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AmTrust Financial opening will bring 180 jobs to Utah

Apr 11, 2022, 11:39 AM | Updated: 11:39 am

AmTrust specializes in small business insurance solutions and workers' compensation. Photo credit: Adobe Stock.

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SOUTH JORDAN, Utah — AmTrust Financial is opening a new office in South Jordan. The Utah office will create 180 new job positions.

AmTrust is the largest privately held insurance company in the U.S. It has 34 locations in 17 different states along with 6,000 employees nationwide.

The company specializes in small business insurance solutions and workers’ compensation.

AmTrust’s website says it was rated an “A-“(Excellent) with a Financial Size of “XV” by AM best, a rating service that assesses the creditworthiness of and/or reports on over 16,000 insurance companies worldwide.

The office will be opening on Apr. 12, 2022, on River Front Parkway in South Jordan.

There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. Ben Hart, Deputy Director at Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity, and Dawn Ramsey, the mayor of South Jordan, will lead the ceremony.

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