Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, said it will open an office in Prague on March 1. The intent of the operation is to further develop business and serve clients based or conducting business in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

The new office will be part of Guy Carpenter's Central and Eastern European brokerage operations.

Lubos Houska was named to the new office as Czech market representative for Guy Carpenter Central and Eastern Europe. Mr. Houska has been reinsurance manager at CPP, part of the Vienna Insurance Group, since 2003. Previously, he held the position of reinsurance manager at Ceska Pojistovna and Allianz Pojistovna in Prague.

Guy Carpenter is a subsidiary of the New York-based services organization Marsh & McLennan Companies.

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