About Robert J. Hanafin, Inc.Robert J. Hanafin, Inc. celebrates eighty years as a regional agency with four offices in New York, catering primarily to the construction industry. Robert J. Hanafin, Inc. is one of the largest agency writers of contract surety in the Northeastern United States, writing more surety premium and construction accounts on a per office basis than many of its national brokerage competitors.
This was not always the case.
Robert J. Hanafin, Inc. was started by Robert J. Hanafin in September of 1929 and was in its original form a sole proprietorship marketing life insurance. At the time, “Bob Hanafin” was twenty-one years old and as was the case with many of the self starters in those days, he had little formal education and even less capital, but for the lack of those ingredients, he possessed unequaled tenacity. This man succeeded selling life insurance during the great national depression.
In the middle 1930’s, the agency entered the personal lines property and casualty insurance business and after World War II, began to develop a book of medium size commercial accounts. The commercial lines insurance business consisting of small manufacturers and retail trade accounts such as auto dealers and department stores grew successfully during the 1950’s.
During the ensuing thirty-five years, Robert J. Hanafin, Inc. became a major factor in upstate New York in the construction insurance and surety bond arena. The company extended their operations through branch offices opened in Syracuse, Rochester and Albany.
Today, the agency is considered one of the “best of the best” in their field: construction. For this, Robert J. Hanafin, Inc. has to thank its wonderful employees, many of whom have been with the company in excess of twenty and thirty years and its book of extraordinary customers who are unquestionably, the crème de la crème in their respective fields.
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