SECURA offers a range of personal and commercial property/casualty insurance, including auto, homeowners, and farmowners lines throughout the Midwest. It also provides specialty coverage for the manufacturing, restaurant, and service industries. Nearly two-thirds of the company's business is commercial. Some 400 independent agencies market the company's products. The mutual firm does business in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; it has one office each in Wisconsin and Michigan. SECURA was founded in 1900 as The Farmers Home Mutual Hail, Tornado, and Cyclone Insurance Company.

Through its Lloyd's syndicates, Beazley Group underwrites specialty property/casualty insurance, as well as catastrophe reinsurance and risk excess. Products include officers liability, war and terrorism, commercial property, and marine liability coverage. One syndicate also provides life insurance. Beazley Group is expanding beyond the Lloyd's market, especially into property/casualty and specialty lines in the US. The company also has international operations in France (professional indemnity), Singapore (engineering and construction insurance), and Hong Kong (specialty lines). Beazley Group has been in business since 1986.

North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance offers multiple lines of individual and commercial property/casualty insurance, including auto, homeowners, farm, liability, and umbrella policies. The company provides insurance to more than 430,000 members of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, a not-for-profit organization offering educational, economic, and public affairs services to the state's agricultural community. A network of about 800 affiliated agents sells the company's products throughout the state. North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance was founded in 1953.

Equity Red Star, the Lloyd’s underwriting business, is the UK’s 6th largest motor insurer and has been providing insurance products for more than 60 years. It offers a diverse range of products, including private car, classic car, van, motorcycle, taxi, minibus, fleet, haulage, agricultural vehicle, motor breakdown, household and personal accident. Equity Direct Broking Limited operates through affinity partners, driving leading brands in their markets and administering transferred existing businesses from UK brokers, supported through UK call centres.

The leading US personal lines property/casualty company (by premiums), State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the #1 provider of auto insurance. It also is the leading home insurer and offers nonmedical health and life insurance through its subsidiary companies. Its products are marketed via some 17,000 agents in the US and Canada. Competition has increased with the fall of barriers between the banking, securities, and insurance industries. State Farm's efforts to diversify include a federal savings bank charter (State Farm Bank) that offers consumer and business loans through its agents and by phone, mail, and the Internet.

Founded in 1999, the company is controlled by CEO Alan Buerger and family. Coventry First LLC is one of the largest players in the secondary insurance market, and as such it actively invests in high-premium life insurance policies, written on elderly executives or wealthy individuals desiring to sell them rather than maintain them. The seller gets a lump sum (only a portion of what they would have received otherwise), Coventry pays the remaining premiums, and when that person dies, Coventry gets the payout.

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.

IMA makes a business of danger. The company helps clients protect their businesses from dangers both natural and man-made. IMA Financial Group provides insurance brokerage, risk management, and related services for commercial customers in a number of industries, including the agricultural, biofuels, construction, energy, manufacturing, and hospitality sectors. The company offers analysis, advisory, and program design services to help businesses protect themselves from potentially unforseen risks. IMA Financial provides brokerage and consulting services through its IMA, Signature Select, and Towerstone subsidiaries. Its TrueNorth unit provides investment and asset management and consulting services.

Since its predecessor was founded as Columbus Mutual in 1906, Columbus Life Insurance Company has consistently grown and prospered for 100 years. Today, we have more than 2,000 financial service representatives marketing our insurance products and services, supported by a diverse and talented home office team of insurance professionals.At Columbus Life we believe that we best serve our policyowners through continued support of our financial service representatives. We believe that if they are treated as we would want to be treated, they will market the Company's products and services with greater enthusiasm. More importantly, a strong and friendly relationship with the field representatives will encourage them to develop a long-term relationship with their clients and Columbus Life.

Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance provides personal automobile, umbrella, and homeowners coverage, as well as commercial liability, workers' compensation, and other business products. Other offerings include identity theft coverage and yacht and collector car policies. More than 500 independent agencies market the company's products. Founded by Bavarian settlers in 1868, the company only served policyholders in Michigan until the 1970s. Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance is now licensed in 47 states and does business in about a dozen states in the Midwest and Southeast. It operates through Patriot Insurance in the Northeast.

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