Farmers Insurance Claims Team Serves up Hot Meals and Top Notch Claims Service to...

Farmers Insurance Claims Team Serves up Hot Meals and Top Notch Claims Service to Assist Victims of Arkansas Storms

GASSVILLE, Ark.--(Business Wire)--
Farmers Insurance Group of Companies had additional claims
personal and its Mobile Catastrophe Claims Center Bus in Arkansas to
help storm victims file claims.

Farmers Insurance customers suffering damage from the recent
storms are asked to immediately contact their agent or call the
24-hour claims hotline, 800-HelpPoint (1-800-435-7764).

As of Thursday, February 7, 2008, Farmers has received more than
125 claims statewide from the recent wind storm and tornados.

Farmers' Mobile Catastrophe Claims Center Bus is in Gassville,
Arkansas. The Mobile Catastrophe Claims Bus is located in the parking
lot of the Central Siding Supply Company:

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1762 West Highway 62
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The Farmers Mobile Catastrophe Claims Center Bus is a rolling
customer support center equipped with top-of-the-line technology for
immediate claims handling and outfitted with comforts of home such as
a grill for on-the-spot meals. Farmers customers, and anyone in need
of help or a hot meal, can stop by the Mobile Catastrophe Claims Bus
anytime.

"The Farmers claims bus allows us to serve the most number of
people," said Charlie Snyder, State Executive Director of Farmers
Insurance in Arkansas. "We are equipped to be a community relief
center with this bus. We can serve meals by the hundred and allow
people, even people who are not Farmers customers, telephone and
computer access to reach relatives. These are luxuries no one takes
for granted during a crisis."

Farmers also has a relief center set up under a large tent in
Atkins, Arkansas, in the Lucky Landing area on South Shore Road.
Volunteers served hot dogs and hamburgers to dozens of people today
and will begin serving breakfast tomorrow by 8:00 am. This relief
center is open to anyone.

Farmers Group, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Zurich
Financial Services, an insurance-based financial services provider
with a global network of subsidiaries and offices in North America and
Europe as well as in Asia Pacific, Latin America and other markets.
Farmers(R) is the nation's third-largest Personal Lines Property &
Casualty insurance group. Property and casualty products are
underwritten and issued by the Farmers Exchanges and their
subsidiaries, which Farmers Group, Inc. manages but does not own.
Headquartered in Los Angeles and doing business in 41 states, the
Farmers insurers provide Homeowners, Auto, Business, Life insurance
and financial services to more than 10 million households. For more
information about Farmers, visit our Web site at www.farmers.com.

Farmers Insurance Group
Michelle Levy, 512-791-7445
michelle.levy@farmersinsurance.com

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