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Accident Fund Holdings, Inc. Names Garcia
Community Relations Specialist

January 17, 2012 (Lansing, MI) – Accident Fund Holdings, Inc. announces the appointment of Sarah Garcia, of Lansing, Mich., as community relations specialist. Garcia is replacing Scott Burgess, who served as community relations specialist for the company for the past seven years.

Garcia represents Accident Fund Holdings in the communities where the company does business across the country. In this role, Garcia is responsible for managing the corporate citizenship strategy through corporate giving and relationship building with community leaders and the organizations they represent. She manages all aspects of researching, evaluating, preparing and disseminating information regarding community relations opportunities.

Garcia joined the company in January 2011 as an enterprise relations specialist. Prior to joining Accident Fund Holdings, she served as deputy cabinet secretary and both deputy director and director of Operations and Information Technology in the Office of Governor Jennifer M. Granholm. Prior to that, she worked in the Michigan Legislature as a legislative aide to State Senator Christopher Dingell and a legislative assistant to State Senator Arthur Miller.

Sarah, and her husband Joe, are Lansing residents, and Sarah has lived in the community her entire life, having graduated from Holt High School. Garcia earned a bachelor’s degree in Management of Human Resources from Spring Arbor University.

About Accident Fund Holdings, Inc.
Accident Fund Holdings, Inc., located in Lansing, Michigan, is the tenth largest workers compensation insurer and the largest non-governmental specialty writer of workers compensation insurance in the United States. It conducts business through its four operating units: Accident Fund Companies, located in Lansing, Michigan; United Heartland, located in New Berlin, Wisconsin; CompWest, located in San Francisco, California; and Third Coast Underwriters, located in Chicago, Illinois. Its insurance company subsidiaries are rated “A-” (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Accident Fund Holdings is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.