People and Places
Florida-based Poe Financial Group announced that Bobby Dollar will serve as president and COO of Southern Family Insurance Company, one of Poe Financial’s family of property and casualty insurers.
Dollar has more than 30 years of experience in the property/casualty business, encompassing various underwriting and marketing roles in both home office and field office environments.
His responsibilities have included personal, commercial and non-standard insurance products, with a primary emphasis in the commercial area.
The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America’s (the Big “I”) National Board of State Directors has nominated William Stiglitz III as the association’s president-elect and has elected Alex Soto, as the Association’s next vice president. The Board action came during its recent mid-year meeting.
Once confirmed by the Association membership, Stiglitz will assume his new office at the 2004 Big “I” Convention in Orlando this October. Soto will move up to the vice president position at the same meeting. Stiglitz and current IIABA President-Elect Thomas Grau, will be sworn in as president-elect and president, respectively, during the convention’s closing general session.
Stiglitz, currently the Big “I” vice president, is an account executive with the firm of Hyland, Block & Hyland Inc., in Louisville, Ky. He was elected to the Executive Committee in October 2000.
Stiglitz has been active on all levels of Big “I” member organizations during his 34-year career as an independent agent.
A past president and state national director for the Independent Insurance Agents of Kentucky (IIAK), Stiglitz served on the state’s Board of Directors and Government Affairs Committee, and as chairman of its Awards and Recognition Committee. He is a past president of the Louisville Board of Independent Insurance Agents. Nationally, he has served as planning liaison to the Executive Committee.
Soto, currently an at-large member of the Big “I” Executive Committee, is president of Miami, Fla.-based InSource Inc. He was elected to the Executive Committee in October 2001. Soto also has been active in the Big “I” nationally and in the Florida Association of Independent Agents (FAIA) during his 31-year career as an independent agent.
He is a past chairman of the FAIA and also a past state national director. Nationally, he has served as chairman of the Big “I” Communications Committee, Branding Task Force and other committees.
Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue announced the appointment of State Representative Warren Massey to the State Board of Workers’ Compensation.
The purpose of the Board is to promulgate policies, rules, and regulations; and to conduct training seminars for the purpose of educating various employers as to their liability regarding workers’ comp claims. Massey is filling the vacancy created by the expired term of Larry Smith of Jackson, Ga., and will serve as one of three appellate judges that compose the Board.
Massey, 56, has served in the State House of Representatives since 1996 representing District 24. He is also owner of C.M. Construction, a general contracting firm.
Mary Furst has been named director of Catastrophe Services at the international forensic accounting firm RGL – Forensic Accountants and Consultants.
As director of Catastrophe Services, Furst will oversee the firm’s Worldwide Catastrophe Response Plan (CAT Response), which is designed to provide immediate support in claims management and evaluation resulting from a catastrophic event – whether fire, flood, earthquake, storm, terrorism or war. When the CAT Response is activated, a team of RGL (www.rgl.com) professionals with specialized experience is dispatched to the disaster area to help manage the situation.
Furst has been involved in the field of forensic accounting for more than 23 years, working extensively with insurance companies and attorney clients. In addition to catastrophe management, she focuses her practice on investigative accounting, the measurement of damages and litigation support services.
North Carolina-based MJM Investigations announced two more additions to its Board.
Donald Coggiola is the retired executive vice president for Policy Management Systems Corp. (PMSC) and Arthur Slotkin is the retired executive vice president of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC).
In 1998, Coggiola retired as the executive vice president for PMSC. During his 20 years there, he created the Sales and Marketing Group and pioneered their global expansion.
Since retiring in 2003 as executive vice president of SAIC, a technology company, Slotkin has served as an independent consultant to the firm.
MJM Investigations Inc. provides a variety of investigative products and services to insurance carriers, self-insured corporations, and third party administrators.
American International Group Inc. (AIG) announced that Dr. Jacob Frenkel has been named a vice-chairman of AIG, effective immediately. He will also serve as chairman of AIG’s Global Economic Strategies Group.
Frenkel has been an active participant in the global financial community for many years. He is the chairman and CEO of the Group of Thirty, which is composed of senior financial leaders of the private and public sectors and leading scholars. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Institute of International Finance and the Institute for International Economics.