Overview
In 1933, B. Snowden Boyle and J. Bayard Boyle founded Boyle Investment Company, a real estate and property management company. Shortly after, realizing the need for insurance services for their clients, they entered into an arrangement with a close friend and insurance agent, Marshall R. Yandell, to offer these services on a brokerage basis. This arrangement continued until after World War II, when the Boyles brought in a young Princeton graduate, James H. Wetter, to be trained by Yandell to head up the Boyle Insurance operation. It then became Boyle Insurance Agency, and Wetter was the agency's first president.
In 1972, Jack J. Craddock (1957) became president upon Wetter's retirement and remained so until his retirement in 1998, when W. Patton (Pat) Steele took over the responsibilities of president. In 2009, Cynthia Gresham was promoted to president upon Pat Steele's retirement. The agency is primarily a property and casualty agency with about 80 percent of its volume in commercial lines.
Expertise
Commercial and personal property and casualty insurance. Professional services include risk management, claim supervision, employee benefit planning and replacement cost appraisal.
Clients
Boyle Insurance Agency, Inc. currently services more than 6,000 clients. In addition to providing insurance for all the properties owned and managed by Boyle Investment Company, Boyle Insurance Agency serves a wide variety of commercial clients in fields ranging from construction to nursing homes to licensed professionals, such as non-profit organizations, certified public accountants and attorneys.
Markets
We place business with most major companies including CNA Commercial Insurance, Hartford Steam Boiler, Lloyds, MetLife, Penn National, Permanent General, Progressive, State Auto, Travelers, Philadelphia Insurance Company, The Hartford, Foremost Insurance Group, Chubb, Encompass Insurance, LEMIC Insurance Company and Zurich.
Strengths
Management and account executives have combined insurance experience of more than 200 years, professional and qualified support staff and stability.