Les Herr has been appointed to a one-year term as chairman of the board of the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Inc., a Toronto-based insurance industry advocacy group. Herr, who has been president and CEO of Empire Life Insurance Co., based in Kingston, Ont., since April 2008, previously served as chairman of CLHIA’s standing committees on market conduct and government relations. He is also a member of the Ottawa-based Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

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