With roots (and tree rings) dating back over a hundred years, Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance offers commercial property/casualty coverage to the forest products industry, plastics industry, professional employment organizations, and assisted living facilities. Its products include building and personal property insurance, specialty policies, surety bonds, and workers' compensation plans, which make up about one-quarter of the company's business. Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance is licensed to do business in the continental US and throughout Canada.

American International Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides insurance and related services in the United States and internationally. It operates in four segments: General Insurance, Domestic Life Insurance and Retirement Services, Foreign Life Insurance and Retirement Services, and Financial Services. The General Insurance segment provides property and casualty insurance, as well as various personal lines. The Domestic Life Insurance and Retirement Services segment offers life insurance products that include a range of protection products comprising individual term and universal life insurance, and group life and health products; payout annuities that consist of single premium immediate annuities, structured settlements, and terminal funding annuities; and group retirement products, and individual fixed and variable annuities. The Foreign Life Insurance and Retirement Services segment provides insurance and investment-oriented products, such as whole and term life, investment linked, universal life and endowments, personal accident and health products, and fixed and variable annuities, as well as group products, including pension, life, and health. The Financial Services segment engages commercial aircraft and equipment leasing, capital markets operations, consumer finance, and insurance premium financing. American International Group also provides reinsurance products. The company was founded in 1967 and is based in New York, New York.

Great Eastern Holdings Limited holds quite a few insurance companies in the far east, and they all want to be great. The company, through its subsidiaries, has operations in Singapore and Malaysia, where it is the largest and oldest insurer, as well as in Brunei, Indonesia, China (via joint venture), and Vietnam. It offers asset management, investment holding, management services, life insurance (through Great Eastern Life Assurance), and other financial services. Great Eastern Holdings' 20,000 dedicated agents sell its products; representatives at major banks also offer its wares. Great Eastern Holdings Limited company, which was incorporated in 1908, is owned by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.

Transamerica Life Insurance Company (TLIC) gives its American touch to Dutch insurance giant AEGON's life insurance operations. TLIC, which began operations in 1961, is part of the AEGON USA group of companies. Transamerica Life Insurance Company provides individual and group life insurance and annuities. The Transamerica Life Insurance Company is licensed to provide insurance throughout the US, except for New York and Washington DC which are covered by its sister Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company. Its products are distributed through agents and brokers, as well as via direct marketing efforts.

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.

GUARD Insurance Group protects employers from potential liabilities the entrepreneurial spirit of our roots still lives. Current CEO and President Sy Foguel has taken the pulse of the marketplace and believes that insurance has become an overly complicated but increasingly critical challenge for smaller business owners. As a result, he feels the time is right to make GUARD the place to go for simple, fast, and reliable “One-Stop Insurance Shopping.” This vision marked the start of BizGUARD Plus, and we are currently taking this product into more and more states. This success has been one of many proud milestones.

Lancer Insurance isn't your average car insurer. The firm specializes in commercial auto insurance for niche markets, writing coverage for clients such as bus companies, limousine drivers, long-haul truckers, and rental car fleets. Its main Lancer Insurance division provides transportation coverage nationwide. The company also operates smaller subsidiaries that cater to customers in and outside of the commercial auto arena. Its D.C. White unit targets small and midsized auto businesses in New York and New Jersey. Nobel Insurance provides coverage to explosives manufacturers, MOPS provides coverage for Coast Guard employees, and Owner Operator DIRECT provides single-unit trucking policies.

A UK division of The Travelers Companies, Travelers Insurance Company provides commercial property and liability insurance, as well as professional indemnity, and risk management services. Customers include computer and technology companies, the automotive industry, law firms, medical institutions, and local governments. The company also provides marine insurance and surety bonds. Travelers Insurance Company Ltd. operates alongside its parent's Lloyd's operations known as Travelers Syndicate 5000. In Ireland it provides both commercial insurance and personal auto coverage.

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.

PICO Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and development of water resources and water storage operations in the southwestern United States and Europe. It identifies end users, such as water utilities, municipalities, or developers who require water and develops new sources of water for municipal and industrial usage, as well as constructs and develops water storage infrastructure to facilitate the allocation of available water supplies. The company also develops and sells real estate, and water and geothermal rights; and leases properties for grazing and agricultural uses. In addition, it acquires and develops residential lots, primarily in California. Further, PICO Holdings engages in the acquisition and financing of businesses. PICO Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is based in La Jolla, California.

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