Los Angeles Business, May 11, 2007, Friday

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Insider promoted to State Fund executive committee
by Kelly Johnson
Sacramento Business Journal
http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2007/05/07/daily47.html

State Compensation Insurance Fund, California's largest workers' compensation insurer, has promoted an insider to its executive team and committee.

David West, 56, becomes a vice president and a member of State Fund's executive committee after 27 years at the quasi-governmental agency. West had been underwriting manager.

His previous jobs at State Fund included San Francisco district office manager, personnel services manager and government relations officer. West earned a bachelor's degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.

"David West brings extraordinary breadth and depth of experience and has demonstrated outstanding leadership throughout his State Fund career," said Larry Mulryan, interim State Fund president, in a news release Thursday. "State Fund as well as California's employers will continue to benefit from his expertise and insight."

State Fund was created by the Legislature in 1914 to be the workers' comp carrier of last resort, but grew amid problems in the workers' comp market to carry a majority of the business in the state. It's still the largest, with 30 percent to 40 percent of the market. As of March, San Francisco-based State Fund employed 824 people in Greater Sacramento.

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