Brokers:
Joseph P. Flanagan has been named president of Hub International Ltd.'s Chicago-based broker unit Mack and Parker Inc., and Richard J. Palleschi has been named president and chief executive officer of The McCarthy Cos., a division of Hub in Wilmington, Mass.
Mr. Flanagan joined Hub and Mack and Parker in June 2001 along with his firm, J.P. Flanagan Corp., which was merged into Hub in January 2002.
Mr. Palleschi previously was executive vp and chief operating officer of the McCarthy Cos.
Patrick Veale has been named president of Boston-based broker William Gallagher Associates. Mr. Veale, formerly a principal of the company, has been with WGA since 1994. He succeeds Philip J. Edmundson, who will remain with WGA as CEO.
Insurers:
American International Group Inc. has made several executive appointments:
* Daniel Glaser has been named regional president of the U.K./Ireland Division of American International Underwriters and managing director of AIG Europe (U.K.) Ltd. He had been executive vp of AIG's Domestic Brokerage Group, responsible for field operations and market segments.
* Mark Willis, who has been AIG's Chicago-based senior executive-Midwest, will succeed Mr. Glaser in New York.
* Kevin Hogan has been named COO of AIU and will retain his responsibilities as president of AIG's Worldwide Accident and Health Division.
* Hamilton C. Da Silva has been appointed vp of foreign general insurance and CEO of AIG's Latin American Region, with responsibility for all of the insurer's operations in the region. Mr. Da Silva had been president of AIU's Latin American Division.
* Gustavo Covacevich has been named deputy CEO in New York of AIG's Latin American Region. He previously had responsibility for international pension operations in the AIG life companies.
Robert Walton has been named regional executive for the Southwest and Northwest regions of Zurich North America's Middle Markets Business Unit. Mr. Walton will be based in the insurer's Glendale, Calif., office.
Eric Parsons was named president and COO of StanCorp Financial Group Inc. of Portland, Ore., and its largest subsidiary, Standard Insurance Co. Doug Maines was appointed executive vp of StanCorp and president of the Employee Benefits-Insurance Division of Standard. Mr. Parsons had served as chief financial officer, a post he will retain until a replacement is found. Mr. Maines had been senior vp in the Employee Benefits-Insurance Division.
Surplus lines:
Carolyn Vaughan has been named senior vp and COO of Kenneth I. Tobey Inc., a Seattle-based managing general agency. She had been vp of operations.
Bill Braig has joined Swett & Crawford Group's Honolulu office as senior vp and branch manager. Before joining Swett, a subsidiary of Aon Corp., Mr. Braig was senior vp at Hull & Co.
Managed care:
Dr. Eric Book has joined Blue Shield of California in San Francisco as chief medical officer and senior vp. Dr. Book replaces Dr. Jeffrey Rideout, who has become president of the California Physicians' Service Foundation, a charitable foundation associated with Blue Shield of California. Before joining Blue Shield, Dr. Book was chief medical officer of Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield.
Sidney L. Meyer has been named executive vp and COO of Atlantis Health Plan Inc., a physician-owned health insurance company based in New York. Mr. Meyer had been executive vp and general counsel of managed care company MultiPlan Inc.
