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Aon Names DeCoster Resident Managing Director for Ga. Operations

Oct 20 2005 // Aon announced the appointment of Richard (Rick) DeCoster as resident managing director of Aon Risk Services of Georgia. As resident managing director, DeCoster is responsible for brokerage services of property/casualty...

RLI Hires Fick to Lead H.R.

Oct 19 2005 // Illinois-based RLI Corp. has hired Jeffrey Fick to serve as vice president of human resources. Fick will oversee RLI human resources and administrative activities. Fick comes to RLI with 19 years’ experience as an...

Managing Co-Owner Dismissed

Oct 17 2005 // The managing co-owner in The Leavitt Group’s Albuquerque office has been dismissed for reported misrepresentations made in proposals to 20 current or former clients over a six-year period. The misrepresentations were...

Managing Co-Owner Dismissed

Oct 17 2005 // Man Fined For Workers’ Comp Fraud A San Diego County Superior Court judge has sentenced Kevin Vint, 50, of Del Mar, Calif., to three years formal probation for conspiracy to commit workers’ compensation...

San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that William Dougherty has joined the firm as an Account Executive w

Oct 17 2005 // Hilb Rogal and Hobbs Company, headquartered in Glen Allen, Va., has appointed Michael Crowley to the position of president. In that role, Crowley will have overall responsibility for profit and loss, revenue growth,...

RMS Creates Online Terrorism and Security Risk Manager

Oct 12 2005 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), Newark, Calif., has announced the launch of a Terrorism and Security Risk Manager online service, a new information source for insurers writing global terrorism risk. The service is...

SilverPlume Launches Online Benefits and HR Tool

Oct 5 2005 // SilverPlume, a property and casualty insurance industry’s provider of electronic insurance and risk reference material, has launched Sage Benefits & HR, a subscription-based, online library and reference center...

Leavitt Group Dismisses Albuquerque Managing Co-Owner

Oct 4 2005 // The Leavitt Group acknowledged this week that the managing co-owner in its Albuquerque office was dismissed on Sept. 23 for reported misrepresentations made in proposals to 20 current or former clients over a six-year...

Oct 3 2005 // Seattle-based Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company has announced that Leslie Mallonee has been named senior vice president and chief information officer. Mallonee’s history in information technology includes his...

News Briefs

Oct 3 2005 // N.Y. AG Indicts Former Marsh Execs: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills announced the indictment of eight former executives of insurance brokerage giant Marsh Inc. for their...

NHC Tracking Tropical Storm Rita, Hurricane Philippe

Sep 19 2005 // Rita became the 17th named storm of the current season over the weekend, as maximum sustained winds neared 50 mph (85 km/hr) with higher gusts. Miami’s National Hurricane Center warned that the storm could become a...

Sep 19 2005 // Saylor & Hill has announced that three senior associates of the firm have been promoted to principal. Tim Sweeney, Kevin Mirsky and Chris Williams, each of whom has worked for the firm for more than a decade, will...

Lloyd’s Estimates Katrina Impact at $2.54 Billion

Sep 15 2005 // Following a review by all of its 44 managing agents, who operate its 62 active syndicates, Lloyd’s issued a bulletin indicating that its preliminary estimate of losses from Hurricane Katrina are approximately 1.4...

N.Y. AG Spitzer Indicts Former Marsh Execs for Roles in Bid Rigging, Fraud

Sep 15 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills on Thursday announced the indictment of eight former executives of insurance brokerage giant Marsh Inc. for their roles in a bid rigging...

MMC Names Storms Chairman, CEO of Marsh; Caulfield Appointed at MHRC

Sep 9 2005 // Michael Cherkasky, president and chief executive officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC), announced that Brian Storms has been named chairman and chief executive officer of Marsh Inc., its risk and insurance...

Assured Guaranty Appoints Bajer Managing Director for Europe

Sep 7 2005 // Assured Guaranty Corp., a subsidiary of Assured Guaranty Ltd. announced that Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd., its European unit, has appointed Marc Bajer as managing director and head of its European business. He will be...

Polestar Names Kasper President

Sep 7 2005 // SHRP Names Allstate’s Crockett HR Pro of Year The Society of Human Resource Professionals, (SHRP), the Chicago chapter of the national Society of Human Resource Management, (SHRM), has named Joan M. Crockett, senior...

SHRP Names Allstate’s Crockett HR Pro of Year

Sep 7 2005 // The Society of Human Resource Professionals, (SHRP), the Chicago chapter of the national Society of Human Resource Management, (SHRM), named Joan M. Crockett, senior vice president of human resources at Allstate Insurance...

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Sep 5 2005 // AVRECO, a wholesale insurance brokerage based in Chicago, has announced the appointment of Marcia Gloppe as an underwriter in the professional liability underwriting department, headed by Linda Deiss. Gloppe began her...

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Sep 5 2005 // Ronald L. Alexander has been named president and managing partner of Willis Group Holdings Ltd.’s Tennessee operations in Knoxville, Tenn. Alexander was formerly executive vice president and chief operating officer...