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Michael Bourque Kept His Reporter’s License
The former hockey writer arrived at a young Maine insurer knowing almost nothing about insurance. Three decades later, he runs it with the same useful habit: ask the plain question, listen hard, and make the complicated understandable.
Christine Young Makes Insurance Personal, One Relationship at a Time
From a family brokerage in Cloverdale to the C-suite and a national board seat, Christine Young has built a career around a deceptively simple idea: insurance works better when people stay close to one another.
The 124-Year-Old Insurer That Turned Farm Risk Into a Modern Niche
Mutual Fire survived Prairie catastrophe losses by narrowing its risk, rewriting farm insurance in plain English, and betting on brokers. The lesson is useful far beyond insurance: specialize hard, make the confusing legible, and digitize the bottleneck without abandoning the human who closes the sale.
The Insurance Company That Started With a Bet on Farmers
A hunch about farmers in 1927 grew into a top-ten American insurer. Here is how American Family Insurance built a mutual empire on the promise to inspire, protect, and restore dreams.
SFM Built a $1 Billion Balance Sheet by Trying to Stop the Next Injury
The Midwest workers' compensation mutual sells a required product, then spends its energy trying to make that product less necessary - through safety advice, medical coordination and an unusually patient view of the customer relationship.
The $1.7 Billion Reason Guardian Life Still Believes in an Old-Fashioned Idea
Guardian Life has spent 165 years selling protection against life’s worst timing. Its mutual structure now pairs a record policyholder payout with the less glamorous work of making benefits, claims and leave easier to use.
Arbella Insurance Group
Arbella has built a billion-dollar regional insurer by staying close to home - backing more than 450 independent agents, learning New England's risks block by block, and treating community work as part of the operating model.