Company Profile
NAMIC-National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
Company Overview
NAMIC Overview
In 1752, a generation before he would become a Founding Father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin helped establish the first successful mutual insurance company in America. For more than 250 years, mutual insurance companies have been – and still are –about people coming together to protect themselves in a common need. Because there are no stockholders in a mutual insurance company, the interests of the policyholders are served first.
The median age of a mutual insurance company in the United States is 120 years. Following the Civil War, there was a boom of farm mutual companies, and many states began forming associations to bring together their respective states’ companies on common ground.
The idea for a national organization came in 1895 as members of the Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa’s board of directors sat around a table after a meeting of their state association. It was suggested that Walter A. Rutledge, who had started Farmers Mutual Hail several years earlier, should invite mutual insurance executives from other states to consider forming a national association. That meeting, held the following year in Chicago, is considered the first organizational meeting of what was initially called the National Association of Co-Operative Mutual Insurance Companies.
For more than 117 years NAMIC has been serving in the best interests of mutual insurance companies – large and small – across the nation as well as in Canada. We are the largest and most diverse property/casualty insurance trade association with 1,400 property/casualty insurance companies serving more than 135 million auto, home, and business policyholders writing more than $196 billion in premiums. NAMIC member companies have 50 percent of the automobile/homeowners market and 31 percent of the business insurance market.
Membership in NAMIC is not restricted to mutual insurance companies alone. Stock insurance companies, reinsurance companies and industry vendor companies may also apply to become associate members. More than 200,000 people are employed by NAMIC member companies.
By providing positive contributions to our society through a financially sound, competitive, and ethical insurance industry, NAMIC member companies better serve their policyholders and the communities where they do business. We strengthen and support our members and the mutual property/casualty insurance industry by leadership in advocacy, public policy, public affairs, and member services.
Through our advocacy programs we promote public policy solutions that benefit member companies and the consumers we serve. Our educational programs enable us to become better leaders in our companies and the insurance industry for the benefit of our policyholders.
NAMIC was incorporated in Indiana in 1920. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, and has an office in Washington, D.C. We are equally proud of our long and storied history (Benjamin Franklin’s company is still in business, and it continues to be a NAMIC member), and of our contemporary reputation as the national association “where the future of insurance has its voice.”®
Company History
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Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
NAMIC was selected as one of Indiana's Best Places to Work in 2013 by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. We also won this award in 2011 when we made our first entry to the program (we did not pursue it in 2012). This award is based on a combination of benefits and compensation policies, as well as employee survey feedback.
Please go to our website, www.namic.org for additional information on the many things NAMIC is involved in at both the state and federal levels.
Benefits
Matched 401(k) Plan, access to supplemental benefits at group rates such as critical illness, accident, additional Long Term Disability, on-site massage bi-weekly, lunch time parties, free parking, a wonderfully professional and friendly work environment...