R. Steven Orr joined IWIF Workers’ Compensation Insurance as senior vice president of information systems, after serving for nine months as a consultant to the Towson, Md.-based workers’ compensation insurer.

Beth Sammis, the acting Maryland insurance commissioner for nearly 18 months, ending in June, has taken a job at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, one of the health insurance companies she regulated.

Alfred W. Gross, the long-serving Virginia insurance commissioner who died just seven months after retiring, was an editor’s dream, even though many of those agents and brokers he served wouldn’t have known if they bumped into him.

Therese Goldsmith, a lawyer who has served on the Maryland Public Service Commission for the last two years, was named Maryland’s insurance commissioner, effective June 13.

Two Pennsylvania insurance associations say they do not expect that a bill that calls for electing rather than appointing the state’s insurance commissioner to earn Pennsylvania General Assembly approval this year.

Thomas B. Leonardi, a financier who advises the insurance industry tapped to serve as Connecticut insurance commissioner, was described by a state judge as “fast and loose” with a state fund he established to boost industry jobs in the state.

Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Tom Corbett nominated a partner in the Saul Ewing law firm and former lawyer in the Pennsylvania Insurance Department to become the state’s next insurance commissioner.

A deputy commissioner at the Virginia State Corporation Commission Bureau of Insurance was selected to replace Alfred W. Gross, who retires Dec. 31.

Pennsylvania’s insurance commissioner, Joel Ario, is taking a position in the Obama Administration, where he will direct the creation of health exchanges.