Corporate Culture

Every employee on the front line

We take employee empowerment seriously at RLI. Multi-layered, heavily bureaucratized companies can no longer compete. The successful modern company must be flexible and nimble, capable of quickly responding to opportunities. These qualities also describe our employees. They are an elite group, dedicated to making RLI nothing less than America’s best insurance company.

Demanding educational standards

This level of empowerment requires a highly qualified and extremely competent workforce. All RLI applicants must meet demanding educational standards and have finished their last level of formal schooling with at least a B average. RLI employees are encouraged to further their professional education as well. We have one of the highest pass/fail ratios of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter students in the country. In fact, we consider ourselves an institution of higher learning for the insurance industry.

ESOP & 401k Plan

Both our Employee Stock Ownership Plan and our 401k plan give all RLI associates a strong sense of ownership, pride and responsibility. We all understand that we are the company, and it shows in our commitment to excellence and sensitivity to the bottom line.

Commitment to cutting-edge technology

This can-do attitude is matched by a commitment to assuring our employees have the best tools possible to do the job. Our management information systems are state-of-the-art. Web-based applications make it easy for our producers to conduct RLI business from any location with Internet access. More and more internal processes are automated each year. If there’s a marketing opportunity, we can pursue it.

See more on RLI’s use of technology.

A determination to be the best

RLI’s ambition has never been to be America’s biggest insurance company, simply to be its best. We hire the best employees. Provide them the best training. Equip them with the best that technology has to offer. Then give them the freedom to be their best. It’s a philosophy that’s worked for us. Employee empowerment on the front line.