Information About Safeway Auto Insurance

The Safeway insurance group, providers of Safeway Auto Insurance, has been in business for over forty years. In that time the company has spread from its home state of Illinois to include eight other states. Safeway insurance group offices are located in Illinois, Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. William J. Parrillo, the insurance company’s founder, still serves as its President and Chairman of its Board of Directors.

Safeway Auto Insurance prides itself on its forty year history of providing reliable and low cost auto insurance to its clients across the country. Safeway specializes in “non-standard” auto insurance, meaning the majority of their clients are high risk drivers or people who, for some reason, could not get insurance elsewhere.

Safeway boasts assets of over three hundred and forty five million dollars and saw revenue growth of over fifty percent in one year. Safeway has over two hundred and fifty thousand policy holders, has an A- rating from AM Best, who rates the company as “stable.”

Safeway has not been without its share of problems and controversy, however. In August of 1997, John A. Greene, then director of the Arizona Department of Insurance announced an order that charged a fine of one hundred thousand dollars to the company for violations of that state’s automobile insurance non cancellation laws. In its report the department cited that Safeway, allowing agents to bind and issue insurance on its behalf, actually did not issue coverage to a number of people whom, after dealing with the agents, believed they were covered by Safeway. The fact that the company never notified the customers of their insurance cancellation was chief among the complaints against them that led to the fine.