California Title Company underwrites title insurance and provides related real estate services for homebuyers throughout Southern California. Among its offerings are property listings and lending information. The company also provides services for commercial builders and investment buyers. California Title Company has offices in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County and is a member of the Orange Coast Title family of companies.

The Group has expanded over the years with the acquisition of CBC UK Limited in 2003, the establishment of Besso Re Limited in 2004 and the acquisition of H. Bernstein Insurance Brokers Limited in 2006. The latter now forms part of the Besso UK division within Besso Limited. Besso Limited in turn has expanded over the years with the arrival of specialist teams, which has combined with steady growth in its traditional broking areas. The Besso Group now has staff of just under 300 people and is based in the City with headquarters in the Crescent, between the Minories and Tower Hill, with CBC UK Limited located in Mansell Street.

SNS REAAL Groep has a real focus on financial services for Dutch customers, particularly retail clients and small-to-medium businesses. Through several operating units, SNS REAAL offers a wide variety of banking and insurance products in the Netherlands. The group's primary subsidiaries are SNS Bank and REAAL Verzekeringen. SNS Bank provides retail banking services online and through about 150 branch offices throughout the Netherlands. REAAL Verzekeringen offers life and general insurance to retail and business clients through independent financial advisers. In addition, the company operates about a dozen other subsidiaries offering everything from socially responsible banking to sustainable asset management.

Southwest Administrators is a third-party administrator (TPA) of union-funded employee benefits plans including health and welfare plans and pensions. The company processes the paperwork --handling claims, billing, and benefits processing -- for numerous southern California- and Nevada-based union trust funds. It services pension trust funds covering some 200,000 members. Participating employer groups include the Southern California Bakery Drivers Trust Fund, the Southern California Soft Drink Industry Health and Welfare Trust Fund, and the Las Vegas Firefighters Health & Welfare Trust Fund. Southwest Administrators has offices in California and Nevada.

USHEALTH is owned by a division of Credit Suisse. USHEALTH (formerly Ascent Assurance) wants to protect YOURHEALTH. The insurance holding company provides medical and supplemental health insurance through its subsidiaries, primarily to the self-employed and small businesses. The company's products include health spending accounts (HSA) and fixed-rate health insurance. USHEALTH also offers indemnity policies for the treatment of specified diseases and lump sum payments upon the diagnosis of catastrophic illness. The company's products are sold through its own network of career agent organizations.

Ecclesiastical Insurance Group (EIG) provides insurance coverage to more than 16,000 primarily Anglican churches and cathedrals, some 3,500 charities, and 6,000 educational institutions (it insures more than 60% of the UK's private schools, including Eton). It also insures nursing homes, child care facilities, and historical sites, and it offers commercial lines. In addition, EIG offers financial services for Anglican clergy and church members, such as pensions, investment savings accounts, mortgages, and home, auto, and wedding insurance. EIG operates mainly in the UK, but also in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Founded in 1887, the company is owned by a charity, Allchurches Trust Limited.

MS&AD Insurance Group has insurance in Japan covered. MS&AD Insurance Group is the holding company for several large Japanese insurance companies including Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance. Together, the insurance companies offer property/casualty (e.g. auto, personal, fire, marine) and life insurance, as well as asset management (mutual funds, financial consulting) and risk management services. MS&AD Insurance's subsidiaries, which serve individuals and businesses in Japan, also offer their products and services to customers in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

The company wrote medical professional-liability insurance through subsidiary American Physicians Assurance Corporation. Operating principally in a handful of states in the Midwest, it concentrated on individual and small-group practices and had more than 9,000 policies in force. Other subsidiaries dealt with income portfolio management, health care consulting, and physician and medical staff credential verification and review. Founded in 1975, the company was known as Mutual Insurance Corporation until 2000, when it was demutualized. APCapital was acquired by The Doctors Company in 2010.

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.

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.

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