ProAssurance Corp. reported first-quarter net income of $137 million, compared with $21 million for the same 2005 period.

The gain for the Birmingham, Ala.-based property-casualty insurer stemmed primarily from the sale of the company's personal lines insurer, the MEENIC Insurance Company, which resulted in $109 million income gain from discontinued operations.

The nation's fourth largest writer of medical professional liability insurance reported an 11.5 percent increase of gross premiums written on a year-over-year basis, driven primarily by the company's addition of medical malpractice writer NCRIC Inc.

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