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The Main Street America Group, a Jacksonville, Fla.-headquartered super-regional property and casualty insurance carrier, has promoted Jerry Waters to vice president and chief accounting officer, effective immediately.

Waters, based in Keene, N.H., joined Main Street America in 2010. Since that time, he has held positions of increasing responsibility within the company’s financial reporting and controls organization, most recently as director of corporate accounting.

In his new role, he will continue to be responsible for accounting and tax planning functions for the company.

Prior to joining Main Street America, Waters served as a reinsurance accounting manager at Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

Erie Insurance, an Erie, Penn.-based insurer, named Sean Dugan as vice president and corporate human resources officer, beginning Oct. 25.

In this role, Dugan has oversight of the Talent Acquisition, Community Outreach, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources Business Partners and Employee Relations, Talent Management, and Strategic Workforce Planning teams.

Dugan has served as the vice president of Talent Acquisition and Community Outreach since 2014. His leadership career at Erie began in 2004 in the Corporate Training and Development department.

In 2010, Dugan was named vice president of Corporate Training and Development before being named vice president of Recruiting in 2012.

Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has hired Boyce Morin as vice president of University Health Plans, the firm’s specialty division focusing on the design, placement and service of college and university student health insurance programs.

As a veteran of the health insurance industry, Boyce joins University Health Plans from Aetna Student Health, where he was most recently director of client services and head of market relations.

He began his industry career in 1994 at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

Risk Strategies announced its acquisition of University Health Plans in Jan. 2017. Based just outside of Boston in Randolph, Mass., University Health Plans works with colleges and universities to provide health insurance to student populations.