People – Midwest

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group named Julie F. Kadnar divisional president of its Property and Inland Marine Division, succeeding Dale Kelley, who will retire in June 2017.

Kadnar joined the company in 1988 as a senior auditor and most recently served as divisional senior vice president of the Property and Inland Marine Division. She has more than 28 years of industry experience.

Kadnar is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation.

AssuredPartners NL has promoted Chief Operating Officer Todd Stocksdale to an expanded role as president of AssuredPartners NL and Midwest regional president for AssuredPartners Inc.

As the president of AssuredPartners NL, Stocksdale will oversee strategic growth, and expansion of the company while maintaining the day-to-day operations of the AssuredPartners NL platform for the Kentucky, Southern Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana regions.

He brings more than 25 years of insurance experience and has held positions at AssuredPartners NL with increasing responsibility, including senior account executive, senior vice president, vice president of sales and marketing, managing director, Southern regional director and COO.

Stocksdale holds his Property Risk Insurance Specialist and Certified Workers’ Compensation Counselor insurance designations.

Founded in 1991, AssuredPartners NL is headquartered in Louisville, Ky.

Method Insurance Services in Omaha, Neb., hired Michael Brunson as business development specialist.

Brunson will focus on building Method’s agency distribution network in key Midwest states, and will roll out the StoneTrust program in Nebraska.

He has four years of experience in the insurance industry and previously was sales manager at Markel Small Business.

Carrie Haughawout, who joined the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI) in 2011, has been appointed deputy director of the department.

Haughawout previously served as an assistant director of policy and product coordination.

Prior to ODI, Haughawout worked at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce as the director of health care and small business council. She also previously served Ohio House leadership in various capacities.

Specialist corporate insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) announced several appointments to its North American Crisis Management Team.

Alex Pittignano has been named executive underwriter, and both Randy Esposito and Jillian Shelby have joined as underwriting specialists. All will report to Marcos Garcia Norris, Regional Practice group leader for Crisis Management, North America.

Pittignano is based in New York and has more than two decades of experience in the insurance industry with several companies, including the position of senior vice president at Starr Companies and several management roles within AIG.

Esposito is also based in New York and has more than 10 years of experience in global corporate security risk and crisis management.

Prior to joining AGCS, Esposito was the vice president of Operations at Hudson Analytix Inc. where he worked to provide leadership and oversight for the company’s day to day operations.

Shelby also brings more than a decade of industry experience and is based in Chicago. She first joined AGCS in 2006 as a member of its competitive Underwriting Associate Training Program, working for three years as a middle market commercial underwriter. She returned to AGCS in 2015 as a middle market program manager.

Launched in 2016, the AGCS Crisis Management division in North America assists clients in preventing, preparing for and recovering from crisis incidents.

The Michigan Automobile Insurance Placement Facility announced that Executive Director Terri A. Miller has left the organization after nearly 20 years in that role.

Karyn Spaude, MAIPF’s controller, was named interim director.

Since her appointment in 1999, Miller has overseen the organization’s mission to guarantee that automobile insurance is available to Michigan citizens who are unable to obtain it in the competitive market. That role was expanded in 2012 with the integration of the Michigan Assigned Claims Plan to the MAIPF.

Miller’s role has also included acting as executive director of the Help Eliminate Auto Thefts Program, which operates a confidential tip line (1-800-242-HEAT) for reporting information about auto theft, carjacking and auto theft-related insurance fraud.