People – Midwest

Safety National Casualty Corp. has realigned its claims department with management changes.

Carl Reynolds, senior vice president – Claims, has retired after a 30-year career with Safety National where, as department head, he was responsible for operational management of the entire claims department.

Mitch Neuhaus, vice president – Claims, has been appointed to replace Reynolds as claims department head where he will have ultimate responsibility over all claims operations.

Tim Stanger becomes vice president – Partner Relations where he will manage strategic partnership directives focused on expanding business relationships with third-party administrators and brokers. He will also lead quality assurance, account management and data analytics efforts for the claims department.

Michael Harris, vice president – Claims, assumes oversight of the excess workers’ compensation claims units.

Mark Bennett joined the company as vice president – Large Casualty Claims where he will be responsible for the oversight of claims involving large deductible and guaranteed cost workers’ compensation, commercial auto, general liability and non-subscription in Texas.

Bob Fusinatto takes over as vice president – Treaty Reinsurance Claims where he will oversee the newly-restructured dedicated reinsurance claims unit.

Safety National’s claims department operates out of the company’s corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Mo.

Hylant named Jim Lash president of its Cincinnati, Ohio, insurance brokerage office.

Lash has 25 years of experience and a diversified background in insurance and risk management. He joined Hylant in 2005 as the executive risk practice leader. He was responsible for building and leading this successful group.

Prior to joining Hylant, he served as assistant vice president and Ohio Valley regional manager for Chubb’s specialty lines unit in Cincinnati.

Lash is a member of the Professional Liability Underwriters Society, the Risk and Insurance Management Society, and is an executive committee member for the Griffith Insurance Education Foundation.

The National Young Agents Committee (YAC) of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) presented the Outstanding Young Agent of the Year award to Lisa Lemanski of the Young Agents Council of the Michigan Association of Insurance Agents (MAIA).

Lemanski is an independent insurance agent and office manager of Meiers Lombardini Lemanski Insurance, an East Lansing-based independent insurance agency that offers personal, business and life insurance products.

Lemanski serves as the young agent representative on the MAIA board and previously served on the MAIA legislative affairs task force. She also serves on the agent and corporate advisory council for Hastings Mutual Insurance Co.

Prior to joining the Meiers Lombardini Lemanski Insurance Services, she worked as an underwriter for Auto-Owners Insurance.

Lemanski and her fellow her Michigan young agents also earned two committee awards: the Outstanding Membership Development Award and the Outstanding Political Involvement Award.

Lockton Companies announced that Matt de Nazarie joined its Chicago office as vice president and producer.

Prior to joining Lockton, de Nazarie held several ascending positions at CNA Corp., most recently as underwriting director.

He has successfully practiced specialty lines underwriting, developed and implemented business and production plans, and designed specific territory strategies.

Insurance wholesaler, Founders Professional, added Ryan Roth as a professional liability broker in the company’s new downtown Chicago office.

Roth has nearly 10 years of professional liability experience. Prior to joining Founders, Roth was a professional liability broker with Hull and Co. in New Jersey, and prior to that with ECC (Brown & Brown) in Oak Brook, Ill.

In 2011 he was named Brown & Brown Wholesale’s Rookie of the Year, producing the most amount of revenue for a first year producer. Roth will focus on law firms, architects and engineers, technology/miscellaneous E&O risks and executive liability.

CUNA Mutual Group, headquartered in Madison, Wis., hired David (Dave) G. Brown as chief investment officer. He will replace David Marks, who retires at the end of the year after 10 years at CUNA Mutual Group.

Brown most recently served as chief investment officer for the TIAA-CREF General Account. Brown also held several senior-level investment positions at Prudential Financial across the firm’s Prudential Mortgage Capital, Prudential Capital and Prudential Real Estate Investors institutional investment platforms.

CUNA Mutual Group offers insurance and protection for credit unions, and their employees and members.