Central America & Caribbean · Various
Central America and the Caribbean
Markets covered: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados.
13 licensed entities supervised by the National superintendencies of Central America and the Caribbean (SUGESE Costa Rica, SIB Guatemala, CNBS Honduras, SSF El Salvador, SIBOIF Nicaragua, SSRP Panama, SIS Dominican Republic, CBTT Trinidad and Tobago among them); Bermuda Monetary Authority; Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
- Listed insurers
- 13
- Insurance classes
- 4
- Groups present
- 3

A sense of place
Beyond the numbers.
Heritage, places of work and the landscapes that connect them. Three selected references behind this artistic portrait.
This directory entry groups several markets. The flags and language notes below retain their separate identities.
Local names, languages & illustration notes
Selected local names and languages, with links to the references behind this artistic composition.
Guatemala
- Spanish
- Guatemala
El Salvador
- Spanish
- El Salvador
Honduras
- Spanish
- Honduras
Nicaragua
- Spanish
- Nicaragua
Costa Rica
- Spanish
- Costa Rica
Panama
- Spanish
- Panamá
Dominican Republic
- Spanish
- República Dominicana
Jamaica
- English / Jamaican Creole English
- Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago
- English
- Trinidad and Tobago
Barbados
- English
- Barbados
Name reference: mledoze/countries · ODbL data · ODbL licence. Flag artwork: flag-icons · MIT.
By class of business
Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.
By ownership
Verification log
Partially verified - registers in hand for 6 of the 11 member jurisdictions the rows cover (Panama SSRP, El Salvador SSF, Dominican Republic SIS, Trinidad and Tobago CBTT, Barbados FSC, Jamaica FSC); Honduras and Costa Rica confirmed only from the supervisor's supervised-entity and audited-statement lists, not a licence register; Guatemala (SIB) and Suriname (CBvS) blocked by Cloudflare and Nicaragua (SIBOIF) unreachable · Six official registers retrieved 23 September 2026: Panama SSRP 'Sujetos Regulados - Companias de Seguros' (22 companies); El Salvador SSF 'Entidades autorizadas para operar como sociedades de seguros y fianzas' (24); Dominican Republic Superintendencia de Seguros 'Companias Aseguradoras y Reaseguradoras' (35); Trinidad and Tobago CBTT 'Directories of Registered Insurers' under the Insurance Act 2018 (34, including Lloyd's Association of Underwriters); Barbados FSC 'Insurance - List of licensed Entities Database as at August 31, 2026' (Class 1 164 + Class 2 125 = 289 insurance companies); Jamaica FSC 'Regulated: Insurance Companies' (17). Two supervisor lists short of a licence register: Honduras CNBS 'Estados Financieros Auditados de las Instituciones Supervisadas' - Instituciones de Seguros (13 named, 12 with 2025 statements), and Costa Rica SUGESE's index of insurers' audited financial statements (12 companies for 2025), the SUGESE register itself being a Power BI embed. Not retrieved: Guatemala SIB (Cloudflare managed challenge), Suriname CBvS (Cloudflare 403), Nicaragua SIBOIF (host does not answer).
Six member registers retrieved 23 September 2026 (Panama, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica), plus the CNBS and SUGESE supervised-entity lists for Honduras and Costa Rica: nine of the fifteen rows are confirmed against a supervisor's own list, including Ficohsa Seguros as the trading name of the CNBS-supervised licensee Interamericana de Seguros, S.A. SISA's class is corrected to general, the El Salvador register licensing the group's life business separately as SISA, VIDA, S.A. Two rows name groups rather than licensees (Guardian Group, Pan-American Life Insurance Group). The Guatemalan, Nicaraguan and Surinamese registers could not be retrieved, so four rows stay unconfirmed; no insurer was added, because this market is a curated selection rather than a full register of its jurisdictions.
Licensed insurers in Central America and the Caribbean
| Company | Class | Parent / group | Ownership | Regulator | Verification | Popularity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASSA Compania de Seguros (Panama) Registered as ASSA Compañia de Seguros, S.A. | CComposite | Grupo ASSA | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Assuria Suriname | CComposite | Assuria | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Ficohsa Seguros (Honduras) Registered as Interamericana de Seguros, S.A. (trades as Ficohsa Seguros under a 2010 brand-licence contract with Banco Ficohsa) | CComposite | Ficohsa | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| INS (Instituto Nacional de Seguros, Costa Rica)State-owned Registered as Instituto Nacional de Seguros | CComposite | Costa Rican State | State-owned / parastatal | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Mapfre BHD (DR)BME Registered as MAPFRE- BHD Seguros, S.A. | CComposite | MapfreIAIG | Foreign multinational | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Seguros El Roble (Guatemala) | CComposite | Grupo Financiero Industrial | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Seguros G&T (Guatemala) | CComposite | G&T | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Seguros LAFISE Nicaragua/CA | CComposite | LAFISE | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Seguros Suramericana PanamaBVC: GRUPOSURA Registered as Seguros Suramericana, S.A. | CComposite | Sura | Foreign multinational | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Seguros Universal (DR) Dominican Republic; Registered as Seguros Universal, S. A. | CComposite | Universal | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| SISA (El Salvador) Registered as Seguros e Inversiones, S.A. | GGeneral (Non-life) | Imperia | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Humano Seguros (DR) Registered as Humano Seguros, S.A. | HHealth / Medical | Humano | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
| Sagicor LifeTSX: SFC Barbados/Jamaica | LLife | Sagicor | Domestic private | National supervisors | Partial | — |
No insurers match that filter.
Popularity is an estimate of how often people search Google for each insurer, from 0 to 100; the bars show how confident the estimate is. Not a rating of the insurer. How the index works
Former and deregistered companies
Names once listed in Central America and the Caribbean and no longer in use. A company that was renamed, merged or acquired is counted under the name it has today; the names below are counted in no total on this page.
| Former name | What happened | Listed today as |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian Group | No longer on the register | Not recorded |
| Pan-American Life Insurance Group | No longer on the register | Not recorded |
