Paramus, NJ, March 29, 2007 -- The NIA Group, LLC, one of the country's largest privately held insurance brokerage firms, is proud to announce that Peter J. Leone has joined the company's health care practice as a medical malpractice consultant. In his new role, Peter will help New Jersey-based medical practitioners obtain much-needed medical malpractice premium relief using innovative insurance and risk management programs.

One such program is OGRRGA, Obstetrics and Gynecologists Risk Retention Group of America, an OB/GYN-owned insurance company that is committed to helping OB/GYNs reduce and stabilize their medical malpractice costs via binding arbitration and mandatory risk management. The NIA Group is the exclusive insurance broker of OGRRGA, which officially launched in New Jersey this year.

"We proudly welcome Peter to NIA," says Linda Coleman, Hub Executive of NIA's Garden State Region and Managing Director of its Health Care Division. "Peter has nearly 30 years of medical malpractice claims experience, and he is highly respected by the New Jersey medical community. Above all, Peter is passionate about helping medical practitioners gain control over their medical malpractice insurance costs, which have been notoriously high in our state."

Peter is a contributing editor to MD News, a business publication for physicians, and serves on the Medical Society of New Jersey's Medical Malpractice Task Force. He also served on Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell's Medical Malpractice Crisis Task Force and has been nominated to the Board of University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Peter graduated with a B.A. Economics/Business from Rutgers University and received his M.B.A from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He resides with his family in Bloomfield, NJ.

For more information on Mr. Leone's appointment, please contact Kim Keating, The NIA Group’s director of communications, at (201) 845-6600.