Once a global provider of insurance and reinsurance products and services, Alea Group faced a tough year in 2005 from which it never recovered. With catastrophes such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the US and flooding in Europe greatly affecting the company, Alea decided to stop offering new property/casualty policies and divest strategic operations. Its businesses in Bermuda, the US, and Europe are either in runoff or are being sold.

Enstar Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, acquires and manages insurance and reinsurance companies in run-off. The company settles insurance and reinsurance claims. It also offers management and consultancy, claims inspection, and reinsurance collection services to its affiliates and third-party clients. The company operates in the United States, Bermuda, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. Enstar Group Limited was formerly known as Castlewood Holdings Limited and changed its name to Enstar Group Limited. Enstar Group Limited was founded in 2001 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

A subsidiary of Dutch life insurance giant ING Groep, ING Life provides life, health, accident, and retirement benefit insurance services to group and individual customers in Thailand. Customers have access to dozens of ING network hospitals and health-care facilities throughout the country. In addition to insurance, ING Life provides financial investment opportunities such as retirement funds and long-term equity funds. ING Life's Thai operations are supported by roughly 40 domestic branches.

Credit Guarantee Insurance of Africa insures that your debtors won't leave you holding the bill. The South Africa-based insurance and reinsurance underwriting firm provides coverage products to businesses that protect them from bad debt and non-payment. Credit Guarantee Insurance of Africa also helps companies spot credit risks, both domestic and international. In business since 1956, the company is owned by insurers, banks, and financial institutions.

HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty, surety, group life, accident, and health insurance coverage, as well as related agency and reinsurance brokerage services to commercial customers and individuals worldwide. It underwrites financial insurance risks in its financial products line of business, which includes directors’ and officers’ liability, employment practices liability, errors and omissions liability, surety and credit, and fidelity insurance products. The company writes medical stop-loss insurance that provides coverage to companies, associations, and public entities that elect to self-insure their employees’ medical coverage for losses. It also engages in insuring aviation risks, which include coverage for antique and vintage military aircrafts, cargo operators, commuter airlines, corporate aircrafts, fixed base operations, military and law enforcement aircrafts, private aircraft owners, and rotor wing aircrafts. The company offers hulls, engines, avionics and other systems, liabilities, and cargo and other ancillary coverage. Its London market account business consists of marine, energy, property, and accident and health businesses. In addition, HCC Insurance Holdings underwrites property and liability businesses, such as event cancellation, contingency, public entity, and U.K. liability; and writes facultative or individual account reinsurance, and treaty reinsurance businesses. The company markets its products directly to customers, as well as through a network of independent and affiliated brokers, producers, agents, and third party administrators. HCC Insurance Holdings was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Fortegra Financial,They believe creating value for our customers creates value for our shareholders. Fortegra Financial is one of the nation’s most recognized insurance services companies and a leader in insurance marketing, administration, technology development and distribution. With a broad range of services, we can customize, creatively market and efficiently administer and manage a wide variety of business services for our customers.

Protecting from the multitude of dangers lurking in the water, mutual insurer North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association (NEPIA) provides marine liability insurance to some 300 members, including cargo carriers and large tanker owners. NEPIA offers protection and indemnity (P&I) insurance, freight demurrage and defense (FD&D, legal expenses), war risk coverage, and more. The company's operations are run through its wholly owned subsidiary, North Insurance Management Limited (NIML). While NEPIA operates primarily in Europe, it also has customers in Asia, the Middle East, and North America. The company maintains liaison offices in Greece, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It was founded in 1886.

The Allstate Corporation is the second-largest personal lines insurer in the US, just behind rival State Farm. Its Allstate Protection segment sells auto, homeowners, property/casualty, and life insurance products in Canada and the US. Allstate Financial provides life insurance through subsidiaries Allstate Life, American Heritage Life, and Lincoln Benefit Life. It also provides investment products, targeting affluent and middle-income consumers. Allstate Motor Club provides emergency road service and, adding to its repertoire, the company also offers the nationwide online Allstate Bank.

Stewart Information Services is happy to have a place in that mountain of papers you sign when buying real estate. The company writes title insurance through its Stewart Title, National Title, and other subsidiaries and distributes policies through more than 8,500 offices and independent agencies in the US and abroad. Unlike most insurance that covers future events or losses, title insurance protects lenders and buyers against past problems with titles. The company also provides real estate information services through its PropertyInfo subsidiary while its Stewart Lender Services offers a variety of mortgage origination process services such as credit reports, property valuations, and tax services.

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.

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