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Who writes aircraft and aviation in Tennessee

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

Starr Group wrote the most aircraft and aviation in Tennessee in 2025, $11.2M and 20.0% of the state's premium; the top five groups hold 53%. Tennessee'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 Tennessee page.

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

Top 10 · NAIC table: 22 - Aircraft

The insurer groups that write the most aircraft and aviation in Tennessee

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
1Starr Group$11.2M20.01%47%STARR INDEMNITY \u0026 LIABILITY COMPANY, Starr Surplus Lines Insurance Company, Starr Specialty Insurance Company
2Sompo Group$7.0M12.63%73%American Agri-Business Insurance Company, Endurance Assurance Corporation, Endurance American Insurance Company, Sompo America Insurance Company
3Berkshire Hathaway Group$3.8M6.75%59%GEICO General Insurance Company, GEICO Texas County Mutual Insurance Company, GEICO County Mutual Insurance Company, Government Employees Insurance Company
4Chubb Ltd Group$3.7M6.67%—Federal Insurance Company, Ace American Insurance Company, Ace Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Chubb Lloyd's Insurance Company of Texas
5Tokio Marine Holdings Inc Group$3.6M6.48%38%Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Company, Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange, PURE Risk Mgt, Atty-in-Fact, Safety National Casualty Corporation, Producers Agriculture Insurance Company
6Munich Re Group$3.4M6.14%52%American Modern Property and Casualty Insurance Company, American Modern Home Insurance Company, American Alternative Insurance Corporation, Next Insurance US Company
7Au Holding Co. Group$3.4M6.06%342%|Texas Insurance Company, Continental Indemnity Company, Pennsylvania Insurance Company, California Insurance Company
8Old Republic Group$3.3M5.98%9%Old Republic Insurance Company, Great West Casualty Company, BITCO General Insurance Corporation, Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association Insurance Company
9Allianz Insurance Group$3.0M5.45%92%Allianz Global Risks US Insurance Company, Jefferson Insurance Company, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, AGCS Marine Insurance Company
10Axa Insurance Group$2.0M3.62%121%XL Specialty Insurance Company, XL Insurance America, Inc., Greenwich Insurance Company, |Indian Harbor Insurance Company
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Last resort for aircraft and aviation in Tennessee

Last resortLinesWhereHow to get in
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 Tennessee insurance regulator company list, read 2026-10-18 and the surplus lines list. TDCI List of Licensed Companies (DataTable JSON feed; page says 'As of September 30, 2026'). admitted = rows with STATUS_REASON 'Licensed' of every COMPANY_TYPE except SURPLUS LINES; the list mixes P&C with life/health/title/fraternal/HMO/captive/county mutual, so 'type' is kept as given (filter type == 'PROPERTY' for admitted P&C). No lines of authority are published; 'lines' is always []. 'since' is empty for licensed rows (STATUS_DATE is only populated for suspended/restricted companies). surplus_lines = COMPANY_TYPE 'SURPLUS LINES' with STATUS_REASON 'Eligible' (foreign/US insurers only; TN keeps no alien list and defers to the NAIC IID Quarterly Listing, so alien is false for every row). Not included: LIFE/Restricted: 1; LIFE/Suspended: 4; PROPERTY/Restricted: 1; PROPERTY/Suspended: 9; REINSURER/Accredited: 35; REINSURER/Certified (passported): 8; REINSURER/RJ (passported): 51; REINSURER/Trusteed: 13; RISK RETENTION GROUP/Registered: 147; RISK RETENTION GROUP/Restricted: 1; RISK RETENTION GROUP/Suspended: 2. Risk retention groups ('Registered') and accredited/trusteed/certified/reciprocal-jurisdiction reinsurers are not admitted direct writers and were left out. Source page: https://www.tn.gov/commerce/insurance/consumer-resources/list-of-licensed-companies.html ; surplus lines definition: https://www.tn.gov/commerce/insurance/types-of-insurance-companies/surplus-lines.html. "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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