2012
- Increased dividends for 37th consecutive year
2011
- Completed purchase of Contractors Bonding and Insurance Company
- Gerald D. Stephens, RLI Founder and Chairman, retires; Jonathan E. Michael, RLI President and CEO, appointed Chairman of the Board
- Created new Reinsurance Property Treaty Group
2010
- Expanded into Crop Reinsurance with ProAg
- Announced partnership with Embrace Pet Insurance
- Created new Professional Services Group
2009
- Named to Ward's 50, a list of industry's top-performing companies, for 19th consecutive year
2008
- Launched architects and engineers (A&E ) professional liability division
- Opened fidelity division
2007
- Opened reinsurance division
2006
- Began 31st consecutive year of dividend payments
2005
- Celebrated 40th anniversary
- Surpassed $100 million in dividends paid
- Opened marine division
- Received upgraded Moody's senior debt rating of Baa2 and financial strength rating of A2
2004
- Received upgraded A.M. Best rating to A+
- Attained market cap of $1 billion
2003
- Sold $100 million in public offering of 5.95% senior notes due 2014
- Planet Indemnity Company renamed as RLI Indemnity Company
2002
- Announced equity offering, raised $125.2 million through the sale of 5.2 million shares of stock
- Michael Stone named as insurance subsidiaries' president and COO.
2001
- Named Jonathan Michael as RLI Corp. president and CEO
- Watched the World Trade Center tragedy destroy RLI office; all associates survive
- Completed stock repurchases of more than $78 million since 1996
- Increased dividend for 25th straight year
2000
- Named to S&P Small Cap 600 Index
- Earned finalist honors for national Better Business Bureau award for ethics
1999
- Acquired private holding company, parent of Underwriters Indemnity Company, offering surety bonds for oil, gas and energy industries
- Received upgraded S&P rating to A+
1998
- Inaugurated first e-commerce ventures
1997
- Converted $46 million of outstanding convertible debentures to RLI stock
- Elected Jonathan Michael to board of directors
- Opened transportation insurance division
- Received S&P rating of "A"
1996
- Pioneered $50 million alternative catastrophe financing program
- Increased dividend for 20th straight year
- Merged RLI Vision Corp. with Hester Enterprises, maker of Maui Jim sunglasses.
1995
- Named by Crain's Chicago Business to Illinois' Fastest Growing Companies list
- RLI Professional Technologies acquired Target Industries; renamed RLI Vision Corp.
- Launched website www.rlicorp.com
1994
- Incurred Northridge Earthquake; after-tax losses totaled $44 million
- Retired founding product, contact lens insurance
1993
- Received upgraded A.M. Best rating for Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. to A (Excellent)
- Issued public offering of $46 million in convertible debentures
1992
- Established surety division.
- Reported losses of $11 million from Hurricanes Andrew and Iniki, Los Angeles riots and two California earthquakes
- Received upgraded A.M. Best rating for RLI Insurance Company to A (Excellent)
1991
1990
- Stock was top performer of all property and casualty stocks on NYSE
1989
- Received upgraded A.M. Best rating for RLI Insurance Company to A- (Excellent)
1987
- RLI common stock moved to NYSE
- Opened commercial casualty division
1986
- Formed public holding company, American Capacity Group, Inc., parent of surplus lines company
1985
- Issued $13.6 million of common stock at $1.95 per share (Split-adjusted)
1984
- Opened first branch office in Los Angeles to write DIC and property
1979
- Formed Mt. Hawley Insurance Company, an excess and surplus lines carrier
1977
- Began underwriting specialty commercial property and casualty coverages
1976
- Paid first dividend to shareholders
1975
- Became Peoria's first Employee Stock Ownership Company
1973
- Renamed United Founders to RLI Insurance Company
1971
- RLI common stock first traded on NASDAQ
- Issued $2.25 million in common stock at $0.58 per share (Split-adjusted)
1969
- Private holding company renamed RLI Corp.
- First public issuance: 110,000 shares of common stock at $0.26 per share (Split-Adjusted)
1965
- Private holding company formed and acquired United Founders, Ins. Co. (formerly Main Mutual)
- Sold $300,000 in stock to eye doctor clients
1961
- Founded a contact lenses insurance agency, Replacement Lens Inc.
1959
- Main Mutual Insurance Company founded under different management
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