{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"134029","rtpr_id":"nPn7rF2Da","ticker":"CINF","exchange":"NASDAQ","all_tickers":["CINF"],"title":"The Cincinnati Insurance Company Chief Claims Officer Announces Retirement","author":"PR Newswire","published_at":"2026-09-02T13:05:00.031Z","article_body":"The Cincinnati Insurance Company Chief Claims Officer Announces Retirement\n\nPR Newswire\n\nCINCINNATI, Sept. 2, 2026\n\nCINCINNATI, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cincinnati Financial Corporation\n(Nasdaq: CINF) announced that Marc J. Schambow, CPCU, AIM, ASLI, chief claims\nofficer for its property casualty subsidiaries, led by The Cincinnati\nInsurance Company, will retire in January 2027.\n\nSchambow has served as Cincinnati's top claims officer since 2020, capping a\nnearly 40-year career with the company. After serving agents and policyholders\nas a field claims representative in Wisconsin for nearly a decade, he moved to\nOhio as a casualty claims supervisor in 1997. Schambow became the first claims\nmanager for The Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Company in 2007\nand transitioned to lead the field claims team in 2014.\n\n\"Marc took the reins of our claims team during the height of the Covid-19\npandemic,\" commented Stephen M. Spray, president and chief executive officer.\n\"We needed an experienced and steady leader and Marc delivered. He also worked\nto increase efficiencies and implement technology that boosted claims\nsatisfaction. His talents are evident in the consistently high marks we\nreceive from agents and policyholders about our claims service.\"\n\nTodd V. McMillan, J.D., will assume executive responsibility for the\nheadquarters and field claims teams upon Schambow's retirement. McMillan is an\nindustry veteran with nearly 30 years of experience, most recently serving as\ncorporate senior vice president, head of liability claims for Safety National\nCasualty Corporation. He started his career in private practice and then as\nstaff counsel for GEICO before joining The Hartford in 2003 where he held a\nvariety of claims leadership roles of increasing responsibility.\n\nMcMillan holds degrees from the University of Dayton and Widener University\nLaw School. He also earned his Master of Laws in Insurance from the University\nof Connecticut School of Law.\n\nAs part of this transition, executive oversight of the company's claims\noperations will transition to Thomas C. Hogan, Esq., chief legal officer.\n\nSpray continued: \"Todd's deep understanding of complex claims as both a legal\nadvisor and a claims professional make him the ideal candidate to lead our\nclaims operations. He's also a proven communicator with a reputation for\nbuilding collaborative teams. I'm confident he'll not only preserve – but\nenhance – our reputation as an industry-leading claims team that provides\nfast, fair and empathetic service.\n\n\"Tom began his career in field claims and has worked closely with our claims\nteam throughout his career as counsel for our company. I believe aligning our\nclaims and legal teams under his direction will improve coordination and lead\nto stronger outcomes on litigated claims for the company, our agents and our\npolicyholders. Tom, Marc and Todd will work together to ensure a smooth\ntransition.\"\n\nAbout Cincinnati Financial\nCincinnati Financial Corporation offers primarily business, home and auto\ninsurance through The Cincinnati Insurance Company and its two standard market\nproperty casualty companies. The same local independent insurance agencies\nthat market those policies may offer products of our other subsidiaries,\nincluding life insurance, fixed annuities and surplus lines property and\ncasualty insurance. For additional information about the company, please visit\ncinfin.com.\n Mailing Address:             Street Address:\n P.O. Box 145496              6200 South Gilmore Road\n Cincinnati, Ohio 45250-5496  Fairfield, Ohio 45014-5141\n\nSafe Harbor Statement\nOur business is subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause\nactual results to differ materially from those suggested by forward-looking\nstatements. Any forward-looking statements contained herein, are based upon\nour current estimates, assumptions and plans that are subject to uncertainty.\nThese statements are made subject to the safe-harbor provisions of the Private\nSecurities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be\nidentified by words like \"seek,\" \"expect,\" \"will,\" \"should,\" \"could,\" \"might,\"\n\"anticipate,\" \"believe,\" \"estimate,\" \"intend,\" \"likely,\" \"future,\" or other\nsimilar expressions. