For over 96 years, Swett & Crawford has delivered exceptional expertise and service to the commercial insurance marketplace. As a wholesale insurance broker, Swett & Crawford does not work directly with insureds. Rather, we serve as a key intermediary between the independent insurance agents and the nation's top insurance carriers. We work with the insured's retail insurance agent or broker to provide comprehensive, cost-effective commercial coverages and specialty programs for a wide variety of risks. For decades Swett has been the leading broker of its type in the United States, and the last four years has been voted "Best Wholesaler" by readers of the influential Business Insurance© magazine.

Platinum Underwriters provides property/casualty, marine, and finite risk reinsurance through subsidiaries Platinum Underwriters Reinsurance and Platinum Underwriters Bermuda. Another unit, Platinum Re UK, has stopped writing new policies. The company's products are distributed through reinsurance intermediaries. Platinum Underwriters was formed when, taking advantage of the friendly reinsurance climate, business insurer Travelers Companies (formerly St. Paul Travelers) spun off its ailing reinsurance unit (St. Paul Re) into Platinum Underwriters Holdings. Set up in tax-friendly Bermuda, Platinum Underwriters does about three-fourths of its business in the US.

MBIA will make sure that bonds get paid, no matter what. Its independent subsidiary, National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation, is a leading provider of insurance for municipal bonds and stable corporate bonds (such as utility bonds) in the US. Separately, its MBIA Insurance Corporation provides global structured finance products and non-US public financial guarantees. MBIA's Cutwater business manages assets for public-sector clients. Other lines of business include tax compliance services and buying and servicing municipal real estate tax liens.

Power Financial owns about half of IGM Financial, which owns Investors Group and Mackenzie Financial, distributors of mutual funds and other investment products and services. Power Financial gets a charge out of insurance and investments. The holding company seeks controlling stakes in financial services companies in the US, the UK, and Canada. Core investments include 73%-owned Great-West Lifeco (subsidiaries include Great-West Life Assurance, Canada Life, and London Life Insurance, leading providers of insurance in Canada). Lifeco's US subsidiary, Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance, provides employee benefits and retirement plans. Boston-based fund manager Putnam Investments is also part of the family.

Penn-America Group® offers property and casualty products designed for small commercial businesses through a select network of wholesale general agents empowered with specific binding authority. Its insurance companies hold admitted licenses and surplus lines qualifications in all 50 states and D.C. and maintain A.M. Best "A" (Excellent) XI ratings.Penn-America's insureds are small businesses that have limited access to larger standard lines insurers and must seek insurance in the “excess and surplus lines” market because of their rural locations, small premium size and non-standard risk characteristics. In this secondary market Penn-America is rewarded with higher prices than the standard lines segment, more flexibility in excluding coverage for specific loss exposures and lower premium taxes and state guaranty-fund assessments.

FPIC Insurance Group, Inc., through its subsidiary companies, is a leading provider of medical professional liability (MPL) insurance for physicians, dentists and other healthcare providers. The company's largest subsidiary, First Professionals Insurance Company, Inc., is the largest writer of MPL insurance in Florida and has served the market for 35 years. The company is also a leading writer of MPL insurance in Texas as a result of the company's acquisition of Advocate, MD Insurance Group, Inc. and subsidiaries. Other core markets include Georgia, Arkansas and Missouri. Licensed in 32 states, FPIC insurance subsidiaries currently have policyholders in a total of 13 states.

Liberty Northwest Insurance is a regional multiline insurer operating in five northwestern states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Its main business is providing workers' compensation insurance to area businesses, and it is the leading private workers' compensation insurer in some of its markets, including Oregon and Montana. However, Liberty Northwest also provides other kinds of commercial and personal coverage, including car, homeowners, business owners, and agribusiness insurance. A subsidiary of Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual, the company is part of its parent's Agency Markets segment, a unit comprising Liberty Mutual's regional insurance carriers.

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.

Grenville Mutual Insurance Company offers commercial, automotive, and homeowners insurance as well as agri-business insurance (such as for dairy and beef operations) to customers in Eastern Ontario. Property coverage generates more than 50% of revenues at the company, followed by auto insurance (25%). Established in 1892, Grenville Mutual Insurance Company has been doing what it does for more than 100 years. It is run on a not-for-profit basis and 100% owned by policyholders.

NYMAGIC, INC. is an established holding company that owns and operates New York Marine And General Insurance Company, Southwest Marine And General Insurance Company, and Gotham Insurance Company. We also own an insurance manager, MMO INC, which underwrites business on behalf of our insurance companies. Our company's head office is located in New York City, with two other offices in Chicago and on Long Island.

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