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Pacific Specialty Insurance Co., Menlo Park, Calif., promoted Tim Summers to chief operating officer.

Summers will continue his duties as executive vice-president and corporate secretary, overseeing the product development and underwriting operations. He is also a member of the PSIC board of directors.

Summers joined the McGraw Group of Companies as legal counsel in July 1987. In 1990, he was instrumental in forming PSIC. He was named vice-president of government relations at McGraw in December 1996, after serving as deputy commissioner for industry and consumer programs at the California Department of Insurance.

Nevada-based Employers Insurance Group reorganized the corporation to position the group of companies for expansion in commercial property and casualty.

CEO Douglas Dirks promoted Martin Welch to president and chief operating officer of the organization’s insurance operations.

EIG’s new operating structure incorporates three strategic business units serving the Western Region, Pacific Region, and a newly established Strategic Markets Region.

The Western Region will be led by Region President George Tway, and will market and underwrite business produced through EIG’s independent agent relationships in Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Colorado. Workers’ comp business will be marketed and produced through company offices in Reno, Nev.; Henderson, Nev.; Boise, Idaho; and Denver, Colo. Tway will be assisted by Regional Vice President of Underwriting Patrick Maxwell, and Regional Vice President of Marketing Shayla Mulder.

The Pacific Region will market and underwrite business in California through company offices in San Francisco, Fresno and Glendale. A soon-to-be-appointed Pacific region president will be assisted by Regional Vice President of Marketing Gil Hubbell, and a vice president of underwriting, who will be appointed at a later date. Marketing representatives and managers will report directly to Hubbell, and underwriting managers will report directly to the new vice president of Underwriting. Welch will serve as acting region president until such time as the new president is named.

The new and separate Strategic Markets Region will focus on strategic partnerships formed through non-traditional production sources led by Region President David Quezada, and assisted by Regional Vice President of Marketing Patrick O’Brien and Regional Vice President of Underwriting James Konewko,.

ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of The ACE Group of Companies, appointed David Patterson president of Philadelphia-based ESIS Inc., the risk management services subsidiary of ACE USA.

Patterson most recently served as executive vice president, ESIS Claims and Account Management, where he was responsible for leading the network of claims centers including field operations and heading up account management, throughout the U.S.

W.R. Berkley Corp., based in Greenwich, Conn., has named Robert C. Hewitt and Peter L. Kamford senior vice presidents in its specialty segment, and Robert D. Stone senior vice president of its alternative markets segment.

Hewitt now serves as senior vice president for excess and surplus lines division, and was previously senior vice president for alternative markets operations.

Kamford joined the company as senior vice president for specialty products division with more than 25 years experience in property casualty insurance, most recently managing director of Guy Carpenter & Co.

Stone, presently managing director of Berkley Capital LLC, assumed oversight responsibility for the company’s alternative markets operations.

Markel Re, Richmond, Va., named Peter Dunn vice president, division manager Markel Re Excess and Scott Beall, former vice president Markel Re Facultative, to vice president division manager Specialized Markel Alternative Risk Transfer.

Beall joined Markel in January 2003 to develop Markel Re Facultative, a new Markel operation. He has more than 20 years of reinsurance experience.

Dunn joined in February 2003. He has more than 25 years of insurance experience, including service as product line manager for the SCOR casualty facultative business.

Nevada Commissioner of Insurance Alice A. Molasky-Arman has appointed Cliff King as Nevada’s chief administrator of captive programs.

King joined the Division in 1998, as chief of the property and casualty section. Most recently, he was chief insurance assistant and was responsible for oversight of the property and casualty, life and health, licensing and captive sections, as well legislative issues. In his new role, King will be devoted to the captive program and work directly in concert with the commissioner.

Unigard Insurance Companies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based property and casualty insurer, announced two new appointments and a promotion. Harris Clarke joined the company as assistant vice president of personal lines product management. He is responsible for personal lines products and pricing in multiple states. He has more than 14 years of experience in insurance systems and product implementation.

Joe Muller was promoted to assistant vice president of personal lines product management. He also will work with company field staff and oversee product and pricing decisions in several states. Muller has been with the company for 14 years and has a background in underwriting and product management.

Christy Niemann was named assistant vice president of personal lines underwriting. She has 22 years of prior industry experience.

Members of the Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) in Sacramento have re-elected their officers for a one-year term.

Cinda Smith, senior counsel with Geico, was re-elected chair of the board of directors; Carry Cheldin, president of Crusader Insurance Co., vice chair; Sam Sorich, president; Jeffrey Fuller, secretary; and June Holmes, treasurer. Holmes is chief operating officer of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), of which ACIC is an affiliate.

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