In 2001, there were 8.9 million ordinary life insurance policies in force, with a total value of $450.3 billion; total value for all categories of life insurance (ordinary, group, industrial, and credit) was $768.9 billion. Death benefits paid that year totaled $2.3 billion.
There were 37 life and health and 210 property and casualty insurance companies headquartered in Pennsylvania in 2000. In 2001, property and casualty insurers wrote over $14.7 billion in premiums. That year, there were 61,267 flood insurance policies in force in the state, with a total value of $6.8 million.