LANCASTER, Pa., June 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. announced today that subsidiary Eastern Alliance Insurance Company ("Eastern Alliance") has received regulatory approval to write business in four southeastern states. The insurer will provide workers' compensation insurance products and services to policyholders in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Over the past few months, Eastern Alliance has received approval from the insurance departments of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia to underwrite casualty insurance products in their respective states. The company plans to open a full-service office in North Carolina later this year to focus on the new states.
Bruce Eckert, chief executive officer of EIHI, said, "One of EIHI's strategic initiatives is to actively pursue opportunities to allocate our excess capital through strategic acquisitions and organic geographic expansion. We believe the Southeast expansion of our workers' compensation business presents our shareholders with the right financial and operational opportunity to allocate that capital and extend the Eastern Alliance brand into new territories."
Eastern Alliance Insurance Company is one of three subsidiaries organized under EIHI subsidiary Eastern Alliance Insurance Group (EAIG). Since its founding in 1997, Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based EAIG has become one of the top ten providers of workers' compensation insurance in Pennsylvania, expanding into Delaware and Maryland in 2005. EAIG distributes its products through independent insurance agencies.
EIHI operates through its subsidiaries a domestic casualty insurance group specializing in workers' compensation, a domestic life and health insurance company, an offshore specialty reinsurance company and a third-party claims administration company.
EIHI and EAIG are located at 25 Race Avenue in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Their Web address are http://www.easterninsuranceholdings.com/ and http://www.eains.com/, respectively.
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