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Acuity to Provide Nearly $20 Million in Relief to Auto Customers To assist customers affected by the COVID-19 crisis, Acuity is discounting our personal auto rates, subject to regulatory approval. This reduction will benefit existing as well as new policyholders and provide nearly $20 million to our personal lines customers. Acuity carefully considered a number of different options for providing rate relief to customers. Ultimately, we determined that providing a rate disco...unt was the best choice. All existing personal lines auto policyholders will receive a rate cut for the entire next 12-month policy term at their policy renewal. New customers will also see a reduction in Acuity’s standard automobile insurance rates. A typical customer with two cars will see a decrease between $50 and $100, depending on their unique situation. This amounts to a credit of 7% for most customers. The rate decrease will apply to all new and renewal policies with effective dates on and after March 11, 2020. Customers do not need to take any action to receive the discountit will be applied automatically. Additionally, Acuity continues to work closely with our mutual customers to offer payment solutions based on individual needs and circumstances. In addition to providing direct relief to our personal auto customers, Acuity has determined it will donate $300,000 distributed equally among three charitable organizations, including Feeding America, the Salvation Army, and the Sheboygan County Food Bank.

COVID Information During the current situation, our office is closed to the general public. We are all working remotely to handle all of your insurance needs. We are all available by phone and e-mail during regular business hours. Thanks for your Support and Stay Safe!

Special News from Progressive Insurance Progressive to credit approximately $1 billion in premium to customers April 08, 2020... Today we announced that we’re providing credits of approximately $1 billion in premium to Progressive personal auto customers as a result of fewer claims that come with less frequent driving. Subject to approval by state regulators, Progressive personal auto customers who have a policy in force as of April 30th will be credited 20% of their April premiums in May and personal auto customers with a policy in force as of May 31st will be credited 20% of their May premiums in June. We estimate that the sum of these two credits will total approximately $1 billion. We may offer additional credits in the upcoming months. Customers will not need to take any actions to receive the benefits. The credits will be applied automatically to the customer’s policy and those customers who have paid in full will receive a payment of the credited amounts. Please be assured that this action will not affect commission payments. Customers will see it reflected in their accounts within a few weeks after month end. If they have a balance on the policy, we’ll apply the credit directly to the remaining balance. And if they’ve already paid in full, we’ll return the money to the payment account we have on fileplease make sure your customers’ payment details are up to date. Progressive CEO Tricia Griffith explained, We understand how difficult and uncertain people’s lives are right now. While auto insurance might not be the most pressing topic on everyone’s mind, we know that finances could be. For our customers who have trusted us to be there in their times of need, we’re fulfilling that promise. We want them to know how much we care. Always guided by our core values, doing the right thing is vitally important to us. We know that by sticking together and taking care of one another during these difficult times, we’ll come through this stronger. We want our current customers to remain our future customers. We’ll continue to monitor the effects of the coronavirus situation and share updates as needed as we look for additional ways to help agents, customers, and our communities move forward. In fact, we’re finalizing plans on a number of initiatives designed to help you, our agent partners, during this timelook for additional information next week. In the meantime, be well and stay safe. Thank you for partnering with Progressive.

News from Safeco Insurance A message about how we’re supporting our customers during the Coronavirus At Safeco, the well-being of our customers and employees is always our top priority. We recognize the uncertainty and financial challenges many of you are facing as the nation bands together to slow the spread of coronavirus. To help our customers, we have taken the following actions:... Personal Insurance Customers: Personal Auto Customer Relief Refund Fewer drivers are on the road, which means fewer accidents. With this in mind, we are announcing our Personal Auto Customer Relief Refund, which will return approximately $250 million to our customers. Here’s how it works: Personal auto insurance customers will receive a 15% refund on two months of their auto premium, based on your premium amount as of April 7, 2020. We are planning to issue the refund in the manner you made your most recent payment or by check. We will begin issuing refunds in the coming weeks, after we have approval from state insurance regulators. Your refund will happen automatically, and you do not need to call us to get your refund.