James Goodwin Batterson (Bloomfield, Connecticut), 23 February 1823 — Hartford, Connecticut, 18 September 1901) was an American designer and builder, the owner of New England Granite Works from 1845 and a founder in 1863 of Travelers Insurance Company, both in Hartford, Connecticut. He introduced casualty insurance in the United States, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Insurance Hall of Fame (1965).