insurance products principally insuring prime-based, individually underwritten residential mortgage loans, known as flow mortgage insurance. Additionally, the company provides institutional products consisting of funding agreements, funding agreements backing notes, and guaranteed investment contracts; and corporate-owned life insurance products. It primarily serves individual investors, institutional customers, financial institutions, mortgage originators, banks, building societies, credit unions, and non bank mortgage originators. Genworth Financial distributes its products and services through financial intermediaries, advisors, independent distributors, affinity groups, and sales specialists. Genworth Financial, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Limited ("HUB") is listed on the London Stock Exchange. HUB is the ultimate holding company for the Hardy group of companies.On 7th February 2008, control of Hardy Underwriting Group plc transferred to HUB via a scheme of arrangement, to effect a redomicile of the group to Bermuda and access property risks from there. At the same time Hardy Re Limited was established in Bermuda as a class III reinsurance company. 2008 was the first phase of Hardy's operations in Bermuda, with Hardy Re writing a quota share reinsurance of Hardy Underwriting Limited's participation on the managed syndicate

As a 100 year old company, Barney & Barney has been able to maintain strong growth over the years. In fact, Barney & Barney has enjoyed an 18-20% increase in growth each year since 2000. In 2008, Barney & Barney merged with Saylor & Hill Co. The combined organization is one of California’s largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms and is among the top 40 privately held firms nationwide. We work seamlessly across our offices to provide clients with the best consulting and coverage available.

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