Latest AF Gruppen Headlines
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People Moves: Radford Joins Indiana’s DOXA Insurance; AF Group Adds Hicks as Sr. VP
Sep 14 2021 // Radford Joins Indiana’s DOXA Insurance DOXA Insurance Holdings in Fort Wayne, Indiana, hired seasoned insurance veteran, Kellam Radford, as national program director. Radford has broad experience on both the carrier...
Michigan’s AF Group, Waypoint Partner on Assumed Reinsurance
Jun 1 2021 // Lansing, Mich.-based specialty insurance provider, AF Group, is entering the assumed reinsurance marketplace through a new partnership with Waypoint Underwriting Management. Waypoint is a proven expert in reinsurance risk...
People Moves: Riddle Joining Ohio Mutual; Schauer Group Adds Guyer; Burnett Joins AF Group
Apr 15 2021 // Ohio Mutual Mendi Riddle will be joining Bucyrus, Ohio-based insurer, Ohio Mutual, as vice president of Sales effective May 10, succeeding Howie Barber who is retiring in July. Riddle has served in a number of senior sales...
Midwest People Moves: J.M. Wilson; AF Group
Mar 29 2021 // J.M. Wilson Portage, Mich.-based managing general agency and surplus lines broker, J.M. Wilson, has added Rebecca Green as chief financial officer. Green is replacing Mark Sundstrand who retired after 42 years of service....
Michigan’s AF Group Makes Executive Changes in Workers’ Comp Division
Dec 22 2020 // AF Group, based in Lansing, Mich., has made several executive appointments and promotions within its Workers’ Compensation division. Michelle McLane, named senior vice president of Business Development. With a strong...
American Financial Group Agrees to Sell Run-Off Lloyd’s Insurer Neon to RiverStone
Sep 28 2020 // American Financial Group Inc. announced it has reached a definitive agreement to sell GAI Holding Bermuda and its subsidiaries, comprising the legal entities that own its Lloyd’s of London insurer, Neon, to...
SIS Insure Increases Capacity for Contractors Program Through AF Group
Sep 10 2020 // Safebuilt Insurance Services, a licensed program manager, has partnered with AF Group to expand its capacity for general liability programs for construction contractors. SIS Insure is a subsidiary of Integrated Specialty...
American Financial Group Promotes Hertzman to Sr. VP, CFO
Sep 1 2020 // American Financial Group Inc., headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, has promoted Brian S. Hertzman to senior vice president and chief financial officer. Hertzman joined AFG in 1991 and has held positions of increasing...
American Financial Group Promotes Weidner to VP
Jul 24 2020 // American Financial Group Inc. (AFG) in Cincinnati, Ohio, has promoted Diane P. Weidner to vice president. Weidner joined AFG in 1987 and has held positions of increasing responsibility across the company over her 33-year...
People & Places
Jul 6 2020 // National Alexander Wells Zurich North America has appointed Alexander Wells as U.S. head of Middle Market. He will be responsible for the strategic management and development of Zurich’s Middle Market...
Fusner Named Chief Underwriting Officer at AF Group in Michigan
Jun 11 2020 // AF Group in Lansing, Michigan, has appointed Kelly Fusner as its new chief underwriting officer (CUO). Fusner will lead the strategic underwriting efforts for the organization, providing innovative expertise that will...
Willis’ Podmore to Head AF Specialty Captive Operations in North Carolina
May 7 2020 // AF Group has named Ian Podmore as director of Captive Operations at AF Specialty. Podmore will focus on business growth and profitability for new markets and business opportunity development through the use of insurance...
American Financial Group Decides to Exit Lloyd’s, Putting Neon into Run-off
Jan 7 2020 // American Financial Group (AFG) disclosed it will exit the Lloyd’s of London insurance marketplace in 2020, which it joined in 2008 through an acquisition. AFG will place its Lloyd’s subsidiaries including its...
Michigan State, AF Group Partner on Master’s Certificate in Quantitative Risk Analytics
Dec 2 2019 // Lansing, Mich.-based AF Group and Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Statistics and Probability have teamed up to offer a master’s-level certificate in Quantitative Risk Analytics exclusively to AF Group...
People & Places
Nov 18 2019 // National W. R. Berkley Corp. has appointed Marlo M. Edwards as president of Verus Underwriting Managers. Edwards succeeds Dale H. Pilkington, who is retiring. Edwards joins Verus with 20 years of experience in the property...
AF Group Appoints Cooper, Travis to New Executive Roles
Oct 14 2019 // National specialty insurance carrier AF Group in Lansing, Michigan, has named Steve Cooper president of Third Coast Underwriters and Abel Travis vice president of Fundamental Underwriters. Cooper currently is president of...
Reith to Step Down as Group CEO of Neon
Sep 16 2019 // American Financial Group Inc. announced that Martin Reith intends to resign his executive roles with Neon, including stepping down as group CEO of Neon, effective Sept. 30, 2019. He will remain a member of the Neon...
How the Workers’ Compensation Industry Is Embracing Telemedicine
Jun 10 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...
Telemedicine Takes Workers’ Comp Into the Future
May 6 2019 // The use of telemedicine may be in its nascent stages within the workers’ compensation system, but the starting line has definitely been crossed with employers and workers’ comp insurers embracing the ability to...
People
Feb 4 2019 // AmTrust Financial Services announced leadership changes as it moves forward as a private company. Its $2.95 billion privatization plan was finalized on November 28, 2018 after receipt of all approvals. AmTrust announced...
