All the headlines from our Leadership Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2010 // San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. announced that Carolyn Polikoff has been named the new Corporate & Executive Protection (CorpEx) Practice leader. She will be responsible for providing vision and strategic...
Mar 31 2010 // Wells Fargo Insurance Services has named Wayne Marchant as senior vice president and Southeast region healthcare practice leader. He will be based in Savannah. Prior to joining Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Marchant was...
Mar 26 2010 // San Francisco-based Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. has named Robert (Andy) Griffin vice president, employee benefits team leader in the Southern California office. For more than 30 years, Griffin has been providing employee...
Mar 22 2010 // The Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society Golden Gate Chapter has awarded Janis Dunivin of Wells Fargo Insurance Services of California with its Insurance Person of the Year Award, and State Farm with its...
Mar 5 2010 // As it continues to build a national business, Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC, a subsidiary of insurance broker Marsh Inc., has appointed three executives to its senior leadership team. They are: Lisa R. Hoffmann, chief...
Mar 2 2010 // Leadership is lightning in a bottle. There are as many definitions for it as there are leaders. Any rules that could be agreed upon as to what constitutes leadership could be quickly contradicted by an example of an...
Mar 2 2010 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc has elected new officers. They are: President Howard Olderman, of Milford, who is president of The Olderman and Hallihan Agency Inc. in Ansonia. President-elect: James...
Feb 12 2010 // Lockton Dunning Benefits appointed Sheri Pixley to the newly created position of executive vice president and practice leader of the Dallas-based health and welfare practice.Pixley has been involved in consulting with...
Feb 3 2010 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) on Feb. 2 presented its 2010 Independent Leadership Award to Joe Straus III, speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.Speaker Straus was elected to the House of...
Jan 27 2010 // Global business leaders warned Western governments on Wednesday that a populist crackdown on the financial industry could crimp a fragile recovery from the worst recession since the 1930s.The worried response to U.S....
Jan 11 2010 // Marsh has appointed Julian Macey-Dare as International Leader of its Political Risk and Structured Credit Practice, based in London. He will “drive new business opportunities for Marsh’s Political Risk and...
Jan 5 2010 // After devastating floods in 2008, Cedar Falls, Iowa, enacted a new flood plain ordinance. And state officials are paying attention.State Sen. Rob Hogg says what Cedar Falls has done shows great foresight. Hogg is part of a...
Dec 16 2009 // World leaders took the stage at the largest ever climate talks on Wednesday as ministers scrambled to rescue troubled negotiations on a pact to avoid dangerous global warming.Police using truncheons and pepper spray...
Dec 8 2009 // The Securities and Exchange Commission culture that allowed the Madoff fraud scandal to go undetected for nearly two decades may not change and the agency isn’t doing enough to support investor protection proposals...
Dec 8 2009 // Global insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh has appointed Philip Gawthorpe as Multinational Client Service Practice leader for the Midwest Zone. Gawthorpe, who has more than 30 years of insurance industry experience,...
Dec 4 2009 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has announced the following changes to its division and section managers:Fred Heese was named director of the Division of Insurance Company Regulation. Heese has served as acting...
Nov 15 2009 // As forecast, the nation’s unemployment rate went over 10 percent last month. Even though it was expected, it wasn’t easy to accept.Leave it to small business owners to put that development and the whole...
Nov 3 2009 // The Excess/Surplus Lines Claims Association has changed its names and elected a new slate of officers and directors.The organization is now known as the International Association of Claim Professionals (IACP). Its new...
Oct 30 2009 // Global professional services firm Towers Perrin has named Steve Levene practice leader for its retail insurance brokerage business.Levene’s responsibilities will include strategic risk management programs for...
Oct 26 2009 // David Allen Walker, president of Hartland Insurance Agency in Hartland, Mich., has been installed as the newest member of the executive committee of Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big...