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Directory · Iowa · Updated 2026-10-18
Insurance companies licensed in Iowa
Every property and casualty insurer admitted in Iowa and every eligible surplus lines insurer, with NAIC numbers, the lines each is licensed for, who writes the most of each line, and the market of last resort when nobody else will.
1,273 property and casualty insurers are on Iowa's regulator lists: 1,072 licensed (admitted) companies and 201 eligible surplus lines insurers for risks the standard market turns down.
By Sam Alishahi, independent insurance broker · All states
The market
Who can insure you in Iowa
1,072licensed (admitted) property and casualty insurers on the regulator's list
201eligible surplus lines insurers for hard-to-place risks
222Treasury-certified sureties licensed here
139insurers domiciled in Iowa
Bonds
Treasury-certified sureties licensed in Iowa
Companies on the U.S. Treasury's Circular 570 (acceptable sureties on federal bonds) that list a Iowa license, with each one's federal underwriting limit.
All companies
Every insurer on Iowa's lists
Source: the Iowa insurance regulator company list, read 2026-10-18 and the surplus lines list. Admitted = Iowa Data Hub dataset 667 'Insurance Companies Licensed in Iowa' (Iowa Insurance Division, refreshed weekly, CC BY 4.0). Mixes P&C, Life, Health, State/County Mutual, Fraternal, MEWA and Benevolent entities; 'type' carries the company_type column so the merge can filter (counts: {"State Mutual": 32, "Property Casualty": 1010, "County Mutual": 22, "Health": 96, "Life": 390, "Fraternal": 28, "Benevolent": 2, "MEWA": 6}). No lines-of-authority column and no license-date column, so lines=[] and since=''. The source also has business_license_type (e.g. 'Non Iowa Stock Fire And Casualty Company', 'Non Iowa Mortgage Guaranty Insurer', 'Non Iowa HMO') and ownership_type, not carried here. Rows without an NAIC number are benevolent societies, MEWAs and captive reinsurers. Surplus lines = dataset 559 'American Surplus Lines Companies' (US-domiciled insurers not licensed in Iowa that qualified to write surplus lines); all rows have NAIC codes; alien insurers are not in this list (Iowa follows the NAIC Quarterly Listing of Alien Insurers). The surplus list has no domicile or eligibility-date column: 'domicile' here is the mailing-address state (may differ from statutory domicile) and eligible=''. Downloads are ZIPs from /api/dataset-download?path=datasets/<id>/rows.csv; data.iowa.gov robots.txt allows '*' but blocks AI crawler UAs, so a browser UA is used. Attribute: Iowa Insurance Division via data.iowa.gov (CC BY 4.0).
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Source: the Iowa insurance regulator company list, read 2026-10-18 and the surplus lines list. Admitted = Iowa Data Hub dataset 667 'Insurance Companies Licensed in Iowa' (Iowa Insurance Division, refreshed weekly, CC BY 4.0). Mixes P&C, Life, Health, State/County Mutual, Fraternal, MEWA and Benevolent entities; 'type' carries the company_type column so the merge can filter (counts: {"State Mutual": 32, "Property Casualty": 1010, "County Mutual": 22, "Health": 96, "Life": 390, "Fraternal": 28, "Benevolent": 2, "MEWA": 6}). No lines-of-authority column and no license-date column, so lines=[] and since=''. The source also has business_license_type (e.g. 'Non Iowa Stock Fire And Casualty Company', 'Non Iowa Mortgage Guaranty Insurer', 'Non Iowa HMO') and ownership_type, not carried here. Rows without an NAIC number are benevolent societies, MEWAs and captive reinsurers. Surplus lines = dataset 559 'American Surplus Lines Companies' (US-domiciled insurers not licensed in Iowa that qualified to write surplus lines); all rows have NAIC codes; alien insurers are not in this list (Iowa follows the NAIC Quarterly Listing of Alien Insurers). The surplus list has no domicile or eligibility-date column: 'domicile' here is the mailing-address state (may differ from statutory domicile) and eligible=''. Downloads are ZIPs from /api/dataset-download?path=datasets/<id>/rows.csv; data.iowa.gov robots.txt allows '*' but blocks AI crawler UAs, so a browser UA is used. Attribute: Iowa Insurance Division via data.iowa.gov (CC BY 4.0). Lines are the regulator's licensed lines grouped into common names; a license to write a line doesn't mean a company sells it to every kind of customer. "Admitted" means licensed by the state and backed by its guaranty fund; "surplus lines" means eligible to take risks the admitted market declines, without rate or form approval and without guaranty fund protection.
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