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★ Specialty Leader · America's First Mobile-Home Insurer · Est. 1952

Three carriers, one name: how Foremost works in Arkansas.

The word "Foremost" actually covers three product families — the original specialty book, Foremost Signature (the former MetLife Auto & Home), and the combined Foremost360 — and we write all three in Arkansas. Here's what each one covers, which one fits your home, car, or toys, and why the specialty leader is bought through an agency like ours.

Short Answer

Cribb Insurance Group is an independent Foremost agency in Bentonville. Foremost is the specialty leader — founded in 1952 as America's first mobile-home insurer and now part of the Farmers Insurance Group — and the name covers three product families we write in Arkansas: Foremost Choice (the original specialty book), Foremost Signature (formerly MetLife Auto & Home), and Foremost360 (the new combined platform). Between them they cover the homes, rentals, and toys standard carriers decline. AM Best affirmed the members of the Farmers Insurance Group — the group behind the Foremost companies that write your policy — at A (Excellent), stable, on August 1, 2025.

The thing to understand first

One name, three different carriers underneath.

Most carriers are one company with one appetite. Foremost isn't. Over 70 years it grew — and then in 2021 it absorbed the entire MetLife Auto & Home book — into three distinct product families, each with its own appetite and its own strengths. We're appointed on all three in Arkansas, which is the point: an older double-wide, a log cabin, a rental duplex, and a brand-new home in Centerton can each land on a different one of these three, and sorting out which is the whole job.

Family 1 · The original

Foremost Choice

The specialty book, since 1952
  • Homes standard carriers decline — manufactured & mobile homes, plus unusual construction: earth, log, dome, modular, metal, and tiny homes
  • A preferred home product too — a standard homeowners option that can stand alone or bundle with other Foremost lines
  • Landlord & dwelling — long-term rentals, short-term rentals, and vacant property
  • Recreational — motorcycle, off-road/ATV, motorhomes & travel trailers, and watercraft
Family 2 · Formerly MetLife

Foremost Signature

The former MetLife Auto & Home book
  • Monoline or package — auto, home, landlord, boat, motorcycle, ATV, classic car, and umbrella
  • Combo & Grand Protect — package products that put everything on a single policy with one bill
  • Broad home protection — the package levels can add benefits like guaranteed replacement cost on the dwelling
Family 3 · The new merge

Foremost360

The combined MetLife + Foremost platform
  • The modern, unified program bringing the two books together
  • Currently writes auto, home, landlord, and umbrella
  • Often the fit for more standard, current risks that don't need the specialty book
Why this matters to you: two neighbors can both "have Foremost" and be on completely different companies, forms, and appetites. Because we write all three, we can put your risk on the family that actually fits it — instead of forcing it onto the only one a single-appointment agent happens to carry. And the families aren't walled off: Foremost Choice writes a preferred home product too, so you can mix and match across Choice, Signature, and Foremost360 and still bundle — your mobile home, a rental, and the family car don't have to sit with three separate carriers to travel together.
Where Foremost earns its keep

Coverage for what standard carriers won't touch.

Plenty of carriers write the easy home and the newer car. Foremost was built for the rest — and that's its honest differentiator. If you've ever been told your property "doesn't fit," Foremost is often the market that does.

The homes others decline

Foremost has insured manufactured and mobile homes since 1952 — single-wide, double-wide, older models, and park homes — and its specialty home program reaches well beyond that to unusual construction: earth-sheltered, log, dome, modular, metal, and tiny homes. It also writes seasonal, vacant, and unusual-occupancy dwellings that a standard homeowners program simply won't quote. These aren't afterthoughts for Foremost; they're the core of the book.

Rentals — long-term, short-term, and vacant

The landlord and dwelling side is a Foremost strength across the families: a rental house or duplex, a short-term/vacation rental, or a home sitting vacant between tenants or during a rehab. Vacancy is exactly the situation most homeowners policies exclude — and exactly where the specialty book is designed to respond. If you own property you don't live in, this is a conversation worth having.

The toys — as flagship products, not add-ons

On a standard carrier, a motorcycle or boat is an afterthought. On Foremost, motorcycle, off-road/ATV, motorhome & travel trailer, and boat/watercraft are real, purpose-built specialty products with their own coverages — safety-apparel coverage for riders, agreed-value options, campsite and personal-property benefits for RVs, and trailer coverage where it belongs. Foremost Signature adds classic and collector car to that list. These generally ride on their own policy, which is how they should be insured anyway.

What we place

The Foremost lines we write in Arkansas.

Drawn from across the three families — Choice, Signature, and Foremost360. Which family a given policy lands on depends on your specific risk, and that's the part we sort out for you.

Homes & dwellings

  • Manufactured & mobile home
  • Specialty & standard home
  • Unusual construction (log, dome, earth, modular, metal, tiny)
  • Landlord / rental / vacant

Recreational

  • Motorcycle
  • Boat / watercraft
  • Motorhome / RV / travel trailer
  • ATV / off-road

Auto & personal

  • Auto
  • Classic / collector car
  • Personal umbrella

Agent-only — which is why we're here

Foremost is sold exclusively through independent agents. There's no instant, bindable online quote directly from the company, so an appointed agency is simply how the coverage is bought — and you may as well have one that writes all three Foremost families and represents 40 other carriers, so we can tell you honestly when Foremost is the answer and when it isn't.

