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Local Heroes: Arbella Insurance Group Marks 25 Years

Born from the chaos of the Massachusetts auto market, Arbella Insurance Group now has more than $600 million in revenue and a growing piece of the regions personal and commercial business.

By Laura Mazzuca Toops | Updated on October 10, 2013

The beginnings of Arbella Insurance weren’t very auspicious. Massachusetts’ Commonwealth Automobile Reinsurers (CAR), the state’s reinsurance pool created in the late 1970s, dominated a market in disarray. By the early 1980s, more than 60 percent of all drivers were in the pool, which carried a deficit of around $500 million. Insurance fraud was rampant, with overworked courts and police disinclined to do much about it.

Insurers were leaving the state in droves, including Kemper Group, which insured 7 percent of the Massachusetts auto market. The move would have required Kemper to pay a deficit of $40 million to CAR, cease writing all other lines of business, left more than 400 personal lines employees out of a job, and thousands of policyholders without coverage, said Frank Bellotti, former Massachusetts attorney general and current vice chairman of Arbella’s board of directors.

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