About Starr Insurance Starr Insurance is a leading insurance and investment organization, providing commercial property and casualty insurance, including travel and accident coverage to almost every imaginable business and industry in virtually every part of the world. Cornelius Vander Starr established his first insurance company in Shanghai, China in 1919. Today, Starr is one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organizations. Our experienced associates are capable of writing in 124 countries on 6 continents. Global Emergency Assistance Service Starr Global Emergency Assistance Services is supported by Assist Card which is one of the subsidiaries of Starr Insurance. Assist Card has more than 400,000 service providers in 197 countries and 17,000 cities around the world.