People News: Starr Companies, Arch Insurance Group, Seibels

Starr Companies announced the promotion of Layla Greytok, vice president, as the leader of its newly formed Excess Casualty Division, a combination of the Excess Commercial Accounts and Excess National Accounts units. In addition, several zonal underwriting managers have been appointed to provide our broker partners and clients with local, senior-level access. These changes are effective January 1, 2017.

Senior members of Layla’s management team include, Warren Puffer, New York Zone; David Meyers, Eastern Zone; Laurie Jo Prager, Central Zone; and Leonard Streeter, Western Zone.

Matthew Parsons has joined Arch Insurance Group as regional vice president for Arch Insurance Group’s U.S. Construction division for the Western Region effective January 1, 2017. He will be based in our San Francisco office and will be responsible for managing all aspects of its Construction business in the Western region.

Parsons was most recently the underwriting manager – National Insurance Construction for Liberty Mutual in San Francisco. Prior to that, he held various positions within Liberty Mutual in Boston and Washington, D.C., underwriting construction risks including OCIPs and CCIPs and other commercial casualty risks.

The Seibels Bruce Group, Inc., an insurance services provider of business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, announced the appointment of Ron Giomi to vice president of Litigation and Liability Claims within the claims division of the company, Seibels Claims Solutions, Inc.

In this new leadership position, Giomi will oversee the management of litigation and liability claims for Centauri Insurance, Gulfstream Property & Casualty Insurance Company, and St. Johns Insurance Company, and liability claims for Security First. He has over forty years of experience in the insurance industry, and has been a member of the Seibels team since 2002.

Giomi also teaches insurance courses and seminars, such as AINS and policy training, to Seibels team members.

Prior to joining Seibels, he was the manager of Commercial Claims at Nationwide for over seventeen years. Giomi also has experience working for Cigna and Federated Insurance.

He holds several insurance designations including CPCU, AIC, AIM, ARP and ARe.