People – Midwest

Great American Insurance Group promoted Jeffrey (Jeff) Cruey to divisional president of its specialty property and casualty agribusiness division.

Cruey joined the company in 2011 as a divisional senior vice president in the specialty human services division. Prior to joining Great American, Cruey was vice president of commercial lines at Ohio Casualty Insurance/Liberty Mutual Agency Markets. He has more than 30 years of experience in property/casualty insurance operations.

Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. promoted Mark Landrigan to the position of director – MinistryWorks. He will oversee all payroll service operations, including compensation and tax reporting.

Landrigan, a certified public accountant (CPA), joined Brotherhood Mutual in 2012 as a senior accountant.

Amerisure, based in Farmington Hills, Mich., named Gregory J. Crabb to succeed Richard F. Russell as president and CEO of Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co.

Amerisure Mutual Insurance Co. represents the insurance operations of Amerisure Mutual Holdings Inc. Russell will remain president and CEO of Amerisure Holding Cos. until his planned retirement by year end. At that time, it is anticipated that Crabb will assume Russell’s remaining leadership responsibilities.

Crabb joined Amerisure in 2008 as chief administrative officer. For the past three years, Crabb also has served as chair of Amerisure’s Operational Governance Committee, which is responsible for Amerisure’s day to day operations.

Prior to joining Amerisure, Crabb was a vice president in the middle market and specialty commercial division of The Hartford, based in Hartford, Conn.

Ryan Binau was selected as assistant vice president, personal lines underwriting at Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. Binau began his career with Motorists Mutual as a personal lines underwriter in 2005 and recently was a district sales manager for Phenix Mutual Fire Insurance Co., an affiliate of The Motorists Insurance Group located in Concord, N.H.

Christine Triche and Michael Klima joined Rockhill Insurance Group, a member of the State Auto Insurance Group, in its new office in Chicago. Triche is AVP-underwriting director and Klima is underwriting director.

Triche has more than 25 years of industry experience and most recently was senior underwriter with Markel, responsible for environmental underwriting for the Midwest region. She has previously been an underwriting specialist with AIG and held a variety of leadership roles with Kemper, Zurich and Home Insurance companies.

Klima has 13-plus years of experience in environmental underwriting and most recently was a senior underwriter with ACE Westchester.

New Berlin, Wis.-based risk management, insurance and business advisory firm, HNI, hired Teresa Bundy, Pat Madden and Brittany Swinton as account managers, and added Dominique Beaudin as director of information technology.

In addition, Stacey Koning has been designated a Priority Health Elite Agent. Of the more than 800 agencies representing Priority Health, only 76 have earned the Elite Agent status.