All the headlines from our Leadership Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 23 2015 // St. John’s University’s School of Risk Management (SRM) in New York hosted its 20th Annual Insurance Leader of the Year Award Dinner on Jan. 21 in honor of Mike McGavick, chief executive officer of XL Group...
Jan 23 2015 // Willis Group Holdings plc, the global risk adviser, insurance and reinsurance broker, has announced a group of internal promotions and moves to strengthen the Willis China leadership team.Mitchell Ma has been appointed as...
Jan 14 2015 // Peter Lavery Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has promoted Ethan Crain to Boston operations leader, and hired Peter Lavery as a principal in the Boston office. Crain succeeds Ruth Kilduff, who was...
Jan 12 2015 // Charles “Chuck” RobinsonRogers & Gray Insurance, an independent insurance agency with eight locations in Massachusetts, has announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Charles “Chuck”...
Jan 7 2015 // The U.S. House of Representatives voted to reauthorize a government backstop for insurers’ losses from acts of terrorism after lawmakers let the measure expire last month.The legislation, which will extend the...
Dec 30 2014 // Chris Duble Fred C. Church Insurance, an independent insurance agency in Lowell, Massachusetts, has appointed Mike Reilly as president and Chris Duble as chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1. Both Reilly and Duble...
Dec 16 2014 // Greenville, South Carolina-based Canal Insurance has named Jarrell Hall, assistant vice president for marketing and business development, and Linda Lewis, assistant vice president for casualty claims, to the...
Dec 15 2014 // The board of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) announced three high level appointments “to secure its leadership succession.” The appointments took effect from as of December 11,...
Dec 12 2014 // German insurance giant Allianz announced a new team that will lead the combined Fireman’s Fund and Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty North American business beginning in 2015.Andrew Torrance, current...
Dec 8 2014 // Peoria, Ill.-based specialty insurer, RLI Corp., announced three leadership promotionsTodd Bryant, vice president, controller, has been promoted to vice president, finance and controller. In this expanded role, Bryant will...
Dec 8 2014 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced that it has received its non-life insurance license in Singapore, and named Marc Breuil as regional president, Marcus Portbury as head of third party lines, and Peter...
Dec 5 2014 // Brian Morgan Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has hired Brian Morgan as Atlanta operations leader. Morgan brings 19 years of industry experience throughout the Southeast. He has experience in the areas...
Dec 4 2014 // The insurance industry is being called out by an international research institution for its progressive attitude on climate change.A white paper put out by the nonprofit Urban Land Institute this week urges the real estate...
Dec 1 2014 // Now more than ever agents are stepping up to the plate to protect their business. The experts agree that today agencies are more aware and proactive about reducing errors and omissions (E&O) risk.“Agents have...
Nov 20 2014 // Douglas R. Jones, senior vice president and principal at Texas-based Roach Howard Smith & Barton, was presented with the Cyber Risk Management Leadership Award 2014-15 at the annual Cyber Risk Management Boot Camp held...
Nov 17 2014 // John Farley Chicago-based global insurance broker Hub International Limited has hired John Farley as vice president and Cyber Risk Practice leader for East region operations. In this role, Farley will be responsible for...
Nov 17 2014 // About the Personal Lines Leaders: The 2014 Personal Lines Leaders in this special feature are taken from Insurance Journal‘s Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Agencies as reported in August. This list utilizes...
Nov 4 2014 // Aon plc, the provider of risk management and human resource consulting and outsourcing, announced that Matthew Heckler, chief information officer for Aon Hewitt, was named to IDG’s Computerworld Premier 100 IT...
Oct 30 2014 // Cindy Jordan, of Barnard Insurance Group in Wichita Falls, Texas, won the FIWT Leadership Award sponsored by Litchfield Special Risks Inc., the company announced. This is the second year the award has been presented to a...
Oct 29 2014 // When Hurricane Sandy came, Deborah Star Reed stayed home. Irene, the year before, had been over- hyped. Her 1919 concrete house in New York was left unscathed by Donna in 1960 and the “Big One” of 1938.So, on...