secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     MERCURY GENERAL CORP (MCY)
CIK:        0000064996
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2021-11-02T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001564590-21-053574
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Mercury General Q3 net income sinks to $1.3M, combined ratio 99.0%, dividend raised to $0.635
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- Net income $1.3M ($0.02/diluted) vs $118.9M ($2.15) a year ago; operating income $35.7M ($0.64/diluted).
- Combined ratio worsened to 99.0% from 94.3%; catastrophe losses net of reinsurance $25M in Q3.
- Dividend declared $0.635/share payable Dec 30 to holders of record Dec 16 (increase from prior).
- Board appointed Vicky Wai Yee Joseph as director; she is wife of Chairman George Joseph.
- Net premiums earned $940.9M, up 4.6% YoY; realized investment losses after tax $34.4M.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/64996/000156459021053574/0001564590-21-053574-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/64996/000156459021053574/mcy-8k_20211102.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-21-053574

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