MPG Adds Brokerage Division, Expands Western Facilities

September 28, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Maritime Program Group has created a new brokerage division and expanded their western facilities with the addition of three professionals and an office in Gladstone, Ore.

Ron Hayes, director of brokerage, and Lina Jayme, vice president of brokerage, are leading the expansion of wholesale marine business for MPG, which includes placements for passenger vessels, fishing vessels, tugs and barges, builders risk, cargo, docks, shipyards, U.S. Longshore and Harborworkers (USL&H) and other commercial marine interest.

Bob Langenhan, senior marine underwriter, will be based in San Francisco, Calif. underwriting marine liabilities.

Hayes and Jayme founded two specialty marine agencies, Pacific Marine & Energy Resources and Pacific Underwriting Professionals in 2002. Both have insurance careers that span over 30 years in brokerage, underwriting and sales.

Langenhan was most recently a senior marine broker for Pacific Underwriting Professionals. He has held underwriting positions at Ace, CNA, Liberty and Pacific Marine Mutual over the past 30 years.

MPG is a program administrator based in the New England area providing a range of marine insurance products and underwriting services to its broker network throughout the U.S.

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N.J. Brokerage Bollinger Acquires The Morville Agency

October 4, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Short Hills, N.J.-based insurance brokerage Bollinger Inc. has acquired The Morville Agency of Newton, N.J.

The Morville Agency specializes in insuring New Jersey public entities. The agency’s owner George Morville joins Bollinger as senior vice president in the commercial lines division.

Bollinger’s chief operating officer, Matthew Gardner, said the acquisition provides Bollinger with an opportunity to grow its public entity business. The Morville agency team will be actively involved in helping Bollinger expand this segment throughout the company’s entire footprint, he said.

Bollinger is headquartered in Short Hills, N.J., with branch offices in Greenwich, New York, Philadelphia, and additional N.J. locations in Holmdel, Moorestown, Newton, Sparta and Vineland. It has over 500 employees and is ranked as one of the country’s largest privately owned insurance brokerage.

Bollinger offers services in: personal insurance; commercial property/casualty insurance; life, health and financial services; employee benefits; sports programs; golf, country and city clubs; student insurance; broker products; and risk management services.

 

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