People & Places

J.M. Wilson added Wendy Wotring as the sales agency relations specialist for the Southern Region, including North Carolina and Tennessee. Ms. Wotring is the primary resource and liason for insurance agents, offering solutions and building relationships based on agents' needs.

Wayne O. Smith was elected to the Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers operating board. Mr. Smith is an Air Force Academy Graduate and was deployed to Southeast Asia and flew 90 F-4 Phantom jet fighter missions over Vietnam and Laos before being shot down in January 1968. Mr. Smith's services and honors include two Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit, two Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Bronze Stars, seven air Medals and the Purple Heart.

New Programs

ACE launched ACE Risk Management Global Casualty, a single source solution for U.S. multinational customers looking to access primary casualty insurance to cover their U.S. and international risk exposures

Mergers & Acquisitions

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Parmia Pty. Ltd., of Beenleigh, Australia in an effort to expand its Australian operations.

News

The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) is recruiting volunteers for its annual Week of Giving event, an eight-day, industry-wide team and individual volunteer event during which participants, largely from the insurance industry, provide three or more hours of volunteer service to local nonprofit organizations across the country. This years' event will take place from Oct. 11 through Oct. 18.

In a 36-hour broadcast, the 2014 WEEI Sports Radio/New England Sports Network Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon, presented by the Arbella Insurance Foundation, raised more than $3.3 million for adult and pediactric cancer care and research for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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Around the Industry: September 12, 2014

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