The Midland Company Announces Fourth-Quarter Earnings Release Date

CINCINNATI, Jan. 17  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Midland Company (NASDAQ:MLAN), a highly focused provider of specialty insurance products and services, plans to release fourth-quarter 2007 earnings results on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at approximately 8:00 a.m. (EST).  The release also will be posted on the Company's website at http://www.midlandcompany.com/ .  Midland does not intend to hold a conference call related to this release.

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 95 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, excess and surplus lines coverages, 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 Global Select Market under the symbol MLAN.  Additional information on the company can be found on the Internet at http://www.midlandcompany.com/ . 

DATASOURCE: The Midland Company



CONTACT:  W. Todd Gray, Executive Vice President and CFO of The Midland

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Web site:  http://www.midlandcompany.com/ 

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