People: Millers Mutual Promotes Hess, MEMIC Hires Three to Underwriting Team

Millers Mutual Insurance Promotes Hess to VP, Chief Information Officer

Millers Mutual Insurance, a regional property/casualty insurance carrier, promoted Samuel Hess to vice president and chief information officer, effective immediately.

As CIO, Hess will partner with Millers’ business units to identify, develop and implement information technology capabilities that enable the company’s strategic direction, support day-to-day business operations, position Millers favorably with all organizational stakeholders and agencies and function in accordance with applicable regulations. He will be responsible for leading all functional and staff-related activities as well as maintaining knowledge of current and emerging trends in the IT insurance industry.

Hess has been a part of the Millers Mutual IT team for more than five years, with increasing amounts of responsibility and expertise, including becoming certified and serving as the chief information security officer in 2020.

Prior to Millers Mutual, Hess worked for Millville Mutual as an IT support and technology developer for five years. Before that, he was an IT consultant for three years.

Millers Mutual Insurance, based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a regional property/casualty insurer serving commercial policyholders in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Washington, D.C., through a network of independent agents.

Source: Millers Mutual Insurance

MEMIC Hires Three to Underwriting Team

MEMIC, a workers’ compensation insurance specialty carrier with offices from Maine to Florida and licenses across the nation, hired three to its underwriting team.

Diane Firster was hired as senior production underwriter, Scott Richards was hired as senior production underwriter, and Sunny Jarrard was hired as senior loss sensitive underwriter.

As a 31-year insurance industry veteran, Firster most recently served as product manager for Philadelphia Insurance and previously as an account management specialist with Selective

Insurance for seven and a half years, helping her develop multi-line commercial experience. She is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Richards, who joined MEMIC in June, began his career with The Hartford in 1997. He served there for 10 years before accepting underwriting and leadership positions with Harleysville/Nationwide and Travelers. He is based in Whitesboro, New York.

Jarrard will manage MEMIC’s loss sensitive portfolio in the Eastern region. She began her insurance career as an independent agent in 2010 and transitioned into underwriting in 2014, when she joined Travelers’ national accounts division. In 2019, she joined Safety National, where she managed the Florida, Georgia and Tennessee territories with a $25 million book of loss sensitive business. Jarrard is based in Roswell, Georgia.

Source: MEMIC

Topics Underwriting