Fireman’s Fund’s Rippley Named VP Commercial Lines at AAIS

Leslie Rippley, who has 25 years’ experience, nearly all of it with major carriers, is the new vice president of commercial lines for the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS), the national property/casualty advisory organization.

Rippley is joining AAIS from Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., where she had been commercial lines vice president and western zone leader based in the company’s Chicago office since July 2012. In that capacity, she had been responsible for field underwriting operations for small business, middle market, admitted excess, and highly-protected risks in the largest grossing revenue zone in the company.

Previously, she held positions of increasing responsibility at The Hanover, General Casualty, Crum & Forster, The Hartford, Liberty Mutual/Wausau and Travelers.

AAIS maintains forms and manuals for more than 25 programs of personal, commercial, agricultural, and inland marine insurance. It also maintains the AAIS Underwriting Platform, a cloud-based application for underwriting and rating policies based on AAIS programs.