About Us

Who We Are:
Champlain Insurance Group traces our niche expertise to the 1970s with the First Mercury and CoverX companies. We have over 50 years of industry experience built upon a culture of highly disciplined underwriting and claims-handling practices that enable us to design insurance products responsive to your insured’s needs. Champlain Insurance Group is an insurance enterprise, which, through its affiliates, offers excess and surplus lines insurance coverage, claims handling, and solutions in niche segments where we have particular expertise.
Our Value
We thrive on integrity and innovation. We combine data-driven insights with a collaborative spirit to transform challenges into opportunities, setting new standards in insurance excellence.
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy combines individual expertise with teamwork, driven by data and innovation, to deliver insurance solutions that exceed expectations and positively impact communities.
Our Mission
Champlain Insurance Group is an insurance enterprise, which, through its affiliates, offers excess and surplus lines insurance coverages, claims handling, and risk management solutions in niche segments where we have particular expertise. We are built upon a culture of highly disciplined underwriting and claims-handling practices that enable us to design insurance products responsive to your client’s needs.
Our Vision
Aspiring to be the benchmark in excess and surplus lines insurance, we aim to blend expertise in niche markets with a culture that champions employee growth and community impact.
Distribution Network
WestCongress Insurance Services LLC, a licensed surplus lines insurance producer and premier provider of general liability insurance solutions on a national basis, maintains an extensive network of wholesale surplus lines brokers throughout the United States that look to us to provide tailored insurance solutions specifically designed to the needs of their clients.
Product Offerings
Our product offerings in commercial general liability and commercial excess liability insurance are targeted for small and middle market risks in the energy, artisan contractor, and security industries.
Excess
Your clients built their businesses with sweat equity. But in a flash, all that hard work could disappear. Our professionals understand the importance of crafting the right excess liability insurance solutions for your clients.