NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Aug. 9, 2011--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today announced that the ratings on Unitrin Inc. and its property/casualty and life subsidiaries were not affected by Unitrin's announcement that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its active loan portfolio at Fireside Bank to a subsidiary of Consumer Portfolio Services Inc. Unitrin decided to exit the automobile finance business in early 2009 and has been winding down its operations at Fireside ever since. The net automobile loan receivables at Fireside decreased to $255 million as of June 30, 2011, from $1.1 billion as of March 2009. The announced sale will accelerate the wind-down process, which was previously scheduled to run through early 2013. Fireside will
