Auto Insurers News

21st Century Auto Insurance Reduces Rates 3.4% for Californians

21st Century Auto Insurance Co. announced it will be implementing a $34 million rate reduction for policyholders in California, according to Shannon Kelly, senior vice president, West region. The reduction represents an average decrease of 3.4 percent. The seventh largest …

Ohio Auto and Homeowners Insurance Rates Increased in 2008

Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that the average rates for the state’s top 10 private passenger auto insurers increased 0.8 percent in 2008. The average rates for the state’s top 10 homeowners increased by 6.9 percent …

21st Century Auto Insurance Reduces Rates 3.4% for Californians

Shannon Kelly, 21st Century senior vice president, West region, has announced a $34 million rate reduction for 21st Century Auto Insurance Co. policyholders in California. This represents an average decrease of 3.4 percent. As the seventh largest auto insurer in …

Business Moves

Focus Holdings, Capacity Insurance Focus Holdings, LLC in Sunrise, Florida, closed on its acquisition of Capacity Insurance Co. (CIC), a Florida domestic commercial lines insurer, effective July 1, 2009. Focus, better known by the name of its largest subsidiary, MacNeill …

Business Moves

AIG, 21st Century Insurance, Farmers Group Inc. American International Group has closed the sale of 21st Century Insurance Group, the wholly owned subsidiaries of AIG’s U.S. personal auto insurance business, to Farmers Group Inc. (FGI), a subsidiary of Zurich for …

North Carolina Rolls Back, Freezes Auto Insurance Rates

North Carolina is ordering auto insurers to roll back their rates to 2006 levels and send up to $50 million in refunds to about 1 million policyholders in a settlement announced today by Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin. The settlement does …

People

Columbus, Ohio-based State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company and State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance Company has named new managers in various divisions. Robert (Bob) A. Bachtell is claims manager for State Auto’s Ohio region. Bachtell joined Midwest Security Insurance Company …

Indiana, Missouri Ban New Business from Universal Casualty

Indiana ordered Elk Grove Village, Ill.-based auto insurer Universal Casualty Company (UCC) to stop writing new policies in the state until the company can demonstrate “improved business practices,” according to the Indiana Department of Insurance (IDOI), which fined the company …

Mass. Managed Auto System Brings Competition, Lower Rates, Survey Says

Nine new auto insurers, more carriers for each independent agency to represent, a drop in the number of uninsured drivers, and a decrease in policies written in the residual market — these are some of the advantages under the one-year …

Farmers Acquisition of 21st Century Insurance Finalized

Los Angeles-based The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has completed the acquisition of 100 percent of AIG’s U.S. Personal Auto Group, which includes 21st Century Insurance. In addition to 21st Century Insurance, the acquisition includes the former AIG Direct business …