Missouri’s Safety National Casualty Announces Management Changes

St. Louis, Missouri-based Safety National Casualty Corp. is implementing changes to its executive and upper management structure that will become effective on April 1, 2018.

Gene Maier, executive vice president and chief underwriting officer, is retiring after a successful 33-year career with Safety National. Maier, who has worked in various underwriting capacities at Safety National, is currently responsible for leadership and supervision over the company’s insurance and reinsurance underwriting efforts for all lines of business.

Gus Aivaliotis, senior vice president, Large Casualty, will join the executive management team, replacing Maier in the role of executive vice president and chief underwriting officer. In this position, he will provide executive management oversight to the insurance underwriting and product development departments in addition to the company’s excess and surplus division.

Tom Grove, senior vice president, Business Development, will join the executive management team as executive vice president and chief business development officer. In this position, he will provide executive management oversight to the business development, risk services and communications departments.

Ray Harkins, senior vice president, Treaty Reinsurance, will become executive vice president and chief underwriting officer of Reinsurance, providing leadership over all assumed reinsurance business within the organization.

Seth Smith, senior vice president, Workers’ Compensation Underwriting, will become executive vice president, Underwriting, assuming leadership over all other insurance underwriting units within the organization.

Nick Kriegel, vice president deputy general counsel, will become senior vice president general counsel, providing leadership over the legal, corporate compliance and human resources departments.

Source: Safety National

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