Serio Names Peter J. Molinaro, Louis W. Pietroluongo to NYSID Posts

New York’s Superintendent of Insurance, Gregory V. Serio, announced that he has named Peter J. Molinaro as Senior Deputy Superintendent of Insurance and Louis W. Pietroluongo as First Deputy Superintendent of the Insurance Department.

Molinaro will be the Chief Policy and Program Officer of the Department and will be based in the Albany office. His appointment is effective April 25, 2002. He joins the Department from the New York State Workers Compensation Board where he served as General Counsel since June of 1999. In that capacity, he was chief attorney and senior legal adviser to the Chairman and the Board of Commissioners. He previously served as Associate General Counsel at the Insurance Department coordinating legislative proposals and advising the First Deputy Superintendent on legal matters from January 1996 to January 1999.

Pietroluongo will be serving as the Chief Operating Officer of the Department and will be based in the New York City office. His appointment is effective immediately. He “has served as an integral member of the Department’s Executive Bureau since joining the Department as Deputy Superintendent in June of 1998–overseeing the activities of the Department’s Frauds, Licensing, Consumer Services and Liquidation Bureaus as well as coordinating various Insurance Department administrative programs and management initiatives including the Insurance Disaster Coalition, speed-to-market, and the accreditation process, said the announcement.