IBHS News Releases

Tampa – Philip Love, chief executive officer of South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company, has been named chairman of the board of the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS).

Love succeeds Dale Hammond, formerly Group Executive, Unitrin, Inc., who will remain on the IBHS board as immediate past chairman.  Love was previously the IBHS board’s vice chairman and chairman of its executive committee.  Those positions will now be held by Steven George, senior vice president of USAA.  Stanley Smith, executive vice president of Farmers Insurance Group, was named executive committee vice chairman.

The appointments are effective January 1, 2006.
 
IBHS is the property loss reduction trade association of the property/casualty insurance industry.  The national nonprofit organization works to reduce commercial and residential property losses and associated costs caused by extreme weather and natural events, including earthquakes, floods, hail storms hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and winter storms. IBHS recently expanded its public education efforts into other property loss areas such as water damage and residential fire.

Based in Tampa, FL, IBHS counts among its members more than 200 of the country's property-casualty insurers and reinsurers. Its associate members include numerous individuals and organizations who share its mission. To learn more about IBHS, visit www.ibhs.org, or call toll free 1 (866) 657-IBHS (4247).