Zurich North America has appointedLillian Labbat head of Trade Credit &Political Risk. Her most recent role was managing partner andco-founder of Metis Markets, a financial advisory firm with a focuson fundraising and structured finance solutions for globalbusinesses.

Insurance litigators Deirdre G. Johnson andPaul W. Kalish have joined the Squire Patton Boggs litigationpractice as partners in the Washington D.C. office. Johnsonpreviously led Crowell & Moring’s ProfessionalLiability/Financial Lines Practice; Kalish was Co-Chair of itsInsurance and Reinsurance Group.

Willis Towers Watson has appointedFred Zutel Corporate Risk and Broking (CRB)market leader for Florida, where he will focus on delivering thecompany’s property & casualty insurance broking solutions toclients across the state. Zutel joined the company as a seniorvice president in 2015 and since 2016 has led the company’s CRBbusiness in South Florida.

Michael O’Donnell has been named President ofthe Aviation Practice Group at SterlingRiskInsurance. O’Donnell, who joinedSterlingRisk in 2011, most recently served as executive vicepresident, Aviation Practice Group.

Lorrie Osterhage has joined EPICInsurance Brokers and Consultants' Architects andEngineers Practice as a vice president. She joins from Marsh Inc.where she spent the past 32 years leading a team responsible forserving and supporting participants in the Business Insurance Trust(BIT) Program of the American Council of Engineering Companies(ACEC).

Insurance-fraud attorney and insurance lawexpert Matthew J. Smith has been nameddirector of government affairs and general counsel for the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. Headvises the NAIC’s Antifraud Task Force and sits on the task forcesof numerous state organizations such as the Virginia StatePolice.

Catastrophe modeling firm AIRWorldwide (AIR) has appointed Dr. RogerGrenier senior vice president of global resilience to leadAIR’s resilience initiatives across the globe. He has 20 yearsof experience working directly with global risk models and wasformerly director of catastrophe research and development atLiberty Mutual.

Duane Sanders hasjoined Kemper Corporation as president,property & casualty division. He joins Kemper from TheTravelers where he was most recently senior vice president of smallcommercial.

AIG hasappointed Caroline Krass senior vicepresident and general counsel, general insurance, and deputygeneral counsel, AIG, effective in March 2018. Krasspreviously served as General Counsel for the Central IntelligenceAgency and is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. lawoffice of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Stephen Roseman has been appointedpresident and CEO of USA Risk Group. Roseman brings morethan two decades of experience, including: president ofSpencer Capital Holdings and senior vice president for CalamosAdvisors, among others.

Worldwide Facilities has announcedthe following appointments:

• David Senescu - senior vicepresident
• John Grise - senior vicepresident