The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company was originally established in Wawanesa, Manitoba to provide farmers with insurance in 1896. Wawanesa is a Canadian mutual company which is owned by its clients. Today, Wawanesa is among the Canadian insurance leaders.

Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company owns both of its subsidiary companies:

• Wawanesa Life
• Wawanesa General – which is based in California, United States of America.

The United States subsidiary, Wawanesa General, was established lawfully in California in late May of 1974. The first premium, however, wasn’t written until the next year in April of 1975. Wawanea Mutual Insurance Company’s U.S. branch is based in San Diego, California.

In the United States Wawanesa’s marketing, underwriting, claims processing, and policyholder services are all conducted from the San Diego office. Wawanesa underwrites full coverage Automobile, Homeowners insurance, and Condominium Insurance, Private Passenger, and Physical Damage coverage. All of which are based on a 12 month term of service.

Wawanesa Car Insurance is currently licensed to write policies for residents of California and Oregon.

Although the U.S. operations are wholly owned subsidiaries, they both share the same vision and values as their Canadian brother.

Some Wawanesa shared traits are:

• Exceptional claim and underwriting service;
• Representation by a knowledgeable broker;

Commitments to the community – through charity work; a wide range of policies are also available in the residential, automotive, and business sectors.

Alonzo Fowler Kempton would take pride in knowing that they have continued to carry out his values of dedication to the customer, integrity, and fairness and strive each day to reach new heights of customer satisfaction. At Wawanesa they keep their expense levels well below industry averages by using money saving practices, so that they can pass the savings on to you via lower premiums.

Wawanesa strives every day to exceed your high and ever changing expectations of quality and service without sacrificing costs. They will continue to develop new and efficient ways of meeting your needs all the time not just some of the time.

In fact, statistics have shown that at least 90-93% of all new business is estimated to have been developed from the referrals of existing policyholders.

Why would you settle for mediocre customer service when you can have the best in the industry?