Like ocean marine insurance, inland marine insurance has been traditionally less regulated in the United States.

Inland marine insurance in the United States indemnifies loss to movable or specialized types property, historically developing as an outgrowth of ocean marine insurance.

He was a director of Ohlsson's Cape Breweries Ltd, and of Ocean Marine Insurance Co.

He was also president of Ocean Marine Insurance Association and served as a director for the Nova Scotia Mutual Fire Insurance Company and the Springhill and Parrsboro Coal and Railway Company.