The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) elected its 2015 officers and board of directors at the association’s annual meeting on Nov. 13. The following officers were elected for a one-year term ending Dec. 31, 2015:
Chair: Bernard Turi, senior vice president, general counsel, general auditor and chief risk officer, Utica National Insurance Group, Utica, N.Y.
First vice chair: Steven Coffey, president and chief executive officer, Broome Co-operative Insurance Company, Vestal, N.Y.
Second vice chair: Elizabeth Heck, president and chief operating officer, Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company, New York, N.Y.
Treasurer: Marlene Benton-Sherwood, president, Fulmont Mutual Insurance Company, Johnstown, N.Y.
The following directors were elected for a three-year term ending Dec. 31, 2017:
Martin Doto, senior vice president of government affairs and claims, Preferred Mutual Insurance Company, New Berlin, N.Y.
Stephen Harris, president & chief executive officer, Sterling Insurance Company, Cobleskill, N.Y.
Floyd Holloway, counsel, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Chadds Ford, Penn.
Mark Prechtl, executive vice president/chief executive officer, Chautauqua Patrons Insurance Company, Jamestown, N.Y.
The New York Insurance Association is a state trade association that has represented the property/casualty insurance industry for more than 130 years.