{"id":4699,"date":"2016-02-18T20:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/insurance-associates-acquires-allegiance-surety-associates\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T19:10:03","slug":"insurance-associates-acquires-allegiance-surety-associates","status":"publish","type":"member_news","link":"https:\/\/www.wbcnet.org\/member_news\/insurance-associates-acquires-allegiance-surety-associates\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Associates Acquires Allegiance Surety Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rockville, MD &#8211; We are pleased to announce that effective December 1, 2015, Insurance Associates has acquired Allegiance Surety Associates.&nbsp; Allegiance is a leading bonding firm located in Laurel, MD providing bonding services to the construction and real estate development industries.<\/p>\n<p>Allegiance brings six employees to IA with a specialization in writing bonds for residential and commercial developers as well as general contractors and subcontractors.&nbsp; Their knowledge of the local real estate development community enhances the depth of IA\u2019s contract surety practice and significantly adds to the subdivision bond portion of our business.<\/p>\n<p>IA will maintain the office in Laurel as our third full service office to serve our clients.&nbsp; We welcome Art Jones and his team to Insurance Associates.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1956, Insurance Associates is an independent insurance agency serving the Mid-Atlantic region with offices in Rockville, Fairfax, Towson, and Laurel.&nbsp; We are a locally owned company that prides itself on having one of the most competent, experienced, and longest tenured workforces of any agency in the area.&nbsp; We advocate for our clients across a diverse range of products and services including Surety Bonding, Commercial Insurance, Employee Benefit Plans, Personal Insurance and Life Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about our passion and the rest of our team at Insurance Associates, please visit us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insassoc.com\">www.insassoc.com<\/a>, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/insurance-associates\">LinkedIn<\/a> and like us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/insassoc\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\t<span style=\"color:#696969\">###<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockville, MD &#8211; We are pleased to announce that effective December 1, 2015, Insurance Associates has acquired Allegiance Surety Associates.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4910,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4699","member_news","type-member_news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - 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