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Healthcare Services Association (HSA), a medical malpractice insurance specialty group headquartered in Missouri, has promoted Joseph B. Moody to president and CEO. Moody will lead HSA and Healthcare Services Group (HSG), its wholly owned management company subsidiary. He also assumes the position of chairman of Providers Insurance Consultants Inc. (ProCon), HSG’s agency/brokerage arm.

Additionally, Moody was elected president of Medical Liability Alliance (MLA), effective immediately. He succeeds Michael J. Delaney, who will continue to serve as president of the Missouri Hospital Plan (MHP), the parent of MLA.

Moody joined HSG in 2003 as executive vice president and chief operating officer after spending the previous 23 years with St. Paul/Travelers Cos. in various underwriting, marketing and senior management positions, all related to medical professional liability insurance.

HSG, MHP, MLA and ProCon primarily specialize in providing medical professional liability insurance to Missouri’s hospitals and physicians. The companies were formed in 1976 by the Missouri Hospital Association.

Ag States Group, an insurance and risk management subsidiary of CHS Inc., announced Keith Illa has been named president of Ag States Group, effective Feb. 1, 2012.

Illa will lead the full-service insurance organization headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., and will report to Lynden Johnson, CHS executive vice president, business solutions.

Illa succeeds Corwin Tufte, who served as president of Ag States Group and its predecessor companies for the past 20 years.

Illa joined Ag States Group in 2008 as sales director. Prior to joining Ag States Group, he spent a decade with Nationwide Agribusiness Insurance/Farmland Mutual Insurance where he held a variety of sales and sales management positions.

Illa holds the CPCU designation by the Society of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters and the CIC (certified insurance counselor) designation.

Ag States Group is licensed in most U.S. states and represents major carriers in 70 markets.

Robert Wagner has been appointed as acting director of the Illinois Department of Insurance.

He has been with the department 11 years and is its general counsel. He is the department’s third acting director since June, when the previous director, Michael McRaith, left to take a post in President Barack Obama’s administration.

Wagner succeeds Andrew Stolfi, whose term as acting director ended Dec. 23, 2011.

Jack Messmore served as acting director prior to Stolfi but has since retired.

The Rockhill Insurance Group, based in Kansas City, Mo., has added Gregory T. Doyle as a senior vice president — director of programs.

Doyle has 27 years of wide-ranging industry experience with insurers, reinsurers and brokers, and will be responsible for developing Rockhill’s admitted program business platform.

Rockhill is a subsidiary of Ohio-based State Auto Group, the members of which are rated A (Excellent) by the A.M. Best Co.

Wisconsin-based United Heartland has appointed Steve Zacj as regional director for the company’s Chicago office.

Zacj came to United Heartland from Willis North America, where he served in a variety of capacities since 2002, most recently as vice president of client services.

Prior to joining Willis, Zacj served in a variety of capacities for Argonaut Insurance. Previous to Argonaut, he held an array of insurance positions at R&R Insurance Services, EBI Cos., and Aetna Life and Casualty Insurance Co.

Two veteran insurance regulators at the Missouri Department of Insurance have been appointed to division director positions.

Matt Barton was picked to lead the Consumer Affairs Division and Angela Nelson is now director of the Market Regulation Division.

Barton has worked at the department since 2005, serving as public information officer, manager of the licensing section and as a regulatory projects manager, where he led successful implementation of technology to make numerous areas of the agency more effective and efficient.

Nelson has worked at the department since 2002, and for the past two and a half years directed the Consumer Affairs Division.

Prior to joining the insurance department, Nelson was a licensed insurance agent with a State Farm agency in Holts Summit, Mo.

She currently serves as chair of the NAIC Transparency and Readability of Consumer Information Working Group. She also serves on numerous other NAIC working groups.

Tynesia Dorsey has been named chief administrative officer at the Ohio Insurance Department. Dorsey joined the department in November 1998 as a personnel officer. She was named head of human resources in January 2008 and directed such activities as personnel issues, benefits, payroll, labor relations, management of the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Americans with Disability Act (ADA), and employee trainings.

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