Erie Insurance is pleased to announce the appointment of Cody Cook as senior vice president, Personal Products. Cook started with ERIE in 2003 in the Actuarial Division, where he spent seven years before being promoted to supervisor of the Pricing and Modeling Section in 2009. For the past seven years, he has served as the private passenger auto vice president and product manager.

Under Cook's leadership, Erie Insurance has evolved its auto insurance product offerings to meet changing customer needs including helping to develop ERIE Rate Lock®, a feature that protects insurance rates from going up even after a claim until the customer removes a vehicle or adds or removes a driver from the policy, or changes addresses. He also reshaped ERIE's private passenger auto policy in 2014 to provide insurance for ridesharing drivers.

Cook received a bachelor's degree from Purdue University and earned the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation. He's also a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is the 10th largest homeowners insurer and 12th largest automobile insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written and the 16th largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. The Group, rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best Company, has more than 5 million policies in force and operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. Erie Insurance Group is a FORTUNE 500 company, a Barron's 500 company and has been recognized by Forbes as one of America's 50 Most Trustworthy Financial Companies.

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