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First Ameritas Life Names President, CEO (BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Kenneth L. VanCleave became president and chief executive officer of First Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of New York on March 1.

He replaced Mitch Politzer, who recently retired and served as president and CEO since 1999, said Scott Stuckey, a company spokesman.

VanCleave joined Ameritas Group, a unit of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., in 1989 as vice president of group marketing and was named senior vice president in 2001. In January 2008, VanCleave became president of Ameritas Group, which serves more than 49,000 employers covering about 4 million insured members across the United States. He continues in that role.

First Ameritas Life sells group dental, eye and hearing care insurance and services in New York.

It is a subsidiary of UNIFI Mutual Holding Co., which was formed after the mutual holding company merger of Union Central Life Insurance Co. and the Ameritas/Acacia companies in 2006, according to A.M. Best. (BestWire, Jan. 30, 2009).

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