Thomas Kaiser, AGT - Nation Air

Assurance Agency is one of the largest, privately held insurance brokerages in the Midwest. Business Insurance ranks it among the 100 largest brokers -- public and private -- in the United States. The company specializes in providing property and casualty insurance solutions and designing and administering employee benefit programs. Its clients include a wide scope of industry: construction, staffing, senior care and manufacturing, to name just a few. Assurance has been inspiring its trust and confidence with service excellence since the company s founding in 1961. Assurance provides access, and in many cases a preferred broker status, to more than 100 of the top-rated insurance carriers in the country.

Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management specializes in structuring property and casualty insurance and risk management programs for commercial, industrial, institutional and governmental organizations. It is a subsidiary of the Arthur J. Gallagher & Company, an international insurance brokerage and risk management services firm. It offers a wide range of services, including claims and information management, risk control consulting and appraisals, aimed at helping corporations and institutions reduce their cost of risk. The firm s risk management segment provides property and casualty claim third-party administration, loss control and insurance property appraisals. Its financial services segment manages investment portfolios that include tax investments, real estate partnerships, an alternative investment fund manager, notes receivable from investees and investment in an airplane leasing company that leases two cargo airplanes to the French Postal Service. The company also assists clients in employee health and welfare and retirement plans, including plan design, funding and administration. Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management maintains an office in Itasca, Ill.

Founded in 1992, Colemont Insurance Brokers is a brokerage and underwriting facility providing wholesale specialty insurance. The company employs more than 400 insurance professionals in more than 10 offices located throughout the United States. The company offers property, casualty, transportation, worker injury and financial services insurance. The company is a subsidiary of the Dallas-based Colemont Brokerage Group, an international insurance and reinsurance broker. The company owns Colemont Insurance Brokers and Colemont Global Group. Founded in 2005, Colemont Global Group has insurance offices in the United Kingdom, Estonia and Finland, as well as a reinsurance operation in Miami. Colemont Insurance Brokers Chicago office has partnered with more than 250 retail agents and underwriters throughout the Midwest and employs more than 50 people.