Michael Boguski Named to Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc.'s Board of Directors

Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. EIHI announced today that its President and Chief Operating Officer, Michael L. Boguski, has been appointed to serve on the Company's Board of Directors, with a term as director commencing immediately. Mr. Boguski has served as EIHI's President and Chief Operating Officer and as a member of the board of the Company's operating subsidiaries since EIHI's inception as a public company in June 2006. He has been with the Eastern organization since the inception of the workers' compensation insurance operation in 1997. As previously announced, Mr. Boguski will assume the position of President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2011, when current CEO Bruce Eckert transitions to become Vice Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors.