Lodge joins Eastern Insurance Group LLC as senior vice president, commercial lines division

According to Eastern Insurance Group LLC, Timothy Lodge has joined the agency as a senior vice president in its commercial lines division. Lodge will work out of Eastern Insurance's Providence office as a sales executive focusing on the real estate, manufacturing and technology industries. Prior to joining Eastern Insurance, Lodge spent 12 years at Aon Risk Solutions working as a sales and account executive. Prior to that, he spent two years at Chubb Group of Insurance Companies working as a casualty underwriter. Lodge is a Fairfield University graduate, is a member of the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors, holds a CIC designation and has been active in several industry organizations including the Real Estate Financial Association. Eastern Insurance, headquartered in Natick, Mass., is a subsidiary of Eastern Bank, the largest independent, mutually owned bank in New England with branches stretching from Merrimack Valley to Cape Cod. Eastern Insurance serves more than 70,000 individuals and businesses and provides a full range of personal and commercial insurance products, surety, and employee benefits services. Eastern Insurance is the largest insurance agency headquartered in Massachusetts and the 48th largest agency in the country.