AAIS Names Parkes Vice President of Sales

January 17, 2013Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Don Parkes, an insurance executive with 18 years’ experience in catastrophe risk management, has been named vice president of sales for the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS).

AAIS is a national insurance advisory organization that develops policy forms and rating information used by 700 property/casualty insurers.

As part of his duties as AAIS vice president of sales, Parkes will be the product leader for the AAIS Homeowners By-Peril Plan, the first bureau plan filed and approved in most states for rating homeowners insurance by separate perils.

Parkes comes to AAIS from CoreLogic, which maintains databases on properties, mortgages, and consumers.  Before joining CoreLogic in 2007, Parkes was senior vice president and chief risk officer at ICAT Holdings LLC, a catastrophe risk firm based in Boulder, Col. Prior to his years at ICAT, Parkes was with Risk Management Solutions Inc.,  a catastrophe modeling firm.

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Fireman’s Fund Names Tobias Southern California Territory Sales Director

April 13, 2012Email ThisPrintNewslettersTweetArticleComments

Linda Tobias has been named territory sales director in Southern California at Novato, Calif.-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co.

Tobias will assume the position for personal insurance with responsibility for agencies in the San Diego and the Los Angeles areas. She will be responsible for working with partner agencies to manage relationships and develop new business opportunities.

Tobias has 25 years’ experience in insurance, including experience on the agency/broker side of the business having worked with both PLI Brokerage and an independent regional firm in Southern California. She previously worked at Fireman’s Fund from 2002 to 2005.

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