Cincinnati Insurance Announces Property/Casualty Leadership Changes

Cincinnati Financial Corp. announced that Stephen M. Spray, senior vice president, will transition to commercial insurance operations at Cincinnati Insurance effective Jan. 1, 2016, establishing the leadership perpetuation plan for the segment.

Also on Jan. 1, Sean M. Givler, secretary, will assume leadership of property/casualty insurance sales and marketing operations.

An insurance industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, Spray has been an agent, an underwriter and a field marketing representative. He most recently was responsible for property casualty sales and marketing, including management of field underwriters and independent agency relationships.

Previously, Spray helped establish the company’s excess and surplus lines operations and created the Target Markets division. Spray will continue to report to J.F. Scherer, executive vice president and chief insurance officer.

Givler currently oversees field marketing representatives and agency relationships in Alabama, Montana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.

Since joining the company in 1997, he has held positions of increasing authority and responsibility in underwriting and field sales marketing, and was appointed as an officer of Cincinnati Insurance in 2012.

Source: Cincinnati Financial Corp.