Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 22, 1999

Robert L. Bailey – State Auto Financial Corporation (stfc)

ROBERT L. BAILEY is Chairman of the State Auto Insurance Companies (State Auto Financial Corporation; State Auto Property and Casualty; State Auto National; State Automobile Mutual; Milbank; Midwest Security; Farmers Casualty; Mid Plains and several other subsidiary companies). Mr. Bailey is a graduate of Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas. He holds the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate in Risk Management designations. Mr. Bailey is a member of a number of industry and community boards, including the: National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), Immediate Past Chairman and a member of the Executive Committee, an association of some 600 property and casualty insurance companies; Franklin University, Immediate Past Chairman; Alliance for Productive Technology (APT), Past Chairman, Board and Executive Committee member, an organization dedicated to bringing about single entry, multi-company interface for independent agents and companies operating through the independent agency system; American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters the Insurance Institute of America; and the Insurance Institute for Applied Ethics. Profile
TWST: Give us a brief description of State Auto Financial Corporation.

Mr. Bailey: State Auto's roots go back to 1921 with the formation of a

mutual insurance company that's still a part of