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Who writes workers' compensation in Kentucky

Top insurer groups from the NAIC market share report; the state's list carries no lines of authority.

Kentucky Employers Mutual Insurance wrote the most workers' compensation in Kentucky in 2025, $136.4M and 25.8% of the state's premium; the top five groups hold 46%. Kentucky's company list doesn't say which lines each company is licensed for, so the ranking below is the NAIC's top 10 groups; every licensed company is on the Kentucky page.

By Sam Alishahi, independent insurance broker · All lines in Kentucky

Top 10 · NAIC table: 16 - Workers Compensation

The insurer groups that write the most workers' compensation in Kentucky

Top 10 insurer groups by direct premium written in 2025, from the NAIC's Market Share Reports for Property/Casualty Groups and Companies by State. A group is the parent and its insurance companies together; share is the group's part of the state total for the line; loss ratio is losses incurred over premium earned.

#Insurer groupPremium writtenShareLoss ratioMember companies here
1Kentucky Employers' Mutual Insurance Authority$136.4M25.80%45%—
2Travelers Group$30.2M5.70%72%Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, Standard Fire Insurance Company (The), Travelers Personal Insurance Company, Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America
3American Financial Group$27.5M5.21%59%Great American Insurance Company, Great American Assurance Company, National Interstate Insurance Company, Great American Alliance Insurance Company
4Harford Group$25.8M4.87%64%Harford Mutual Insurance Company, 1842 Insurance Company, Firstline Insurance Company, ClearPath Insurance Company
5Hartford Fire & Casualty Group$24.1M4.56%60%Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Hartford Underwriters Insurance Company, Hartford Casualty Insurance Company, Twin City Fire Insurance Company (The)
6Chubb Ltd Group$19.8M3.74%—Federal Insurance Company, Ace American Insurance Company, Ace Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Chubb Lloyd's Insurance Company of Texas
7Zurich Insurance Group$19.6M3.70%58%Zurich American Insurance Company, Rural Community Insurance Company, American Zurich Insurance Company, American Guarantee and Liability Insurance Company
8Encova Mutual Insurance Group$18.2M3.45%—PinnaclePoint Insurance Company, Motorists Commercial Mutual Insurance Company, BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Company, MICO Insurance Company
9Liberty Mutual Group$17.2M3.26%—Safeco Insurance Company of America, Liberty Insurance Underwriters, Inc., Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Liberty County Mutual Insurance Company
10Amtrust Financial Serv Group$12.2M2.31%77%Wesco Insurance Company, Technology Insurance Company, Inc., Security National Insurance Company, AmTrust Insurance Company
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Last resort for workers' compensation in Kentucky

Last resortLinesWhereHow to get in
Workers' comp residual marketsworkers' compNCCI pools in 27 jurisdictions; monopolistic state funds in ND, OH, WA, WY; CA State Compensation Insurance Fund is the statutory last resortNCCI online application (ACORD 130 and 133); NCCI's VCAP flags voluntary carriers interested in the risk; NC and MA use their own systems Texas has no residual market (coverage is optional for most Texas employers).Source
Surplus lines and Lloyd's open marketallall states, under each state's diligent-search rulesThrough surplus lines wholesalers; commercial property and liability have no guaranteed plan, so this is their last stepSource

Method and source

Source: the Kentucky Department of Insurance company list, read 2026-10-17. "Premium" is direct premium written in the state for the year shown; "share" is that company's part of the state total for the line. A company can be licensed for a line and write none of it, and a surplus lines insurer can write a line without a state license for it.

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