Old Republic International (ORI) will raise its quarterly dividend by 1.3 percent to $0.19 per share in 2017. The dividend is payable March 15, 2017 to shareholders of record on March 6, 2017.

This latest increase marks the 36th consecutive year that Old Republic has boosted its cash dividend, and 2017 becomes the 76th year of uninterrupted cash dividend payments.

Chicago-based Old Republic International Corporation is an insurance holding company. Old Republic is primarily a commercial lines underwriter serving the insurance needs of a large number of organizations, including many of America’s leading industrial and financial services institutions. Its subsidiaries actively market, underwrite, and provide risk management services for a wide variety of coverages, mostly in the general and title insurance fields. Old Republic has paid a cash dividend without interruption since the World War II year of 1942. The company traces its beginnings to 1923, although several acquired subsidiaries began operations much earlier.