The embattled chief executive of Massey Energy has accused federal regulators of not making a genuine effort to investigate the explosion that killed 29 miners and injured two at the company’s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. Instead, the …
Chicago-based broker JMB Insurance has named Matthew Horwitch as co-CEO. Horwitch will lead the company side-by-side with co-CEO Ken Sacks. Horwitch has 25 years of experience in the industry. He founded his own agency in 1988, which was acquired by …
David J. Firstenberg is joining Greenville, South Carolina-based trucking insurer Canal Insurance Co. as president and chief executive officer. Firstenberg succeeds John Pollock, who has served as interim CEO since the retirement of Charles M. Timmons, Jr. in December 2009. …
John (Jack) Byrne, who has led Fireman’s Fund and its former parent company, White Mountains Insurance Group, as well as GEICO, has been elected chairman of the board of the New York- based brokerage Integro. Byrne, who joined the board …
Marsh announced that Eugênio Paschoal has been appointed as the new CEO of Marsh Brazil effective January 1, 2011. He will be based in São Paulo, and will be responsible for driving Marsh Brazil’s operating model and ambitious expansion strategy. …
Mike Unhjem, a longtime Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota chief executive who was fired last year because of publicity about an employee trip to the Grand Cayman Islands, was found dead at his Fargo home, police said Sept. …
Preferred Professional Insurance Co., an Omaha, Neb.-based Catholic-owned medical liability insurance firm, announced that Lynnette Matza, CPA, has been appointed as PPIC’s next chief executive officer effective Jan.1, 2011. Matza will succeed T.J. McKivergan. Matza has been with the company …
BMS, the London-based specialist insurance group, announced the appointment of Carl Beardmore as CEO of BMS Associates Ltd, the group holding company, subject to the approval of the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA). The bulletin noted that he has “been …
Former AIG Chief Executive Officer Martin Sullivan, who was ousted three months before the U.S. government bailed the insurer out, is joining Willis Group Holdings PLC, the insurance broker said on Wednesday. Sullivan will head a new unit that will …
Former longtime AIG chief Maurice “Hank” Greenberg and another former executive will get $60 million from the company’s insurers to cover legal and other costs as part of a proposed settlement of investor lawsuits, court papers show. The payouts to …
