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May 07, 2010 at 08:00 PM
Conseco Inc. has named Christopher Nickele president of a new Other CNO Business unit.
The Other CNO Business will handled closed blocks of Conseco Insurance Group business, which account for about two-thirds of the unit’s capital, according to Conseco, Carmel, Ind. (NYSE:CNO).
Conseco will report results for Washington Nation, which still has open blocks of business, separately from the results for the closed-block unit, Conseco says. The company will continue to break out results for two other units that are still selling new products, Bankers Life and Casualty Company and Colonial Penn Life Insurance Company.
Nickele has been executive vice president, product management, Conseco, and he will keep that title when he becomes president of the closed-block unit, Conseco says.
In other personnel changes news:
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia Inc., Atlanta, a unit of WellPoint Inc., Indianapolis (NYSE:WLP), says Monye Connolly, the president of the company, “will be leaving the company of her own accord in order to devote more time to her family and pursue other interests.”
Connolly has been president of Georgia Blue since 2006
- Aflac Inc., Columbus, Ga. (NYSE:AFL), has promoted Thomas Giddens to senior vice president, co-director of sales.
Giddens has been director of the Aflact’s Southeast director. He will “work in tandem with Ronald S. Sanders, senior vice president, director of sales, to strengthen Aflac’s position as the market leader of supplemental insurance,” Aflac says.
Giddens was subsequently named Southeast territory director in 2009 where his team leads in sales.
– Hartford Life, Simsbury, Conn., a unit of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Hartford (NYSE:HIG), has hired Dr. Robert Pokorski, a medical underwriting expert, to be the chief medical strategist for the individual life division.
Pokorski has published many articles on longevity and insurability, and, in 1995, he was chairman of the medical section at the American Council of Life Insurance, Washington.
Pokorski has a medical degree from Creighton University and master’s degree in business from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
