Oregon Mutual Insurance operates within and outside of the Oregon territory. The company provides personal and commercial property/casualty insurance coverage to customers in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, partially through subsidiary Western Protectors Insurance. Its offerings include standard and specialty automobile, homeowners, farmowners, and liability policies. More than 550 independent agents produce and sell the company's products; it has over a dozen administrative, regional, and claims offices in operation. As a mutual insurer, the company is owned by the approximately 120,000 policyholders it insures. A group of businessmen founded Oregon Mutual Insurance in 1894.