Business insurance · Jordan · Head-to-head

gig – Jordan (Arab Orient) vs JOFICO (Jordan French Insurance)

Two Jordan business insurance options, compared side by side for Jordan trades.

Which should you choose?

gig – Jordan (Arab Orient) edges ahead on our Jordan tiering (Tier S vs A), but both are workable — the right pick depends on your trade, region, and the Jordan-specific notes below.

gig – Jordan (Arab Orient)

Tier S · Recommended

Market-leading, regionally-backed multi-line insurer

Founded 1996 as Arab Orient; joined Gulf Insurance Group (a top-3 MENA insurer) in 2013. Among the largest insurers in Jordan by premium and AM Best-rated — a true market leader with deep reinsurance capacity for large infrastructure.

Pros

  • + Market leader by premium
  • + GIG group backing = deep capacity
  • + AM Best-rated
  • + Full engineering sub-lines + e-services portal

Cons

  • − No fetchable static CAR page (JS-rendered site)
  • − No online quote
  • − Engineering buried under "Business Insurance"
  • − Corporate cover needs a broker/branch

Jordan note

The GIG backing means the capacity to underwrite large Jordanian infrastructure risk — its engineering line covers CAR, plant & machinery, machinery breakdown and more, placed through a broker rather than online.

Typical Jordan pricing: Quote-only via broker/branch.

JOFICO (Jordan French Insurance)

Tier A · Workable

Established Jordanian-French insurer with a full engineering line

Founded 1976 with a French insurance-group partnership; a mid-to-upper-tier multi-line insurer, ASE-listed, well-regarded for corporate and engineering lines.

Pros

  • + Contractors All Risks + engineering named explicitly on its own site
  • + Operating since 1976; French technical heritage
  • + ASE-listed and transparent
  • + Local Jordanian company

Cons

  • − Engineering page is Arabic-only
  • − No online quote
  • − Mid-size balance sheet vs the market leaders
  • − English depth thinner

Jordan note

Its own product page explicitly lists Contractors All Risks (مخاطر المقاولين الشامل), Plant & Machinery, Machinery Breakdown and Erection All Risks — the strongest first-party verification of CAR cover of any Jordanian insurer we found.

Typical Jordan pricing: Quote-only via broker/agent.

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