Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Farmers Insurance Group (informally Farmers) is an American insurer group of vehicles, homes and small businesses and also provides other insurance and financial services products. Farmers Insurance has more than 48,000 exclusive and independent agents and approximately 21,000 employees.
In 1820, there were 17 stock life insurance companies in the state of New York, many of which would subsequently fail. Between 1870 and 1872, 33 US life insurance companies failed, in part fueled by bad practices and incidents such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 3,800 property-liability and 2,270 life insurance companies were operating in ...
FBL Financial Group, Inc. is a financial services holding company, headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FFG. Its primary operating subsidiary, Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, underwrites and markets a broad range of life insurance and annuities to individuals and businesses.
Farmers Insurance is laying off 11% of its workforce — or about 2,400 workers — across all lines of its business. The California-based company said it is restructuring to be better positioned ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
American Family Insurance was founded on October 3, 1927, [5] when insurance salesman Herman Wittwer opened the doors of Farmers Mutual Insurance Company (not to be confused with the Farmers Insurance Group) in Madison, Wisconsin. At the time, the company's product was auto insurance and its target market was farmers.
Farmers Insurance is upping the number of home policies it writes each month and resuming coverage for condos, renters and other dwellings, saying the California insurance market has improved.
In 1998 it acquired USF&G, known formerly as United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, an insurance company based in Baltimore, Maryland, for $3.9 billion in stock and assumed debt. [8] [9] By buying USF&G, they went from the 13th to the eighth largest property and casualty insurance company in the United States. Through economies of scale ...