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We acquired Merastar Insurance to add to our Unitrin Direct business and are in the process of acquiring Primesco, Inc.
Results of our property and casualty insurance businesses declined mostly due to higher losses and increased marketing dollars spent to expand our Unitrin Direct business.
The Company estimates that, as a result of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, the Unitrin Direct, Unitrin Specialty and Unitrin Business Insurance segments together incurred $0.4 million of losses and LAE in excess of their retention of $4.0 million and recorded a reinstatement premium of $0.1 million in 2005.
Their 2006 combined ratio was a 107.7 and this was adversely impacted by an excessively high expense ratio of 49.9. UBI has been going through quite a bit of restructuring in the past several years and it, like Unitrin Direct, needs to get bigger in order to push down its expense ratio.
While Kemper and Unitrin Specialty both market through independent agents and brokers, our Unitrin Direct business markets auto insurance directly to consumers primarily through direct mail, web insurance portals, “click-throughs”, its own web site and TV advertising.
This acquisition will complement Unitrin Direct by providing both the capability to market homeowners products, which they currently do not have, and providing an additional sales channel to reach consumers.
In addition, the Unitrin Direct segment incurred $0.1 million of losses and LAE in Florida which occurred too early to be aggregated with the losses in the other Gulf states under its reinsurance program.
We increased the marketing spending at Unitrin Direct, much of which goes to the bottom line, after-tax, and we needed to increase the loan loss reserves at Fireside Bank.
The annual program covering the Unitrin Direct, Unitrin Specialty and Unitrin Business Insurance segments provided, effective January 1, 2005, coverage of $36 million above retention of $4 million.
Unitrin Direct Insurance Company Lease between Xxxx-Xxxx-R Company No. 1 L.P., Lessor, and Unitrin Direct Insurance Company, Lessee, dated December 31, 2003.