Founded in 1925 by the American Federation of Labor (which became the AFL-CIO) to provide life insurance to union members, ULLICO has since grown into an insurance and financial services holding company. The company serves unionized employers, individual union members, and jointly managed trust funds nationwide through its subsidiaries, including Union Labor Life Insurance and ULLICO Investment Advisors. ULLICO offers an array of individual and commercial insurance products, including annuities, group life and health insurance, property & casualty insurance, liability coverage for unions, and investment services. The company has more than $5.4 billion in total assets under management.

Selective Insurance Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance products in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Insurance Operations and Investments. The Insurance Operations segment sells property and casualty insurance products and services primarily in 22 states in the eastern and Midwestern United States. It underwrites and issues commercial lines of insurance, such as general liability (including excess liability/umbrella), commercial automobile, workers compensation, commercial property, business owners’ policies, and bond risks through traditional insurance and alternative risk management products; and personal lines insurance for personal automobile and homeowners. This segment also provides federal flood insurance administrative services. The Investments segment invests in fixed maturity investments, equity securities, short-term investments, and other investments primarily in Parsippany, New Jersey. The company sells and distributes its products and services through independent insurance agents. Selective Insurance Group, Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Branchville, New Jersey.

Founded in 1863 as a fire insurance company, Baloise-Holding today is a general insurer that sells such standardized products as group and individual life policies and accident, property, and auto insurance to small firms and individuals. Baloise-Holding company is one of the leading insurers in Switzerland, operating primarily there and in Germany; together the countries account for about 80% of its sales. Through subsidiaries, it also operates in six other nearby countries including Croatia and Serbia. Baloise also provides banking, pension plans, and other financial services through its Baloise Bank SoBa. Baloise-Holding company uses its own sales force as well as partner distributors and independent brokers to sell its wares.

Ageas N.V. (formerly Fortis N.V.) is hoping to offer insurance throughout the ages. ageas N.V. company provides life, health, and property/casualty insurance in Belgium and other European and Asian countries. While still operating as Fortis N.V., ageas N.V. company was laid low by high debt and the contraction of credit markets in 2008. After receiving a hefty bailout from the Benelux governments, ageas N.V. company sold its Dutch units to the Netherlands government and its remaining bank operations to BNP Paribas. Ageas N.V. is the Dutch half of the larger Ageas holding organization. Ageas N.V. and its sister company, Belgian-traded Ageas SA/NV, have identical operations and are known simply as Ageas.

One nation, under insurance, with financial security for all. National Life Group, the marketing name for National Life Insurance Company and its affiliated companies, is a mutually owned insurer dating back to 1848. Today, National Life Group offers a range of insurance and investment products throughout the US through its namesake National Life Insurance Company and other subsidiaries, including Equity Services (financial products broker/dealer), Life Insurance Company of the Southwest (insurance and annuities), National Retirement Plan Advisors (a third-party administrator), and Sentinel Investments (mutual funds, retirement plans, and institutional investment accounts).

Manulife Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a life insurance company. It provides a range of financial products and services, including individual life insurance, group life and health insurance, long-term care insurance, pension products, annuities, and mutual funds to individual and group customers in the United States, Canada, and Asia. The company also offers reinsurance services, specializing in life retrocession, and property and casualty reinsurance, as well as provides investment management services to mutual funds and institutional customers. Manulife Financial Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Kiln underwrites a wide range of specialty property/casualty insurance, including marine, aviation, and special risk coverage (ranging from wind farms and high-tech laboratories to political and intellectual property risk). Kiln also underwrites accident and health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance. The company, with offices in Asia, Africa, and Europe, is one of the largest agencies trading in Lloyd's of London's insurance market. Kiln operates primarily through subsidiary R J Kiln & Co., which was founded in 1962. Kiln was acquired by Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, a unit of Tokio Marine Holdings (formerly Millea Holdings), in 2008.

In 1922, a group of Universal Motor Car Company (Ford) dealers was searching for a way to insure their rapidly growing businesses. Fire insurance was expensive and qualified professional insurance carriers were hard to find for the young industry.So, the group formed a reciprocal insurance company and called it Universal Underwriters. Through the years, Universal Underwriters expanded its offerings, to serve not only vehicle dealers, but the entire automotive aftermarket. In 2007, Universal Underwriters takes on the Zurich name. We're changing our brand, but we're not changing our legacy.

Marsh is a world leader in delivering risk and insurance services and solutions to its clients. From its founding in 1871 to the present day, Marsh has provided thought leadership and innovation for clients and the insurance industry — introducing and promoting the concept and practice of client representation through brokerage, the discipline of risk management, the globalization of insurance and risk management services and many other innovative tools and service platforms.

Bolton & Company can make the search for risk reduction products smooth and easy. An employee-owned insurance brokerage, Bolton & Company offers property/casualty insurance policies, employee benefit programs, estate planning, surety bonding, risk management services, and human resources consulting to both corporations and individuals. It also provides claims handling and loss prevention programs. The company maintains licenses throughout the US but does most of its business in Southern California. Dorance Bolton founded the company, which is a member of brokerage consortium Assurex Global, in 1931.

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