IBHS News Releases

Tampa – The Institute for Business & Home Safety’s (IBHS) board of directors today elected Dale Hammond as its chairman.
 
Hammond is president and chief operating officer of Kemper Auto and Home, A Unitrin Company, based in Jacksonville, Florida.  He was previously vice chairman of the IBHS board of directors and chairman of the board’s executive committee.

Hammond succeeds Lawrence Lange, Ph. D., vice president and chief underwriting officer with the Auto Club Insurance Association, who will remain on the IBHS board as immediate past chairman.

Philip Love, executive vice president of the South Carolina Farm Bureau Group, succeeds Hammond as IBHS executive committee chairman and vice chairman of the board of directors.

IBHS is a national nonprofit trade association of the property/casualty insurance industry that works to reduce commercial and residential losses and associated costs caused by extreme weather events and natural disasters. These include hurricanes, hail storms, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, winter storms and wildfires. IBHS is also expanding into new, everyday property loss areas like household and commercial water damage.

Based in Tampa, FL, IBHS counts among its members more than 125 of the country's property-casualty insurers and reinsurers. Its associate members include numerous individuals and organizations that share its mission.