Unigard Insurance Group has proud roots in the Northwest going back to 1901. The Unigard of today is a super-regional multi-line, property and casualty insurer with corporate headquarters in Bellevue, Wash.Also in Bellevue is a wealth of centralized services, including policy processing for commercial and personal lines, underwriting for all personal and certain commercial accounts and billing services.Unigard markets insurance through licensed independent insurance agencies in approximately 600 locations spanning the states of Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington. Seven branch offices provide local service and authority for commercial underwriting, sales and claims service to agents and policyholders.

Great Eastern Holdings Limited holds quite a few insurance companies in the far east, and they all want to be great. The company, through its subsidiaries, has operations in Singapore and Malaysia, where it is the largest and oldest insurer, as well as in Brunei, Indonesia, China (via joint venture), and Vietnam. It offers asset management, investment holding, management services, life insurance (through Great Eastern Life Assurance), and other financial services. Great Eastern Holdings' 20,000 dedicated agents sell its products; representatives at major banks also offer its wares. Great Eastern Holdings Limited company, which was incorporated in 1908, is owned by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.

Swiss Re America is the North American subsidiary of Swiss Re, the Zurich, Switzerland-based reinsurance giant. The company handles Swiss Re's business in the Americas in the areas of property/casualty and life and health. It reinsures life, health, property, motor, and liability policies for global and regional insurance firms, as well as US-based companies with global operations. Swiss Re America specializes in ocean marine reinsurance. In addition, the company provides financial planning and analysis services, as well as claims handling. Swiss Re's operations in the Americas account for about 40% of its total global insurance premiums.

Storebrand Investments, the company's asset management unit, manages mutual funds and client portfolios. If you're planning for your golden years in Norway, you may want to shop at the Storebrand. The company provides insurance and financial services in the Nordic region, including life insurance policies, property/casualty coverage, asset management, and banking. Its largest unit, Storebrand Life, offers pension savings and life and health insurance products, while its Storebrand Skadeforsikring division provides property protection policies to individuals and businesses. The Storebrand Bank subsidiary is a commercial bank that focuses on the retail and corporate markets.

Arrowpoint Capital Corp. was a subsidiary of UK-based insurer Royal & Sun Alliance, but suffered from relentless trimmings when its business was deemed to be noncore. The business was eventually acquired by a group of its management and outside directors. Renamed Arrowpoint Capital, it operates through its Royal Indemnity, Royal Surplus Lines Insurance, and Security Insurance Company of Hartford subsidiaries. The company continues to offer individual and commercial property/casualty coverage under the Royal Care brand.

Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing. In the case of health plan information overload, Verisk Health (formerly Urix) can help share some of your burden. The firm provides health care data management, consulting, and analysis for self-insured employers and others. The company utilizes a series of software tools to help clients control health care costs, process claims, and avoid risk. Other clients include insurance providers, managed care groups, government entities, and reinsurance companies. Services include data warehousing, expense forecasting, and actuarial, statistical, and financial analysis. Verisk Health is a division of Insurance Services Office, itself a unit of Verisk Analytics.

Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance provides property/casualty insurance in the southern US. The company's products are sold through regional offices and a network of some 2,000 independent contractor agents. Its Farm Bureau Tech training facility offers courses in claims, underwriting, and related insurance areas. The company operates in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty was established as an automobile insurance provider in 1947 by four state Farm Bureaus.

W. R. Berkley Corporation is a financial services company focused on the property and casualty insurance business. It has been uniquely successful in meeting the needs of its various constituencies. Over the past 42 years, the Company has achieved an outstanding record of consistently providing insurance products and services that meet the needs of its customers. It has provided its employees with a challenging and rewarding workplace while also making both economic and civic contributions to the communities in which it operates. Most significantly, it has been able to do these things while providing outstanding returns to its shareholders.

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.

American Physicians Service Group is a liability insurance writer and provider for medical professionals through its wholly-owned subsidiary American Physicians Insurance Company (API). It insures about 6,400 individual doctors and group practices primarily in Texas, but also in Arkansas and Oklahoma. Approximately 90% of its premiums are written through purchasing groups. About one-fifth of its premiums come from selling directly to policyholders. American Physicians Service Group has agreed to be acquired by ProAssurance for about $230 million.

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