Quirk & Co. named Merry Palmer manager of the Pacific Northwest lines team and Cheri Bahmanyar underwriter for the Oregon office. Palmer's focus will be on sales, marketing and looking for expansion opportunities in Washington and Oregon. With
Aon/Albert G. Ruben has hired Amy Turnbull as account executive in the newly-created employee benefits department. Turnbull will assist clients in the entertainment industry to create and manage employee benefits programs. Turnbull has more than 10
Itasca, Ill.-based insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired PartnerSource Inc. in Dallas, Texas. Transaction terms were not released. PartnerSource principals Bill Minick, Russell Huber and Richard Johnson and their 21 associates will
Colorado Casualty, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, has added workers' compensation coverage to its commercial insurance product line in Nevada. Last month, Colorado Casualty began offering workers' compensation coverage
Guy Carpenter & Company LLC has appointed D. Robert (Bobby) Marsden, Jr. to the firm's executive sales group. Prior to joining Guy Carpenter, Marsden was president, founding member and member of the board of directors at Carvill America in
Marshall & Sterling Upstate, a division of Marshall & Sterling Insurance Inc., is consolidating its three offices in Greene County, N.Y., into a single operation in Leeds, effective March 1. The other offices were located in Coxsackie and Greenville.
John M. Huff has been nominated director of the Missouri Dept. of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Regulation. If approved by the Missouri Senate, he will replace acting director Linda Bohrer. Previously, Huff was global head of
Elizabeth Gardiner Burns & Wilcox has appointed Elizabeth Gardiner to director of education, training and development. She is responsible for developing and
The International Insurance Society (IIS) announced two insurance leaders as the 2009 winners of the Insurance Hall of Fame Award: Jack Byrne, USA, and Sir David Rowland, UK. They will be honored during the Monday night gala dinner at the 45th IIS
The Inter-Company Marketing Group (ICMG), a trade association that fosters strategic alliances between insurance and financial services companies, elected the following 2009 officers and board of directors at its recent annual meeting: ICMG elected