Pacific Specialty Promotes Summers to Chief Operating Officer

Pacific Specialty Insurance Co., Menlo Park, Calif., has promoted Tim Summers to chief operating officer.

Summers will continue his duties as executive vice-president and corporate secretary, overseeing the product development and underwriting operations. He is also a member of the PSIC board of directors.

Summers joined the McGraw Group of Companies as legal counsel in July 1987. In 1990, he was instrumental in forming PSIC. He was named vice-president of government relations at McGraw in December 1996, after serving as deputy commissioner for industry and consumer programs at the California Department of Insurance.