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The Company offers automobile policyholders the following types of coverage: bodily injury (BI) liability,
underinsured and uninsured motorist, personal injury protection (PIP), property damage liability, comprehensive,
collision and other hazards. The Company’s published maximum limits of liability for private passenger
automobile insurance are, for BI, $250,000 per person and $500,000 per accident, and for property damage,
$250,000 per accident. The combined policy limits may be as high as $1,000,000 for vehicles written under the
Company’s commercial automobile program. However, for the majority of the Company’s automobile policies,
the limits of liability are equal to or less than $100,000 per person and $300,000 per accident for BI and $50,000
per accident for property damage.
The principal executive offices of Mercury General are located in Los Angeles, California. The home office
of the Company’s California insurance subsidiaries and the Information Technology center are located in Brea,
California. The Company also owns office buildings in Rancho Cucamonga and Folsom, California, which are
used to support its California operations and future expansion, and in St. Petersburg, Florida and in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, which house the Company’s employees and several third party tenants. The Company maintains
branch offices in a number of locations in California; Richmond, Virginia; Latham, New York; Bridgewater,
New Jersey; Vernon Hills, Illinois; Atlanta, Georgia; and Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas. The
Company has approximately 4,800 employees.
Website Access to Information
The internet address for the Company’s website is www.mercuryinsurance.com. The internet address
provided in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is not intended to function as a hyperlink and the information on
the Company’s website is not and should not be considered part of this report and is not incorporated by
reference in this document. The Company makes available on its website its Annual Report on Form 10-K,
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, Proxy Statements, and amendments to such
reports and proxy statements (the “SEC Reports”) filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”) pursuant to federal securities laws, as soon as reasonably practicable after each SEC
Report is filed with or furnished to the SEC. In addition, copies of the SEC Reports are available, without charge,
upon written request to the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Mercury General Corporation, 4484 Wilshire
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90010.
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