SPG buys MarketScout's workers' comp unit

Underwriting facilities holding company Specialty Program Group
has added MarketScout's workers' compensation MGA to its
stable, under the leadership of Jay Chase who is moving with his
unit to SPG.
Chase's group specializes in writing workers' comp for
hard-to-place situations involving high hazard risks in industries
such as transportation, construction and manufacturing, Summit, New
Jersey-based SPG said. It has renamed the unit Specialty Comp
Insurance Solutions
Terms of the transaction were