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Kentucky

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Flag of Kentucky
Status
State
Capital
Frankfort
Admitted to the Union
1792
Nickname
Bluegrass State
Motto
United we stand, divided we fall

Insurance regulator

Kentucky Department of Insurance

Chief insurance official
Commissioner · appointed
Official website
insurance.ky.gov
Visit the regulator’s website
Frankfort, Kentucky — Kentucky
Frankfort, Kentucky
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Kentucky State Capitol — Kentucky
Kentucky State Capitol
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Mammoth Cave National Park — Kentucky
Mammoth Cave National Park
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United States · Insurance market profile

The Kentucky insurance market

Kentucky has its own insurance supervisory authority, the Kentucky Department of Insurance. This profile brings together its regulatory contacts, NAIC research and the companies recorded as domiciled here in our directory.

Frankfort is the capital. A US state since 1792, Kentucky is part of a state-based insurance system: a company's home jurisdiction and the markets where it is authorised to operate are different facts.

Within this directory's Kentucky domicile records, Health / Medical is the largest recorded class, with 4 entities. This describes the composition of our listings, not premium market share.

Domiciled entities listed
8
Recorded business classes
3
Named groups in listings
0

Partial directory coverage. These counts are not the total number of insurers licensed in Kentucky.

Kentucky
Kentucky · US Census boundaries
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Insurance commissioner & supervision

Insurance supervision

Kentucky Department of Insurance

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Appointed office

Commissioner

Kentucky Department of Insurance

The department is the starting point for checking an insurer's authority, finding consumer assistance and following local regulatory announcements. Leadership details can change; use the official office link for the current incumbent.

Commissioner's office ↗Visit the insurance department ↗

Check a licence or raise a concern

Start with the legal company name on your policy and its NAIC company number, where available. A familiar brand may represent several separately licensed companies.

Use the department's insurer lookup to check authority in Kentucky. For complaint assistance, the NAIC directory links to each jurisdiction's department and complaint channel.

NAIC Consumer Insurance Search ↗Department contacts & complaints ↗

The market in focus

“…an alternative market for specialty and hard-to-place risks when coverage is not available from admitted insurance carriers.”

Kentucky Department of Insurance · Property & Casualty Division ↗

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NAIC research for Kentucky

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners supports the 56 US insurance jurisdictions with shared data and regulatory coordination. The local insurance department remains the authority for questions about a company's licence in Kentucky.

Kentucky: key facts & market trends

Reporting year 2024 · NAIC state report card

  • National rank for total premium: 27.
  • National rank for health premium: 19.
  • In-state direct written premiums grew 71% between 2015 and 2024.

Read the report's definitions before comparing states: premiums, insurer counts and directory domicile records measure different things. Figures retain their reporting year and should not be read as live totals.

Read the Kentucky NAIC report (PDF) ↗

Research an insurance group

A group may contain companies domiciled in several jurisdictions. The NAIC lead-state report identifies the coordinating state for group supervision.

NAIC lead-state report ↗

Explore licensing requirements

The Uniform Certificate of Authority Application resources collect state-specific requirements for insurance company applications.

UCAA state charts ↗
Sources & coverage

NAIC market research reviewed 26 September 2026. State identity and office-selection facts come from the state reference dataset dated 23 September 2026; insurer counts are calculated from the directory's register records. Photographs illustrate places, not insurer or regulator offices.

NAIC department directory · US coverage and verification

Insurers domiciled in Kentucky

CompanyClassParent / groupOwnershipRegulatorVerificationPopularity
Hornbeam Insurance Company
NAIC 11245; TDI licence 13766128; domicile KY (foreign to Texas); type: Fire and Casualty; structure: Stockholder; licensed 2020/04/30
GGeneral (Non-life)NAIC group 4956Domestic privateNAIC / state DOIsPartial66 Confidence: Low
Arcadian Health Plan, Inc.
NAIC 12151; TDI licence 95962; domicile KY (foreign to Texas); type: Health Maintenance Org; structure: Stockholder; licensed 2005/02/01; Health plan licensed under a separate statute, not on a general insurance licence
HHealth / MedicalNAIC group 0119Domestic privateNAIC / state DOIsPartial57 Confidence: Low
CHA HMO, Inc.
NAIC 95158; TDI licence 13765707; domicile KY (foreign to Texas); type: Health Maintenance Org; structure: Stockholder; licensed 2018/03/07; Health plan licensed under a separate statute, not on a general insurance licence
HHealth / MedicalNAIC group 0119Domestic privateNAIC / state DOIsPartial—
Humana Health Plan, Inc.
NAIC 95885; TDI licence 13764865; domicile KY (foreign to Texas); type: Health Maintenance Org; structure: Stockholder; licensed 2014/05/28; Health plan licensed under a separate statute, not on a general insurance licence
HHealth / MedicalNAIC group 0119Domestic privateNAIC / state DOIsPartial—
Humana Insurance Company of Kentucky
NAIC 60219; TDI licence 13765715; domicile KY (foreign to Texas); type: Life, Accident or Health; structure: Stockholder; licensed 2018/03/22
HHealth / MedicalNAIC group 0119Domestic privateNAIC / state DOIsPartial—
Citizens Security Life Insurance Company
NAIC 61921; TDI licence 94875; domicile KY (foreign to Texas); type: Life, Accident or Health; structure: Stockholder; licensed 1998/04/21
LLifeNo NAIC group code providedDomestic privateNAIC / state DOIsPartial80 Confidence: Low
Humana Insurance Company
NAIC 73288; TDI licence 93526; domicile KY (foreign to Texas); type: Life, Accident or Health; structure: Stockholder; licensed 1980/05/02
LLifeNAIC group 0119Domestic privateNAIC / state DOIsPartial—
Investors Heritage Life Insurance Company
NAIC 64904; TDI licence 64550; domicile KY (foreign to Texas); type: Life, Accident or Health; structure: Stockholder; licensed 1983/01/27
LLifeNAIC group 5016Domestic privateNAIC / state DOIsPartial—

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

An insurer’s domicile is the state or territory where it is incorporated, and that jurisdiction’s regulator is its primary supervisor. Domicile here comes from the register rows: the Texas Department of Insurance register records each company’s state of domicile, and a captive on the Vermont captive register is domiciled in Vermont. A state’s list is therefore the insurers in this directory that call it home, not its regulator’s own register of every insurer it licenses.

To see where a company is licensed, use the NAIC’s national search, which covers every state: NAIC Consumer Insurance Search

Regulator details, nicknames and mottos were checked against the regulators’ own sites and public references on 23 Sept 2026. Flags are public-domain artwork. This is reference information, not register data.