One more thing worth naming: some Foremost-marketed auto — particularly nonstandard or high-risk coverage — is underwritten and serviced through Bristol West, another Farmers company. Where that applies, we'll say so up front. The details live on the auto page.

Go deeper

The lines, in detail.

Each of these gets its own page, with the Arkansas specifics and the parts the brochure leaves out — including which of the three families tends to fit. They're publishing one at a time; links go live as each page does.

Homes & dwellings

Foremost Manufactured & Mobile Home The flagship. Single- and double-wide, older models, park homes — and ACV versus replacement-cost options on the homes standard carriers won't write. Page coming soon
Foremost Home (Specialty & Standard) Foremost Choice for unusual construction — log, dome, earth, modular, metal, tiny — plus the more standard Signature and Foremost360 home programs. Page coming soon
Foremost Landlord / Rental / Vacant Long-term and short-term rentals and vacant property — the dwellings most homeowners policies exclude, and where the specialty book is built to respond. Page coming soon

Recreational, auto & personal

Foremost Motorcycle A purpose-built standalone product — safety-apparel coverage, agreed-value options, and roadside — not an afterthought riding on an auto policy. Page coming soon
Foremost Boat & Watercraft Agreed value, what Beaver Lake actually needs on a policy, personal watercraft, and where the trailer is covered. Page coming soon
Foremost Motorhome / RV / Travel Trailer Full-timer versus weekender coverage, fifth-wheels, and the campsite and personal-property benefits that matter when the vehicle is also sometimes a home. Page coming soon
Foremost ATV / Off-Road Side-by-sides, four-wheelers, and dirt bikes — what's legal where in NWA and what a homeowner sublimit won't do. Page coming soon
Foremost Auto Signature and Foremost360 auto, plus where nonstandard/high-risk coverage is underwritten through Bristol West — and the Arkansas picture. Page coming soon
Foremost Classic / Collector Car Agreed-value coverage for the car in the garage that a standard auto policy values all wrong. Page coming soon
Meet Cribby

Foremost Cribby figures out which of the three fits.

Cribby the Chameleon is our guide to reading a policy in plain English.

A chameleon adapts to what's around it — which is exactly the job here. With three Foremost families, an unusual home, a rental, and a garage full of toys, the question is always which company and form actually fit. That's a coverage review, in chameleon form: we match the risk to the right Foremost family and quote it against 40 other carriers to be sure.

Financial strength

A (Excellent) — and which company that describes.

A AM Best · Excellent

On August 1, 2025, AM Best affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "a" (Excellent), stable outlook, for the members of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies — the group that includes the Foremost companies (Foremost Insurance Company Grand Rapids, Michigan; Foremost Property and Casualty; Foremost Signature) that write your Arkansas policy.

A (Excellent) is the third of AM Best's rating levels and is a genuinely strong rating. We name the exact rated group on purpose — a letter grade only means something when you know which company it describes. Ratings change; the current one is at ambest.com.

A rating is a solvency opinion, not a claims opinion

AM Best is explicit that a Financial Strength Rating does not address a carrier's claims-handling practices and is not a recommendation to buy or keep any policy. So an A (Excellent) tells you the Foremost companies can pay — backed by Farmers' scale and catastrophe reinsurance program. That's real and worth knowing; it just isn't the same question as how a claim will go. Different questions, different sources. Anyone handing you a letter grade as the answer to all of them is handing you a logo.

What we actually do at a claim

Narrower than some agencies imply, and we'd rather be straight about it. We don't adjust your claim and we can't overrule an adjuster.

What we do: tell you whether a claim is worth filing before you file it, make sure the coverage that should respond gets identified, chase the file when it stalls, and move you to another of our markets — or another Foremost family — if the current fit stops working. That last one is the part a direct-only relationship structurally can't do.

What it costs

Specialty risk sets the number.

We won't post a monthly figure on a Foremost hub, and that's the honest answer rather than a dodge. Foremost is a specialty book — a 1998 double-wide on rented land, a log home on ten acres, a short-term rental, a bass boat, and a nonstandard auto price on completely different logic. A single "starting at" number would be misleading for most of them. This isn't a quote or a guarantee.

What reliably helps: putting the risk on the right Foremost family, then bundling — either inside a Signature package (Combo or Grand Protect) or by mixing and matching across the three families, since Choice's preferred home can still bundle with the rest. And set your coverage — replacement cost versus actual cash value on a mobile home, agreed value on a toy — on purpose. Send your current declarations page and we'll build the real number with you and quote it against 40+ other carriers.

FAQ

Foremost in Arkansas: common questions.

