STARR Companies (or STARR) is the worldwide marketing name for the services
offered by the operating insurance and travel assistance companies and
subsidiaries of STARR International Company, Inc. and for the investment
business of C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
The shared history of STARR Companies can be traced back to December 1919,
when Cornelius Vander Starr founded an insurance agency in Shanghai, China.
STARR formed STARR International in September 1943 in Panama. During the
1940s, STARR International became the parent company to all of the overseas
companies.
C.V. Starr was incorporated in 1950 and served as the parent company for
various Starr insurance enterprises.
