People Moves: Harrington to VP at GJS Re; Kansas Association of Insurance Agents Adds Werth

GJS Re

Insurance and reinsurance veteran Chris Harrington joined the Los Angeles-based reinsurance intermediary G. J. Sullivan Co., Reinsurance, as vice president. Based in Chicago, Harrington will report to John Threlfall, senior vice president and head of facultative.

Harrington brings three decades of property facultative experience from Swiss Re handling a variety of underwriting, marketing and management roles over 29 years. At Swiss Re, Harrington was named Midwest regional property facultative manager in 2009.

Previously, Harrington served as an excess and surplus (E&S) underwriter at Chubb Group of Companies and as a personal lines underwriter at Amica Mutual Group.

Established in 1980 and owned by Jerry Sullivan, chairman, GJS Re is a national insurance intermediary providing consulting, market connections and reinsurance to program managers and issuing carriers, and product development services for select divisions of regional and national insurance companies.

Kansas Association of Insurance Agents

The Kansas Association of Insurance Agents (KAIA) added Cristi Werth, owner of TWI Insurance Services in Wakeeny, Kansas, to its board of directors. She will serve as director-at-large.

Werth began her insurance career in 1995 when she started working for TWI and Dietz Inc. By 2000 she had become a partner.

Upon Larry Dietz’s retirement in 2017, she purchased the rest of the agency and reinstated the name TWI Insurance Services Inc.

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