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Harleysville Names Young As Chief Claims Officer

21 May, 2009 WorkersCompensation.com

                               
Harleysville, PA (CompNewsNetwork) - Harleysville Insurance has named Jonathan Young senior vice president and chief claims officer. In this role, he will be responsible for all claims activities for the Harleysville organization, which includes oversight of the company's home office central claims unit and its four regional claims service centers. Young will report to Michael L. Browne, Harleysville's president and chief executive officer.

“Jonathan has extensive experience and a high level of expertise in the areas of commercial and financial services litigation, which I am confident will prove invaluable to him as he looks to continue to build upon the outstanding performance of our claims organization,” said Browne.

Before joining Harleysville, Young was the managing partner of the New York office of Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., and a member of the firm's litigation practice group. Prior to that, he was the managing partner of Reed Smith's New York office, and a member of the firm's executive committee. He began his law career as a clerk to the Honorable Caleb Wright in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

Young earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia, and a juris doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the New York Bar Association.

Harleysville Insurance is a leading regional provider of insurance products and services for small and midsized businesses, as well as for individuals, and ranks among the top 60 U.S. property/casualty insurance groups based on net written premiums. As a Trusted Choice® company partner, Harleysville distributes its products exclusively through a network of independent agents primarily across 32 states. Harleysville was listed recently as #30 in the InformationWeek 500, the publication's annual listing of the most innovative information technology organizations in the U.S., and has been ranked on the list in each of the last three years. Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company owns 52 percent of Harleysville Group Inc. (NASDAQ:HGIC), a publicly traded holding company for eight regional property/casualty insurance companies collectively rated A- (Excellent) by A.M. Best Company. Harleysville Group is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, which is comprised of the top third of all NASDAQ member companies and has the highest initial listing standards of any exchange in the world based on financial and liquidity requirements.

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