Auto owners
Auto owners insurance, just west of Lansing Delta Township, Michigan, is a group of insurance companies based in. Company personal and commercial lines, including life insurance as well as property and casualty insurance, offers. The $ 16 billion in assets and more than $ 5 billion in written premiums in Michigan with the largest property and casualty insurance company.
Auto-Owners was founded in 1916 and now has 94 full-service branches throughout the country and claims. Subsidiary companies include: Auto-Owners Life Insurance Company, home owners insurance, owners insurance, property owners insurance company and the insurance company Southern owners.
Auto-Owners is a mutual insurance company and only operates through local independent agencies. Employing more than 37,000 agents auto owners representing more than 6,200 agencies. The company itself employs more than 4,200 associates. The company's revenue from the United States, which is listed in the Fortune 500 list of companies, is ranked 428th on, and for 12 straight years, has been listed.
History
Auto-Owners Mount Pleasant, Michigan was founded in 1916 by Vern V. Moulton. Infant Company had no capital and was located in a room of a bank building. Auto owners for a little less than a year of operation in Mount Pleasant, and in 1917 the company moved to Lansing Moulton.
The company increased its premiums due and staff move offices in downtown Lansing, increased over the following years. When the depression hit, Auto Owners holidays off when it claims to be able to pay a security deposit box in 1933 with $ 100,000 in cash obtained through bank holidays. Firm more than $ 2.5 million in insurance premiums was writing.
Written only automobile insurance auto owners who, in 1940, entered the general casualty insurance field. During the next five years, the company continued its growth, it is necessary to adjust the three buildings in the vicinity of the main office to get there. In 1951, the city center, which was built in Lansing in a home office, I consolidated all of its offices. Life company '60s and' 70s because of the rapid growth in 1966 was established.
This is when the company began writing insurance in Indiana, from 1916 to 1935, wrote business in Michigan exclusively. Ohio soon followed in 1936, and in the 1940s, auto owners expanded operations to include Illinois and Minnesota. The 1950s, Iowa, North and South Dakota, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Missouri, and in North and South Carolina were added. In the company in 2006. In 1969 in Wisconsin, Nebraska, in 1972, Georgia in 1973, Arizona in 1982, Virginia in 1989, Kentucky in 1994, Kansas in 1996, Utah in 1997, Colorado in 1999, Arkansas began operations in 2005 and Idaho the 2009 Pennsylvania Auto owners, the 26th began writing insurance in the state.
Today, Auto-Owners Lansing, Michigan full service offices (underwriting and claims) with 93 branch offices, has a total of; City, Michigan Traverse, Montgomery, Alabama, Mesa, Arizona; Broomfield, Colorado; Lakeland, Florida; Tallahassee of Florida. Duluth, Georgia, West Des Moines, Iowa, to Marion, Indiana; Peoria, Illinois, Lexington, Kentucky, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Columbia, Missouri, Charlotte, North Carolina, Fargo, North Dakota, Lima, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; Little Rock, Arkansas, Columbia, South Carolina; Brentwood, Tennessee, Draper, Utah, Forest, Virginia, and in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Current auto owners home office is located in a business and residential complex Delta Township, west of Lansing, Verndale called. This building was built in 1975, and 404,616 square feet (37,590.1 M2) increased its size, has been extended three times.
Auto-Owners Insurance Company Lansing corporate office services, but its subsidiary companies only: Auto Owners Life Insurance Company, home owners insurance, owners insurance, property owners insurance company, and Southern Owners Insurance Company. Lansing branch underwriting and Lansing branch claims offices auto owners near the main corporate office are housed in another building owner.
Companies in 26 states, personal and commercial property / casualty and life, health and annuity insurance sales by more than 6,200 independent agencies are represented. More than 4,100 of the total number of peers.
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