About us…

Since 1948, Gallina and Sons has been offering customized insurance programs for small and mid-sized businesses with 1 to 1,000 employees and the individuals they serve. We are a 3rd generation, family owned, independent insurance agency that is committed to exceptional customer service and providing our clients with hands-on, personal attention.

Our History

Henry G. Gallina (1913 - 1996) was born and raised in Bridgeville, PA. The third of six children from Italian immigrant parents Henry, or "Chick" as he was called by relatives & friends, showed an entrepreneurial spirit from an early age. Henry began his business career at the age of 8 by selling newspapers to the passengers on the commuter trains that often stopped at the Bridgeville train station on their ride from Pittsburgh to Washington, PA.

After high school Henry worked as an Allegheny County police officer assigned to Woodville State Hospital in Collier Twp, PA, and was then drafted for military service during WW II. After 3 years in the military serving in the Army medical corps, Henry enrolled in medical school at the University of Buffalo. Realizing quickly that the study of medicine was not for him, Henry returned to the Bridgeville area with a new job as a traveling pharmaceutical salesman while attending the University of Pittsburgh where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. His sales territory took him to Punxsutawney, PA where he met his wife to be, Mary Hamilton, who at the time was the office manager for a prominent local physician. Henry and Mary were married after Henry's graduation and set up life in the Bridgeville area.

Unhappy with all of the travel demands of his current job, Henry and Mary started the Henry G. Gallina Insurance Agency in 1948. Since then their company has grown to be a full service independent insurance agency fulfilling the insurance needs of thousands of individuals, families, and businesses in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Texas, California, Oregon, Michigan, New York, and Indiana.

Henry’s son, William Gallina, followed in his father’s footsteps and jointed the agency in 1978 after a earning his degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and working for the Westinghouse Corporation in their nuclear power generation division.

Williams’ sons Andrew and William, Jr. joined the agency in 2004. Andrew, after completing a Bachelor of arts in Business Administration at Duquesne University and William Jr after graduating from Georgetown University with a Bachelors in Economics and then continuing on to Notre Dame School of Law where he earned the Outstanding Trial Advocacy Award. They were followed 8 years later by their youngest brother, Timothy, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, who had spent the previous 5 years working for the Travelers Insurance Company as a catastrophic claims adjuster.

Because of our extensive education and commitment to the insurance industry, Gallina and Sons has the unique ability to help service our clients with industry focused legal and claims expertise that is second to none.

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