News - Vermont Mutual Insurance Group

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group Completes Leadership Succession Plan

MONTPELIER, Vermont (December 19, 2024) — Vermont Mutual has finalized its leadership succession plan with Company President, Mark J. McDonnell, accepting the role of CEO for the Group. McDonnell replaces outgoing CEO and current Board Chair, Daniel C. Bridge, who is set to retire from Vermont Mutual on December 31, 2024. An additional key component […]

Vermont Mutual’s Charitable Giving Helps Communities Prosper

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group®, based in Montpelier, VT and one of the oldest property and casualty insurers in the United States, recently announced that it has surpassed the $6 million mark in donations through their Charitable Giving Fund (the “Fund”). Since the establishment of the Fund in 2014, Vermont Mutual has donated $6.4M to charitable […]

Vermont Mutual Recognized by Ward Group as a Top 50 Insurer for 16 Consecutive Years

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group® has again been recognized as one of the Top 50 Property and Casualty insurers in the U.S. by Ward Group, an Aon company, and one of the industry’s most respected benchmarking organizations. This is the 16th consecutive year that the Vermont-based insurer has been designated as a Ward Top 50 P & […]

Vermont Mutual’s Brody Gilbert Named Senior Vice President

MONTPELIER, Vermont (May 2, 2024)— In support of the leadership succession plan announced following Vermont Mutual’s recent annual meeting, Brody N. Gilbert has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Finance & Operations and Treasurer of Vermont Mutual Insurance Group®. Mr. Gilbert joined Vermont Mutual in 2017 as the company’s Controller and was later […]

McDonnell Named President of Vermont Mutual Insurance Group

At the annual meeting held on April 17, 2024, the Vermont Mutual Board of Directors named Mark J. McDonnell President of Vermont Mutual Insurance Group. McDonnell, the 18th president of the 196 year old group of companies, succeeds former President and current Chief Executive Officer, Daniel C. Bridge, who is set to retire at the […]

Leadership Positions Filled at Vermont Mutual

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group®, a Ward Top 50 Property & Casualty Insurer based in Montpelier, Vermont, recently filled two senior roles within the company. Samuel Hopkins has joined Vermont Mutual as the Vice President and Chief Information Officer and Joshua Wykle has been promoted to the newly created position of Vice President of Strategy & […]

Vermont Mutual Donates $14,300 to King Street Center

BURLINGTON, Vermont (January 16, 2024)— Vermont Mutual Insurance Group® donated $14,300 to King Street Center as part of the Cats Win, Community Wins program, a multi-year, community-based, collaboration between Vermont Mutual Insurance Group and the University of Vermont. Since the program’s debut in 2017, Vermont Mutual has donated more than $94,000 to local non-profits through […]

Vermont Mutual President & CEO, Dan Bridge, Named Insurance Professional of the Year

The Insurance Library Association of Boston, the first private library dedicated solely to the subject of insurance in the United States, recently named Vermont Mutual Insurance Group® President & CEO, Daniel C. Bridge, as their Insurance Professional of the Year for 2023. The Insurance Professional of the Year Award is presented each year to an […]

Vermont Mutual Provides Support to Flood Impacted Communities

While contending with significant destruction to their office building on State Street in Montpelier, Vermont Mutual Insurance has witnessed the catastrophic impact to the homes and businesses in their own neighborhood. Dan Bridge, Vermont Mutual’s President and CEO, commented, “In our 195 year history, we have seen our share of calamity and we have […]

Vermont Mutual Recognized by Ward Group as a Top 50 Insurer for 15th Consecutive Year

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group® has again been recognized as one of the Top 50 Property and Casualty insurers in the U.S. by Ward Group, an Aon company, and one of the industry’s most respected benchmarking organizations. This is the 15th consecutive year that the Vermont-based insurer has been designated as a Ward Top 50 P & […]

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group Adds Two New Board Members

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group®, long recognized as a Top 50 Property and Casualty insurer in the U.S., has recently elected two prominent executives to the Company’s Board of Directors: Theresa Alberghini DiPalma, former Senior Vice President for Marketing and External Relations at The University of Vermont Health Network and Mari McClure, President and CEO of […]