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The principal executive offices of Mercury General are located in Los Angeles, California. The home office of the Insurance
Companies 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 California operations and future expansion, and in
Clearwater, Florida and in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which house Company employees and several third party tenants. The
Company has approximately 4,500 employees. The Company maintains branch offices in a number of locations in California;
Clearwater, Florida; Bridgewater, New Jersey; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Austin and San Antonio, Texas. The Company
consolidated its non-California office based claims and underwriting operations into hubs located in Clearwater, Florida;
Bridgewater, New Jersey; and Austin, Texas, which resulted in a net workforce reduction of approximately 135 employees and a
$10 million pre-tax expense in the first quarter of 2013.
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 Reports 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.
Organization
Mercury General, an insurance holding company, is the parent of Mercury Casualty Company, a California automobile
insurer founded in 1961 by George Joseph, the Company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors. Including Mercury Casualty
Company, Mercury General has 19 operating subsidiaries:
Insurance Companies
Date Formed or
Acquired
A.M. Best
Rating Primary States
Mercury Casualty Company (“MCC”)(1) January 1961 A+ CA, AZ, NV, NY, VA
Mercury Insurance Company (“MIC”)(1) November 1972 A+ CA
California Automobile Insurance Company
(“CAIC”)(1) June 1975 A+ CA
California General Underwriters Insurance
Company, Inc. (“CGU”)(1) April 1985 Non-rated CA
Mercury Insurance Company of Illinois August 1989 A+ IL, PA
Mercury Insurance Company of Georgia March 1989 A+ GA
Mercury Indemnity Company of Georgia November 1991 A+ GA
Mercury National Insurance Company December 1991 A+ IL, MI
American Mercury Insurance Company December 1996 A- OK, GA, TX, VA
American Mercury Lloyds Insurance Company December 1996 A- TX
Mercury County Mutual Insurance Company September 2000 A- TX
Mercury Insurance Company of Florida August 2001 A+ FL, PA
Mercury Indemnity Company of America August 2001 A+ NJ, FL