People – Southeast
Georgia-based INSUREtrust has added Vince Josaphs and Landon Dollar to its team.
Josaphs joins the company as senior vice president and will report to Steve Haase, president. Josaphs has 15 years of insurance experience, serving on both the underwriting and claims side of the industry, including national product management, positions of which spanned across cyber, technology, professional, and management liability lines.
Dollar joined the company earlier this summer as director of Executive Lines. Dollar previously spent 10 years as the Southeast region’s private/not-for-profit executive lines specialist for Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Dollar brings executive lines expertise to complement the company’s reputation in security and privacy coverage. The expanded focus on D&O, EPL, fiduciary, crime and kidnap & ransom strengthens INSUREtrust’s position for coverages impacted by emerging risks such as cyber liability.
AmWINS has added Matt Brott, Rob Vecchio, and Nick Oliver to its Southeast area offices.
Brott joined AmWINS Brokerage of Georgia on July 24 as executive vice president. He has more than 13 years of experience, most recently leading Swett & Crawford’s Atlanta operations and also serving as a National Commercial Real Estate Practice leader.
Prior to Swett & Crawford, Brott worked for Partners Specialty Group as a property broker and began his career in the industry as an underwriter assistant for Arch Insurance. Based in Atlanta, Brott will assist in the solicitation, design, marketing and placement of high-hazard and catastrophe-exposed commercial property programs. His specialties include real estate, municipalities, schools/universities, hospitals, mining/energy, hospitality and construction.
Vecchio joined AmWINS Access Insurance Services on June 29 as vice president. He has more than 15 years of experience in the insurance industry, most recently with Nutmeg Insurance Agency, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Hartford Financial Group.
Vecchio will specialize in habitational, lessors risk, restaurants, bars/taverns and coastal property. He will work directly with retailers placing MGA/ binding authority business that is less than $5 million TIV on property and $5 million in revenues. Vecchio is based in Charlotte, N.C.
Oliver joined AmWINS Access Insurance Services on June 18 as vice president. Prior to joining AmWINS, he served as an underwriter and broker for Insurance House. In his current position, Oliver is responsible for production and underwriting policies for AmWINS’ binding authority markets. He is based in Stockbridge, Ga.
Beecher Carlson Insurance Services, LLC, a specialized large account insurance broker, has promoted Suzanne Flynn to managing director and leader, National Casualty Claims. Flynn will lead the claims team while providing claim processing, claim advocacy, loss analysis and case management referrals to clients.
Working with the Risk Services team, she will develop and implement strategies to manage loss costs and help achieve risk management goals. She will be based out of the Atlanta office and will be reporting to Scott Davis, president of Property and Casualty.
Flynn most recently served in a vice president role with a focus on originating new client opportunities for Beecher Carlson. Prior roles include an adjuster for a large TPA and as a national claims leader at a broker firm. In these roles, she handled large, complex losses; reservation of rights, coverage reviews and declination of coverages; and worked with senior management to redesign and improve the claim and loss control platform. She also managed a multidiscipline claims staff.
Members of the Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia (PIA of Georgia) elected Dwight L. Taylor to serve as president of the nation’s sixth largest affiliate at their annual meeting held in Savannah, Ga.
Taylor is a partner and senior vice president with PointeNorth Insurance Group, with offices throughout Georgia. Taylor and PointeNorth provide a variety of insurance services including commercial, personal auto & homeowners and life insurance with more than 80 nationally-recognized carriers.
Others elected as officers of PIA of Georgia were: Vice President P. K. Martin, IV (Hood Insurance Agency of Lawrenceville); Vice President Hamilton Tillman, III (Tillman Insurance Agency of Valdosta); Treasurer John T. Franks (Franks & Associates of College Park); and Secretary Lorie M. Yauney (J. Smith Lanier of West Point).
PIA of Georgia was founded in 1937 as the Mutual Insurance Agents of Georgia and has operated for the past 78 years. PIA currently serves 394 agencies and over 150 companies, providing education to over 5,000 students annually.
In addition to providing leadership and direction to over 47,000 insurance agents in Georgia, PIA is the sole provider and facilitator of designation courses through The National Alliance (CIC, CISR, Dynamics of Service, and CRM).