Premier Financial Corp (First Defiance Financial Corp) is a unitary thrift holding company that, through its subsidiaries, First Federal Bank of the Midwest, First Insurance Group of the Midwest, Inc., and First Defiance Risk Management Inc., focuses on traditional banking and property and casualty, life and group health insurance products. Premier Financial Corp (First Federal Bank of the Midwest) is a federally chartered stock savings bank that is primarily engaged in community banking. It attracts originates residential real estate loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial loans, home improvement and home equity loans and consumer loans. In addition, First Federal invests in U.S. Treasury and federal government agency obligations, obligations of the State of Ohio and its political subdivisions, mortgage-backed securities that are issued by federal agencies, including real estate mortgage investment conduits and residential collateralized mortgage obligations, and corporate bonds. First Insurance offers property and casualty insurance, life insurance and group health insurance. First Defiance Risk Management pools resources with several other similar insurance company subsidiaries of financial institutions to spread a limited amount of risk among themselves.