In Brief: VantisLife in Pact with 1st Mariner

Published May 17, 2005, 1:00 a.m. EDT

Updated May 16, 2005, 3:33 p.m. EDT

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VantisLife Insurance Co. has announced that 1st Mariner Bank in Baltimore will start selling the VantisLife product line.

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Craig Simms, a senior vice president at VantisLife, which operates in Connecticut as Savings Bank Life Insurance Co., or SBLI, said in a press release Friday that his company would tailor a comprehensive life insurance offering for 1st Mariner customers.

1st Mariner is a community bank with 24 retail branches, more than 200 ATMs, and 13 mortgage offices in the Baltimore metropolitan area and on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It has assets of more than $1.2 billion, deposits of $700 million, and loans of $475 million.

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