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The IMA Financial Group Inc. promoted three in the company’s employee benefits division to vice presidents.

Gregg Kamas was promoted to vice president of IMA Financial Group and national practice leader of health risk management for IMA Benefits. Karen Vines and Dyan Thornton also were promoted to vice president positions.

Kamas provides leadership in integrated health and benefit management solutions, having spent 20 years leading employer-based wellness, self-care and clinical management programs in managed care and physician care delivery systems. Kamas leads IMA’s LifeIQ practice, which provides expertise and resources for integrated health management strategies.

Vines is director of business development and client services for IMA’s employee benefits operations in Wichita, Kan. Her responsibilities include department management, new business development and client retention. She is a regional and national speaker on the topic of health care reform, and she leads the development of IMA’s specialized products and services designed to help employers navigate the new federal legislation.

Thornton is a sales executive responsible for marketing IMA’s products and services in Wichita and the surrounding region.

Brad Pint joined St. Paul, Minn.-based Moores Insurance Management Inc. as risk manager. This is a newly created position, reflecting the ongoing growth of the agency.

Pint has more than 15 years of risk management and insurance experience. He has served as a corporate risk manager, a risk management consultant and an insurance agent. In his previous positions, he has worked with clients in numerous industries, including manufacturing, banking, printing, medical, telecommunications, retail, bio-tech, advertising, marketing, municipalities, foundries, nonprofits and private equity firms.

Cincinnati Financial Corp. announced changes in company leadership and expanded responsibilities for key officers.

Kenneth W. Stecher, previously president and CEO, is now chairman of the board for Cincinnati Financial and all subsidiaries.

John J. Schiff Jr., previously chairman, continues as a member of the board of directors and chairman of the executive committee for Cincinnati Financial and its insurance subsidiaries.

Steven J. Johnston, previously chief financial officer, secretary and treasurer, was promoted to president and CEO for Cincinnati Financial. He is CEO for all subsidiaries and president of four subsidiaries: The Cincinnati Insurance Co., The Cincinnati Indemnity Co., The Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Co. and CSU Producer Resources Inc.

Jacob F. Scherer, executive vice president for the insurance subsidiaries and the insurance brokerage, has expanded responsibility for oversight of business insurance, a new consolidation of sales and marketing, which he currently manages, with commercial lines, target markets, and excess and surplus lines operations.

Teresa C. Cracas, previously vice president and counsel, is now senior vice president of strategic analytics and chief risk officer for all subsidiaries. She is responsible for oversight of departments that manage data modeling for financial analysis and property/casualty insurance reserving and pricing, including staff underwriting and corporate actuarial.

Lisa A. Love, previously senior counsel for the insurance subsidiaries, is now general counsel and corporate secretary for Cincinnati Financial and all subsidiaries.

Michael J. Sewell joined the company as chief financial officer, senior vice president and treasurer for Cincinnati Financial and chief financial officer for all subsidiaries.

Ann Flood was appointed Chief Deputy Commissioner in Michigan’s Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation (OFIR). She oversees OFIR’s Office of General Counsel, Health Plans Division, and Supervisory Affairs and Insurance Monitoring Division.

Flood most recently served as the executive vice president and chief operating officer of American Physicians Capital Inc. (APCapital), a publicly traded medical professional liability insurance provider based in East Lansing, Mich.

Chicago-based Mesirow Financial announced that its Insurance Services Division will be led by a newly formed Insurance Management Committee (IMC).

The IMC named Norman Malter president of the Insurance Division. John Harney was appointed chief operating officer, and Michelle Gurgone was promoted to managing director and named the unit’s new chief administrative officer.

Members of the IMC include: Norman Malter, president, with a concentration in property and casualty; John Harney, chief operating officer, P/C, personal lines and structured settlements; Scott Dann, senior managing director, P/C; Mike Mackey, senior managing director, P/C; Linda Price, senior managing director, P/C; Brian Diedrich, senior managing director, employee benefits; Mark Kmety, senior managing director, employee benefits; and Dana Mikstay, senior managing director, life and disability.

The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission announced that Ron Rascia joined the organization as legal counsel. Additionally, Mark Kimmet was named internal auditor.

Rascia previously worked for the Illinois Attorney General for nine years as a supervising attorney in the General Law Bureau. He has served in a number of private sector positions, most recently in plaintiffs’ class action for Anderson and Wanca.

Kimmet joins the IWCC from Jefferson Wells, where he was a financial operations consultant. He is experienced in internal audit, controllership, and business management in a variety of private and not-for-profit organizations.

USG Insurance Services Inc., a national wholesale broker of commercial insurance, added Douglas MacLachlan as a property broker in its Palatine, Ill., office.

MacLachlan most recently held a position as a property broker with Travis-Pedersen and Associates, where he worked for more than 12 years in the Chicago area. While working at Travis-Pedersen & Associates, he earned his CPCU with the Associates in Surplus Lines in 2001.

MacLachlan specializes in a range of business classes including habitational, retail, manufacturing, plastic workers, municipalities, and institutional and service industries.

Kansas Commissioner of Insurance Sandy Praeger named department veteran Jim Newins as the new Property and Casualty Division director at the Kansas Insurance Department (KID).

Newins began working for KID in 1988 as an automobile policy examiner. He became a policy examiner supervisor in 1994 and was appointed acting director of the division in March 2011. As division director, he replaces Sabrina Wells, who moved out of state.

CNA Financial Corporation appointed Kristina Talkowski vice president of its Wisconsin branch.

Talkowski holds the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation and has carrier and agency experience in the Wisconsin marketplace.

She joins CNA from the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies, where she was responsible for setting strategic direction and managing profit and loss for the company’s commercial business within the Indiana territory.

IMA Inc., an independently owned retail insurance broker, added Bobby Vickers Jr. as a sales executive in the company’s Kansas City, Kan., office.

Vickers has expertise in the construction, manufacturing, energy and real estate industries. He spent more than 12 years in the property and casualty insurance sector working on the broker side of the business. He has worked with companies in various sectors with revenues ranging from $10 million to in excess of $1 billion.

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