Mercury General Corporation Announces Executive Changes, Effective January 1, 2022
September 15, 2021 at 04:05 pm EDT
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Mercury General Corporation announced that Victor Joseph has been named to the newly created position of Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer (EVP & COO) effective January 1, 2022. Victor's leadership responsibilities will expand beyond his current position of Vice President & Chief Underwriting Officer, which he has held since 2017, to include oversight of Advertising & Public Relations, Claims, Human Capital, Information Technology, Marketing and Product Management, in addition to Underwriting. Victor will report directly to Gabriel Tirador, President and Chief Executive Officer. In his role as Chief Underwriting Officer, Victor has been instrumental in updating and creating new protocols to measure risk. In Mercury's homeowners line of business, Victor and his team developed new ways of defining risk in fire-prone areas – recognizing and assessing the value of homeowner and community efforts to safeguard property from natural disasters. While complex, these new metrics enable Mercury to better measure risk and provide enhanced coverage and service to its policyholders.
Mercury General Corporation is an insurance holding company engaged in writing personal automobile insurance business. The Company writes homeowners, commercial automobile, commercial property, mechanical protection and umbrella insurance. The Companyâs automobile coverages include collision, property damage, bodily injury, personal injury protection, underinsured, and uninsured motorist and other hazards. Its homeownersâ coverage includes dwelling, liability, personal property, fire and other hazards. The Company offers standard, non-standard and preferred private passenger automobile insurance. It also offers homeowners insurance in approximately 10 states, commercial automobile insurance in approximately four states, and mechanical protection insurance in various states. Its subsidiaries include Mercury Casualty Company, California Automobile Insurance Company, Orion Indemnity Company, American Mercury Insurance Company, Animas Funding LLC, and Mercury Insurance Company of Illinois.