New Hires and Promotions at New Empire Group, Fireman's Fund, NBIS and More - Around the Industry

People & Places

Donard Reilly joined New Empire Group as senior vice president. He will also head the newly-formed Inland Marine Dept. Reilly has more than 25 years of inland marine experience; 13 of those years were spent as owner of inland marine MGAs, including Mainland Specialty.

Fireman's Fund appointed Jay Dipasupil to vice president of programs and Dan Reed to vice president of professional liability. Dipasupil has more than 25 years of industry experience and will be responsible for providing strategic and operational direction and achieving profitable growth. Reed has previously managed teams responsible for lawyers' professional liability, accountants' professional liability and E&O for real estate professionals, insurance agents and brokers. He will manage the professional liability line of business and drive profitable growth.

Max West was welcomed to Aon Risk Solutions' Chicago office as senior vice president. He will specialize in customizing, negotiating and placing environmental insurance for developers, lenders, owners, sellers and more.

NBIS added Henry Butler to the company as vice president of underwriting. He will oversee the management, development and execution of underwriting strategies and objectives, focusing on building customer relationships, balancing all relevant factors including profit targets, effectively using resources, people, systems, risks and strategic and operational goals.

Nichole Ritz joined The Institues as director of member knowledge for the CPCU Society. She has experience assessing member needs and providing multiple strategies specific to knowledge management, acquisition, engagement and retention. Ritz previously developed and supported complex membership initiatives for the Project Management Institute.

Markel named Brendan Falvey director of its public entity product line for the West region. He comes to the company with more than 30 years of property-casualty insurance and reinsurance experience and most recently handled property-casualty underwriting for a global reinsurer.

New Programs

Assurex Global launched a private marketplace platform to give employers a wide range of administrative flexibility and employee health benefit options. The platform is a collaboration with Businesssolver. Key advantages include:

• The ability to choose defined contribution or defined benefits plans
• A prepackaged set of medical and ancillary benefits for employers and their employees
• Support for Affordable Care Act record-keeping responsibilities
• A single-source administrative package
• Markeptlace business data integration
• Flexible decision support tools that make employee choice easier.

OneBeacon Professional Insurance (OBPI) released details of its network security and privacy liability policy. The policy includes data breach services from Equifax. Other highlights include:

• A per affected individual approach
• A provision for potential voluntary notification
• Breach notification and credit monitoring services through Equifax
• A broadened definition of website media occurence liability and more.

Willis introduced a customized insurance solution for dairy operators. DairyProtector is designed for dairy farms with cows producing raw milk for bulk sales. The all-in-one package will include:

• Protection for livestock mortality
• Auto
• Crime
• Property
• Inland marine
• Employee benefits
• Equipment breakdown
• Business income
• Umbrella.