Peaple – Southeast

Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak will serve in 2017 as president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the nation’s insurance regulatory support organization.

McPeak was recently elected to the post during the NAIC’s Fall National Meeting in Miami.

She has previously served in NAIC leadership roles including secretary-treasurer and vice president.

“In my role as NAIC President-Elect, I will continue to advocate for responsible regulation of the insurance industry and a commitment to consumer protection while ensuring there is a competitive marketplace for Tennesseans every day,” McPeak said.

The NAIC is the U.S. standard-setting and regulatory support organization created and governed by the chief insurance regulators from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the five U.S. territories.

Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators establish standards and best practices, conduct peer review, and coordinate regulatory oversight.

McPeak has served on the NAIC’s Executive Committee since 2013. McPeak, who was formerly Kentucky’s lead insurance regulator, was appointed as TDCI Commissioner by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam in 2011 and was reappointed in 2015.

McPeak has more than 20 years of legal and administrative experience in state government and is the first woman to serve as chief insurance regulator in more than one state.

As TDCI Commissioner, McPeak is the chief regulator of the insurance and securities industries in Tennessee as well as the Tennessee State Fire Marshal’s Office, which protects Tennesseans through fire prevention, education, codes enforcement, and law enforcement.

McPeak is also an Executive Committee member of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on Insurance (FACI).

Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. has hired Stephanie Greene as a senior claim representative in the DeKalb County office in Stone Mountain, Ga., according to Jeff Pettus, president and chief executive officer of BSA.

As senior claim representative, Greene is responsible for reviewing, processing and handling medical workers’ compensation claims as assigned by Lizzie Simmons, claims supervisor in the BSA DeKalb County office. Greene determines the compensability of the claim and extent of liability, as well as communicates directly with clients, employers, injured workers, physicians and attorneys, and manages claims.

Previously, Greene was a senior claim examiner with Broadspire in Atlanta. She holds adjusters licensing in many states.

Brentwood Services Inc. is an independent employee-owned company headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn.

Maximum, an independent, Chicago-based excess and surplus lines wholesaler, has added Michelle Murray, who has a property and casualty background, to its office in Tampa, Fla..

Murray is a Tampa native and will work to provide Maximum’s full range of P&C and environmental products to her agents.

Maximum is a national and surplus lines wholesale broker of specialty products and services.

Beazley, a provider of specialist reinsurance, has added Stephan Vieira as a reinsurance underwriter in its Specialty Surety Treaty unit, providing treaty and facultative reinsurance for surety and ancillary products.

Vieira will work out of the company’s expanding Miami office underwriting surety reinsurance programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Vieira joins Beazley from Transatlantic Reinsurance Co., where he was vice president for Treaty Surety and Credit Underwriting. Prior to that, he worked for a number of major insurers, reinsurers and brokers in Brazil.

Beazley’s global surety treaty team underwrites surety reinsurance and related reinsurance products out of the U.S.

Southern Insurance Underwriters, Inc. (SIU) announced that John M. Schoerner has joined the company as the Professional Lines Practice manager and will lead the company expansion of errors & omissions, architects & engineers, owners/contractors protective liability and various related products.

Schoerner was previously a senior underwriter for a large insurance company, primarily managing A&E, real estate developers E&O, and related construction liability lines.

Schoerner will be SIU’s practice leader for the expanded professional lines division.

SIU, based in Alpharetta, Ga., is an MGA and program manager.

Topics Legislation Underwriting Reinsurance Tennessee