Hiscox focuses on niche risks rarely placed by other insurers. The company also provides reinsurance and operates a Lloyd's of London syndicate. Products include personal accident, travel, and kidnapping coverage for high net-worth individuals and a variety of protection for businesses (small and medium-sized), including fine art, marine, liability, political risk, professional indemnity, and terrorism policies. Hiscox's biggest market is the US, where it has expanded its presence through acquisitions and new operations, including offering professional liability coverage to the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

The Loews Corporation's main interest is insurance through publicly traded subsidiary CNA Financial, which offers commercial property/casualty coverage. Other wholly owned and partially owned holdings include hotels in the US and Canada through its Loews Hotels subsidiary. Its energy holdings include contract oil-drilling operator Diamond Offshore Drilling (which operates roughly 50 offshore oil rigs), interstate natural gas transmission pipeline systems operator Boardwalk Pipelines, and HighMount Exploration & Production (also natural gas)

To protect your home on the range from damages and crop failures, just say "hail, no!" and call The Home Agency. The Home Agency sells crop insurance through offices in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Additionally, the company offers personal and commercial property/casualty lines, including automobile, homeowners, liability, and workers' compensation coverage, as well as health, disability, and life products. With about a half dozen office locations, the firm has more than 6,000 individual and family policyholders. The Home Agency was founded in 1974.

National Interstate Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty property and casualty insurance company in the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Cayman Islands. It underwrites and sells traditional and alternative property and casualty insurance products primarily to the passenger transportation industry and the trucking industry; general commercial insurance to small businesses in Hawaii and Alaska; and personal insurance to owners of recreational vehicles and commercial vehicles in the United States. The company provides truck and passenger transportation alternative risk insurance products; workers’ compensation coverage; and commercial auto liability, general liability, physical damage, and motor truck cargo coverage for truck and passenger operators, as well as offers coverage for campsite liability, vehicle replacement coverage, and coverage for trailers, golf carts, and campsite storage facilities. National Interstate Corporation also provides companion personal auto coverage to recreational vehicle policyholders. It offers its products through various distribution channels, including independent agents and brokers, program administrators, affiliated agencies, and agent internet initiatives. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Richfield, Ohio. National Interstate Corporation is a subsidiary of Great American Insurance Company.

CNinsure Inc. (Nasdaq: CISG), founded in 1998 and headquartered in Guangzhou, is a leading independent insurance intermediary company operating in China. It distributes a wide variety of property and casualty insurance products and life insurance products underwritten by both domestic and foreign insurance companies operating in China, and offer insurance claims adjusting services, such as assessment, survey, authentication and loss estimation, as well as other insurance-related services to individuals and institutions. As an insurance intermediary, the Company is not exposed to any underwriting risks.

Generali Holding Vienna AG is generally addressing Austria's insurance and banking needs. Through its operating insurance companies, including Generali Versicherung, Europaische Reiseversicherung, and BAWAG P.S.K. Versicherung, the firm offers property/casualty insurance (including auto, legal, and travel insurance), life insurance, health insurance, and pensions. It also provides other financial services including investments, benefit management, and real estate through units including Generali Bank and Generali Leasing. The company is the Austrian arm of Italy's insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali.

Through its collection of regional insurance subsidiaries, Concord Group Insurance provides personal and commercial lines of property/casualty insurance to customers in northern New England. The companies offer personal insurance covering individuals' homes, cars, and RVs, as well as providing umbrella liability coverage. Concord Group's subsidiaries also sell commercial auto insurance and insurance packages for small businesses, including those designed for electricians, plumbers, merchants, and florists. With a history going back to 1928, the company sells through a network of some 300 independent agents.

Validus Holdings, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides reinsurance and insurance coverage in the property, marine, and specialty lines markets worldwide. The company underwrites property catastrophe reinsurance, property per risk reinsurance, and property pro rata reinsurance; and insurance and reinsurance on marine risks covering damage to or losses of marine vessels or cargo, yachts and marinas, third-party liability for marine accidents, and physical loss and liability from offshore energy properties. It also underwrites reinsurance on other lines of business, including aerospace, terrorism, life and accident, and health and workers’ compensation catastrophe. In addition, Validus Holdings underwrites short-tail insurance and reinsurance contracts; and specialty insurance products consisting of war (which comprises marine and aviation war, political risks, and political violence), financial institutions, contingency, bloodstock and livestock, accident and health, airlines, and aviation treaty. The company offers its products primarily in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Japan, and Canada. Validus Holdings, Ltd. was founded in 2005 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Farm Family Casualty Insurance, one of three insurance carriers owned by Farm Family Holdings, offers property/casualty insurance to farming, agricultural, and related customers. The company offers coverage for farms, horses, country estates, floral and other businesses, landscaping contractors, homeowners, commercial and personal automobiles, pollution liability, and personal watercraft. Farm Family Casualty Insurance is exclusively endorsed by the American Farm Bureau Federation in several of its markets. Some 600 agents distribute the Farm Family life and property/casualty insurance products in twelve northeastern states.

CUNA Mutual knows a thing or two about credit unions, having served them and their members since 1935. The company provides insurance (such as credit insurance and health benefit packages) for the credit unions themselves, as well as consumer products like homeowners and crop insurance that the institutions can offer to their members. Participants in CUNA Mutual's MemberCONNECT program, for instance, can offer auto and homeowners insurance provided jointly by CUNA and its partner Liberty Mutual. CUNA also provides credit unions with software and marketing support for bringing in new members and advisory services for growing their investments. It operates throughout the US and in some foreign markets.

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