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Lockton Companies recently named Kevin McDaniel as president of its St. Louis office. McDaniel succeeds Whity Meyer, who was named chairman.

McDaniel joined Lockton more than 10 years ago as a producer and most recently has been an executive vice president and member of the executive committee. In his new capacity as president, McDaniel will continue to manage his client relationships while heading the executive committee and leading the St. Louis office.

Meyer founded the Lockton St. Louis operation in 1984 and will continue as chairman, serving clients and working as a member of the executive committee.

Lockton provides clients with insurance, risk management and employee benefit consulting services. Lockton’s St. Louis office has 124 associates.

The Motorist Insurance Group promoted Joel Kratzer to vice president of the accounting division and Tom Brock to assistant vice president of corporate accounting.

Kratzer’s appointment follows the retirement of longtime vice president, Jim Vermillion. Kratzer has been with Motorists since 1981 and most recently served as assistant vice president of corporate accounting.

Brock, who will succeed Kratzer as assistant vice president of corporate accounting, began with Motorists in 2004. Before joining Motorists, he worked for National Interstate Corp. and Savage Consulting.

Linda Bohrer has been named acting director for the Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration.

Bohrer started working for the department in 1994 and currently serves as director of the department’s insurance market regulation division. She manages the review of insurance company policies, rates, products and marketing strategies and oversees market conduct examinations to ensure equitable treatment of policyholders.

During her time at the department, Bohrer also worked in various positions within the Consumer Affairs Division of the department.

The Hanover Insurance Group named Andrew R. Knipfer regional vice president for commercial lines.

Knipfer will oversee all aspects of commercial lines business for the company’s Wisconsin territory and will work out of The Hanover’s Milwaukee, Wis., office.

He succeeds John Scott, who now will focus his efforts exclusively on the company’s Illinois market.

Knipfer previously served as commercial lines branch manager for The Hanover’s Grand Rapids, Mich., territory. Prior to that, Knipfer was commercial lines underwriting manager for The Hanover’s Great Lakes territory, also in Michigan.

Knipfer joined The Hanover in 2004, coming from Harleysville Insurance, where he served as branch underwriting manager in several different Michigan offices. Prior to Harleysville, he was a property account executive for standard commercial accounts at Aetna Life and Casualty.

Des Plaines, Ill.-based the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America hired Marguerite Murer as senior vice president of public affairs.

Murer has extensive public affairs experience in both the public and private sectors. She most recently served as The Allstate Corp.’s corporate relations manager and a member of Allstate’s CEO Support Team from its Northbrook, Ill., headquarters.

As special assistant to the president and director of presidential correspondence, Murer led the largest office in the White House.

Before moving to D.C., Murer was the director of corporate communications and training for Alfa SmartParks, a company that owned and managed water parks and amusement parks. She also served in the front office of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club.

Mick Summersgill, who previously headed Zurich’s UK run-off operations, has joined Ernst & Young as a director of the accounting firm’s recently created insurance run-off team.

At Zurich, he assisted the chief executive officer of discontinued operations in managing the run-off portfolios of both Zurich Specialities London Limited and Eagle Star Insurance Company Limited and its subsidiaries.

Prior to Zurich, he worked in the insurance solutions team at KPMG.

Simon Johnson has joined Aon Environmental Services Group, a unit of Aon Risk Services, as director.

Johnson will be based in London, and will coordinate the delivery of the unit’s environmental services to clients in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Johnson has more than 29 years of experience, the last 20 in the assessment, management, financial valuation and transfer of environmental risks. He has specialized in land, property and business transactions.

Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc. named Nicole Brown vice president and account executive to its Southeast region professional risk group.

She will be based in the firm’s Atlanta office. Brown will provide executive and professional liability product and technical support, risk analysis and assessment consulting, marketing advocacy and claims management oversight.

Brown will also have an active new business development role responding to requests for proposals and assisting producers and their teams in all phases of the sales process.