The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is a personal lines property and casualty insurance group providing homeowners insurance, auto insurance, life insurance, and financial services in the United States. It is the third largest insurance group in the US servicing over 10 million households in 41 states. While Farmers Group Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services, it is locally headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is a personal lines property and casualty insurance group providing homeowners insurance, auto insurance, life insurance, and financial services in the United States. It is the third largest insurance group in the US servicing over 10 million households in 41 states. While Farmers Group Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich Financial Services, it is locally headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is composed of a holding company and the various underwriters, reciprocal inter-insurance exchanges, and smaller companies associated with it.
Future Farmers co-founders John C. Tyler and Thomas E. Leavey first meet when Tyler moves to California.
Tyler and Leavey had both grown up with rural backgrounds and believed that farmers and ranchers, who had better driving rates than urbanites, deserved lower insurance premiums. During the 1920s, farmers across the United States were establishing their own mutual...
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