New York Insurance Association Elects 2014 Officers and Board of Directors
New York Insurance Association Elects 2014 Officers and Board of Directors
LATHAM, N.Y.—The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) elected its 2014 officers and board of directors at the association’s Annual Meeting in November.
The following officers were elected for a one-year term ending Dec. 31, 2014:
Chair: Bernard Turi, senior vice president, Utica National Insurance Group, Utica, N.Y.
First vice chair: Steven Coffey, president and chief executive officer, Broome Co-operative Insurance Company, Vestal, N.Y.
Second vice chair: Elizabeth Heck, president and chief operating officer, Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company, New York, N.Y.
Treasurer: Marlene Benton- Sherwood, president, Fulmont Mutual Insurance Company, Johnstown, N.Y.
The following directors were elected for a three-year term ending Dec. 31, 2016:
Steven Coffey, president and chief executive officer, Broome Co-operative Insurance Company, Vestal, N.Y.
Charles Makey, senior vice president, insurance operations, Merchants Insurance Group, Buffalo, N.Y.
Nicholas Masi, government and industry affairs manager, Farmers Group, Inc., Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Norman Orlowski, president, Erie and Niagara Insurance Association, Williamsville, N.Y.
The New York Insurance Association (NYIA®) is a state trade association that has represented the property and casualty insurance industry for more than 130 years. For more information about NYIA, visit www.nyia.org.
Jeffrey M. Rubin and Eric S. Kobrick Chosen as ARIAS•U.S. Chairman and President for 2014
New York, N.Y.—Jeffrey M. Rubin, Senior Vice President, Director Global Claims of Odyssey Reinsurance Company, was elected Chairman of ARIAS•U.S., the AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society, at its 2013 Annual Conference in New York City. He succeeds Mary Kay Vyskocil, a Litigation Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, who has retired from the Board. Eric S. Kobrick, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Reinsurance Legal Officer at American International Group, Inc., was elected President succeeding Mr. Rubin. Also at the conference, Elizabeth A. Mullins, Managing Director and head of Global Dispute Resolution & Litigation of Swiss Re America Holding Corporation, was elected Vice President and designated as President Elect. James I. Rubin, head of the reinsurance litigation and arbitration practice at Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP in Chicago, was elected Vice President.
In addition, ARIAS•U.S. members re-elected one Board member and elected one new member. Eric S. Kobrick was re-elected to a second term. Deirdre G. Johnson, a partner in the Washington, DC office of Crowell & Moring LLP, was elected to a first term. Ms. Johnson replaced Ms. Vyskocil as a law firm representative.
ARIAS•U.S. is a not-for-profit corporation that seeks to improve the insurance and reinsurance arbitration process by providing training and education in the skills necessary to serve effectively on an insurance/reinsurance arbitration panel. ARIAS•U.S. is the leading trade association for the insurance and reinsurance arbitration industry. It has nearly 1000 members, including professional arbitrators and representatives of insurance and reinsurance companies and law firms with substantial interest and involvement in the arbitration process. Through conferences, seminars and publications, ARIAS seeks to strengthen the arbitration process to meet the needs of today’s insurance/reinsurance marketplace.
