American National Declares Dividend

American National Insurance Company, headquartered in Galveston, Texas, announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of 75 cents per share on its common stock payable March 17, 2006, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 3, 2006.

American National Insurance Company is headquartered in Galveston, Texas. American National has over $17.5 billion in assets and is rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best Company, and AA (Very Strong) by Standard & Poor’s.

The American National family of companies offers a broad line of products and services, which include life insurance, annuities, health insurance, credit insurance, pension plan services and property and casualty insurance for personal lines, agribusiness, and targeted commercial exposures.

American National’s major insurance subsidiaries include American National Life Insurance Company of Texas, Standard Life and Accident Insurance Company, Garden State Life Insurance Company, American National Property and Casualty Company, American National de Mexico, Compania de Seguros de Vida, S.A. de C.V. and the insurance subsidiaries of Farm Family Holdings, Inc. consisting of Farm Family Life Insurance Company, Farm Family Casualty Insurance Company, and United Farm Family Insurance Company.

Source: American National Insurance Company