Education & Training

The Casualty Actuarial Society has elected Paul Braithwaite, managing director at Navigant Consulting, president.

The Institute for Business & Home Safety has made Philip Love, CEO of South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance, chairman of the board.

GAB Robins, a claim service firm, has hired Edward G. Troy as president and chief executive officer.

Sams and Associates, a firm providing claim adjusting and insurance services, has hired four adjusters.

There I sat at a round table in Beijing's Great Wall Hotel dining room some 21 years ago, with a vice chairman of the People's Insurance Company of China on one side and an attractive young lady on the other.

But then, sometimes it depends on who's wielding the pen! But before we get into that, here's a little "philosophical" publishing background.

Disaster Kleenup International, an independent property damage restoration contractor, has promoted Summer Street to national account director.

In 1982, I walked into the National Underwriter Co. offices on Fourth Street in Cincinnati and, having heard that the FC&S Bulletins had a staff writer position open, applied.