Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> May 25, 2004

A.derrill Crowe – Proassurance Corporation (pra)

DR. A. DERRILL CROWE is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of ProAssurance Corporation. In 1976, Dr. Crowe was intimately involved in the company's founding as a single state mutual insurance company, and has been the driving force as the company went public in 1991 and began expanding through growth and acquisition. He received his undergraduate degree from Howard College (now known as Samford University) in Birmingham; his undergraduate medical education was at the University of Alabama Medical College; he completed his internship and a surgical residency at Lloyd Noland Hospital in Birmingham, and a residency in urology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Dr. Crowe practiced urology in Birmingham for more than 25 years, and still maintains memberships in a number of medical societies and professional organizations related to that field. Dr. Crowe is a 1990 graduate of the prestigious Owner/President Management Program in Harvard University's Business School. He is active on the COO Committee of the Physician Insurers Association of America and serves that organization in a number of other capacities. Profile
TWST: Can you start with a quick overview of ProAssurance, and how you

see the company today?

Dr. Crowe: ProAssurance is a specialty insurer created by the June 2001

merger of Medical