Trean

Trean

Specialty P&C insurer and service provider

Overview

Trean Insurance Group serves the specialty property and casualty market by providing underwriting, issuing carrier services, and a suite of risk management solutions. It collaborates with program partners and managing general agencies, offering third-party claims administration, insurance management services, and reinsurance placement and consulting. Revenue comes from underwriting fees, premium income, and fees for claims administration and consulting. Its goal is to deliver tailored, scalable specialty insurance solutions by applying deep insurance expertise to meet the needs of specialty insurers, reinsurance firms, and other niche clients.

Significant Headcount Growth

About Trean

Simplify's Rating
Why Trean is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Consulting

Financial Services

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Wayzata, Minnesota

Founded

1996

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What believers are saying

  • Trean finished Origami Risk implementation in 2024, cutting legacy-system complexity across 50 states.
  • Benchmark Specialty launched E&S capacity in 2021, opening higher-margin non-admitted program business.
  • Altaris completed the 2023 buyout, giving Trean patient capital for organic expansion and acquisitions.

What critics are saying

  • Compstar sued Summit Specialty in February 2025, naming Trean and Altaris in the trade-secret dispute.
  • Altaris bought Trean for $6.15 per share in April 2023, signaling limited public-market validation.
  • Trean’s monoline workers’ compensation concentration ties earnings to loss trends and claims execution.

What makes Trean unique

  • Altaris still controls Trean, aligning capital and underwriting discipline after the 2023 take-private.
  • Trean operates multi-state workers’ comp, claims, and billing on Origami Risk since 2024.
  • Benchmark, 7710, and American Liberty give Trean licensed carrier breadth across specialty programs.

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Funding

Total Funding

$50M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

23%

1 year growth

23%

2 year growth

23%
Business Wire
Apr 10th, 2024
Trean Streamlines Workers’ Comp Operations Across U.S. With Origami Risk’S Core Suite

WAYZATA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trean Insurance Group (TIG), a full-service property and casualty insurance and reinsurance company delivering comprehensive insurance solutions through its family of highly rated and broadly licensed insurance companies—Benchmark, 7710, and American Liberty—has successfully completed the implementation of Origami Risk’s multi-tenant core property and casualty solution suite. This milestone marks a significant transformation for Trean's monoline workers’ compensation business, enhancing policy administration, billing, and claims functionality across its nationwide operations. The implementation enables Trean to consolidate multiple databases and systems into a single platform, fulfilling their commitment to excellence, efficiency, and reliability to meet the evolving needs of their clients. Completed in two phases, Trean went live with Origami’s claims solution in all 50 states in only eight months, followed by the implementation of policy administration and billing functionality across 49 states by the end of the fourth quarter 2023. “The Origami solution is central to our organization’s goal of combining underwriting, claims, loss control, and analytical expertise to provide customized insurance for successful, long-lasting partnerships,” said Julie Baron, CEO, Trean. “A single platform for policy, billing, and claims provides Trean with increased control and autonomy over our core system while driving down administration costs and enhancing user experiences for our internal claims team and agent/broker partners.”

GlobeNewswire
Apr 21st, 2023
Altaris Completes Acquisition Of Trean Insurance Group

WAYZATA, Minn. and NEW YORK, April 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trean Insurance Group, Inc. (“Trean” or the “Company”), a leading provider of products and services to the specialty insurance market, today announced the completion of the acquisition of the Company by funds managed by Altaris, LLC (collectively with its affiliates, “Altaris”) for $6.15 per share in cash. The transaction was announced on December 16, 2022 and received approval from stockholders on April 18, 2023. As a result, Trean’s common stock ceased trading and will no longer be listed on Nasdaq.“We are thrilled to begin the next chapter of Trean’s successful partnership with Altaris, which will continue to enhance our longtime focus on strong partnerships, underwriting discipline and exceptional claims management to generate long-term growth,” said Julie Baron, President and Chief Executive Officer of Trean. “Starting with their original investment in 2015, Altaris’s healthcare expertise and support have been critical in helping to drive our Company’s transformation to become a leading national provider of workers’ compensation and other specialty insurance services

GlobeNewswire
Dec 16th, 2022
Trean Insurance Group Announces Definitive Agreement To Be Acquired By Altaris Capital Partners

Trean Stockholders to Receive $6.15 Per Share in Cash, a Premium of Approximately 97%Company to Continue Growth Plan and Delivering Full Suiteof Insurance and Reinsurance ServicesWAYZATA, Minn. and NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trean Insurance Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TIG) (“Trean” or the “Company”), a leading provider of products and services to the specialty insurance market, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with affiliates of Altaris, LLC (collectively with its affiliates, “Altaris”), which currently owns approximately 47% of Trean’s outstanding common stock. Under the terms of the agreement, Altaris will acquire all of the common stock that it does not currently own for $6.15 in cash per share, representing a 97% premium to Trean’s closing price on December 15, 2022, the last trading day prior to this announcement and a 133% premium to the 30-day volume-weighted average price per share of $2.64 as of December 15, 2022.Upon receiving a proposal from Altaris to acquire the Company, which was conditioned on approval by a special committee of independent and disinterested directors and by a majority of the voting power of unaffiliated stockholders, the Board of Directors formed such a Special Committee comprised solely of independent and disinterested directors to evaluate the proposal and alternatives thereto and make a recommendation to the Board of Directors. The Special Committee was advised by its own independent financial and legal advisors

Coverager
Aug 24th, 2022
Trean Increases Surplus With $50 Million Surplus Notes Offering

Trean Insurance Group , a provider of products and services to the specialty insurance market, announced that it has increased the surplus of its subsidiary Benchmark Insurance Company by completing a private offering of $50 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.75% Surplus Notes due August 2042. “We are pleased to further increase the Benchmark surplus with this offering. The addition of this $50 million is another important step towards Trean achieving our long-term financial goals.” – Julie Baron, President and Chief Executive Officer of Trean

GlobeNewswire
Aug 24th, 2022
Trean Insurance Group Increases Surplus with $50 Million Surplus Notes Offering

WAYZATA, Minn., Aug. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trean Insurance Group (Nasdaq: TIG) (“Trean” or the “Company”), a leading provider of products and...

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