{"id":155008,"date":"2025-08-18T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155008\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:10:09","slug":"chieppo-joins-mechanic-group-foster-named-chair-of-ny-workers-comp-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/155008\/","title":{"rendered":"Chieppo Joins Mechanic Group; Foster Named Chair of NY Workers\u2019 Comp Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Mechanic Group Appoints Chieppo Practice Leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-835637 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-13-at-11.19.17-AM-e1755101378799-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"  \/>Candace Chieppo<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mechanic Group<\/strong>, a division of Specialty Program Group LLC (SPG) headquartered in Pearl River, New York, appointed<strong> Candace Chieppo<\/strong> as practice leader. She is responsible for delivering coverage and service to The Mechanic Group\u2019s independent agents, while driving strategic initiatives and client engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Chieppo has 27 years of insurance industry experience, joining The Mechanic Group from Hudson Insurance Group, where she served as assistant director. Her previous roles include vice president\/senior underwriter at Victor Insurance and positions at Travelers Insurance, Marsh, and Lockton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foster Appointed Chair of New York State Workers\u2019 Compensation Board<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York Governor Kathy Hochul appointed <strong>Freida D. Foster<\/strong> as chair of the<strong> New York State Workers\u2019 Compensation Board (WCB)<\/strong>. Foster has been a Board member since 2009 and vice chair since 2016. Before joining the Workers\u2019 Compensation Board, Foster was a public relations manager at Burson-Marsteller.<\/p>\n<p>Former Chair Clarissa M. Rodriguez stepped down from the role in July and will continue to serve as a board member. Board member Renee Delgado has been appointed vice chair. Governor Hochul appointed Delgado as a board member in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagtag\">\n            Topics<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/workers-comp\/\" class=\"btn btn-sm btn-primary tagtag\" style=\"color: #fff; padding: 2px 8px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0 2px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Workers&#8217; Compensation<\/a><br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/location\/new-york\/\" class=\"btn btn-sm btn-primary tagtag\" style=\"color: #fff; padding: 2px 8px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0 2px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Was this article valuable?<\/p>\n<p>\n            Yes<br \/>\n            No\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"thank-you-text\">Here are more articles you may enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>            Interested in Workers Comp?<\/p>\n<p>Get automatic alerts for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mechanic Group Appoints Chieppo Practice Leader Candace Chieppo The Mechanic Group, a division of Specialty Program Group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":155009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10892,90434,405,403,90435,5226,5225,5228,5227,23386,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-155008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-east","10":"tag-mechanic-group","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-workers-compensation-board","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-people-moves","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115048285769960878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}