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.

AEGON N.V., through its subsidiaries, provides life insurance, pensions, and investment products in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The company also involves in accident, supplemental health, general insurance, and banking activities. Its life insurance products include permanent and universal insurance; traditional life products, such as life insurance sold as part of defined benefit pension plans, endowment policies, post-retirement annuity products, and group risk products; endowment insurance; term and whole life insurance; annuity insurance; endowment savings; variable unit linked products; and health insurance products. The company also offers individual savings and retirement products, including savings accounts and investment contracts, fixed and variable annuities, and retail mutual funds; pensions and asset management products, such as individual and corporate pensions, investment, and asset management products, as well as institutional and retail funds, and life and pensions products; and guaranteed investment contracts, funding agreements, and medium-term notes. AEGON also provides employer solutions, such as single premium group annuities; and reinsurance products and solutions to life insurance and financial services companies. In addition, it offers asset management services, including general account assets, unit-linked portfolio, and guaranteed fund; general insurance products, such as house, car, and fire insurance; supplemental health insurance; and investment advisory services. The company offers its products through financial advice channel, specialist employee benefit consultancies, independent and career agents, financial planners, registered representatives, independent marketing organizations, banks, regional and independent broker-dealers, benefit consulting firms, wirehouses, and affinity groups, as well as through online, and direct and worksite marketing. AEGON was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Liberty Northwest Insurance is a regional multiline insurer operating in five northwestern states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Its main business is providing workers' compensation insurance to area businesses, and it is the leading private workers' compensation insurer in some of its markets, including Oregon and Montana. However, Liberty Northwest also provides other kinds of commercial and personal coverage, including car, homeowners, business owners, and agribusiness insurance. A subsidiary of Boston-based insurance giant Liberty Mutual, the company is part of its parent's Agency Markets segment, a unit comprising Liberty Mutual's regional insurance carriers.

Through four regional insurance companies, the company, which operates as Western National Insurance Group, sells commercial and personal lines of property/casualty insurance in eight states of the Upper Midwest, Northwest, and Mountain West. Offerings include commercial and personal automobile, homeowners, renters, general liability, and workers' compensation insurance, as well as inland marine, snowmobile and ATV, and personal umbrella coverages. Its MainStreetXpress package offering is specially designed for small businesses.

For over 96 years, Swett & Crawford has delivered exceptional expertise and service to the commercial insurance marketplace. As a wholesale insurance broker, Swett & Crawford does not work directly with insureds. Rather, we serve as a key intermediary between the independent insurance agents and the nation's top insurance carriers. We work with the insured's retail insurance agent or broker to provide comprehensive, cost-effective commercial coverages and specialty programs for a wide variety of risks. For decades Swett has been the leading broker of its type in the United States, and the last four years has been voted "Best Wholesaler" by readers of the influential Business Insurance© magazine.

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.

Founded by Quakers in 1832, Friends Provident markets life insurance and a variety of pension and disability plans throughout the UK. It sells through independent agents and independent financial advisors (IFAs), as well as the Internet. Friends Provident's international business is focused mainly on UK expatriates. Luxembourg-based subsidiary Lombard International Assurance specializes in international cross-border life insurance targeting the very wealthy. Friends Provident company also provides some financial services through its wealth management consulting unit, Pantheon Financial. Friends Provident was purchased by acquisition vehicle Resolution Limited in 2009.

HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty, surety, group life, accident, and health insurance coverage, as well as related agency and reinsurance brokerage services to commercial customers and individuals worldwide. It underwrites financial insurance risks in its financial products line of business, which includes directors’ and officers’ liability, employment practices liability, errors and omissions liability, surety and credit, and fidelity insurance products. The company writes medical stop-loss insurance that provides coverage to companies, associations, and public entities that elect to self-insure their employees’ medical coverage for losses. It also engages in insuring aviation risks, which include coverage for antique and vintage military aircrafts, cargo operators, commuter airlines, corporate aircrafts, fixed base operations, military and law enforcement aircrafts, private aircraft owners, and rotor wing aircrafts. The company offers hulls, engines, avionics and other systems, liabilities, and cargo and other ancillary coverage. Its London market account business consists of marine, energy, property, and accident and health businesses. In addition, HCC Insurance Holdings underwrites property and liability businesses, such as event cancellation, contingency, public entity, and U.K. liability; and writes facultative or individual account reinsurance, and treaty reinsurance businesses. The company markets its products directly to customers, as well as through a network of independent and affiliated brokers, producers, agents, and third party administrators. HCC Insurance Holdings was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Allianz Insurance is one of the largest general insurance providers in the UK. The company provides property, casualty, and automobile insurance policies to businesses and individuals. The company's largest segment is its commercial division, which provides property, liability, and motor insurance and risk management services. Its personal business products range from such standard fare as car and home coverage to more specialized products such as wedding, musical instrument and pet insurance. Independent brokers, agents, and affinity groups distribute the company's products. It is also growing its direct-to-consumer sales. Allianz Insurance is part of the Munich, Germany-based Allianz SE.

Trying its best to live up to its name (Dai-ichi means "first"), Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company is one of Japan's top insurers. The firm sells individual and group life insurance, annuities, and supplemental medical coverage, as well as individual and group pension products. Dai-ichi Life also provides nonlife insurance products through its partnership with Sompo Japan Insurance, as well as cancer insurance through a partnership with Aflac. Other services include asset management and risk management. Dai-ichi Life sells its products through thousands of sales representatives it calls "Total Life Plan Designers."

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