ProAssurance unit buys $13.3mn WC platform

ProAssurance's Eastern Alliance unit is acquiring the
operations of Great Falls Insurance Company to provide it with a
platform to expand in New England.
While technically Eastern is buying renewal rights to the
workers' compensation book from Great Falls covering clients in
Maine and New Hampshire, it is also taking on all the employees of
the Auburn, Maine-based monoline carrier, Birmingham, Alabama-based
ProAssurance said yesterday in regulatory filings.
Led by President Gary Hall, all Great