Direct Line Insurance plc was founded in 1985 with a simple idea in mind -- selling car insurance over the phone. It is the UK's leading private automobile insurer, and it has more than 5 million customers across its lines of business. Since its founding, the company has expanded its business to include home, pet, travel, and life insurance. Other products and services include home mortgages, loans, savings, online car buying, and car breakdown service. Direct Line has also expanded geographically by offering services in Germany and Italy. The company is an affiliate of The Royal Bank of Scotland.

GeoVera Holdings, Inc. is a provider of specialty residential property insurance products, focused on catastrophe exposed property in the homeowners and residential earthquake markets, operating on both an admitted and surplus lines basis. GeoVera Holdings, Inc. is a subsidiary of GeoVera Insurance Holdings, Ltd. and is headquartered in Fairfield, CA with offices in Sheboygan, WI and Tallahassee, FL.

Achieving a high rate of return is the main objective at Fairfax Financial Holdings. The holding company provides insurance, reinsurance, and other financial services. Its subsidiaries (including Northbridge Financial, Falcon Insurance,and Crum & Forster) focus on property/casualty coverage such as commercial, auto liability, trucking, and accident insurance in Singapore, Hong Kong, the US, and Canada. Fairfax's reinsurance operations span North America, the UK, and Central Europe. Chairman and CEO Prem Watsa's unorthodox business strategies have been compared to those of Warren Buffett; he controls about half the voting rights of Fairfax Financial.

Selective Insurance Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance products in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Insurance Operations and Investments. The Insurance Operations segment sells property and casualty insurance products and services primarily in 22 states in the eastern and Midwestern United States. It underwrites and issues commercial lines of insurance, such as general liability (including excess liability/umbrella), commercial automobile, workers compensation, commercial property, business owners’ policies, and bond risks through traditional insurance and alternative risk management products; and personal lines insurance for personal automobile and homeowners. This segment also provides federal flood insurance administrative services. The Investments segment invests in fixed maturity investments, equity securities, short-term investments, and other investments primarily in Parsippany, New Jersey. The company sells and distributes its products and services through independent insurance agents. Selective Insurance Group, Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Branchville, New Jersey.

Stewart Title Company makes sure that when you sign on the dotted line (over and over again), the house is really yours. A subsidiary of title insurance and real estate information company Stewart Information Services, Stewart Title provides its clients with such services as property appraisals, title searches and reports, closing sales transactions, and flood determinations. It accounts for more than 95% of its parent's total revenues. Stewart Title's network of independent agents and affiliated offices are found throughout the US and in several European countries. Its title insurance customers include home buyers and sellers, real estate brokers and developers, and mortgage lenders.

Young drivers in hot hatches make up the favorite fleet of UK car insurer Admiral Group, which targets young people, drivers of performance cars, and city dwellers -- those who typically pay higher-than-average premiums. Admiral Group uses a direct-to-consumer business model, selling policies online under a number of brand names including its largest, Admiral (aimed at youngsters and urbanites); Bell (low-risk drivers); Diamond (young women); and Elephant (online only for bargain hunters). This section provides you with information about the history of the Admiral Group, our company culture, our charity partnerships and how we support the communities in which we are based.

Brotherhood Mutual Insurance company provides property/casualty insurance for Christian churches and related ministries across the US. The company offers a range of products including liability insurance, workers' compensation, and foreign liability and travel assistance services for mission trips and Christian relief agencies. The company also writes policies for church-based day care centers, and Christian camps, schools, and colleges. The firm is licensed throughout the US. Brotherhood Mutual was founded by Mennonites in 1917 to provide fire and wind storm protection and it maintains ties with the Fellowship of Evangelical Churches.

Through its collection of regional insurance subsidiaries, Concord Group Insurance provides personal and commercial lines of property/casualty insurance to customers in northern New England. The companies offer personal insurance covering individuals' homes, cars, and RVs, as well as providing umbrella liability coverage. Concord Group's subsidiaries also sell commercial auto insurance and insurance packages for small businesses, including those designed for electricians, plumbers, merchants, and florists. With a history going back to 1928, the company sells through a network of some 300 independent agents.

The National Security Group, Inc., an insurance holding company, provides various property and casualty, and life insurance products and services in the United States. It operates in two segments, Property and Casualty Insurance, and Life Insurance. The Property and Casualty Insurance segment primarily provides personal lines coverage, including dwelling fire and windstorm, homeowners, mobile homeowners, ocean marine, and personal non-standard automobile lines of insurance in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia, and operates on a surplus lines basis in the states of Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas. The Life Insurance segment principally offers ordinary life, accident and health, supplemental hospital, and cancer insurance products in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas. The company markets its products through a field force of agents and career agents, as well as through a network of independent agents and brokers. The National Security Group, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is based in Elba, Alabama.

Hochheim (pronounced "Hoe Hime") Prairie Insurance provides property/casualty insurance to residents of rural Texas towns. Products include auto, homeowner, farmowner, small business, and machinery coverage, as well as insurance for hay, feed, seed, and fertilizer; water and irrigation systems; and windmills. The company sells its products through a network of some 200 independent agents across the state. Subsidiary Texana Financial provides non-insurance services. Hochheim Prairie Insurance was founded by a group of rural Texans in 1892 to help protect members from property losses due to storms and fires; it is mutually-owned by its 120,000 policyholders.

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