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Colemont Insurance Brokers has promoted Elizabeth Dalla-Valle assistant vice president of its Atlanta office. She has experience both as an underwriter and as a wholesaler. Dalla-Valle joined Colemont in 2001. She has more than 30 years of domestic and international experience, 20 as an underwriter. She specializes in catastrophe driven accounts, public entity, non profits, manufacturing, and inland marine.
PMSI-Tmesys of Tampa, Fla. has promoted Jeff Lee to vice president of Pharmacy Operations and Account Services. The company provides pharmacy, medical services and supplies to workers’ compensation and catastrophic care industries.
Lee heads the company’s retail pharmacy benefits manager, Tmesys, which provides electronic point of sale prescription claim review, and the PMSI Home Delivery pharmacy, which specializes in long-term drug therapy and pain management needs, delivering medications direct to door for injured workers nationwide. Lee also oversees account management, ensuring the efficient service and delivery of the company’s pharmacy services, as well as new technology implementations.
Most recently, Lee served as director of Program Administration at Tmesys where he led new business implementation efforts and operational client services support. He joined the company in 2002 as manager of the Tmesys 24-7 contact center help desk unit which provides customer service support to insurance claims professionals and retail pharmacies across the nation.
Lee previously served in operational management capacities for GE in call center management, workforce planning and network management.
Eileen Ramallo has been named vice president of Product Development for Atlanta-based Cypress Care Inc. a large pharmacy benefits management company focused on the workers’ compensation industry.
Ramallo is responsible for developing enhancements to Cypress Care’s existing products, creating and developing new products, identifying market scope, and assisting in related marketing and sales strategy.
Ramallo has more than 15 years of executive experience in medical management and cost containment programs for property, casualty and disability insurance. As executive vice president and chief marketing officer for TechHealth, Inc. in Tampa, Fla. she directed marketing strategy for products related to pharmacy benefits management, physical therapy and diagnostic imaging provider networks on a prospective and retrospective basis.
She was vice president of network services at CorVel Corp. in Miramar, Fla. and senior vice president and COO with AnciCare PPO, also in Miramar. Her career began with Kemper National Services where she was vice president of healthcare management services.
Blanca Aparicio, manager of United Automobile Insurance Group’s Special Investigative Unit in North Miami Beach, Fla. was honored with the 2006 “Insurance Investigator of the Year Award” presented by the Florida Insurance Fraud Education Committee.
Aparicio joined UAIG in 1999 as an investigator in the anti-fraud SIU. She later became the manager of the unit where she oversees a staff of 27; including 17 investigators.
Mercator Risk Services, a specialty wholesale insurance broker in New York, has appointed Maria McCool as senior vice president – regional client relationship manager for the southeast.
McCool has more than 17 years of client executive and business development expertise in the property and casualty commercial insurance industry. She will be responsible for all aspects of client relationship management and sales development for the firm throughout the southeast.
Prior to joining Mercator, McCool worked for Fireman’s Fund as a business development manager responsible for territorial development. Before that, she filled a variety of management capacities at Chubb.
Julie Mix McPeak, an attorney with more than a decade of legal and administrative experience in state government, has been appointed executive director of the Kentucky Office of Insurance by Governor Ernie Fletcher. McPeak succeeds Glenn Jennings, whom Governor Fletcher appointed commissioner of Medicaid services. She most recently served as general counsel for the state employee health plan at the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet.
McPeak spent nine years as an attorney for KOI, the last five as general counsel. In that capacity, she supervised the office’s legal staff and outside counsel, represented the agency in court and administrative cases, drafted legislation and regulations, and served as lead counsel for insurer receivership litigation.
American International Group Inc. has named Anthony J. Galioto AIG Companies’ senior executive – East. Based in Atlanta, Galioto succeeds David M. Hupp, who was recently elected president and chief executive officer of AIG Aviation Inc.
Galioto will be responsible for coordinating the marketing within the eastern zone of all commercial and consumer benefit products provided by the AIG Co.’s, including life insurance and other employee benefit products, medical excess insurance products, accident and health insurance products, and identity theft and fraud insurance products developed by the AIG companies serving both employer-paid and voluntary markets.
The eastern zone comprises the AIG Companies regional operations based in offices in Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia and New York.
Galioto joined AIG in 1985, and held various management positions in Boston, New York, Paris, and London.
Swett & Crawford, based in Atlanta, Ga., has appointed James E. Moylan, Jr. to CFO. Moylan has experience in strategic and financial management of public companies in business services, energy, manufacturing, and electronics.
Formerly, Moylan served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer of PRG-Schultz International, an Atlanta-based publicly held recovery audit and business services firm; and as executive vice president in charge of Composite Panel Distribution and Administration for Georgia-Pacific Corp.’s building products distribution business.
William B. Oldham, III has been elected president of the Professional Insurance Agents of Tennessee Inc. Oldham is president of Oldham Insurance Inc. in Knoxville, Tenn.
Other officers elected by PIA of Tennessee were:
Art E. Gernt, II president-elect, an agent with Art E. Gernt Insurance in Crossville, Tenn.; Frederic ‘Brad’ Butler, vice president, vice president of The Butler Co. Inc. in Nashville, Tenn.; Leighton G. Bush, secretary, an agent with Bush Insurance and Financial Services in Nashville; Donnie R. Hogan, treasurer, owner of Fred M. Smith & Sons Inc. in Springfield, Tenn.; and George Hilliard, immediate past president, who is president of Pete Mitchell & Assoc. Inc. in Memphis, Tenn.
Earl Horton, Jr., executive vice president of Bouchard Insurance Inc. in Clearwater, Fla., was named chairman of the Florida Association of Insurance Agents.
Horton sits on FAIA’s Finance Committee and is a member of the Agents Advisory Council for United Health Care and a director for the Florida Building Materials Association. He also serves on the board of Citizens Property Insurance Corp.
Other FAIA officers include:
Chairman-elect, Steve Simms, president, Nelson & Mosley Inc., Winter Park, Fla. He is a member of the Travelers Insurance Co. Select National Agents Advisory Council.
Vice-chairman, Kirk Ball, senior vice president and chief operating officer of Fisher-Brown Insurance in Pensacola, Fla., where he directs and manages an agency employing 125 associates in five different offices.
New FAIA board members include:
Roger Gibson, co-founder of GHG Insurance, a division of the Sihle Insurance Group in Jacksonville, Fla.; Jim Skiles, with the Howard Hall/HRH Agency in Gain-esville, Fla.; and Tom Washburn, CEO of Wilson, Washburn and Forster Insurance in Miami, Fla.
Rep. Dennis Ross received the FAIA’s “Legislator of the Year Award.”
Insurance agency financial services firm InsurBanc has named Scott A. Adamsons as vice president of sales and business development and Marie R. Rider as vice president and director of marketing.
Adamsons will direct sales and business development efforts, focusing on independent agencies and developing relationships with them throughout New England. Prior to joining InsurBanc, Adamsons was vice president, business development officer for SBLS in East Berlin, Conn. and managed its satellite office in New England.
Rider has 20 years of marketing experience. She will direct strategic marketing , including advertising initiatives, public relations and sales support efforts. Rider was previously the director of marketing at Naugatuck Savings Bank.
Robert “Bobby” Perkins has been named director of licensing for the Mississippi Department of Insurance. Perkins follows Bea Smith, who retired last December, after 35 years of service. In 2003, Perkins became a Special Assistant Attorney General Representing the Insurance Department.