Founded on April 20, 1925 by H. O. Hirt and O. G. Crawford in Erie, Pennsylvania, The ERIE now has an agency force of more than 8,000 licensed independent agents representing over 1,700 independent agencies that sell auto, home, life and business insurance in eleven states and the District of Columbia. Our founding principle guides us in all we do: "To provide our policyholders with as near perfect protection, as near perfect service as is humanly possible and to do so at the lowest possible cost."

Visit the Erie Insurance Group web site at www.ErieInsuranceGroup.com.

Rankings and Ratings

Erie Insurance Exchange and each of our property and casualty insurance subsidiaries carry the top A+ Superior rating from A.M. Best, the leading authority on insurance companies. The Erie Family Life Insurance Company earns Best's A+ "Superior" rating.

For 10 consecutive years through 2000, the Ward Financial Group included Erie Insurance Group in its list of top 50 insurers for overall industry performance and safety. ERIE is one of only 13 insurance providers to remain on the Ward list for 10 consecutive years. Erie Insurance Exchange carries a B- and each of our property and casualty subsidiaries carry a B rating from Weiss Research, another highly regarded evaluator of financial stability.

National Underwriter ranks Erie Insurance Exchange as the 12th largest insurer of private passenger automobiles and the 23rd largest property/casualty insurer out of more than 3,000 companies in the United States.

Because The ERIE has long been recognized as a good place to work, it comes as no surprise to members of The ERIE family, as we commonly refer to ourselves, that we have been included in four editions of the best-selling book, The 100 Best Companies to Work For In America, written by Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz. We were also named to Fortune magazine's 100 Best Companies list two years in a row.