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Henderson Brothers Inc., a Pittsburgh, Penn., based independent broker, has hired Braden Brodsky as a senior financial analyst in the employee benefits department.

In this role, Brodsky will use his three years of industry experience to monitor clients’ financial performance and provide financial deliverables.

Brodsky earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Penn State University. He is originally from Pittsburgh.

Founded in 1893, Henderson Brothers continues to be a leader in the insurance, employee benefits and financial services industries. With a team of more than 140 experts, it serves as the largest independent broker in the Greater Pittsburgh region.

Eastern Insurance Group, an insurance agency headquartered in Natick, Mass., and a subsidiary of Eastern Bank, an independent, mutually owned bank in New England, has hired William Surette as a senior vice president and sales executive.

Surette is based in the Wakefield office and brings more than 25 years of property/casualty experience to Eastern Insurance.

His insurance career began at The Hartford Insurance Company as an inland/ocean marine underwriter. From there, he began his sales career working for several local agencies. He was a co-founder of Thomas Gregory Insurance Agency in 1994. Most recently, he has been with Alliant Insurance, where he has focused on construction-related business.

“We are confident he will be an exceptional contributor to the continued success of Eastern Insurance Group,” said Hope Aldrich, president and CEO.

Eastern Insurance serves more than 70,000 individuals and businesses and provides a range of personal and commercial insurance products, surety and employee benefits services.

The MEMIC Group, a workers’ compensation insurer headquartered in Portland, Maine, has appointed Randy Morehouse as a safety management consultant in New York.

Morehouse will join safety management consultants Jennifer Campbell, David Darnley and Rob Sylvester in providing safety training services and advice to MEMIC’s New York customer base.

With more than 10 years of environmental health and safety experience, Morehouse served as the environmental health and safety manager at D&W Diesel in Auburn, New York, prior to joining MEMIC.

The MEMIC Group includes MEMIC Indemnity Company, MEMIC Casualty Company, and parent company Maine Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company. It holds licenses to write workers’ compensation across the country and maintains offices in Manchester, N.H.; Glastonbury, Conn.; Albany, New York; Weehawken, N.J.; West Conshohocken, Penn.; Tysons Corner, Va.; and Tampa, Fla.; in addition to its headquarters in Portland, Maine.

QBE North America, the New York-headquartered division of QBE Insurance Group Limited, hired Carla Owens as senior vice president of operations for its specialty business group.

Based in New York City, Owens will report to Jeffrey S. Grange, president of specialty insurance at QBE North America.

In this role, Owens will manage the design and implementation of QBE North America’s specialty operating platform. The project aims to deliver core processing capabilities across policy administration and billing functions for QBE’s Specialty Insurance business. It will also be integrated with existing financial, customer, processing and policy systems.

“This appointment further underscores our focus on the customer,” said Grange in a company press release. “The platform enables straight-through processing, increasing the speed with which we can quote, bind and issue policies — improving the customer experience.”

Prior to joining QBE, Owens spent 15 years at Chubb. Starting as an executive protection underwriter, she advanced to the position of executive protection leader, where she was responsible for underwriting profit and loss results and marketing of a $60 million management liability portfolio.

Later, as the assistant vice president and profitability indicator business project manager, Owens worked as the business lead for the development and implementation of predictive models to support risk selection and pricing for specialty coverage lines and segments.

Most recently, she served as vice president and small business solution program manager, in which she was responsible for a $30 million program of work that included predictive modeling, renewal processing and online quoting portal projects.

Going forward, QBE North America has an aggressive growth strategy, in which it seeks to capitalize on cloud capabilities that offer scale and security and work to expand the platform beyond specialty and into other business units, the company said.

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