Darling Insurance welcomes five new partners

Darling Insurance Realty Limited has announced that it is welcoming five new partners to the ownership of the independent brokerage.

The group of new partners is composed of current Darling insurance employees. It includes Kyle Bowden, Julie Kellett, Greg Melanson, Julie Poff, and Angie White. Under the new partnership, current principal broker Peter Blodgett will retain his role while mentoring the partners as they work with the company’s senior managers to run the brokerage’s day-to-day operations.

A release also noted that the partnership “ensures the continuity” of Darling Insurance, which has operated as an independent brokerage since 1928.

“Our people have always been our success, and I’m pleased to see the business move forward and succeed through a new generation of loyal employees who understand the deepest levels of the business, it’s exciting,” said Peter Blodgett. “We hope to bring on additional partners in the future, allowing employees here at Darling Insurance to really understand that their efforts and contributions are recognized and as such, can be rewarded.”

Darling Insurance currently has offices in Peterborough, Omemee and Lakefield, ON. It also has affiliated offices associated with Sentinel Risk Insurance Group Limited in 6 other areas of southern Ontario.

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Sentinel Risk was formed through a partnership between Darling Insurance and James W Kloepfer Insurance Brokers in 2017.