Mercury General Corporation (MCY)

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Mercury General Corporation (Mercury General), through its subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in writing automobile insurance in a number of states, principally California. Mercury General also writes homeowners, mechanical breakdown, fire, umbrella, and commercial automobile and property insurance. The Company offers automobile policyholders various types of coverage, such as bodily injury liability, underinsured and uninsured motorist, personal injury protection, property damage liability, comprehensive, collision and other hazards. It sells its policies through approximately 5,700 independent agents and brokers, of which over 1,100 are located in each of California and Florida. The remaining agents and brokers are located in Georgia, Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan. No independent agent or broker accounted for more than 2% of its direct premiums written during the year ended December 31, 2010.

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