Is Foremost really three different carriers?
In practical terms, yes. The single name Foremost covers three product families, and we write all three in Arkansas. Foremost Choice is the original specialty book — America's first mobile-home program since 1952 — covering manufactured and mobile homes, unusual-construction homes, landlord and vacant property, motorcycle, off-road, RV and travel trailers, and watercraft. Foremost Signature is the former MetLife Auto & Home book, offering auto, home, landlord, boat, motorcycle, ATV, classic car, and umbrella, including package products (Combo and Grand Protect) that put everything on a single policy. Foremost360 is the newer combined platform that currently writes auto, home, landlord, and umbrella. Which family a given policy lands on depends on the risk, and matching it is the whole job.
What does Cribb Insurance Group place through Foremost?
On the dwelling side: manufactured and mobile homes, specialty and standard homeowners (including unusual-construction homes like earth, log, dome, modular, metal, and tiny homes), and landlord, rental, and vacant property. On the vehicle and recreational side: auto, classic and collector car, motorcycle, off-road and ATV, motorhome and RV and travel trailers, and boats and watercraft. Plus personal umbrella. Across the three Foremost families we can place most personal and specialty risks; if a need falls outside Foremost, we can usually place it with one of our other 40-plus carriers.
Why is Foremost good for homes standard carriers won't write?
That's the whole reason Foremost exists. It was founded in 1952 as the first insurer to write mobile homes, and its specialty book is built for exactly the risks standard homeowners programs decline: manufactured and mobile homes of many ages, unusual construction (earth, log, dome, modular, metal, and tiny homes), seasonal and vacant homes, unusual occupancy, and landlord and short-term rental property. If you've been told your home doesn't fit a standard policy, Foremost is often the market that does.
Is Foremost financially strong?
Yes. On August 1, 2025, AM Best affirmed a Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "a" (Excellent), stable outlook, for the members of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies — the group that includes the Foremost companies that write your Arkansas policy. A (Excellent) is the third of AM Best's rating levels and is a strong rating. A financial strength rating is an opinion about an insurer's ability to pay claims — its solvency — not a rating of how a specific claim will be handled. Ratings change; the current one is at ambest.com.
How do the Foremost Signature package policies (Combo and Grand Protect) work?
Foremost Signature — the former MetLife Auto & Home book — offers both single-line (monoline) policies and package products that combine coverage on one policy with one bill. On a package like Combo or Grand Protect, your home, auto, and other lines can sit together, and the broader package levels can add benefits like guaranteed replacement cost on the home. Whether a package or separate monoline policies fit you better depends on what you own and how you want it structured, which is the conversation to have at the quote.
How do I get a Foremost quote in Bentonville or Rogers?
Start at our personal lines quote form or call (479) 286-1066. Foremost is agent-only — there's no instant bindable online quote directly from the company — so an appointed agency like ours is how the coverage is bought. If you have a current declarations page for your home, mobile home, rental, or toys, send it. Reading what you already have is faster than answering questions about it, and it's how we find the things you're paying for twice or the gaps a standard policy left.

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Which means we can tell you honestly whether Foremost — and which of its three families — is the right home for your account, or whether one of our other markets fits better. Send the declarations pages for whatever you're carrying, from a mobile home to a boat, and we'll read them back to you in plain English, deductibles included. If what you have is already right, we'll tell you that too.

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Cribb Insurance Group Inc. is an independent insurance agency licensed in Arkansas. We are not Foremost, and this page is not endorsed, sponsored, reviewed, or approved by Foremost. "Foremost," "Foremost Choice," "Foremost Signature," "Foremost360," "Grand Protect," "Bristol West," and "Farmers" are service marks or trademarks of Foremost Insurance Group, the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, and their affiliates, used here nominatively to identify products we are appointed to place. Foremost is part of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies; Foremost Signature is the property-casualty business formerly known as MetLife Auto & Home, acquired by Farmers in 2021. Foremost's Arkansas policies are issued by Foremost- and Farmers-affiliated underwriting companies; certain nonstandard auto coverage is underwritten and serviced through Bristol West.

This page describes coverage in general terms for informational purposes only. It is not a policy, not an offer of insurance, and not a guarantee of coverage, availability, eligibility, or price. Coverage, program availability, product families, package options, discounts, and eligibility vary by product, by state, by policy, and over time, are set by the carrier, and are subject to underwriting approval and to the terms, conditions, limits, and exclusions of the policy actually issued. Eligibility for any risk — including manufactured, mobile, seasonal, vacant, unusual-construction, landlord, and recreational risks — is determined by the carrier on the facts of your property or vehicle; this page makes no representation that any particular property, vehicle, or situation qualifies. If anything on this page conflicts with the issued policy, the policy controls.

Financial strength ratings are opinions of an insurer's ability to meet its ongoing insurance obligations, are subject to change, and are not recommendations to purchase, hold or terminate any policy, nor do they address an insurer's claims-handling practices; current ratings are at ambest.com. The A (Excellent) rating referenced was affirmed by AM Best on August 1, 2025 for the members of the Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, which include the Foremost underwriting companies. No cost figures are represented or guaranteed on this page; any premium is determined by the carrier at quote based on your specific risk.

Last reviewed July 2026.