CINCINNATI, Jul 31, 2003 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- The board of directors of The Midland Company (Nasdaq: MLAN), a highly focused provider of specialty insurance products and services, today declared a regular quarterly dividend of 4.75 cents per share, maintaining the indicated annual dividend at 19 cents per share. The quarterly dividend is payable October 2, 2003 to shareholders of record on September 19, 2003. The Midland Company presently has 17,618,530 shares outstanding.

About the Company

Midland, which is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a provider of specialty insurance products and services through its wholly owned subsidiary, American Modern Insurance Group, which accounts for approximately 96 percent of Midland's consolidated revenue. American Modern specializes in writing physical damage insurance and related coverages on manufactured housing and has expanded to other specialty insurance products including coverage for site-built homes, motorcycles, watercraft, snowmobiles, recreational vehicles, physical damage on long-haul trucks, extended service contracts, credit life and related products as well as collateral protection and mortgage fire products sold to financial institutions and their customers. Midland also owns a niche transportation business, M/G Transport Group, which operates a fleet of dry cargo barges for the movement of dry bulk commodities on the inland waterways. Midland's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol MLAN. Additional information on the company can be found on the Internet at www.midlandcompany.com .

SOURCE The Midland Company