Couch Braunsdorf: Pressroom: OneBeacon Expands Agreement With Couch Braunsdorf Insurance for Lawyers Professional Liability Business

CANTON, Mass., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OneBeacon Insurance announced today that Couch Braunsdorf Insurance will manage its lawyers professional liability business in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio for law firms with 10 attorneys or fewer. The managing general underwriter currently handles OneBeacon business for firms in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania with 20 attorneys or fewer.

Couch Braunsdorf represents OneBeacon Professional Partners, which offers lawyers professional liability coverage on both a primary and excess basis.

Based in Liberty Corner, New Jersey, Couch Braunsdorf is a full-service brokerage/agency with a consistent track record of growth and profitability.

"This relationship joins two companies with similar values," said Kim Pihlstrom, head of OneBeacon Professional Partners' Lawyers Professional Liability group. "The unique nature of Couch Braunsdorf's business, coupled with its niche expertise, complements and diversifies our current book."

"Couch Braunsdorf has served the legal community for more than 75 years, offering the finest in insurance products and services to the practicing attorney," said George Rawding, head of Couch Braunsdorf's Professional Liability unit. "OneBeacon presents an exciting opportunity for us and the practicing bar, and we look forward to a long and rewarding relationship."

OneBeacon Professional Partners is a member of OneBeacon Insurance Group that specializes in directors and officers liability; managed care organizations errors and omissions; medical malpractice; healthcare provider excess of loss insurance and HMO reinsurance; media liability; lawyers professional liability; and miscellaneous professional liability.

OneBeacon Insurance Group's operating subsidiaries offer a range of specialty and segmented commercial and personal insurance products sold primarily through select independent agents. As one of the oldest property and casualty insurers in the United States, OneBeacon traces its roots to 1831 and the Potomac Fire Insurance Company. Today, OneBeacon's specialty insurance products are available countrywide, and commercial and personal lines are offered in select geographic territories.

OneBeacon's U.S. headquarters is in Canton, Massachusetts. The company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "OB".

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