State Auto Insurance Announces Expansion

State Auto Insurance was pleased to announce that they will be coming to Texas. The State Auto Middle Market Insurance unit will be coming and will be lead by Gerald Ladner as their VP of the southwestern zone office. The program is currently headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, so this will be a nice expansion for the company.

The program, known as SAMMI, was created about three years ago in response to agents asking for their commercial lines to be expanded so that they could cover larger commercial risks. They currently have locations in Illinois, Maryland, and Arizona.

Ladner hails from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL where he got his undergraduate degree, and was most recently regional VP of the company’s Austin unit of Zenith Insurance. He has also worked as President and COO of an Atlanta based auto insurance agency as well. He has been in the business for 25 years, after graduating from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Ladner is also very involved in the community, working as the endowed chair of insurance at the University of North Texas, and serves on many boards having to do with auto insurance. He also works with the Allen Community Outreach center, which is a United Way agency.

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