By Howard Reidel
Amherst, NY – The GEICO insurance company is adding about 300 jobs to its Amherst office. The company, one of the country's largest passenger car insurers, is moving a home insurance subsidiary based primarily in Virginia to its service center at the CrossPoint Business Park. '
The 300 new jobs will be filled over the next two years, bringing total employment at the service center to about 1800 persons. The job expansion will be funded in part by the Empire State Development Corporation and Amherst Industrial Development Agency.
Governor David Paterson is expected to make a formal announcement of the new jobs at 11'o'clock Wednesday morning at CrossPoint.