National Western Life Announces Appointment of John Ptaszynski as Domestic Life Chief Underwriter
June 05 2008 - 3:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
AUSTIN, Texas, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- National Western
Life Insurance Company (NASDAQ:NWLIA) announced today the
appointment of John Ptaszynski, AALU, FLMI, as its new Chief
Underwriter of the company's Domestic Life Insurance Underwriting
Division. Mr. Ptaszynski joined the company on May 19, 2008. "We're
pleased to have John join us at National Western Life," said
President, Ross R. Moody. "His knowledge and experience in large
case and impaired risk underwriting will have immediate impact on
our growing domestic life department." Mr. Ptaszynski will be
responsible for all of National Western Life's domestic life
insurance underwriting operations, including life underwriting
policies and procedures and individual risk assessment and
selection. In addition, he will be accountable for the company's
broader mortality strategy. Prior to joining National Western Life,
Mr. Ptaszynski spent 23 years as Chief Underwriter for First Penn
Pacific Life Insurance Company. More recently he was Chief
Underwriter for Linked Benefit Products at Genworth Financial. In
addition, he has earned Fellow designation at the Life Management
Institute and is an associate of The Academy of Life Underwriting.
Mr. Ptaszynski is a graduate of Bradley University with a B.S.
degree in mathematics. "I am very happy to have an underwriter of
John's caliber join our team," said Domestic Chief Marketing
Officer, Christopher Johnson. "Our field agents and distribution
partners will see our underwriting department transcend to the next
level under his leadership. We are very excited about the future of
our domestic life sales." Founded in 1956, National Western Life is
a stock life insurance company offering a broad portfolio of
individual universal life, whole life and term insurance plans,
annuity products, and investment contracts meeting the financial
needs of its customers in 49 states as well as residents of various
countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Eastern
Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim. The Company has approximately 290
employees and 10,900 contracted independent agents, brokers and
consultants, and at March 31, 2008, maintained total assets of
nearly $6.9 billion, stockholders' equity in excess of $1.0
billion, and life insurance in force of approximately $17.9
billion. DATASOURCE: National Western Life Insurance Company
CONTACT: Brian Pribyl of National Western Life Insurance Company,
+1-512-719-2493, Web site: http://www.nationalwesternlife.com/
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