There was an article in the January 15th issue of the "Cascade Business News" titled, "What Auto Body Shop Owners Can Tell You About Car Insurance".

Of course I had to read it.  The author's point, Ron Reichen from Precision Auto Body and Paint, was that body shops have a unique insight into how insurers deal with claims and where their priorities lie.

Ron refrerred to a recent report of the Northwest Auto Trades Association, the 2013 NATA insurer report card.  The four companies rated highest by auto body shops are:

1     State Farm

2     Oregon Mutual

3     Mutual of Enumclaw

4     Travelers

As an independent insurance agency, we have the ability to seek out insurance companies with which we wish to do business on behalf of our customers.  State Farm is what is referred to as a "direct writer", in other words, you can only buy a State Farm policy from a captive State Farm agent.  But the next three all participate in the independent agency system.  And guess what? 

We represent all of them!  Thats right!

We have additional companies also, (SAFECO, Cincinnati, Foremost, and Progressive are the larger ones), but to have all three of the top performing available conpanies makes me feel good about our ability to serve our customers.

And to us, that's what it's all about.