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The Top Fidelity & Surety Companies in Massachusetts In 2018

April 10, 2018 by Julia Ybarra

Agency Checklists, MA Insurance News, Mass. Insurance News

The Code of Hammurabi is the oldest surviving record of a contract of suretyship.

This week Agency Checklists takes a look at the size and composition of the Fidelity & Surety marketplace in Massachusetts. As was mentioned in the last update on this line of insurance in 2016, according to Wikipedia, the earliest known record of a contract of suretyship is a Mesopotamian tablet written around 2750 B.C. It is also mentioned in the written legal code of the Code of Hammurabi, which is often cited as the earliest surviving evidence of its existence.

Further archaeological evidence shows the importance of surety bonds throughout the ages. Many civilizations incorporated surety insurance into their laws including, but not limited to, Babylon, Persia, Assyria, Rome, Carthage, as well as the ancient Hebrews. In more modern times, the first corporate surety, the Guarantee Society of London, was created in 1840.

The following is a list of the major insurers that currently dominate this line of insurance here in the Commonwealth. As always, our data here comes courtesy of the Massachusetts Division of Insurance.

There are 173 companies writing this line of insurance in Massachusetts

A total of  173 companies currently writer Fidelity and Surety insurance here in the Commonwealth with Total Direct Written Premium of $173,246,771 dollars. This number includes nine more insurers than when Agency Checklists last took a look at this in 2016 when there was approximately 164 companies writing in Massachusetts.

The largest 20 companies writing fidelity and surety claim a 79.9% share of the direct written premium which totals $138,382,431. The remaining 153 insurers within this line write approximately $34,864,340 in direct written premium representing the remaining 20.1% of writings for this line of business.

A current list of the Top 2o insurers…

Only two of the top 20 insurers hail from Massachusetts, the second largest insurer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., and the second to last on this list, United Casualty & Surety Insurance Co.

Company Name

State

Premium Written in MA

Market Share in MA

Travelers Cas & Surety Co Of Amer

 CT

 $26,483,084

15.29%

Liberty Mut Ins Co

 MA

  $24,354,397

 14.06%

Western Surety Co

SD

 $14,647,710

 8.45%

Federal Ins Co

IN

 $13,702,819

 7.91%

Fidelity & Deposit Co Of MD

MD

$10,742,468

 6.20%

North Amer Specialty Ins Co

NH

$3,830,866

 2.21%

Great Amer Ins Co

 OH

$3,827,110

2.21%

Hartford Fire In Co

 CT

 $3,720,453

2.15%

Philadelphia Ind Ins Co

PA

 $3,682,363

2.13%

Berkley Ins Co

 DE

  $3,676,588

 2.12%

Westchester Fire Ins Co

PA

 $3,658,066

2.11%

National Union Fire Ins Co Of Pitts

PA

$3,648,927 

 2.11%

NGM Ins Co

FL

  $3,445,082

 1.99%

Hanover Ins Co

 NH

  $3,422,784

1.98%

Arch Ins Co

 MO

 $3,362,529

1.94%

Ohio Cas Ins Co

 NH

  3,321,882

1.92%

Reliamax Surety Co

 SD

  $2,746,470

1.59%

International Fidelity Ins Co

 NJ

  $2,154,550

1.24%

United Cas & Surety Ins Co

 MA

  $2,128,999

 1.23%

Safeco Ins Co Of Amer

 NH

 $1,825,284

 1.05%

 

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