UNITED FIRE GROUP INC
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 26, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 26, 2025
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Business Overview
Reportable Segments
We operate as one operating segment. Our revenues are primarily derived from premiums earned for property and casualty insurance products issued to customers. For additional information, see Note 10, Segment Information, in Part II, Item 8, "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data."
The following table shows the principle types of property and casualty insurance policies we write and issue, and which lines of business they are reported in:
| Direct Writer | Treaty Reinsurance(1) | Lloyd's of London | MGAs | |
| Commercial Lines | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other Liability | x | P | x | |
| Fire and allied lines | x | P | x | |
| Automobile | x | P | ||
| Workers' compensation | x | P | ||
| Fidelity and surety | x | P | ||
| Other | x | x | ||
| Personal Lines | ||||
| Fire and allied lines | * | P | ||
| Automobile | * | |||
| Other | * | |||
| Reinsurance Assumed | NP | x | ||
- Personal lines direct business was discontinued in 2020 with an immaterial amount of exposure still in force due to certain regulatory non-renewal limitations. For more information, refer to Part I, Item 1 "Property and Casualty Insurance Business" under "Personal Lines Business."
(1) Treaty Reinsurance is split between proportional reinsurance (P) and non-proportional reinsurance (NP)
Commercial other liability - primarily business insurance covering bodily injury and property damage including construction defect, excess and surplus lines excess casualty, and standard umbrella. Proportional assumed reinsurance on these lines and professional liability coverage managed by an MGA partner.
Commercial fire and allied lines - primarily multi-peril non-liability property coverage, inland marine. Proportional assumed reinsurance on these lines and earthquake coverage managed by an MGA partner.
Commercial automobile - physical damage to an insured's vehicle, as well as liabilities to third parties. Automobile physical damage insurance covers loss or damage to vehicles from collision, vandalism, fire, theft, flood or other causes. Automobile liability insurance covers bodily injury, damage to property resulting from automobile accidents caused by the insured, uninsured or under-insured motorists and the legal costs of defending the insured against lawsuits. Proportional reinsurance on these lines is also included.
Workers' compensation - business coverage for employees who are injured or become ill as a result of their job, including proportional assumed reinsurance for this coverage. Our workers' compensation insurance covers primarily small- to mid-sized accounts.
Fidelity and surety - contract and commercial surety bond coverage which guarantees performance and payment by our bonded principals, protects owners from failure to perform on the part of our principals, and protects material suppliers and subcontractors from nonpayment by our contractors.
Commercial other - commercial theft coverage, boiler and machinery and ocean marine business managed by an MGA partner.
Personal - fire and allied lines includes proportional assumed reinsurance for homeowners multi-peril coverage.
Reinsurance assumed - primarily non-proportional assumed reinsurance and Lloyd's of London property and casualty syndicates.
Lloyd's of London ("Lloyds") Syndicates
The Company is a member of Lloyd's through its insurance subsidiary McIntyre Cedar Corporate Member LLP. Lloyd’s operates as an insurance marketplace whereby members join syndicates to underwrite property and casualty and reinsurance business through a managing agent in return for receiving premiums. The Company participates in Syndicate 1492, Syndicate 1729, Syndicate 1969, Syndicate 1971, Syndicate 4747, Syndicate 2988, Syndicate 1699, Syndicate 5623 and Syndicate 2358. The Company is required to maintain capital at Lloyd's, referred to as Funds at Lloyd's ("FAL"), to support the participation in these syndicates.
Pooling Arrangement
All of our property and casualty insurance subsidiaries belong to an intercompany reinsurance pooling arrangement. Pooling arrangements permit the participating companies to rely on the capacity of the entire pool's capital and surplus, rather than being limited to policy exposures of a size commensurate with each participant's own surplus level. Under such arrangements, the members share substantially all of the insurance business that is written and allocate the combined premiums, losses and expenses based on percentages defined in the arrangement.
Geographic Concentration
For the year ended December 31, 2024, 47.1 percent of our property and casualty premiums were written in Texas, California, Iowa, Missouri, and Louisiana.
In 2024, 2023 and 2022 the direct statutory premiums written by our property and casualty insurance operations were distributed as follows:
| Years Ended December 31, | % of Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (In Thousands) | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
| Texas | $200,593 | $176,287 | $148,207 | 18.4% | 17.4% | 16.6% |
| California | 136,840 | 126,262 | 111,037 | 12.5 | 12.4 | 12.4 |
| Iowa | 70,935 | 71,975 | 70,128 | 6.5 | 7.1 | 7.8 |
| Missouri | 53,575 | 59,094 | 54,090 | 4.9 | 5.8 | 6.1 |
| Louisiana | 52,795 | 43,769 | 37,124 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| New Jersey | 47,909 | 42,369 | 41,030 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
| Illinois | 40,728 | 37,157 | 28,538 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| Colorado | 38,284 | 36,900 | 34,480 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| Nebraska | 33,303 | 33,272 | 29,120 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.3 |
| Minnesota | 33,230 | 35,718 | 32,659 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
| All Other States | 383,625 | 351,474 | 307,328 | 35.1 | 34.7 | 34.4 |
| Direct Statutory Premiums Written | $1,091,817 | $1,014,277 | $893,741 | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
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