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GEICO’s Board of Directors has promoted Rick Hoagland to senior vice president.

Hoagland first joined GEICO in 1994 as a telephone claims representative in Fredericksburg, Md. He advanced through several positions and was named a manager in 2002. He was later selected to complete the executive assistant program at GEICO headquarters in Chevy Chase, Md., and became director of claims home office systems.

In 2009, he was elected an officer and managed claims operations for the Midwest region. Later, he managed Midwest underwriting operations. He was then promoted in 2012 to vice president of GEICO’s company-wide claims operations and went on to serve as vice president for operations in New England and New Jersey. Four years later, Hoagland became regional vice president of the company’s Long Island, N.Y., office.

Partners Insurance Group LLC, a Swansea, Mass.-headquartered independent insurance agency with eight locations in Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, has promoted Kristine Audette to assistant vice president of accounting.

In this role, Audette is responsible for all agency accounting functions in addition to the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual reports. She also provides input to improve and create accounting processes and procedures to increase efficiencies.

Audette joined Partners Insurance Group in 2012 when Partners acquired the J.M. Doherty Insurance Agency. She had previously served as controller for Doherty since 2000. Her first position with Partners was as accounting associate III. She was promoted to senior accountant in 2015, a post she held until this most recent promotion to assistant vice president of accounting.

Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation specialist The MEMIC Group has promoted Douglass Pitts to associate underwriter.

Before joining The MEMIC Group in 2017 as an underwriting analyst, Pitts worked at State Street Global Advisors and MFS Investments in Boston, Mass.

Allied Insurance Brokers has appointed Tres Whitlock as its new president.

Most recently serving as vice president of sales, Whitlock has been with the Allied organization for nearly 10 years and is also an Allied shareholder, board member and executive team member. He will now be responsible for spearheading and overseeing the organization’s goals and objectives enterprise-wide, including those of its specialty program underwriting and wholesale division of Ascinsure Specialty Risk. Whitlock will continue to maintain and grow his own book of business as well.

Founded in 1982, Allied is a Pittsburgh, Penn.-headquartered, nationwide property and casualty insurance broker focused exclusively on serving the crane, scaffold, rental equipment and party goods, and non-profit and health and human services industries.

Alliant has hired Philip Dunn as senior vice president based in the company’s Wayne, Pa., office.

In this role, Dunn will use his risk management, insurance and employee benefits expertise to provide a national portfolio of clients with integrated services that address enterprise-wide issues.

He has experience providing risk management, insurance and human capital consulting services for middle market, domestic and multinational organizations. His experience encompasses property and casualty insurance, health and benefits consulting, workers’ compensation, executive risk, mergers and acquisitions and various alternative risk finance solutions.

Prior to joining Alliant, Dunn was senior vice president with a global insurance brokerage firm. He also has experience on the carrier side of the business with Liberty Mutual Insurance.

In a separate move, Alliant has hired Greg Andrews to its Employee Benefits Group as senior vice president in New York.

As Alliant continues to grow its employee benefits presence in the Northeast, Andrews will provide customized benefits services to clients.

Andrews joins Alliant with experience designing and deploying integrated employee benefits programs engineered to reduce healthcare spending, optimize performance and deliver long-term benefits to employers and their teams.

Prior to joining Alliant, Andrews was senior vice president with a regional insurance brokerage servicing a portfolio of clients with both regional and national operations. He also has experience with two large benefits consultants in sales roles.

Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., Alliant Insurance Services Inc. provides property and casualty, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, surety and financial products and services to clients nationwide, including public entities, tribal nations, healthcare, energy, law firms, real estate, construction and other industry groups.

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