4.MERCURY INSURANCE - Maintaining its position in fourth place this year is Mercury. In September, 2005, Mercury Insurance Group was named “Texas Insurance Company of the Year” by Texas Insurance Professionals, the Texas affiliate of the National Association of Professional Insurance Adjusters. Need we say more? Any insurance company voted the best by insurance adjusters should be avoided at all costs. (We also advise you not to open your front door to anyone bearing a business card that says, “I was voted ‘Top Burglar of the Year’ by the Texas Home Burglar’s Association.”)