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2004 Annual Report
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Property & Casualty at a Glance

Products

Allmerica’s regional property and casualty insurers, Citizens and Hanover, market personal and commercial lines insurance primarily through independent agents and brokers.

  • Personal automobile
  • Homeowners
  • Commercial multiple peril
  • Commercial automobile
  • Workers’ compensation
  • Bond, inland marine, and umbrella
Property and Casualty Product Mix

Highlights

  • A super regional property and casualty insurer in the Northeast and Southeast through Hanover and in the Midwest through Citizens
  • With over 150 years in the property and casualty business, we have a culture of disciplined underwriting
  • Over $2 billion in net written premium puts us among the 30 largest property and casualty insurers in the nation
  • Strong local market presence and knowledge with a well-established net-work of over 1,800 agencies in 25 states
  • Statutory surplus of $1.1 billion and GAAP equity of $1.7 billion
  • A.M. Best rating of A- [Excellent]

Personal Lines:

  • Total net premiums written of $1.5 billion and policies in force of 1.4 million
  • Strong position in Michigan as the 4th largest personal lines insurer in the marketplace

Commercial Lines:

  • Total net premiums written of $750 million
  • Disciplined underwriting staff and strict mix management philosophy have generated a high-quality book of business
  • State-of-the-art, Internet-based small commercial insurance program

Service:

  • New front-end agency portal provides agents with centralized access to information and tools
  • Competitive point-of-sale system improves agent productivity
  • New Commercial Lines operating model leverages technology and workflow improvements to effectively manage routine processes and gain operating efficiencies

    Strategic Focus

    Creating a world class super regional company, offering the best of both national and regional insurers

    Personal Lines:

    Building the Foundation for Growth

    • Increase business with winning agents
    • Develop new relationships with the best agents in our markets
    • Leverage competitive advantage of broad product portfolio and account focus
    • Enhance product offerings; launch multi-variate auto product
    • Implement new Personal Lines operating model achieving operating efficiency and service improvements
    • Continue to deliver technology that improves ease of doing business for our agent partners
Property and Casualty Product Mix

Commercial Lines:

Execute for Profitable Growth

  • Leverage products and operating model designed for first-tier middle market to achieve our growth objectives
  • Capitalize on strength of field teams—local problem-solvers providing creative business solutions
  • Enhance product offerings and leverage specialty products; inland marine, umbrella and bonds—to deliver a complete portfolio solution
  • Increase the use of data and predictive modeling technology in the underwriting process to maintain strong margins
  • Increase penetration among our best agents
  • Expand our network of winning agents
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