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Hub International Northeast Limited (Hub Northeast), a subsidiary of global insurance brokerage, risk advisory and employee benefits firm, Hub International Limited, has named Keti Mehta chief sales officer (CSO) across all retail lines of business and promoted Assistant Vice President Bradley Taylor to president of personal lines and fine arts.
Both Mehta and Taylor will report to Paul Collins, president and CEO of Hub Northeast, and serve as part of the region’s executive management team.
Mehta is succeeding Ken Schreiber, who was promoted to president of commercial insurance for Hub Northeast in 2017. In her role as CSO, Mehta will be responsible for managing the firm’s new business sales department along with recruiting production talent to grow Hub’s regional footprint.
Prior to joining Hub Northeast as a strategic partnerships leader in 2017, Mehta held executive leadership roles at USI Insurance Services, Morgan Stanley, EMC, Alliance and IDB Bank.
Taylor is succeeding Robert Kleppinger. Kleppinger will now lead Hub Northeast’s international practice. In his new role, Taylor will be responsible for managing the personal lines division across the firm’s regional offices, leading the fine arts and special risks group, overseeing carrier and client relations, arranging coverage for unique exposures and collaborating with all other divisions to optimize joint-sales opportunities.
Taylor joined Hub Northeast as a member of the commercial new business team in 2013 and was promoted to assistant vice president of fine arts and special risks in 2017.
Normandy Insurance Company, a Deerfield Beach, Fla.-headquartered workers’ compensation carrier, has hired Kelly Morton as its Pennsylvania field manager.
The multi-state workers’ compensation carrier recently began offering coverage plans to small, mid-size and large businesses in Pennsylvania. The insurer also serves employers in Florida, Georgia and Virginia.
As an insurance professional for more than two decades, Morton previously held business development and marketing positions with USG Insurance Services Inc. and FireDEX Pittsburgh. She has been a member of the Insurance Club of Pittsburgh since 1994.
Jimcor Agency Inc., an independent managing general agent and wholesaler, has expanded into the transportation sector with the addition of Jeffrey Blumberger as a brokerage specialist in transportation.
In this role, Blumberger will be responsible for brokerage placement and underwriting of transportation related products, including auto liability on a primary and excess basis, physical damage, motor truck cargo and related coverages.
He brings more than 20 years of industry experience, most recently as a senior underwriter at Philadelphia Insurance. Before that, he served as the programs manager and vice president at Willis.
Blumberger will give Jimcor Agency a foothold in Connecticut, where he is based, and will assist the agency in expanding its product offering, said Kristen Skender, director of corporate development at Jimcor Agency, in a company press release. Skender added in the release that the agency is ultimately looking to expand its market access while developing products or programs in the transportation sector.