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Angelo Ganguzza, vice president of Boca Raton, Fla.-based LIG Insurance Agency and Kimberly Langston Gray, managing partner of Langston Insurance Agency in central Florida, accepted election to the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida board of directors.

Ganguzza started his insurance career 23 years ago as a commercial property and casualty account representative for the Lynn Insurance Group. In January 2006, Lynn Insurance Group asked him to oversee the company’s agency operation, LIG Insurance Agency.

Ganguzza served as a member of the North Carolina Safeco Agents Council and was president for two terms.

Gray manages Langston Insurance Agency’s Kissimmee office, overseeing accounting and staffing. She is actively involved in the Orlando Chapter of PIA, currently serving as first vice president She also serves on the planning committee for the PIA Agent Expo being planned for April 2010.

The New York-based Navigators Group has hired Paul Hennessy as president of Navigators Holdings (UK), Ltd. He will be responsible for Navigators’ operations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and will report to President and CEO Stan Galanski.

Hennessy has more than 35 years of international property/casualty underwriting and underwriting management experience. He spent 22 years with the Chubb Group.

Gregory Habay, a New York-based reinsurance broker, has joined Collins as senior vice president. Habay most recently was a vice president and property/casualty reinsurance broker at Guy Carpenter & Co. in New York City. He also has worked in the New York offices of International Business Machines, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and The Constantin Group.

He also is a founding member of the U.S. Reinsurance Under 40s Group, a group of young professionals organized to provide educational, social and networking opportunities for members of the reinsurance industry within the U.S.

Florida insurance executives John Fletcher and Rick Stein joined forces to continue the legacy of the Jacksonville firm, McNeill, Garrison & Fletcher.

Fletcher and Stein worked together in the 1990s at insurance brokerage and benefits consulting firm Palmer & Cay. Fletcher, prior president and majority shareholder of McNeill, Garrison & Fletcher, now owns 50 percent of the newly named company. Stein purchased the other half of the company. Stein and Fletcher will serve as co-chairmen and managing partners of the new entity, which will be called Fletcher|Stein.

Corrine Garrison, former and founding partner in the brokerage, will continue as a key employee, servicing clients and working with the new leadership.

Mike Sullivan, who has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience, will serve as president of the company.

Fletcher and Stein will include 21 employees and offices in Jacksonville Beach, downtown Jacksonville and Pensacola. Its geographic reach will range from North Florida throughout the Southeast.

Atlanta-based AssuranceAmerica Corp. made several organizational changes effective Oct. 3.

The company promoted Joseph J. Skruck to president and chief operating officer. Skruck was responsible for the company’s insurance company and related operations since 2002.

In addition, Lawrence Stumbaugh is moving to vice chairman of the board with primary responsibility for government relations and agency acquisitions.

AssuranceAmerica focuses on the specialty automobile insurance marketplace, primarily in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Arizona and Indiana.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Harden & Associates added two new account managers in its employee benefits division.

Jacqueline Mariani and Spring Currier will support the execution of client support plans, provide daily program management and maintain accurate and complete client data.

Prior to joining Harden & Associates, Mariani worked at Richter & Co. as an account representative. Currier joined Harden & Associates with experience in health insurance. She previously worked at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, where she supported agent services.

John B. Keefe has been named senior vice president of corporate development for Harleysville Insurance. In this position, he is responsible for identifying strategic business opportunities designed to increase the company’s growth and profitability. Prior to joining Harleysville, Keefe spent 12 years as a senior vice president with Ferris, Baker Watts, a Baltimore-based investment banking and research firm. He spent much of his time there in equity research, where he was ranked among the “Best on the Street” insurance analysts by The Wall Street Journal. He also has held investment research roles with Anderson & Strudwick, and he began his investment career in 1980 with Dean Witter Reynolds.

Susan L. Monahan has joined New Jersey insurance brokerage Bollinger as executive vice president in the Commercial Lines Division.

She will be responsible for the commercial lines operations in Bollinger’s Short Hills, N.J. office and will have overall responsibility for the commercial division’s marketing and carrier relations function corporate wide.

Monahan has held positions with several national carriers, including that of senior vice president and chief underwriting officer for commercial lines at at CNA.

Most recently, she worked on the brokerage side of the business, first with Brown & Brown and then at Commerce Insurance Services.

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