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Utica National Insurance Group

180 Genesee Street

New Hartford, NY 13413 

For immediate release

Contact: Michael C. Austin, Vice President and Director of Corporate CommunicationsE-mail: michael.austin@uticanational.comPhone: 800/274-1914, ext. 2413 or 315/734-2413Fax: 315/734-2743 

                                                Robert Manfredo promoted to Senior Underwriting Officer at Utica National  

Robert F. Manfredo has been promoted to Senior Underwriting Officer at the Utica National Insurance Group in New Hartford, New York. 

 Mr. Manfredo began his career with Utica National in 1981 as an Underwriting Trainee at the company’s Eastern Regional Office (ERO) in Utica, New York. He was named an ERO Staff Underwriter in 1984 and promoted to Senior Staff Underwriter the following year. He became ERO Supervising Underwriter in 1986, was named Assistant Underwriting Manager in 1990, and promoted to Underwriting Manager in 1996. He was named Home Office Director of Casualty Underwriting in 2000, the position he held at the time of his most recent promotion.

He was appointed Assistant Secretary in 2003, promoted to Assistant Vice President the following year and named Vice President in 2008.

 Mr. Manfredo earned an associate’s degree in Retail Business Management from Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, New York, and a bachelor’s degree in Business/Public Management from the State University of New York at Utica-Rome. 

 He is a member of the Utica Chapter of the CPCU Society, serves on the Underwriting Committee of the New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board and is a member of the National Workers Compensation Reinsurance Pool’s Board of Governors. He holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate in Underwriting (AU) professional designations, and the Certificate in General Insurance.