American Hardware Mutual Insurance knows the nuts and bolts of commercial property/casualty insurance, including auto, liability, specialty lines, and workers' compensation. The company caters to small and midsized businesses, selling through employed sales representatives in 35 states, primarily in the western, midwestern, and northeastern US. American Hardware Mutual was founded in 1899 to protect hardware dealers from fire losses; it still provides specialized coverage for hardware stores, as well as for farm machinery dealers, car and boat dealers, repair shops, and several other niche businesses.

MullinTBG helps executives benefit from their benefit plans. Offering more than 600 customized plans, MullinTBG helps both large corporations and emerging growth companies retain personnel with executive benefits, retirement, and compensation packages. It offers such specialty insurance products as company-owned life insurance and customized nonqualified deferred compensation plans. MullinTBG also specializes in plan design, enrollment, record keeping, reporting, and communications. Through subsidiary MullinTBG Advisors, the firm offers financial planning and investment advice. It has offices throughout the US. Prudential Financial acquired MullinTBG in 2008 and made it part of its Prudential Retirement business.

At AmWINS, we’re all about finding a better way. That’s why we’ve created a culture in which we continually challenge each other to maintain a clear vision, seek new solutions, utilize the newest technology and offer superior responsiveness.With seasoned personnel, broad market relationships and deep knowledge of our specific industry niches, we can help you structure the right solutions for your clients. We are dedicated to supporting the efforts of retail agents and brokers, giving you the freedom and flexibility to take advantage of our wholesale insurance expertise and market clout. A strong and cohesive company with resources stretching from coast to coast, we also value a very personal approach to business and still operate in an entrepreneurial spirit – allowing our brokers to continue to grow and provide leading-edge solutions to our retail clients.

Symetra Financial Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial services company in the life insurance industry in the United States. The company’s Group segment offers medical stop-loss insurance, limited benefit medical plans, group life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and disability income insurance to employer groups ranging from 50 to 5,000 individuals. This segment also offers managing general underwriting services. Its Retirement Services segment offers fixed and variable deferred annuities, including tax sheltered annuities, individual retirement accounts, and group annuities to qualified retirement plans. Symetra Financial Corporation’s Income Annuities segment offers single premium immediate annuities to customers seeking a reliable source of retirement income; and structured settlement annuities to fund third party personal injury settlements. This segment also offers funding services options to existing structured settlement clients. Its Individual segment offers a range of term and universal life insurance, as well as bank-owned life insurance products. Symetra Financial Corporation distributes its products through financial institutions, employee benefits brokers, third party administrators, specialty brokers, independent agents, and advisors. Symetra Financial Corporation company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Hallmark Financial sells insurance to cover risks both general and exceptional. Its Hallmark General Agency unit markets and underwrites general commercial property/casualty insurance, while its Texas General Agency sells specialty property/casualty coverage to businesses that don't fit into standard coverage. Its Aerospace unit provides specialty aviation insurance to both commercial and private pilots and small airports. Other Hallmark Financial units provide personal non-standard auto insurance and specialty commercial auto and umbrella policies. Chairman Mark Schwarz owns about 60% of the company, partially through his investment firm, Newcastle Partners.

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.

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.

Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company writes property/casualty insurance for individual and small to midsized business clients throughout New England and upstate New York. Union Mutual Fire Insurance, its New England Guaranty Insurance subsidiary, and its Eastern Mutual Insurance affiliate together operate as Union Mutual of Vermont Companies. Policy lines include automobile, homeowners, marine, business owners, and workers' compensation. All products are sold through a network of independent agencies. Union Mutual Fire Insurance, a mutual insurance company owned by its shareholders, has a history dating back to 1874.

CoreLogic (formerly First American CoreLogic) is an information provider to the core. The company provides consumer, financial, and property data to businesses and government to help them develop predictive decision analytics. It maintains comprehensive US real estate, mortgage application, fraud, and loan performance databases and is also a provider of mortgage and automotive credit reporting. Customers use the data to assess risk, support underwriting, make investment and marketing decisions, prevent fraud, and improve business performance. The company was formerly a part of financial services giant The First American Corporation. In 2010 CoreLogic became an independent publicly traded company.

Chairman Peter Wood started Esure Holdings Ltd. in 2000, offering auto and homeowners insurance using the Internet as its primary sales channel. Since then, esure has added travel and pet insurance as well as personal loans to its stable of offerings. It jointly sells car insurance with Sainsbury's Bank; esure also underwrites and manages Halifax Car Insurance. With offices in Glasgow, Manchester, and Reigate, esure boasts more than 1 million customers. A management group led by Wood bought the majority of the company back from former parent Lloyds Banking Group in 2010.

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