Once a global provider of insurance and reinsurance products and services, Alea Group faced a tough year in 2005 from which it never recovered. With catastrophes such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the US and flooding in Europe greatly affecting the company, Alea decided to stop offering new property/casualty policies and divest strategic operations. Its businesses in Bermuda, the US, and Europe are either in runoff or are being sold.

Home Sweet Motorhome? Vintage Ford Fairlane? Summer cottage at Coldwater Lake? Foremost Insurance Company will insure them all. Foremost Insurance is a holding company for six insurance companies that underwrite property/casualty insurance primarily for assets on wheels ranging from luxury motor coaches and motorcycles to golf carts and collectible autos. No wheels? Foremost has coverage for boats and snowmobiles as well. Foremost also provides specialty homeowners insurance for rental, seasonal, and vacant homes. Insurance products are sold direct nationwide and through company agencies as well as by independent agents. Founded in 1952, Foremost Insurance became part of the Farmers Group in 2000.

Regence Life & Health Insurance is a provider of group life, disability, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance. It also offers supplemental programs in weight management, hearing aid service discounts, child safety and health products, dental care products, and laser vision correction services. Regence Life & Health is active in four states in the Pacific Northwest: Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Regence Life and Health Insurance Company is the life and disability subsidiary of The Regence Group, which operates the largest group of Blue Cross Blue Shield companies in the region.

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.

As the industry leader in treaty, facultative and capital markets, Aon Benfield is redefining the role of the reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor. Through our unmatched talent and industry-leading proprietary tools and products, we help our clients redefine themselves and their success. As a trusted advocate, we provide local reach to the world's markets, an unparalleled investment of USD100+ million per year in innovative analytics, including catastrophe management, actuarial, and rating agency advisory, and the right professionals to advise clients in making the optimal capital choice for their business. With an international network of more than 450 dedicated analytics experts, our worldwide client base is able to access the broadest portfolio of integrated capital solutions and services.

Bermuda: sun, sand, and reinsurance. In 1998 struggling Annuity and Life Re (Holdings) was the first life reinsurer to hang its shingle in the tax-sheltered haven of Bermuda. However, it has ceased writing new coverage and in 2008 dissolved Annuity and Life Re America, which was once the company's flagship subsidiary. Previously it covered term, whole, and universal life insurance policies.

Markel Corporation markets and underwrites specialty insurance products and programs. It operates in three segments: Excess and Surplus Lines, Specialty Admitted, and London markets. The Excess and Surplus Lines segment writes property and casualty insurance outside of the standard market for hard-to-place risks, including catastrophe-exposed property, professional liability, products liability, general liability, commercial umbrella, and other coverages. The Specialty Admitted segment writes risks that remain with an admitted insurance company for marketing and regulatory reasons. It writes specialty program insurance, personal and commercial property, and liability coverages. The London markets segment writes specialty property, casualty, professional liability, equine and marine insurance, and reinsurance. The company was founded in 1930 and is based in Glen Allen, Virginia.

The leading US personal lines property/casualty company (by premiums), State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is the #1 provider of auto insurance. It also is the leading home insurer and offers nonmedical health and life insurance through its subsidiary companies. Its products are marketed via some 17,000 agents in the US and Canada. Competition has increased with the fall of barriers between the banking, securities, and insurance industries. State Farm's efforts to diversify include a federal savings bank charter (State Farm Bank) that offers consumer and business loans through its agents and by phone, mail, and the Internet.

Safeway Insurance is dedicated to being a leading provider of insurance products and services. This is achieved through our commitment to principled performance and our high professional standards. Since 1959, Safeway Insurance has reliably served our clients. Our goal, each and every day, is to exceed the expectations of all our stakeholders: policyholders, producers, business partners, regulators, shareholders, the communities we serve and our valued employees.

Workers' compensation claims typically mark a low point for employers, but Zenith National Insurance aims to get companies back up to their peak. Zenith National is the holding company for Zenith Insurance and ZNAT Insurance, which underwrite workers' compensation policies in 45 states and Washington, DC. The company has exited all other businesses, but maintains a portfolio of investments. Approximately 1,600 independent agents sell the firm's insurance products. Its largest market is California, but the company also maintains offices in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Zenith National was acquired by Canada's Fairfax Financial in 2010.

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