Westfield Insurance Announces Executive Officers
WESTFIELD CENTER, Ohio, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Roger McManus has advancedto the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer for Westfield Groupand Jim Clay has been named to replace him as President.
The appointment as Chief Operating Officer recognizes McManus on hisnearly 10 years leading Westfield's property and casualty insuranceoperations. In that time, Westfield has more than doubled statutory surplus.
In his new role, McManus assumes additional responsibilities fordeveloping synergies between the insurance operations and Westfield Financial,which includes Westfield Bank, insurance brokerage, structured settlement andtitle insurance operations, in addition to overseeing a transition ofleadership to Clay.
Clay assumes leadership responsibility for Westfield's commercial linesand personal lines operations. He most recently served as Senior Executivefor Personal Lines and Small Business Accounts. Prior to that, Clay wasSenior Executive, Commercial Lines, responsible for all commercial packagebusiness in Westfield's 17 active property and casualty states. Clay beganhis insurance career with Westfield in 1980.
In business for more than 159 years, Westfield Insurance providescommercial and personal insurance in 17 states and surety services in 28states. Westfield is represented by more than 1,200 leading independentinsurance agencies and is one of the country's 50 largest property andcasualty insurers. Westfield Group provides banking through Westfield Bank(SM)and agency support through Westfield Services, Inc. Westfield has over $3.1billion in assets and holds an "A (Excellent)" rating from A.M. Best, aleading insurance financial rating agency.SOURCE Westfield InsuranceGary Christy, Marketing Executive of Westfield Insurance, +1-800-243-0210,extension 6640, GaryChristy@westfieldgrp.com
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