CSISZAR NAMED PRESIDENT OF PCI:

The Board of Governors of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named South Carolina Director of Insurance and current president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Ernst N. Csiszar to serve as the association’s next president and CEO. He will begin his new position Oct. 4, and has resigned from the South Carolina office he’s held since 1999. He also resigned from the NAIC. Csiszar replaces retiring PCI President Jack Ramirez and Executive Vice President Rodger Lawson. Csiszar has been a leading figure in the movement to reform state regulation of insurance and has been dogged by criticisms of being “pro-industry” since he became insurance director. Csiszar has been a business school professor and had a long career as an investment banker. He was born in Romania and emigrated to Ontario, Canada, as a teenager.