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Marsh Names 3 Senior Execs

Jan 11 2006 // Marsh Inc. has named three executives to its senior management team. The executives are: James R. Pierce, Jr., chairman, Global Marine & Energy Practice; Ken Fong, chief human resources officer; and Joseph A. Varnas,...

Carr Named Managing Principal of Integro’s Atlanta Office

Jan 11 2006 // Integro has announced Andrew Carr has been appointed managing principal, client development for the company’s Atlanta office. Carr has more than 25 years experience in property and casualty brokerage, including 15...

Integro Hires Managing Principals for Property Practice

Jan 9 2006 // Integro in New York has appointed Gregory DiPrato and Valerie Schmalzried as managing principals for the company’s Property Practice. DiPrato has more than 26 years of property brokerage experience, most recently...

Selective Insurance Notes Appointments

Dec 15 2005 // New Jersey-based Selective Insurance Group Inc. reported the following executive appointments to Selective Insurance Group and/or its subsidiary, Selective Insurance Company of America: Victor Daley (Farmington, Conn.), to...

GMI of Pa. Named Managing General Underwriter for XL Insurance

Dec 6 2005 // GMI Insurance Services of Valley Forge, Pa. has been appointed as nationwide managing general underwriter on behalf of the XL Insurance companies in their Auto Rental and Business Auto Programs.

Smaller and Regional Programs: Proven Exercises

Dec 5 2005 // Here are a few smaller and regional programs that are meeting specific needs Pumped for profit Robin C. Brennan knows fuel dealers. She’s been handling their insurance needs since 1998. Brennan is a vice president...

The Four C’s of Risk Management for Oil and Gas Operator – Managing Contracts

Dec 5 2005 // Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on risk management for oil and gas operators. The first article appeared in the Aug. 22, 2005, issue of Insurance Journal West region edition on page 66. In the...

Dec 4 2005 // Burns & Wilcox, a national specialty insurance managing general agency, has promoted Wayne Bates to director of the company’s Special Risk Division (SRD), International and promoted him to associate vice...

Dec 4 2005 // The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, Austin, Texas, has announced that two outstanding customer service representatives have received its National Outstanding CSR of the Year Award for 2005:...

The Four C’s of Risk Management for Oil and Gas Operator – Managing Contracts

Dec 4 2005 // Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series on risk management for oil and gas operators. The first article appeared in the Aug. 22, 2005, issue of Insurance Journal West region edition on page 66. In the...

Smaller and Regional Programs: Proven Exercises

Dec 4 2005 // Pumped for profit Robin C. Brennan knows fuel dealers. She’s been handling their insurance needs since 1998. Brennan is a vice president with the Managing Agency Group in Hartford, Conn., a subsidiary of Hilb Rogal...

People

Dec 4 2005 // GAB Robins, the international claims services firm, announced that Edward G. Troy has been named president and chief executive officer of the GAB Robins Group of Companies. Before joining GAB Robins, Troy served as...

Whipp, Bleisnick Join Guy Carpenter

Nov 29 2005 // Guy Carpenter & Company Inc. announced that Scott Whipp has joined the company’s Professional Liability Specialty Practice as a managing director and will lead its medical malpractice group and that Michael...

Whittington to Set up New Singapore Insurer

Nov 18 2005 // The insurance division of the Omni Whittington Group is to demerge and will benefit from a major injection of expansion capital. A new holding company, Whittington Group Pte Limited, will be domiciled in Singapore with net...

Integro Opens Atlanta Office

Nov 9 2005 // Integro has announced that Frank Kinnett has joined the company to lead the firm’s insurance brokerage operations in the Southeast from a newly established office in Atlanta. Kinnett is joined by Quill O. Healey, who...

Vitalone Named Resident Managing Director, Aon Risk Services Washington

Nov 9 2005 // Aon has appointed Gary Vitalone resident managing director of Aon Risk Services Washington. In this role Vitalone will be responsible for brokerage services of property & casualty insurance, and risk management...

Value Added Services Stand Out from the Pack

Nov 7 2005 // Most consumers buy on price and not value. True or False? The vast majority of insurance salespeople would tend to believe there is a lot of truth in the above statement–despite any well-programmed responses from...

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Nov 6 2005 // ACE USA announced two appointments in its ACE Casualty Risk Unit. William Hazelton has joined as senior vice president and underwriting manager for ACE Environ-mental Risk, and Mitchell Schmidt is now senior vice president...

Value Added Services Stand Out from the Pack

Nov 6 2005 // For most firms, the insurance consumer will not see any major value difference between agencies. Because products, price and service are roughly the same, sales people are forced to sell on rapport, relationships and sales...

Beta Batters Nicaragua

Oct 31 2005 // Hurricane Beta came ashore Saturday on Nicaragua’s Eastern coast about 60 miles (100 kms) south of Puerto Cabezas with winds up to 110 mph (175 km hr). The storm tore the roofs off many buildings, uprooted trees and...