MAPFRE USA Hires Zimmerman to Lead Commercial Lines
MAPFRE USA, a leading personal and commercial auto writer and home insurer in Massachusetts, announced that Jesse Zimmerman has joined the leadership team as vice president of commercial lines.
Zimmerman will oversee the company’s commercial underwriting and product strategy in Massachusetts to further grow the company’s commercial auto and commercial property business.
Zimmerman has 20 years’ experience in the property/casualty insurance industry, including most recently 13 years with Travelers in its small commercial lines division. Previously, he served in small commercial and personal lines at Hartford Financial Services Group and Allstate.
Bigglestone to Succeed Provost at Vermont Captive Division
Vermont Governor Phil Scott has appointed Sandy Bigglestone as the deputy commissioner of the captive insurance division at the Department of Financial Regulation (DFR). She will begin her new job at the end of the summer, assuming the role from David Provost, current deputy commissioner, who announced last month that he is retiring.
Provost joined Vermont’s insurance department in 2001 and was appointed to the role of deputy commissioner of the captive insurance division in 2008 by then Governor James Douglas. Provost is the third to serve in the role in Vermont’s 40-year history of regulalting captives.
Bigglestone started as an entry-level examiner in the captive division in 1997, was promoted to director of examinations in 2008, and then named director of captive insurance in 2010, a role which oversees the licensing and monitoring of Vermont’s captive insurance companies.
Koch Named Chief Judge of the New Jersey Division of Workers’ Compensation
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced the appointment of Maria Del Valle Koch as director and chief judge of the workers’ compensation division within the New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development. This appointment comes after the previous director, Russell Wojtenko, Jr., was confirmed by the Senate as a Superior Court judge.
The division helps settle disputes and operates special compensation funds. The division is also involved in identifying non-compliant employers of workers’ compensation laws as well as levying and collecting penalties and restitution once such employers are identified.
In her previous role,Koch was the administrative supervising judge of compensation, presiding over conferences, hearings, and trials for persons injured as a result of work-related accidents.
Del Valle Koch is a graduate of St. Peter’s College and Seton Hall University Law School.
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