Founded in 1937 by Charles C. Parker, Parker, Smith & Feek is one of the 100 largest insurance brokerage firms in the nation. Privately owned and headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, the firm has world class resources with global reach. Our primary focus is the protection of our clients’ assets. And, to that end, we offer business insurance solutions across multiple industry sectors. From employee benefits and surety to claims management and workers’ compensation, our insurance and risk management knowledge and service expertise are unmatched.

HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty, surety, group life, accident, and health insurance coverage, as well as related agency and reinsurance brokerage services to commercial customers and individuals worldwide. It underwrites financial insurance risks in its financial products line of business, which includes directors’ and officers’ liability, employment practices liability, errors and omissions liability, surety and credit, and fidelity insurance products. The company writes medical stop-loss insurance that provides coverage to companies, associations, and public entities that elect to self-insure their employees’ medical coverage for losses. It also engages in insuring aviation risks, which include coverage for antique and vintage military aircrafts, cargo operators, commuter airlines, corporate aircrafts, fixed base operations, military and law enforcement aircrafts, private aircraft owners, and rotor wing aircrafts. The company offers hulls, engines, avionics and other systems, liabilities, and cargo and other ancillary coverage. Its London market account business consists of marine, energy, property, and accident and health businesses. In addition, HCC Insurance Holdings underwrites property and liability businesses, such as event cancellation, contingency, public entity, and U.K. liability; and writes facultative or individual account reinsurance, and treaty reinsurance businesses. The company markets its products directly to customers, as well as through a network of independent and affiliated brokers, producers, agents, and third party administrators. HCC Insurance Holdings was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Patriot Risk Management, Inc. is an insurance holding company focused on the workers' compensation insurance industry. Patriot Risk Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Patriot Risk Management, Inc., provides workers' compensation nurse case management, cost containment services, claims administration and adjudication services to insurance companies, reinsurers and segregated portfolio captives.

Since opening our doors in 1995, MEM has been committed to promoting safe, healthy and injury-free workplaces. Through our WorkSAFE program we’ve put our loss prevention expertise, safety education and training to work for our policyholders. And it’s paid off. More than 80 percent of our 12,000 policyholders are injury-free in a typical year.

Since 1967, Gerber Life Insurance Company has provided quality life insurance, especially for young families on a limited budget. As an affiliate of the Gerber Products Company, “the baby food people,” the two companies share a common goal: to help parents raise happy, healthy children. At Gerber Life, we have an additional goal. It is our mission to be the brand parents trust to help them achieve financial security and protection for their families. By providing affordable, industry-leading juvenile life insurance and other financial products, we strive to give our customers the comfort and peace of mind they deserve. Today Gerber Life is licensed to provide life insurance throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. We have more than $37 billion of life insurance in force, and help provide financial security to over 3 million policies. Gerber Life has insurance products available for people at every stage of life.

Ageas N.V. (formerly Fortis N.V.) is hoping to offer insurance throughout the ages. ageas N.V. company provides life, health, and property/casualty insurance in Belgium and other European and Asian countries. While still operating as Fortis N.V., ageas N.V. company was laid low by high debt and the contraction of credit markets in 2008. After receiving a hefty bailout from the Benelux governments, ageas N.V. company sold its Dutch units to the Netherlands government and its remaining bank operations to BNP Paribas. Ageas N.V. is the Dutch half of the larger Ageas holding organization. Ageas N.V. and its sister company, Belgian-traded Ageas SA/NV, have identical operations and are known simply as Ageas.

ERGO is controlled by reinsurance giant Munich Re; the two companies have formed joint venture MEAG MUNICH ERGO AssetManagement to provide financial services. ERGO Insurance Group thinks logically: people need insurance, ergo they sell it! The company comprises a number of firms specializing in life, health, property, casualty, and legal expenses insurance, as well as pensions. Property/casualty and life policies are offered under the ERGO brand, while health, legal, and travel insurance are provided through the DKV, D.A.S., and ERV divisions. ERGO Insurance Group targets individuals and small to midsized businesses.

Swiss Re America is the North American subsidiary of Swiss Re, the Zurich, Switzerland-based reinsurance giant. The company handles Swiss Re's business in the Americas in the areas of property/casualty and life and health. It reinsures life, health, property, motor, and liability policies for global and regional insurance firms, as well as US-based companies with global operations. Swiss Re America specializes in ocean marine reinsurance. In addition, the company provides financial planning and analysis services, as well as claims handling. Swiss Re's operations in the Americas account for about 40% of its total global insurance premiums.

Prudential plc provides retail financial services in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. It offers savings, protection, investment, and unit-linked products; and manages retail assets investing in equities, fixed income, and structured products, as well as institutional and internal assets investing in equities, fixed income, property, and private equity. The company also provides retirement savings and income solutions, variable annuities, fixed and fixed index annuities, term and permanent life insurance, and institutional products, as well as asset management and retail brokerage services. In addition, it offers retail products, such as individual annuities, income drawdown, individual and corporate pensions, with-profits and unit-linked bonds, lifetime mortgages, and health insurance products; and wholesale products, including bulk annuities and annuity back-books. Further, Prudential plc manages funds for retail businesses, including open ended investment companies and unit trusts, investment trusts, and individual savings accounts; and institutional businesses, which include segregated equity and fixed interest, pooled pension funds, and structured and private finance. Prudential plc offers its products through independent broker-dealers, independent agents, banks, regional broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, and financial advisers, as well as directly to customers through telephone, Internet, and mail. It has strategic partnerships with China International Trust and Investment Corporation Group, ICICI Bank, and Bank of China International. Prudential plc was founded in 1848 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

W. R. Berkley Corporation offers an assortment of commercial property/casualty insurance across five segments. Its specialty insurance segment underwrites complex third-party liability risks, especially excess and surplus lines, professional liability, and commercial transportation insurance. Its regional segment offers commercial insurance focused on small to midsized business customers and state and local governments through regional subsidiaries. The alternative markets segment develops self-insuring programs aimed at employers and employer groups. W. R. Berkley also does a bit of reinsurance and a smidgen of international property/casualty underwriting.

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