PEOPLE & PLACES

The Main Street America Group promoted Tiffany Daly topresident of the Western region yesterday. The company alsopromoted Jeff Kusch to senior vicepresident and head of operations.

Global reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter &Co. appointed Matthew Eagle asmanaging director and head of international analytics.Carpenter has over 20 years' experience in the industry, with hismost recent work at Willis Re in 2010 as head ofcatastrophe analytics and director of Willis Re International.

AtlasGeneral Insurance Services, which provides programmanagement services across the globe, announced Tuesday theappointment of Charles Lasher as senior vicepresident of commercial operations. Lasher will be responsible for development,implementation and distribution of commercial programsnationwide.

Chris Rutter was named the engineering managerfor the Mid-West region on Monday for ForensicConsulting Group LLC. Also, DavidZimpel will now oversee all engineering activities for theEastern region. Both men will also be charged with continuing togrow and train engineers for their regions and the NationalCatastrophe Team.

OneBeacon Insurance Group’s accident andprofessional liability business will now report to Executive Vice PresidentDennis Crosby, as Paul Romanoexits the company. Paul Brehm, executive vicepresident and chief risk officer for OneBeacon, will continue tooversee company crop, tuition refund and surety segments.

David Kaiser has been appointed to senior vice president atArrow Financial Corp., a multi-bank holdingcompany that is the parent of P&C insurers Loomis &LaPann Inc., McPhillips Insurance Agencyand Upstate Agency LLC.

NEW PROGRAMS

The Institutes, a research institution andsolutions provider for the property and casualty industry,partnered up with Wisconsin School of Business at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison to offer a management education program this May.The five-day intensive will provide managers and supervisorstraining dealing specifically with risk management in the insuranceindustry.

Sagamore Insurance Co., a subsidiary ofBaldwin & Lyons Inc., announced Monday that it is expanding itsmono-line workers’ compensation program into six new states in theSouthern region. The program works on offering workers’ comp for avariety of class codes.

NEWS

US Assure, an insurance service provider based out ofFlorida, recently won two awards: Zurich’s Spirit of Excellenceaward and the Target Markets Program Administration Association’sBest Practice Designation. The Zurich Award is given to a selectgroup of program administrators who meet specific criteria forfinancial, underwriting and tactical plan performance.

Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance (SIAA)announced lastweek that 80% of their impressive milestone, hitting $5.7billion last year, was primarily due to organic growth. SIAA alsoannounced they had signed 410 new member agencies last year, whichbrings their total to 5,300 since their beginning 22 yearsago.

Indiana-based Schultheis Insurance, received the Agency of the Territory award. Theaward is given out by the Accident Fund Insurance Companyof America, which specializes in workers comp policies forstates located in the Southeast and Midwest.

M&A

Fairfax Financial Holdings has started the process of acquiringLloyd’s of London specialty insurer and reinsuer,Brit, for approximately $1.88 billion. With Britin its hands, Fairfax would be able to expand its risk portfolioalong with expand their market more into the U.S. and internationalinsurance.