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Marsh’s Klisura Is Moving to Guy Carpenter to Be President

Brokers Guy Carpenter and Marsh, two business units of Marsh & McLennan, announced the appointment of Dean Klisura as president of Guy Carpenter, effective October 1, 2020. In this newly-created role, Klisura will be responsible for Guy Carpenter’s North America, …

Liberty Company in California Names Tryon Vice President of Marketing

The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has named Kip Tryon vice president of marketing and branding. Tryon has been involved with Liberty’s outreach marketing efforts and after four years in roles of increasing responsibility. He will now oversee a team dedicated …

POWERS Insurance Hires Morris as Commercial Lines Account Manager

St. Louis, Missouri-based POWERS Insurance & Risk Management has added Linsey Morris as commercial lines account manager. Morris has more than 15 years of experience in the insurance industry. In this position, she will be responsible for the ongoing management …

Optisure Risk Partners Hires Bagley in New Hampshire

Optisure Risk Partners has hired Wendy Bagley as a personal lines and private client account executive. She brings more than 30 years of experience in personal lines and insurance expertise to this new role and is based in New Hampshire. …

Beach Adds Willis’ Berkstresser as Senior Vice President, Will Open Wasington Office

Beach & Associates has named Warren Berkstresser senior vice president of its Beach Re U.S. reinsurance division, and he will launch and run Beach’s new office in Seattle, Wash., and sit on the North America office head’s executive team. Berkstresser …

IAT Insurance Group Names Fox Managing Director in New Jersey

IAT Insurance Group has named Chris Fox to its reinsurance business unit as managing director. He is based in IAT’s Newark, N.J., office. Fox comes to IAT after 12 years with Everest Re in both domestic and international positions, most …

Pennsylvania’s Erie Insurance Appoints Neumaier as Chief Information Security Officer

Erie Insurance has appointed Jamie Neumaier as chief information security officer (CISO), effective September 10. He will continue to work from Erie Insurance’s home office in Erie, Penn. Neumaier will report directly to Robert Ingram, executive vice president and chief …

Johnson Joins Oklahoma’s First United Insurance as VP, Commercial Producer

First United Insurance in Durant, Oklahoma, has added Erick Johnson as vice president and insurance commercial lines producer. Johnson joins First United with over 17 years of experience in the insurance industry. He previously served as a marketing representative, district …

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Adds Mortenson as Consulting Actuary in Colorado

Pinnacle Actuarial Resources Inc. has added Erick Mortenson as a consulting actuary in the Denver, Colo., area. Mortenson comes from Willis Towers Watson, where he was a senior vice president focused on providing analytics solutions in areas including reinsurance and …

Louisiana’s Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Adds Skaggs, Boniol, Perkins

Stonetrust Commercial Insurance Co., based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has hired Jeff Skaggs as senior vice president of Underwriting and Marketing; Dawn Boniol as manager of Compliance, Quality Control and Claims Support; and Richard Perkins as Loss Prevention Outreach coordinator. …