NKSJ Holdings was created to hold two insurance companies: Sompo Japan and Nipponkoa Insurance. While each was a strong player in Japan's property/casualty and life insurance markets, when merger mania hit the industry they didn't want to be left out and formed the joint holding company in 2010. Eventually the two companies will merge into one entity, but until then, the two company brands remain separate. Its businesses include both domestic property/casualty and life insurance as well as overseas insurance products, asset and risk management services, pension plans, and some supplemental health insurance products.

Erie Indemnity Company was founded in 1925 as an auto insurer, it now provides underwriting and sales and policy administration services to Erie Insurance Exchange, a reciprocal insurance exchange that pools the underwriting of several property/casualty insurance firms. Most of its revenues come from the management fees it charges the exchange, but it also writes a bit of property/casualty insurance of its own through subsidiaries. Its reach includes coverage in about a dozen eastern states and it markets its products through some 9,000 independent agents. The company is the only publicly traded part of the Erie Insurance Group, which also includes Erie Family Life Insurance.

FBD Holdings is one of the largest providers of property/casualty, life, commercial, and health insurance in Ireland. The company offers specialized insurance policies for homeowners, drivers, pub owners, farmers, and business owners. The company has some 50 independent retail offices nationwide. Other operations include reinsurance, asset financing, financial services, and captive insurance management, as well as some property and leisure holdings. FBD also sells retirement products and offers investment advice. Farmer Business Developments, an Irish insurance collective, owns about a quarter of FBD Holdings.

Central Mutual Insurance company is centrally located, is mutually held, and by golly, it does sell insurance through its operating subsidiaries Central Insurance Companies, All America Insurance, and CMI Lloyds. These subsidiaries offer auto, business, and homeowners insurance; underwrite commercial policies; and assess computer and electronic equipment claims. The company does business in more than 15 states; its products are sold by independent agents in the central, northeastern, southeastern, and southwestern regions of the US. The company was founded in 1876. Chairman and president Francis Purmort III is the fifth generation of his family to lead the company.

When other insurance carriers reject you, don't cry a river, call one! James River Group writes specialty property/casualty insurance through its two primary operating subsidiaries. James River Insurance offers excess & surplus lines (policies that have been rejected by standard carriers), including general casualty, professional liability, and environmental coverage in 49 states and Washington, DC. Stonewood Insurance provides workers' compensation in North Carolina and Virginia, primarily for homebuilders. The company distributes its products through a network of independent brokers and agents. Private investment firm D. E. Shaw owns James River.

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.

Assurity Life, formed when Woodmen Accident, Assurity Life, and Lincoln Direct merged in 2003, provides group and individual life insurance, disability income protection, and annuity products, serving some 420,000 customer accounts nationwide. It also offers various critical-illness policies (which provide lump-sum payouts for a variety of conditions and diseases). A network of independent brokers as well as affiliated sales representatives (worksite distributors) market Assurity Life's products. With roots going back to 1890, Assurity Life is the primary subsidiary of Assurity Security Group.

The subsidiaries of Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance Services offer a variety of personal and commercial property/casualty and life insurance products to members of the Missouri Farm Bureau (its parent company). Although the company has its roots in agricultural and farm-related insurance, it also provides automobile, homeowners, and boat coverage in addition to whole and term life policies and annuities. Group members include Farm Bureau Town & Country (property/casualty insurance, originally formed in 1946), Farm Bureau Life, and Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance Brokerage, which places health insurance. Its products are distributed through some 225 field agents across Missouri.

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 Hartford Financial Services Group is an insurer with a range of personal and commercial life and property/casualty insurance products. Through its Hartford Life subsidiary, the company offers individual and group life insurance and annuities, as well as the financial services mentioned in its name (asset management, retirement plans, and mutual funds). Its property/casualty operations include both personal (homeowners, auto) and business coverage (workers' compensation) and specialty commercial coverage for large companies. The Hartford, in business since 1810, sells its products through about 11,000 independent agencies and more than 100,000 registered broker-dealers.

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