South & Western General Agency is one of the premier managing general agencies in Texas providing specialty property and casualty insurance products. Foremost Insurance Company founded South & Western in 1974. The agency specialized in writing mobile homes and recreational vehicles exclusively for Foremost. Purchased in 1981 by former Foremost vice president John Horan, Sr., South & Western has evolved into a multi-line general agency offering both personal and commercial lines on a specialty and standard basis. Headquartered in Dallas in a 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art building that the company developed and owns, South & Western employs approximately 70 insurance professionals.