Mercury General Corporation

Order for cut in Mercury homeowner rates in force

2013-05-08 13:40:00

SACRAMENTO -- An 8% cut in homeowner insurance rates for customers of Mercury General Corp. is back in play, now that a judge has denied a stay request by the Los Angeles insurer. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones in March ordered the rate...

The ballot's millionaires and billionaires

2012-11-05 20:14:42

Prop. 33 is billionaire's attempt to manipulate public policy

2012-10-21 00:00:00

George Joseph must think that the old saw defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result doesn't apply to him — or at least that it's amenable to tweaking. Joseph, the billionaire nonagenarian founder and...

Mercury chairman backs another auto-insurance discount initiative

2011-08-12 21:44:43

Los Angeles auto insurance executive puts $8 million into initiative campaign

2011-09-12 16:35:10

The danger of making auto insurance unaffordable [The reply]

2011-09-27 16:35:36

Chamber of Commerce jumps into insurance commissioner's race

2010-10-06 16:34:05

So many campaign dollars, so little to show for them

2010-11-03 21:34:23

Mercury General using guise of benevolence to assault Prop. 103

2009-07-02 00:00:00

The art of setting automobile insurance rates is incomprehensible to most of us civilians. Liability coverage, comprehensive insurance, assigned risk pools, discounts, surcharges . . . the list goes on. Just try to figure out how your carrier arrived at...

The week ahead

2007-02-11 00:00:00

Monday: -- Earnings: Administaff Inc.; Brown & Brown Inc.; Cephalon Inc.; Charles River Laboratories International Inc.; General Growth Properties Inc.; Hub Group Inc.; Loews Corp.; Mercury General Corp.; Priceline.com Inc.; Yum Brands Inc. Tuesday: --...

George Joseph, chairman of Mercury General Corp., remains a vocal opponent of Proposition 103. The insurance company founder also bemoans the sad state of customer service in the U.S., noting, People want to talk to people.

2008-05-20 11:01:34