NU Online News Service, Nov.10, 1:00 p.m. EST

The New York Insurance Association announced that Richard J. Zick, president and chief executive officer of Utica First Insurance Company, was elected NYIA chairman at the association's annual meeting last week in Latham, N.Y.

Mr. Zick will serve a one-year term beginning Jan. 1, 2010. He has served on the NYIA Board of Directors for the past 10 years and was recognized as the association's 2008 Chair's Distinguished Service Award winner.

He is also chair of the New York Insurance Scholarship Foundation, which is affiliated with NYIA, and has served on numerous NYIA committees.

Mr. Zick currently is on the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) board, previously was chairman of the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS), and he is active with the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC).

NYIA said awards bestowed on Mr. Zick include Metro-RAP 2003's Insurance Executive of the Year, Insurance Professional of the Mohawk Valley in 2005, Man of the Year by the Greater New York Council of Insurance Brokers in 2005, the Presidential Citation from PIA in 2005, and UJA-Federation of New York - Insurance Division Honoree in 2008.

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