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Tampa, Fl - Lawrence Lange, Ph.D, vice president and chief underwriting officer with the Auto Club Insurance Association, will succeed Kenneth Amylon, senior vice president of Amica Mutual Insurance Company, as the next chairman of the board of the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) for a two-year term on January 1, 2002. Amylon will remain on the board and also serve in the position of immediate past chairman.
At the IBHS annual meeting held recently in San Antonio, Texas, the board adopted the following ongoing priorities for the organization in the coming year.
- Develop and encourage adoption of enforceable residential and commercial building codes;
- Develop and expand the "Fortified…for Safer Living" program;
- Develop and promote the retrofit of existing residential and commercial structures;
- Encourage greater implementation of land use planning tools;
- Update and expand the Paid-Loss Database;
- Aggressively communicate loss reduction information;
- Participate in post-disaster response activities, particularly through state disaster coalitions of the kind IBHS helped put in place in New York state last May and that was activated following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
- Facilitate the maintenance and transfer of the Showcase State program/model.
IBHS is a national, non-profit engineering, research and communications initiative of the insurance industry, headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Its mission is to reduce deaths, injuries, property damage, economic losses and human suffering caused by natural disasters.
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