PIA Management Services Inc. has hired Bradford J. Lachut as director of Government and Industry Affairs for the five PIA...                
            
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                    Associated Agencies Inc. in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, has hired Talicia Bashford as chief operating officer, a newly created position. Bashford...                
            
        
                    Appalachian Underwriters, Inc. has hired workers’ compensation underwriter Alon Cohn to its Sanford, Fla., office. Cohn will focus on the...                
            
        
                    Kristi Koncaba, president and chief operating officer at Texan Bank, has been appointed to the board of directors for workers’...                
            
        
                    SIAA (Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance) has hired Gretchen Klemm as a contracts compliance manager at its Hampton, N.H., location. In...                
            
        
                    Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group added Betty Shepherd as divisional senior vice president of Cyber Liability. She will oversee...                
            
        
                    The members of the Surplus Line Association of California have elected Robert Gilbert of Markel West Insurance Services as the...                
            
        
                    Risk Strategies, a privately held, national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has appointed Scott Stamper as managing director to...                
            
        
                    Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc., an East Providence, R.I.-headquartered independent insurance agency, has hired Joanmarie Berry as a financial...                
            
        
                    Excess and surplus lines carrier Nautilus Insurance Group appointed Thomas Joyce as senior vice president, chief underwriting officer. Joyce has...