EMC's "Excellent" Ratings Affirmed by AM Best 2025

DES MOINES, Iowa (Oct. 27, 2025)—EMC Insurance announced today that rating agency AM Best has affirmed the "Excellent" category Financial Strength Ratings and Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings for EMC Insurance and EMC Life:

EMC Insurance (EMC) and its five property/casualty subsidiaries*

• Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent)
• Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a” (Excellent)
• In its review, AM Best recognized EMC's balance sheet strength as "very strong," as well as its adequate operating performance, neutral business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management
• Outlook remains stable

EMC Life

• Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent)
• Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of "a-" (Excellent)
• Outlook remains stable

• AM Best deemed EMC Life’s balance sheet very strong and its enterprise risk management appropriate

“We are pleased that AM Best has once again affirmed EMC’s “Excellent” ratings,” said Scott Jean, EMC’s President and CEO. “Our commitment to executing on our strategic priorities, with a focus on keeping insurance human, continues to move EMC in the right direction and allows us to elevate how we serve our agents and policyholders.”

*EMC Insurance refers to Employers Mutual Casualty Company (EMCC) and its five property/casualty (P/C) subsidiaries:

• Dakota Fire Insurance Company
• EMC Property & Casualty Company
• EMCASCO Insurance Company
• Illinois EMCASCO Insurance Company
• Union Insurance Company of Providence

UPDATE (Dec. 12, 2025): In December 2025, EMC Insurance and Avocet Partners announced a definitive agreement for the sale of EMC’s ownership interest in EMC Life. Due to this announcement, AM Best has changed its rating for EMC Life.

About EMC Insurance

EMC Insurance has approximately 2,200 employees and writes commercial property and casualty lines, bonds, and life insurance products and services throughout the United States. Employers Mutual Casualty Company (EMCC) was organized in 1911 to write workers’ compensation protection in Iowa. Today, operating under the trade name EMC Insurance, the company is licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For more information, visit emcinsurance.com.

About AM Best 

AM Best, the world’s oldest insurance rating and information source, uses the following definitions for their ratings:

• Issuer Credit Rating (ICR): an independent opinion on an entity’s ability to meet its ongoing financial obligations that can be issued on either a long‐ or short‐term basis.
• Financial Strength Rating (FSR): an independent opinion of an insurer’s financial strength and ability to meet its ongoing insurance policy and contract obligations.

For more information, visit ambest.com.