Arch Capital Group Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment offers casualty; construction; executive assurance; healthcare; national accounts casualty; professional liability; programs; property, energy, marine, and aviation; surety; travel and accident; and other insurance products, such as collateral protection, excess workers' compensation, and employers' liability business. Its products are marketed through a network of licensed independent retail and wholesale brokers. The Reinsurance segment reinsures third party liability and worker’s compensation exposures; individual property risks that include personal lines and commercial property exposures; other specialty lines, including non-standard automobile, surety, accident and health, trade credit, and political risk; catastrophic perils, such as hurricane, earthquake, flood, tornado, hail, and fire; marine business, which includes coverage for hull, cargo, and transit and offshore oil and gas operations, as well as aviation business that includes coverage for airline and general aviation risks; and non-traditional business to provide insurers with risk management solutions. This segment markets its reinsurance products through brokers, as well as directly with the ceding companies. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Swiss Life Holding Ltd provides life and health insurance products to groups and individuals and pension systems to multinational corporations. It markets to its individual and group customers, located in a handful of western European countries, through its own agents and a network of independent agents and banking partners. It sets up customized employee benefit programs for multinationals through the Swiss Life Network, an association of local insurers, some of them owned by Swiss life, some of them independent. The firm also does business in asset management and private banking. Though it has pared down its operations and ambitions considerably, Swiss Life Holding is still Switzerland's leading life insurer.

Since our founding in Canton, Ohio in 1997, we've been working hard to provide pet owners with affordable and well-designed pet health insurance plans. Our plans help pet owners pay their veterinary bills in case of accidents, illnesses, and even for wellness care, like regular check-ups. They pride ourselves on offering the best pet health insurance products and customer service possible. To do so, we leverage valuable proprietary actuarial data, strong underwriting relationships, excellent in-house customer service facilities, and outstanding policy and claims administration

large companies need some assurance that their holdings are safe. Bermuda-based Allied World Assurance Company Holdings aims to provide that. It offers insurance and reinsurance products internationally. Its insurance products include general property coverage, professional liability, and health care liability coverage in Bermuda, Europe, Hong Kong, and the US. Its US insurance operations target small and mid-market clients through regional offices while its Bermuda insurance operations serve larger US companies. In Europe its products are geared for large non-US based companies. Allied World's reinsurance segment operates out of its Bermuda, New York, and Swiss offices.

The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company (VALIC) is anything but boring. The firm is a major provider of group retirement plan services to elementary and high schools, colleges, and hospitals. It provides annuities and life insurance to more than 25,000 client groups (representing some 2 million investors) throughout the US. VALIC is part of AIG American General, the domestic life insurance operations of American International Group. AIG has announced that it will sell all of its domestic life insurance operations, including VALIC.

Regence Life & Health Insurance is a provider of group life, disability, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance. It also offers supplemental programs in weight management, hearing aid service discounts, child safety and health products, dental care products, and laser vision correction services. Regence Life & Health is active in four states in the Pacific Northwest: Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Regence Life and Health Insurance Company is the life and disability subsidiary of The Regence Group, which operates the largest group of Blue Cross Blue Shield companies in the region.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company has offices throughout the US. The company is a leading US property/casualty insurer that also provides life insurance and retirement products through its Nationwide Financial Services subsidiary. Its property/casualty products range from general personal and commercial coverage to such specialty lines as professional liability, workers' compensation, agricultural insurance and loss-control, pet insurance, and other coverage. The company sells its products and provides services through such subsidiaries as ALLIED Group, Nationwide Agribusiness Insurance, GatesMcDonald, and Scottsdale Insurance.

In the consolidating European insurance industry, Aviva is a lively player. As the top insurance provider in the UK and a leading insurance firm worldwide, Aviva offers both life and general insurance. Its long-term savings segment focuses on life insurance, pensions, unit trusts, and other products; its general insurance segment includes the stuff which is called "non-life" or "property/casualty" elsewhere: home, auto, and fire coverage. Its Aviva Investors arm provides asset management globally. In the UK it also offers private medical insurance through employers. While most of the company's businesses operate under the Aviva banner, it also operates local businesses under other brands, including RAC.

Bermuda: sun, sand, and reinsurance. In 1998 struggling Annuity and Life Re (Holdings) was the first life reinsurer to hang its shingle in the tax-sheltered haven of Bermuda. However, it has ceased writing new coverage and in 2008 dissolved Annuity and Life Re America, which was once the company's flagship subsidiary. Previously it covered term, whole, and universal life insurance policies.

To protect your home on the range from damages and crop failures, just say "hail, no!" and call The Home Agency. The Home Agency sells crop insurance through offices in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Additionally, the company offers personal and commercial property/casualty lines, including automobile, homeowners, liability, and workers' compensation coverage, as well as health, disability, and life products. With about a half dozen office locations, the firm has more than 6,000 individual and family policyholders. The Home Agency was founded in 1974.

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