Texas Mutual Insurance Companies are the state's leading provider of workers' compensation insurance, and we offer exceptional services at competitive prices. They've been serving Texas since 1991. That's when the Texas Legislature first chartered the Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance Fund and gave us the task of stabilizing the workers' comp system. In 2001, the Legislature redesigned our charter and changed our name to Texas Mutual Insurance Company.

Founded in 1997 by CEO Luke Yeransian, FirstComp's mission is to provide superior service in workers' compensation insurance for small and midsize 'Main Street' businesses through local insurance agents nationwide. Since its inception, the company has grown to a group of more than 8,300 independent insurance agencies in 31 states. Started with three employees, FirstComp has grown to more than 550 employees in four regional offices serving over 110,000 business customers around the U.S.

FBL Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, sells individual life insurance and annuity products in the United States. The company provides whole life, term life, and universal life policies; annuity and investment products; supplementary contracts; traditional fixed rate and index annuities; and a line of personal and commercial property-casualty insurance products. It also offers variable universal life insurance and variable annuity contracts. The company markets its individual annuity products through independent agents and brokers; and variable products through alliances with other insurance companies. As of December 31, 2009, its Farm Bureau life distribution channel consisted of 2,020 exclusive agents and agency managers; and EquiTrust life independent distribution channel consisted of 20,195 independent agents. FBL Financial Group was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa.

Doing business through its United National Group and Penn-America Group subsidiaries, Global Indemnity (formerly United America Indemnity) provides specialty and surplus property/casualty insurance, including insurance for social service agencies and vacant properties. The group, one of the larger excess and surplus lines insurers in the US, operates through agents and program managers throughout the nation. Global Indemnity also has operations in Bermuda through its Wind River Reinsurance unit, which offers treaty (group risk) and facultative (individual risk) reinsurance. Investment firm Fox Paine owns a controlling interest in the company.

"History" often implies a longer run and a less recent past than 15 years. In our business, Alternative Risk Transfer (ART), that is a long span. We have evolved from a venture capital-based start-up to a successful and profitable enterprise. Writing almost $1 billion of business with over 300 employees, we have a powerful infrastructure and a professional business culture that is both pragmatic and flexible. We have learned and continue to execute the "art" of ART better than anyone in the industry because that is our sole focus.

Hiscox focuses on niche risks rarely placed by other insurers. The company also provides reinsurance and operates a Lloyd's of London syndicate. Products include personal accident, travel, and kidnapping coverage for high net-worth individuals and a variety of protection for businesses (small and medium-sized), including fine art, marine, liability, political risk, professional indemnity, and terrorism policies. Hiscox's biggest market is the US, where it has expanded its presence through acquisitions and new operations, including offering professional liability coverage to the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

Assured Guaranty Ltd. (AGL or, together with its subsidiaries, Assured Guaranty) is a Bermuda-based holding company whose subsidiaries provide credit enhancement products to the capital markets through its three principal insurance subsidiaries: Assured Guaranty Corp. (AGC), Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. (AGM) and Assured Guaranty Re Ltd. (AG Re). In addition to its headquarters in Hamilton, Bermuda, Assured Guaranty has offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Madrid, Sydney and Tokyo.

Arig has been a trusted risk partner for over a quarter century. Established by the governments of Kuwait, Libya and the United Arab Emirates, the Company has since grown to become one the market leaders among regional reinsurers. Today, Arig is a publically traded company owned by over 6000 private and institutional investors and listed on the stock exchanges of Bahrain, Dubai and Kuwait.

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.

AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH) helps its clients hold onto their assets. It provides life and property/casualty insurance, retirement funds, and investment products to individuals and businesses. The company has operations through subsidiaries and partnerships in Australia, China, Indonesia, Macao, New Zealand, and other Asia/Pacific countries. The company partners with AllianceBernstein to provide asset management services in Australia and New Zealand. French insurance giant AXA owns 54% of the firm. AXA APH has become an object of desire for local banks, and AXA would like to take over all of its Asian operations.

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