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.

Through subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America, PartnerRe Ltd writes treaty (groups of risks) and facultative (individual risks) reinsurance for such primary coverage as property, casualty, and life insurance, as well as catastrophe, energy, marine, and other specialty insurance. PartnerRe was one of several pure-catastrophe reinsurers founded in the tax haven of Bermuda after Hurricane Andrew made reinsurance glamorous. The company provides services for customers in more than 150 countries. PartnerRe operates from about 20 offices around the globe.

Falvey Cargo Underwriting provides marine cargo insurance primarily for high technology and medical industries, but insures just about anything in need of coverage. Typical cargo loads include environmentally-sensitive fiber optic equipment, robotic surgical devices, and pharmaceutical products. The company also provides loss prevention consultations, claims processing services, and recovery services through its ProTecht Risk Solutions program. Falvey Cargo Underwriting -- a licensed underwriting manager for several Lloyd's syndicates -- was founded in 1995.

Physicians' Reciprocal Insurers (PRI) was founded by the doctors, for the doctors. The company is one of the largest writers of medical malpractice insurance in the state of New York, serving more than 12,500 physicians, chiropractors, dentists, and other health care professionals. PRI also offers general and specialty liability coverage for hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities. The company's day-to-day operations are conducted by a third party, Administrators for the Professions (AFP), and its policies are distributed through independent brokers. PRI was founded by a group of physicians in 1982 and is owned by its policyholders.

Farmers group began there journey in 1928, when two men who shared a dream of providing a quality insurance product at a reasonable price opened the doors to the Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange in Los Angeles. In the eighty years that followed, They've grown and adapted to meet the changing needs of Americans - but one constant has remained. They have an unwavering commitment to upholding the ideals with which we began by providing industry-leading products and services to the customers they're privileged to serve.

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.

Patriot Risk Management, Inc. is an insurance holding company focused on the workers' compensation insurance industry. Patriot Risk Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Patriot Risk Management, Inc., provides workers' compensation nurse case management, cost containment services, claims administration and adjudication services to insurance companies, reinsurers and segregated portfolio captives.

Farmers Alliance Mutual and its Alliance Insurance and Alliance Indemnity subsidiaries provide property/casualty insurance in nine midwestern and western states. With a focus on rural markets, the company's largest line of business is farm insurance, but it also writes personal home and automobile insurance and business coverage. A network of more than 650 independent agencies sell Farmers Alliance's products; Kansas is its largest market. The mutual company was established in 1888 by a group of Kansas farmers.

Originally founded in 1984 as Quotesmith Corporation, Life Quotes, Inc. owns and operates www.consumerinsuranceguide.com and www.lifequotes.com, two online consumer insurance information services that cater to the needs of self-directed personal and corporate insurance shoppers. Life Quotes provides access to comparative quotes for auto, life, health and business insurance quotes so that busy consumers and business owners can save time and money. Life Quotes is dedicated to providing impartial insurance information.

StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides group insurance products and services in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Insurance Services and Asset Management. The Insurance Services segment offers group and individual disability, group life, accidental death and dismemberment, and group dental and vision insurance products, as well as absence management services to individuals and employer groups. Its Asset Management segment provides 401(K) plans, 403(b) plans, 457 plans, defined benefit plans, money purchase pension plans, profit sharing plans, and non-qualified deferred compensation products and services through an affiliated broker-dealer. This segment also offers investment management and advisory services, financial planning services, commercial mortgage loan origination and servicing, individual fixed-rate annuity products, group annuity contracts, and retirement plan trust products. The company sells its products through master general agents, brokers, consultants, and financial institutions primarily to physicians, lawyers, executives, employer groups, professionals, small business owners, and individuals. StanCorp Financial Group was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

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