Harford Mutual Insurance Group announces changes to its leadership team.
Jeffrey Rink, a senior vice president, was promoted to executive vice president with the added oversight of administrative operations, customer service, and the special investigative unit.
Joining Harford Mutual in 2009, Rink has transformed its business development team and oversaw the successful expansion and new office in their Southern Region.
In recent years, Rink’s leadership was essential in the creation of distinct foundation, middle-market, and large business units and the development and implementation of the new online rating system RapidWrite and Agent Portal.
As executive vice president, he will continue to foster innovation in strategic planning and support the company’s vision and growth plans. Rink has over 30 years of insurance experience with national carriers including Travelers and Great American Insurance. He holds the CPCU designation and a bachelor’s degree from McDaniel College
Maryland’s Harford Mutual Insurance Group Announces Leadership Team Changes March 3, 2021
Harford Mutual Insurance Group has announced changes to its leadership team.
Senior Vice President Jeffrey Rink has been promoted to executive vice president with the added oversight of Administrative Operations, Customer Service and the Special Investigative Unit.
Joining Harford Mutual in 2009, Rink has transformed its Business Development team and oversaw the expansion and new office in its southern region. In recent years, Rink’s helped to create foundation, middle-market and large business units and develop and implement the new online rating system RapidWrite and Agent Portal.
Jeffrey Rink
As executive vice president, he will continue to foster innovation in strategic planning and support the company’s vision and growth plans. He has more than 30 years of insurance experience with national carriers including Travelers and Great American Insur
AM Best Assigns Credit Ratings to 1842 Insurance Company
AM Best Assigns Credit Ratings to 1842 Insurance Company
AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of a to 1842 Insurance Company (1842) (Bel Air, MD). The outlook assigned to these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. 1842 is a newly formed member of Harford Mutual Insurance Group (Harford). The ratings reflect 1842s balance sheet strength, which AM Best categorizes as very strong, as well as its adequate operating performance, neutral business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management. Recently, management underwent a reorganization of Harford into a mutual holding company structure, and 1842 was added to the group. With the addition of 1842, management decided to terminate an existing pooling agreement between two existing members and implement a 100% quota share reinsurance contract between all group members. 1842 will cede 100% of all writing and
Steven D. Linkous, president and CEO of
Harford Mutual Insurance Group, has been appointed to the board of directors for Baltimore Equitable Insurance, the oldest company in Baltimore as well as the second oldest insurance company in the United States.
Linkous was appointed on November 3, 2020. He will serve on the Finance & Operations and Audit Committees. He will serve a two-year term and will be eligible for reappointment in 2023.
Linkous was named president and CEO of Harford Mutual in 2006 having directed the accounting, finance, and information technology divisions within Harford Mutual during his more than 35 years with the company.
Linkous currently sits on the board of trustees for Harford Community College (recently serving as Co-Chair of the HCC Presidential Search Committee). He also serves on the boards of the Boys Scouts of America Baltimore Area Council, Maryland Joint Insurance Association & DC Property Insurance Facility, the National Association of Mutual In