About Us
Always Striving. Never Settling.
Top-tier Service & Underwriting Expertise
The industry experts at Martlet Underwriters work to provide the best possible service and experience for our business partners.
As a cornerstone of our values, we endeavor to find the best coverage for your clients at affordable pricing.
We provide top-tier service, in-depth industry knowledge, and underwriting expertise.
Our solutions
We offer tailored and flexible solutions for both primary General Liability and Excess Casualty coverages.
Our underwriters blend pragmatism with creativity to find solutions based on the customer’s needs and requirements, recognizing there is no one-size-fits-all approach.
Industry Experts
Martlet Underwriters have decades of experience within the premises-liability space.
We remain devoted to our core principles of responsiveness, honesty and integrity.
origins of Martlet
Through many years working within the premises-related liability space, Jeff Longbons and Eric Steinheber experienced first-hand the void in the marketplace for the placement of this business.
They worked together to build Martlet Underwriters to fulfill the needs of their deserving clients who needed committed experts focused exclusively on them and their bespoke business needs.
Believing these clients are deserving of committed experts to focus exclusively on them and their bespoke business needs, they set forth to fill this void. And thus, Martlet was born.
In English heraldry, the martlet is a mythical bird that never roosts, continuously in flight and an allegory for continuous effort.
Our Team of Experts
Jeffrey M. Longbons, President
jeff.longbons@wyvernunderwriters.com
Jeff is the founding member of Martlet Underwriters, LLC where he serves as President. Jeff has a long background of managing numerous programs of general and professional liability business written. Similar to Martlet, this experience incorporates general liability business written on a primary, excess and umbrella basis. This business focuses on insurance coverage for small & middle market accounts within the business sectors of Lessor’s Risk, professional services, retail operations, wholesale distributors, light manufacturers and warehouses & storage facilities. These business sectors represent areas where Martlet’s underwriting expertise, flexible coverage terms and competitive rating are used to optimize program performance within a framework that provides brokers with the risk mitigation necessary for their clients at affordable prices.
Jeff has extensive insurance experience includes founding, building, growing & leading several MGAs, underwriting business units and entire insurance organizations. Jeff is an experienced leader in the property & casualty insurance industry with entrepreneurial & “outside the box” approach to providing innovative products, service, and business delivery systems.
Previously, Jeff was the founding member of Promont Advisors, LLC, a P&C-based managing general agency and ProPoint Claim Services, LLC, a P&C-based Third-Party Claims Administrator. In this role he was responsible for business development and management of all operations for both Promont & ProPoint, including all aspects of underwriting, policy form & endorsement development, underwriting guidelines & procedures, marketing, finance & business analytics, and claims. Jeff was also a founding member of Apex Insurance Managers, LLC where he originally served as the Senior Vice President – Underwriting & Operations where he managed all underwriting, product development, business operations and marketing activities. Jeff was ultimately installed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Apex in 2009 where he oversaw the successful sale of that company.
Jeff lives and works in Wheaton, IL.
Eric Steinheber, Chief Underwriting Officer
Eric is co-founder of Martlet Underwriters and has spent over 20 years working with a wide range of premises related operations – everything from moderate, privately-held businesses to Fortune 100 organizations.
He equally enjoys both the technical underwriting side of the industry as well as the market-facing side, where he has established long lasting relationships across the country.
Eric understands that each client has their own essential requirements and values being able to take a solutions-oriented approach to best meet their individual needs.
