The group's principal activities are to provide multiple-line property and casualty insurance and reinsurance services. The group is an insurance holding company and it is 80.9 percent owned by employers mutual casualty company. The group conducts its insurance business through two segments: property and casualty insurance segment that underwrites both commercial and personal lines of insurance and reinsurance segment provides reinsurance for other insurers and reinsurers. The operations are carried out through 16 branch offices and 3,150 independent agents throughout the United States. The group's subsidiaries include emcasco insurance company, Illinois emcasco insurance company, dakota fire insurance company, farm and city insurance company, emc reinsurance company and emc underwriters, llc.