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they\nwere made; we assume no obligation to update such statements. Factors that\ncould cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or\nimplied by, the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:\n\nInsurance-Related Risks\n\n * Risks and uncertainties associated with our loss reserves or actual claim\ncosts exceeding reserves\n * Increased frequency and/or severity of claims or development of claims that\nare unforeseen at the time of policy issuance\n * Unusually high levels of catastrophe losses due to risk concentrations or\nchanges in weather patterns, environmental events, war or political unrest,\nterrorism incidents, cyberattacks, civil unrest or other causes; and our\nability to manage catastrophe risk\n * Risks associated with analytical models in key areas such as underwriting,\npricing, capital management, reserving, investments, reinsurance, and\ncatastrophe risk management\n * Inadequate estimates or assumptions, or reliance on third-party data used for\ncritical accounting estimates\n * Events or conditions that could weaken or harm our relationships with our\nindependent agencies and hamper opportunities to add new agencies, resulting\nin limitations on our opportunities for growth\n * Mergers, acquisitions, and other consolidations of agencies that result in a\nconcentration of a significant amount of premium in one agency or agency group\nand/or alter our competitive advantages\n * Our inability to manage business opportunities, growth prospects, and expenses\nfor our ongoing operations\n * Changing consumer insurance-buying habits\n * The inability to obtain adequate ceded reinsurance on acceptable terms, for\nacceptable amounts, and from financially strong reinsurers; and the potential\nfor nonpayment or delay in payment by reinsurers\n * Domestic and global events, such as the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle\nEast, future pandemics, inflationary trends, changes in U.S. trade and tariff\npolicy, and disruptions in the banking and financial services industry,\nresulting in insurance losses, capital market or credit market uncertainty,\nfollowed by prolonged periods of economic instability or recession, that\nlead to:\n* Securities market disruption or volatility and related effects such as\ndecreased economic activity and continued supply chain disruptions that affect\nour investment portfolio and book value\n * Significant or prolonged decline in the fair value of securities and\nimpairment of the assets\n * Significant decline in investment income due to reduced or eliminated dividend\npayouts from securities\n * Significant rise in losses from surety or director and officer policies\nwritten for financial institutions or other insured entities or in losses\nfrom policies written by Cincinnati Re or Cincinnati Global\n * An unusually high level of claims in our insurance or reinsurance operations\nthat increase litigation-related expenses\n * Decreased premium revenue and cash flow from disruption to our distribution\nchannel of independent agents, consumer self-isolation, travel limitations,\nbusiness restrictions and decreased economic activity\n * The inability of our workforce, agencies, or vendors to perform necessary\nbusiness functions\nFinancial, Economic, and Investment Risks\n\n * Declines in overall stock market values negatively affecting our equity\nportfolio and book value\n * Downgrades in our financial strength ratings\n * Interest rate fluctuations or other factors that could significantly affect:\n* Our ability to generate growth in investment income\n * Values of our fixed-maturity investments and accounts in which we hold\nbank-owned life insurance contract assets\n * Our traditional life policy reserves\n * Economic volatility and illiquidity associated with our alternative\ninvestments in private equity, private credit, real property, and limited\npartnerships\n * Failure to comply with covenants and other requirements under our credit\nfacilities, senior debt, and other debt obligations\n * Recession, prolonged elevated inflation, or other economic conditions\nresulting in lower demand for insurance products or increased\npayment delinquencies\n * The inability of our subsidiaries to pay dividends consistent with current or\npast levels impacting our ability to pay shareholder dividends or repurchase\nshares\nGeneral Business, Technology, and Operational Risks\n\n * Ineffective information technology systems or failing to develop and implement\nimprovements in technology\n * Difficulties with technology or data security breaches, including\ncyberattacks, could negatively affect our, or our agents', ability to conduct\nbusiness; disrupt our relationships with agents, policyholders, and others;\ncause reputational damage, mitigation expenses, data loss, and expose us to\nliability\n * Difficulties with our operations and technology that may negatively impact our\nability to conduct business, including cloud-based data information storage,\ndata security, remote working