Marrs Maddocks & Associates is an independent insurance agency with over 300 years of combined experience. Since our inception in 1991, we have grown to be a top 10 agency in premium volume in San Diego. Our size and experience allows us to represent all major carriers so that we can provide our customers with the best combination of coverage at the lowest possible cost. Additionally, our controlled growth has allowed us to remain at a size where we can effectively manage our business so that the needs of our customers always come first.

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.

With roots (and tree rings) dating back over a hundred years, Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance offers commercial property/casualty coverage to the forest products industry, plastics industry, professional employment organizations, and assisted living facilities. Its products include building and personal property insurance, specialty policies, surety bonds, and workers' compensation plans, which make up about one-quarter of the company's business. Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance is licensed to do business in the continental US and throughout Canada.

Making good buddies with truckers throughout the US, Canal Insurance is in it for the long haul. Canal Insurance is an underwriter and provider of property/casualty insurance, primarily for the commercial trucking industry. Its offerings include liability, cargo, and physical damage coverage. Commercial vehicle policies account for more than 85% of total written premiums. A network of independent general agents sells the company's products in more than 40 states, with an emphasis on the Southeast and Southwest.

Torchmark Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides individual life and supplemental health insurance products, and annuities to middle income households. It offers various life insurance products, including traditional and interest sensitive whole-life insurance, term life insurance, and other life insurance. Torchmark Corporation also provides various health insurance products, including juvenile and senior life coverage; medicare supplement; supplemental limited-benefit health insurance products that include hospital/surgical plans, cancer, and accident plans sold to individuals under age 65; and medicare supplement and medicare part D prescription drug insurance. In addition, it offers a range of annuity products comprising single-premium deferred annuities and flexible-premium deferred annuities. Torchmark Corporation sells its products through direct response, exclusive agents, and independent agents in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. Torchmark Corporation was founded in 1900 and is based in McKinney, Texas.

Argo Group International Holdings provides specialty property/casualty insurance and reinsurance products in the US and Europe. Argo Group operates seven subsidiaries which focus on four well-defined markets: excess and surplus (the riskier stuff no one else likes to insure like day care centers and contractors), industry-specific insurance (catering to such niches as mining, dry cleaners, public entities, and grocers), international property and liability coverage, and reinsurance. The company markets and distributes its products through independent agents and brokers.

MGIC (www.mgic.com), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation, is the founder and leader of the private mortgage insurance industry, serving more than 3,300 lenders with locations across the country and Puerto Rico. MGIC provides a critical component of our country's residential mortgage finance system, protecting mortgage investors from credit losses. Mortgage insurance from MGIC also benefits consumers by helping them achieve homeownership sooner with low-down-payment loans.

Hansard, which traces its roots back to 1970, went public in 2006. Hansard Global wants investors around the globe to live a long life and prosper while they're doing it. As a life insurance company, Hansard provides life insurance products and financial services to European and international high-net worth investors. From its base in the tax-friendly Isle of Man, the company operates in more than 170 countries. Its financial services products, which are offered in conjunction with its life insurance products, include managed funds (similar to broad-based mutual funds), as well as equity, fixed-rate, and deposit funds. It distributes its products through hundreds of independent intermediaries.

One part of the Faraday Group, Faraday Holdings is the parent company of Faraday Underwriting, which in turn is the manager of the Faraday Syndicate 435 at Lloyd's. Funding for the syndicate (to the tune of $575 million in 2004) is provided by another subsidiary, Faraday Capital. Berkshire Hathaway acquired the syndicate in 1999 and Faraday Holdings is now a subsidiary of Berkshire's General Re. The company provides risk management underwriting through three primary teams: property, casualty, and aviation. The Faraday Group also includes Faraday Reinsurance, a separate unit of General Re.

Living Benefits Financial Services, LLC (LBFS) is the oldest name and longest-running provider of institutionally funded life settlements in the United States. Life insurance policies acquired from seniors are considered an attractive, non-correlated asset for institutional investors worldwide. A portfolio of life insurance policies can be structured to meet a wide variety of investment needs.

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