History Established in 1989 Mid-America Brokerage Services, Inc. (MABS) was founded in Centralia, Illinois as a corporation in 1989. Since 1993 political pressures have shown the obvious need to become a full service agency. The original focus of MABS was the Life and Health field. Starting in 2009 we began to target the Property & Casualty arena as well On September 20, 2010 Mid-America Brokerage Services, Inc. officially changed its name to Mid-America Insurance Brokerage, Inc. to better reflect to the public our focus market.