Insurance moves: Chubb names co-leaders for ceded reinsurance business

S&P Global Market Intelligence presents a daily roundup of management and board changes in the insurance industry. This feature excludes C-level leadership changes and stories previously covered by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Life and health

Equita Group named Chase Urich president of the Equita Final Expenses Services division.

Ryan Caras also took on a new role as the division's vice president of direct sales.

Equita Group is an affiliate of AmeriLife Group LLC.

Property and casualty

Liberty Specialty Markets Ltd. named Terry FitzGerald divisional head of financial and professional lines, effective immediately.

He will oversee the London financial and professional lines book of business, which includes business written in Bristol, Manchester in the U.K. and Dublin.

FitzGerald was head of directors and officers and financial institutions for the U.K. at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE.

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Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. unit Mercer LLC appointed Pat Tomlinson as president for the U.S. and Canada.

Stephanie Penner will take over Tomlinson's previous role as CEO for the U.S. east market.

Penner was the Tri-state office leader at Mercer.

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Anthony Strianese, who serves as the executive vice president and chairman of Brown & Brown Inc.'s wholesale brokerage segment, has taken a temporary medical leave of absence.

Brown & Brown's other executives will assume Strianese's management duties during his absence.

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Chubb Ltd. named Sunil Parmar and Alexander Crosby vice presidents and senior reinsurance officers for Chubb Overseas General.

Parmar and Crosby will lead the company's ceded reinsurance business. The co-leaders replace Jeremiah Konz, who was appointed chief reinsurance officer in January.

Parmar was a senior reinsurance officer at Chubb European Group, while Crosby was a reinsurance officer at Chubb.

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Lockton Inc. appointed Cynthia Lopez to scale Lockton Pacific's construction practice in Northern California.

Reinsurance

Lockton Re named Tom Berry senior broker within its marine and energy division in London, effective in March.