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New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company has promoted Treasurer Charles Prall to chief financial officer. He will also serve on the insurer’s board of directors. Being named to the CFO position is an enhancement of Prall’s previous duties, the company said. The previous CFO retired in 2009. Being named to the CFO position is an enhancement of Prall’s previous duties, the company said. The previous CFO retired in 2009. Prall had been serving as the company’s treasurer since 2004. Prior to that, he held the positions of controller, internal auditor, and several other managerial roles. He has served on the board of NJM Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company, since 2009. Headquartered in West Trenton, N.J., New Jersey Manufacturers is the largest provider of personal auto and workers’ compensation insurance in the Garden State.
The MEMIC Group, a workers’ comp insurer headquartered in Portland, Maine, has appointed two senior underwriters: Mark Darragh for New Jersey and surrounding areas operations and Katrinka Casamassa for Pennsylvania operations. Darragh will be responsible for new business development for the state of New Jersey as well as Long Island, New York and Westchester County, New York. He will be based in the Weehawken, New Jersey, office. Darragh most recently worked for Harleysville Insurance in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, as a commercial lines territorial manager. Casamassa will play an integral role in the workers’ comp insurer’s expansion into Pennsylvania. She will be responsible for developing new business and will be based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Casamassa comes to MEMIC from Travelers Insurance Company and has more than 20 years of experience in commercial lines of insurance. Specializing in workers’ comp insurance, The MEMIC Group insures nearly 20,000 employers across the northeast and has offices in New
Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, New York and now Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The MEMIC Group maintains a dominant market share in Maine.
Woodbury, N.Y.-based brokerage firm Sterling & Sterling Inc. appointed Howard Tollin as president of the environmental services division. In this newly-created position, he will be responsible for working with clients on evaluating and managing corporate environmental exposures not often covered by general liability and property insurance policies. Previously, Tollin was managing director at Aon Risk Solutions, as well as Breitstone & Co. Ltd., which was acquired by Aon in 2006. He also served as a partner in the insurance practice group at Rivkin Radler, Long Island’s largest law firm, where he supervised insurance coverage litigation and environmental claims. Sterling & Sterling is one of the largest brokers in the New York metropolitan area.
First Niagara Risk Management, the Buffalo, N.Y.-based insurance brokerage unit of First Niagara Bank, appointed Kirk Jensen as managing director and senior executive. He joins First Niagara Risk Management from William Gallagher Associates, a regional brokerage based in Boston, where he has served as senior vice president of business development since 2005. He is credited with leading the formation of William Gallagher Associates’ energy/clean technology industry practice.
The ACE Group appointed Scott Meyer as division president of professional risk, ACE USA, based in New York. Meyer will have executive oversight of ACE USA’s management and professional liability lines of business. Meyer joined ACE in 2008 as executive vice president of professional risk at ACE USA. Also, ACE Group appointed Stephen Haney as division president of surety, ACE USA, and chief underwriting officer of global surety, based in Philadelphia. Haney will be responsible for commercial and contract surety operations in the U.S. and for overseeing the underwriting of ACE’s surety offerings globally. Haney joined ACE in 1998.