Marlin Business Services announced a new partnership with The Hartford, a leading property and casualty insurance carrier, to offer small businesses a broad range of commercial insurance products and coverages to protect their businesses and employees. 

This partnership with The Hartford marks the latest step by Marlin to offer a "one stop shop" to meet the financial needs of small business owners. Marlin offers extend to providing innovative business equipment financing programs, access to working capital and insurance solutions at a time of growing demand from the nation's 28 million small businesses.

 "We are excited to offer business insurance options for our small and mid-size business clients," said Daniel P. Dyer, Marlin's co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Teaming with The Hartford, a leader in property and casualty insurance, will help connect our customers to the expertise they deserve and a leader that understands the industry."

Research shows that small business owners view the insurance experience as a balancing act between purchasing coverage that's just right – i.e., not too much, not too little – but at a price they can afford.  The partnership with The Hartford enables Marlin to refer commercial customers to an insurer that can provide the right amount of coverage to help address unique small business needs.

The advantages to small business clients include:

• Insurance coverages, including Workers' Compensation (dependent upon state), Business Owner's Policy (business property and business liability coverage) and Business Auto insurance.
• Flexible coverage & service options with cost effective packages which can be tailored for specific small business needs.
• Experience that comes from insuring more than 1 million small business customers and protecting small businesses for more than 200 years.

"We are proud to partner with Marlin, a leading provider of lending solutions for small and mid-size businesses," said Kevin Sanborn VP, Small Business Alliance Center at The Hartford. "As an insurance carrier, we believe in the importance of protecting small business owners from the unexpected so that they can stay up and running. Our partnership with Marlin will help ensure small business owners have the right resources and protection in place to succeed."