BATON ROUGE, La. (March 11, 2009) -- Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation (LWCC) has announced the hiring of Peter Gale as Senior Vice President of Insurance Services, a newly created position.

Gale brings 23 years of commercial insurance experience with such companies as AIG, Kemper Insurance, Fireman's Fund Insurance, and Brown & Brown. For 28 years, he has resided in the Seattle, Washington area, where he formerly served as President of R. F. Mattei & Associates and Vice President & Business Technology Executive for Eagle Insurance Companies (now Seabright), a former Kemper subsidiary.

Gale received a B.A. degree in business administration, with a concentration in international business, from the University of Washington. He holds the designation of Associate in Risk Management.

LWCC (www.lwcc.com) is a private, nonprofit mutual insurance company that is the largest writer of workers' compensation insurance in Louisiana. The company carries an "A" (Excellent) rating from A.M. Best and, for the seventh consecutive year, was named one of the top 50 property and casualty insurance companies in the nation--out of more than 3,000--by Ward Group, the leading authority on insurance industry benchmarking.