Joe DiGiovanniJoe DiGiovanni is returning to the American Insurance Assn. on April 1 after a dozen years. He will take the senior VP for state affairs.

He’s departing the VP-PA position at Liberty Mutual Group, where he headed that property and casualty insurer’s 50 state outreach effort.

DiGiovanni, prior to moving to Liberty Mutual, spent 21 years at AIA, leaving as chief of its state government affairs operation.

He began his career at the Massachusetts Division of Insurance, where he held administrative assistant to the commissioner and director of consumer services posts.
Leigh Ann Pusey, president/CEO of AIA, called DiGiovanni “the dean” of insurance government affairs.

AIA is the trade group of about 300 insurance companies that write more than $100B in premiums each year in categories such as auto/property insurance, workers’ compensation, medical malpractice and product liability.