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.

Founded in 1905, Lafayette Life was acquired by Cincinnati-based Western & Southern Financial Group in 2005. Lafayette Life Insurance Company may have the name of a Frenchman, but its business is all American. Licensed throughout most of the US, the Lafayette Life Insurance company sells individual life insurance and annuities, as well as group annuities and retirement services. Its qualified markets division helps small businesses administer their retirement plans, including defined benefit and defined contribution plans. The Lafayette Life Insurance company quit writing group life and disability insurance in 2008 to focus on its core operations.

Northbridge is the largest commercial P&C insurance group in Canada, with premiums of approximately $1.4 billion. Northbridge seeks to bring long term value to our shareholders, insureds and brokers by focusing on diversified Canadian business, operational excellence, innovative differentiation, and a proactive mindset of continuous improvement. We are Canadian owned and operated

Oregon Mutual Insurance operates within and outside of the Oregon territory. The company provides personal and commercial property/casualty insurance coverage to customers in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, partially through subsidiary Western Protectors Insurance. Its offerings include standard and specialty automobile, homeowners, farmowners, and liability policies. More than 550 independent agents produce and sell the company's products; it has over a dozen administrative, regional, and claims offices in operation. As a mutual insurer, the company is owned by the approximately 120,000 policyholders it insures. A group of businessmen founded Oregon Mutual Insurance in 1894.

AEGON Direct Marketing Services, Inc. (ADMS), through its affiliated insurance carriers and non-insurance companies, is a leading direct marketer of life, supplemental health, credit, and specialty insurance products as well as fee-based programs. Using a variety of direct response techniques such as inbound and outbound telemarketing, point-of-sale, direct mail, television, statement inserts, internet, and more, ADMS offers consumers convenient alternatives for purchasing insurance. With North American and international operations, ADMS currently services over 17 million policies worldwide. Using the endorsement of sponsoring organizations, ADMS develops and executes co-branded marketing programs that deliver results. ADMS works through brokers, agents, and third party administrators as well as directly with business partners. The Company’s expertise and longevity in direct marketing have made it a valued partner of many of the leading financial institutions, associations, retailers, credit unions, catalogers, and employer groups in the United States and around the world. Customized programs range from a full package of product development, administrative, technology, and marketing services, to providing only products or a single service such as product underwriting.

Capitol Transamerica does business across the US but mostly in the middle. The insurance holding company operates in 50 states and Washington, DC, but its business is concentrated in the Midwest and Plains states. Its primary operating subsidiaries, Capitol Indemnity and Capitol Specialty Insurance, offer property/casualty coverage for such niches as barber and beauty shops, bowling alleys, and taverns. It also offers fidelity and surety bonds to commercial entities through Capital Indemnity and another unit, Platte River Insurance.

Employers Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates in the commercial property and casualty insurance industry in the United States. The company provides workers’ compensation insurance to small businesses engaged in low to medium hazard industries. It distributes its products through independent local, regional, and national agents and brokers, as well as through strategic partnerships and alliances. The company is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

Specialty Underwriters’ Alliance, Inc., through our subsidiary SUA Insurance Company (SUA), is a specialty commercial property and casualty insurance company that offers insurance products through independent general agents that serve niche groups of insureds. These targeted customer groups require highly specialized knowledge due to their unique risk characteristics. Through our innovative business model, we are able to better serve the specialty property and casualty marketplace and fill the void that exists in underserved niche markets.

Platinum Underwriters provides property/casualty, marine, and finite risk reinsurance through subsidiaries Platinum Underwriters Reinsurance and Platinum Underwriters Bermuda. Another unit, Platinum Re UK, has stopped writing new policies. The company's products are distributed through reinsurance intermediaries. Platinum Underwriters was formed when, taking advantage of the friendly reinsurance climate, business insurer Travelers Companies (formerly St. Paul Travelers) spun off its ailing reinsurance unit (St. Paul Re) into Platinum Underwriters Holdings. Set up in tax-friendly Bermuda, Platinum Underwriters does about three-fourths of its business in the US.

Arch Capital Group Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment offers casualty; construction; executive assurance; healthcare; national accounts casualty; professional liability; programs; property, energy, marine, and aviation; surety; travel and accident; and other insurance products, such as collateral protection, excess workers' compensation, and employers' liability business. Its products are marketed through a network of licensed independent retail and wholesale brokers. The Reinsurance segment reinsures third party liability and worker’s compensation exposures; individual property risks that include personal lines and commercial property exposures; other specialty lines, including non-standard automobile, surety, accident and health, trade credit, and political risk; catastrophic perils, such as hurricane, earthquake, flood, tornado, hail, and fire; marine business, which includes coverage for hull, cargo, and transit and offshore oil and gas operations, as well as aviation business that includes coverage for airline and general aviation risks; and non-traditional business to provide insurers with risk management solutions. This segment markets its reinsurance products through brokers, as well as directly with the ceding companies. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

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