General Casualty Insurance was a super-regional

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and

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insurance provider headquartered in

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as of 2006. It operated as a subsidiary of Winterthur U.S. Holdings. Winterthur U.S. Holdings, which operated as Winterthur North America, and was also based in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin operated General Casualty Insurance, as well as

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-based Unigard Insurance.

History

From 1956 to 1990, General Casualty was owned by Reliance Insurance. In 1990, General Casualty was sold to Winterthur, a Swiss Insurance Group.In 1997, Winterthur was sold to

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. In 2006, AXA Group acquired Winterthur from Credit Suisse. In January 2007, QBE Insurance Group,

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, agreed to buy Winterthur U.S. Holdings, General Casualty's parent company, for $1.16 billion. In 2011, QBE announced that the General Casualty name would be replaced with the QBE name and logo.

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