Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company was founded in 1946 as a joint venture of the farm bureau federations in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Texas; other states joined later. If farm livin' is the life for you, you may already know about Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance. The company, which focuses on serving American Farm Bureau members, offers customers in ten southern states such products as life, disability, and long-term care insurance. Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance also provides retirement planning and other financial planning services. Its products are sold through Farm Bureau Insurance agents who also sell the property/casualty products of sister company Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance.

One part of the Faraday Group, Faraday Holdings is the parent company of Faraday Underwriting, which in turn is the manager of the Faraday Syndicate 435 at Lloyd's. Funding for the syndicate (to the tune of $575 million in 2004) is provided by another subsidiary, Faraday Capital. Berkshire Hathaway acquired the syndicate in 1999 and Faraday Holdings is now a subsidiary of Berkshire's General Re. The company provides risk management underwriting through three primary teams: property, casualty, and aviation. The Faraday Group also includes Faraday Reinsurance, a separate unit of General Re.

Church Mutual is the largest provider of property/casualty insurance, including liability, and workers' compensation coverage, to the religious market. The company insures more than 100,000 religious organizations including churches, offices, schools, senior living facilities, conference centers, and camps. It also provides homeowners insurance to clergy members. Licensed throughout the US, Church Mutual also offers a variety of risk management resources including seminars and safety videos. Regional company representatives sell and service the firm's products. Church Mutual was founded in 1897.

Evoking tree and shop-lined boulevards, The Main Street America Group provides a range of personal and commercial property/casualty products including coverage for small and midsized businesses and individual auto and homeowners insurance plans. The company operates through regional subsidiaries Great Lakes Casualty, Main Street America Assurance, MSA Insurance, NGM Insurance, and Old Dominion Insurance, and affiliate Grain Dealers Mutual. Along with specialized surety bonds for contractors, executors, and public officials, the company also offers fidelity bonds to protect businesses from employee dishonesty. Main Street America sells its products through more than 1,500 independent agents in 25 states.

Validus Holdings, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides reinsurance and insurance coverage in the property, marine, and specialty lines markets worldwide. The company underwrites property catastrophe reinsurance, property per risk reinsurance, and property pro rata reinsurance; and insurance and reinsurance on marine risks covering damage to or losses of marine vessels or cargo, yachts and marinas, third-party liability for marine accidents, and physical loss and liability from offshore energy properties. It also underwrites reinsurance on other lines of business, including aerospace, terrorism, life and accident, and health and workers’ compensation catastrophe. In addition, Validus Holdings underwrites short-tail insurance and reinsurance contracts; and specialty insurance products consisting of war (which comprises marine and aviation war, political risks, and political violence), financial institutions, contingency, bloodstock and livestock, accident and health, airlines, and aviation treaty. The company offers its products primarily in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Japan, and Canada. Validus Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 2005 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

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.

As one of the largest marketers of employee benefits in the United States, we offer the product diversity and security you seek in a benefits provider. Our core business is focused on small to mid-size employer groups. Assurant Employee Benefits offers the strength and stability you can count on and is a national leader in all product lines based on number of contracts in force.* We are a part of Assurant Inc., a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 Index. Assurant Employee Benefits has offices nationwide and is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. We are a customer-driven, service-oriented organization committed to providing its customers with the quality products and services they've come to expect.

National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc., based in Boca Raton, FL, manages the nation’s largest database of workers compensation insurance information. NCCI analyzes industry trends, prepares workers compensation insurance rate recommendations, determines the cost of proposed legislation, and provides a variety of services and tools to maintain a healthy workers compensation system.Here you’ll find links to a variety of information on NCCI, ranging from the simple documents usually included in our press kits to the more detailed Annual Report and Issues Report.

Meadowbrook Insurance Group's Star, Savers, Williamsburg, and Ameritrust subsidiaries write a variety of specialty commercial property/casualty products including excess and surplus products for high-risk clients. With products tailored to fit small to midsize businesses, its customers include self-insured companies, trade groups, and associations. The company also offers reinsurance brokering, risk management consulting, and insurance management services including claims handling and administrative services. Meadowbrook distributes its products through a network of independent agencies, brokers, and its own retail agency operations.

Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (SMLINY) offers more than just life insurance and it offers it in 49 states in addition to New York. The company, founded in 1886, markets individual and group life, accident, and disability coverage. Its Secure Benefits Solutions unit sells worksite benefits to businesses and credit union members. It also offers third-party administration to businesses that sponsor their own pensions. SMLINY holds 20% of National Security Life and Annuity Company and markets its products in New York, while Ohio National Financial Services holds the remainder of the business.

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