Ohio’s Westfield Insurance Expands Responsibilities of Leadership Team

January 30, 2015

Westfield Insurance, a super-regional property/casualty insurance carrier based in Westfield, Ohio, announced the following changes to its leadership team:

Mike Prandi has been named to the new role of insurance operations leader.

Mike Prandi
Mike Prandi

He is responsible for the delivery of sales and services capabilities across the insurance operation to provide effective and cost-efficient delivery of Westfield’s products and services.

Prandi will provide executive oversight to the personal lines, small business accounts, commercial middle market and specialty underwriting functions, as well as the claims and surety functions.

Beth Riczko has expanded her role as group underwriting and product leader. She is responsible for leveraging analytics and a deep understanding of risk to establish underwriting and pricing practices and manage the product portfolio.

Beth Riczko
Beth Riczko

Riczko’s team will include the actuarial, personal and commercial product management, analytics, risk services, premium audit and commercial services functions.

Prandi joined Westfield in 1989 as a claims trainee and most recently served as the national claims leader. Prior to that, he held a series of leadership positions within the claims department.

Riczko joined Westfield in 2007 and previously served as the group analytics leader with responsibility for driving the execution of business, agent and customer analytics across the enterprise. Prior to joining Westfield, she spent several years with Ohio Casualty Group, a Cincinnati-based, publicly-traded, top 50 property-casualty insurer. Riczko is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Rob Bowers
Rob Bowers

Succeeding Prandi as national claims leader is Rob Bowers. He possesses 27 years of experience in various insurance claims roles, 18 years with Westfield. Most recently, he was Westfield’s national claims strategy leader and was instrumental in planning and executing the company’s claims transformation program, a vital part of its overall corporate transformation initiative. Bowers is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter and a Senior Claims Law Associate.

Source: Westfield Insurance

Topics Claims Ohio Leadership Casualty

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