5 markets mapped · North America · verified 2026-09-08
Every licensed insurer,
one map at a time.
Insurers Global is an open, machine-readable directory of the world’s insurance companies, built one market at a time. North America is mapped: 3,395 licensed insurers, reinsurers and takaful operators across 5 countries, each reconciled against the supervisor’s own register where one is published. More regions follow.
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North America: 5 sub-regions
The United States from the Texas licence exports and the Vermont captive register, Canada from the OSFI register, Mexico from the AMIS directory and Bermuda’s ABIR commercial reinsurers; selected Central American and Caribbean groups are compiled from market knowledge and flagged as such.
Canada
Federally regulated insurers from the OSFI register: life, property and casualty and mortgage insurers, fraternals and the Canadian branches of foreign carriers. Provincially incorporated insurers are not itemised.
United States
The world’s largest insurance market, regulated state by state through the NAIC system. Texas-licensed carriers of every type stand in for the national admitted population, with the Vermont captive register in full.
Bermuda
The world’s reinsurance and captive hub: the BMA Class 4 and other commercial (re)insurers that make up ABIR’s membership. Captives and special purpose insurers are not itemised.
Mexico
CNSF-supervised insurers and surety companies (afianzadoras) from the AMIS member directory and the CNSF padrón, with Patria Re as the only domestic reinsurer.
Central America & Caribbean
Selected principal groups from Guatemala and Panama to the Dominican Republic and Trinidad, compiled from market knowledge; the Bermuda and Cayman registers are not itemised.
Largest markets
Where the licences are
North America
Classes of business
What they are licensed to write
- G General (Non-life)1477
- K Captive / Risk retention group842
- L Life603
- R Reinsurer219
- H Health / Medical125
- X Specialty / Credit / Captive51
- F Funeral / Assistance41
- M Microinsurer19
- C Composite18
Ownership
- Domestic private 1919
- Corporate parent (captive) 841
- Foreign multinational 309
- Mutual / cooperative 209
- Regional / multilateral 107
- State-owned / parastatal 10
For AI agents
Query the directory without scraping
Every page registers WebMCP tools through navigator.modelContext, and the same data is published as a static JSON API with an OpenAPI description and an llms.txt.
curl https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/kenya.json | jq '.regulator, .total'