Founded in the 1830s and one of the oldest continually operating businesses of its kind in the country, Gore Mutual, or "The Gore" as it's known, provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance to residents of Ontario and British Columbia. (By Canadians for Canadians is the company's tagline.) Coverage is offered for automobiles, homes, businesses, and more. The Gore's products are sold solely by independent insurance brokers. The company also funds the Gore Mutual charitable foundation to provide support to local communities.

IMA makes a business of danger. The company helps clients protect their businesses from dangers both natural and man-made. IMA Financial Group provides insurance brokerage, risk management, and related services for commercial customers in a number of industries, including the agricultural, biofuels, construction, energy, manufacturing, and hospitality sectors. The company offers analysis, advisory, and program design services to help businesses protect themselves from potentially unforseen risks. IMA Financial provides brokerage and consulting services through its IMA, Signature Select, and Towerstone subsidiaries. Its TrueNorth unit provides investment and asset management and consulting services.

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.

Count the rings on Woodmen and you'll get back to 1890. Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society is a life insurance company formed to benefit the members of Woodmen of the World, a fraternal organization with some 750,000 members across the US. The company provides its members with traditional life insurance, as well as annuities for both individuals and small businesses. It also offers mutual funds and 529 college savings accounts through its Woodmen Financial Services subsidiary. Additionally, members have access to major medical coverage and disability insurance via marketing agreements with some third-party insurers.

SCF Arizona is the leading provider of Arizona workers’ compensation insurance. Founded in 1925, SCF has nearly 35,000 policyholders and covers more than 50 percent of all businesses working in Arizona.As a leading advocate of workplace safety, SCF is proactive in keeping Arizona’s workers' compensation rates among the lowest in the nation. SCF covers only businesses operating in Arizona and has offices in Flagstaff, Lake Havasu City, Phoenix, Prescott, Show Low, Tucson and Yuma.

The Chubb Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides property and casualty insurance to businesses and individuals. Its Personal Insurance segment offers insurance products, such as automobile, homeowners, and other personal coverage products, as well as supplemental accident and health insurance. The company’s Commercial Insurance segment provides multiple peril, casualty, workers’ compensation, property, and marine insurance products. Its Specialty Insurance segment offers various professional liability coverage and surety products for privately and publicly owned companies, financial institutions, professional firms, and healthcare organizations. The company provides its products and services through independent insurance agents and brokers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and Asia. The Chubb Corporation was founded in 1882 and is based in Warren, New Jersey.

Service Life and Casualty Insurance, which does business as Service Group, is driven in more ways than one. The company offers credit and gap loss insurance to consumers through automotive dealers in Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas. Through sister firm Service Lloyds Insurance, the company also provides workers' compensation coverage to auto dealers in Texas. It issues vehicle service contracts through an affiliation with warranty provider United Service Protection. Service Life and Casualty writes and sells products directly and through a network of independent agents and managing general agents. The Service Group companies are controlled by the founding Gray family.

Insurance brokerage Dunhill Marketing and Insurance Services provides independent insurance agents with training support, product updates, insurer communications, sales leads, and other related services. The company has affiliations with dozens of carriers (including AIG, John Hancock, MetLife, Allianz, and Prudential) that provide a variety of traditional life insurance, annuity products, disability, and long-term care coverage. It does business throughout the US. Dunhill Marketing and Insurance Services specializes in placing policies for difficult-to-insure clients, such as persons with health problems. The company was founded in 1992 by CEO Tony Steigerwald.

If you own a business, own a home or yacht, drive a car, require a performance bond or an employee group health plan… You should consider Fortun first.Established in 1977, we are one of the area’s largest independent insurance agencies with a diversity of coverages not generally available at smaller, specialty firms. And since we are an agency… and not the insurer… we are not limited to one company’s products. We can choose the right coverage and the right price for you from a selection from the world’s foremost insurers, often a combination of products from several different sources. One-stop shopping, in the truest sense. The convenience of a local agency for personalized attention… with the tremendous product variety and competitive pricing available from large, worldwide insurance companies.

Safety Insurance Group, through its subsidiaries (Safety Insurance, Safety Indemnity Insurance, and Safety Property and Casualty), sells property/casualty insurance exclusively in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The company is one of the top private passenger automobile and commercial automobile insurers in the state, controlling around 11% of each market. Safety Insurance Group also provides homeowners, dwelling fire, personal umbrella, and business-owner policies; it cross-sells its non-auto property/casualty products to increase its share of the market. The company sells its products through more than 800 independent agents.

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