Farmers named top insurance company in Los Angeles

During the publication’s 10th Annual Los Angeles Business Journal Hall of Fame Awards luncheon on Tuesday, March 22, the publication honored the top companies in Los Angeles based on research and listings in its annual Book of Lists.

More than 250 chief executive officers and employees from 47 Los Angeles companies attended the luncheon. Farmers CEO Bob Woudstra accepted the award on behalf of the Farmers organization. President of Enterprise Marketing Paul Patsis was on hand as well.

In addition, Tim Leiweke, president and chief executive officer of A.E.G. was named the Businessperson of the Year. During his remarks, Leiweke referenced Farmers as a partner in striving to build a downtown football stadium that once approved and built will be called Farmers Field and bring NFL football back to Los Angeles after a 15 year hiatus. "It won't be easy,” he said, “but with Farmers, Los Angeles banks, the City Council and the community, we can make it happen."

Farmers Insurance Group of Companies is the country's 3rd largest insurer of both personal lines passenger automobile and homeowners insurance, and also provides a wide range of other insurance and financial services products.  Farmers Insurance is proud to serve more than 10 million households with more than 20 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 50,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 24,000 employees.

Farmers is a trade name and may refer to Farmers Group, Inc. or the Farmers Exchanges, as the case may be.  Farmers Group, Inc., a management and holding company, along with its subsidiaries, is wholly owned by the Zurich Financial Services Group. The Farmers Exchanges are three reciprocal insurers (Farmers Insurance Exchange, Fire Insurance Exchange and Truck Insurance Exchange), including their subsidiaries and affiliates, owned by their policyholders, and managed by Farmers Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information about Farmers, visit its Web site at www.farmers.com or at www.Facebook.com/FarmersInsurance.