Article on Progressive owner:
http://washingtonisbroke.com/content/Progressive-Insurance-Cancel-your-policy
Another:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2003
Here is an old freep thread on the owner.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375232/posts
I’ll keep my Geico which I switched to recently from Allstate due to cost. The asshat that they had the balls to fire would probably get a bonus from Progressive.
check out Pekin through an independent. Stop buying direct, its expensive.