American Safety Insurance Holdings (ASI) was part of the first wave of insurance firms domiciling in this tax-sheltered location. Formed to offer insurance to asbestos removers and other environmental risk-remediation providers, the company has expanded into other specialty lines. American Safety Insurance now underwrites residential and commercial construction risks, as well as professional and product liability, and excess and surplus policies. The company also offers alternative risk transfer programs that rely on some measure of self-insurance or shared risk on the part of the insured. The firm sells through a network of 250 agencies in the US.

Capitol Transamerica does business across the US but mostly in the middle. The insurance holding company operates in 50 states and Washington, DC, but its business is concentrated in the Midwest and Plains states. Its primary operating subsidiaries, Capitol Indemnity and Capitol Specialty Insurance, offer property/casualty coverage for such niches as barber and beauty shops, bowling alleys, and taverns. It also offers fidelity and surety bonds to commercial entities through Capital Indemnity and another unit, Platte River Insurance.

W. R. Berkley Corporation is a financial services company focused on the property and casualty insurance business. It has been uniquely successful in meeting the needs of its various constituencies. Over the past 42 years, the Company has achieved an outstanding record of consistently providing insurance products and services that meet the needs of its customers. It has provided its employees with a challenging and rewarding workplace while also making both economic and civic contributions to the communities in which it operates. Most significantly, it has been able to do these things while providing outstanding returns to its shareholders.

Its Unipol Banca has about 300 branches. The acquisitive company continues to target insurance firms and banks. Holding company Holmo SpA controls Unipol through a second holding company, Finanziaria dell'Economia Sociale (Finsoe). In need of some insurance or financial services? Rally 'round the Unipol! Unipol Gruppo Finanziario (better known simply as Unipol) is transforming itself from a multiline insurance company to a financial services firm. While the company's main focus is offering life, auto, property/casualty, health, and other general insurance, Unipol also has expanded its reach by adding asset management and merchant banking, as well as consumer banking services.

For over 90 years, Auto-Owners has been dedicated to the independent agency system. We're proud to be ranked among the Fortune 500 every year since 2002, and our written premium is over $4.4 billion.Comprised of five property and casualty companies and one life/health/annuity insurer, the group is recognized for exceptional financial strength and stability among the nation's largest insurers

CastlePoint is a new entity with a Bermuda-based property and casualty reinsurer and U.S. specialty insurer offering customized solutions to clients who share CastlePoint’s perspective on capital deployment, risk management and business growth. CastlePoint enters the market with financial strength, a clean balance sheet and an experienced leadership team.

Unum Group, together with its subsidiaries, provides group and individual disability insurance products primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Unum Group also provides a portfolio of other insurance products, including long-term care insurance, life insurance, employer and employee-paid group benefits, and related services. Its products include group long-term and short-term disability; group life and accidental death, and dismemberment; individual disability; group and individual long-term care; brokerage voluntary benefits; group life; accident, sickness, and disability; and cancer and critical illness insurance products. The company also provides individual life and corporate-owned life insurance, reinsurance pools and management operations, group pension, health insurance, and individual annuities. It markets its products primarily to employers interested in providing benefits to their employees. Unum Group was founded in 1848 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The mutual insurance company, commonly referred to as Groupama Insurances, offers its members a cooperative sort of structure, which provides ownership benefits, along with the usual insurance products. It offers auto, homeowners, and health care coverage to individuals, as well as commercial property/casualty insurance to small businesses. The leading UK insurer, Groupama Insurances has seven offices throughout the country and sells its wares through brokers and affinity groups. The company is a subsidiary of French financial services group Groupama SA, which was founded in 1840 and has subsidiaries throughout Europe.

RGA posted $2.3 trillion of life reinsurance in force and assets of more than $25 billion. In October, RGA announced an agreement with ReliaStar Life Insurance Company to acquire ReliaStar’s U.S. and Canadian group life, accident and health reinsurance business, which operated under the name ING Reinsurance. The acquisition was finalized January 1, 2010. RGA’s mortality expertise and facultative experience continued to lead the industry. Company-wide, RGA processed 286,756 facultative submissions in 2009.RGA was named “Life Reinsurance Company of the Year” at The Review Worldwide Reinsurance Awards. This was the third time in six years RGA has received this award. RGA Reinsurance Company was named “Best Overall Life Reinsurer” for the third consecutive time by North American life insurers in the 2009 Flaspöhler Cedant Survey (Life – North America).

In 1909, Iowa grain elevator and farm leaders needed a way to stop the financial devastation caused by frequent and destructive wooden elevator fires that were occurring across the nation. Together, they created an alternative source of dependable, affordable insurance to protect against their losses.Founded in Aurelia, Iowa, the Farmers Cooperative Elevator Mutual Insurance Association was the seed that became Farmland Insurance. The company built a solid reputation by focusing on the needs of American agriculture.

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