capabilities, and/or outsourcing relationships\nand third-party operations and data security\n * Disruption of the insurance market caused by technology innovations – such\nas driverless cars – that could decrease consumer demand for insurance\nproducts\n * Delays, inadequate data developed internally or from third parties, or\nperformance inadequacies from ongoing development and implementation of\nunderwriting and pricing models and methods, including usage-based insurance\nmethods, automation, artificial intelligence, or technology projects and\nenhancements expected to increase our efficiency, pricing accuracy,\nunderwriting profit, and competitiveness\n * Intense competition, and the impact of innovation, emerging technologies,\nartificial intelligence and changing customer preferences on the insurance\nindustry and the markets in which we operate, could harm our ability to\nmaintain or increase our business volumes and profitability\n * Inability to defer policy acquisition costs for any business segment if\npricing and loss trends would lead management to conclude that the segment\ncould not achieve sustainable profitability\n * Unforeseen departure of certain executive officers or other key employees that\ncould interrupt progress toward important strategic goals or diminish the\neffectiveness of certain longstanding relationships with insurance agents and\nothers\n * Our inability, or the inability of our independent agents, to attract and\nretain personnel\n * Events, such as a pandemic, an epidemic, natural catastrophe, or terrorism,\nwhich could hamper our ability to assemble our workforce, work effectively in\na remote environment, or other failures of business continuity or disaster\nrecovery programs\nRegulatory, Compliance, and Legal Risks\n\n * Actions of insurance departments, state attorneys general or other regulatory\nagencies, including a change to a federal system of regulation from a\nstate-based system, that:\n* Impose new obligations on us that increase our expenses or change the\nassumptions underlying our critical accounting estimates\n * Place the insurance industry under greater regulatory scrutiny or result in\nnew statutes, rules, and regulations\n * Restrict our ability to exit or reduce writings of unprofitable coverages or\nlines of business\n * Increase assessments for guaranty funds, other insurance‑related\nassessments, or mandatory reinsurance arrangements; or that impair our ability\nto recover such assessments through future surcharges or other rate changes\n * Increase our provision for federal income taxes due to changes in tax laws,\nregulations, or interpretations\n * Increase other expenses\n * Limit our ability to set fair, adequate, and reasonable rates\n * Restrict our ability to cancel policies\n * Impose new underwriting standards\n * Place us at a disadvantage in the marketplace\n * Restrict our ability to execute our business model, including the way we\ncompensate agents\n * Adverse outcomes from litigation, environmental claims, mass torts or\nadministrative proceedings, including effects of social inflation and\nthird-party litigation funding on the size and frequency of litigation awards\n * Events or actions, including unauthorized intentional circumvention of\ncontrols, which reduce our future ability to maintain effective internal\ncontrol over financial reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002\n * Effects of changing social, global, economic, and regulatory environments\n * Additional measures affecting corporate financial reporting and governance\nthat can affect the market value of our common stock\nRisks and uncertainties are further discussed in other filings with the\nSecurities and Exchange Commission, including our 2025 Annual Report on Form\n10-K, Item 1A, Risk Factors, Page 30.\n\nView original content to download\nmultimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-cincinnati-insurance-company-chief-claims-officer-announces-retirement-302867716.html\n(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-cincinnati-insurance-company-chief-claims-officer-announces-retirement-302867716.html)\n\nSOURCE Cincinnati Financial Corporation\n\n\n\nInvestor Contact: Andrew F. Gossard, 513-870-2768, CINF-IR@cinfin.com or Media Contact: Betsy E. Ertel, 513-603-5323, Media_Inquiries@cinfin.com\n\nPhoto: \nhttps://mmx.prnewswire.com/media/MS262662/CINCINNATI-FINANCIAL-CORPORATION-LOGO.jpg?id=OA2924262\n\nCopyright (c) 2026 PR Newswire Association,LLC. All Rights Reserved.","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nPn7rF2Da","title":"The Cincinnati Insurance Company Chief Claims Officer Announces Retirement","author":"PR Newswire","ticker":"CINF","created":"2026-09-02T13:05:00.031Z","tickers":["CINF"],"exchange":"NASDAQ","article_body":"The Cincinnati Insurance Company Chief Claims Officer Announces Retirement\n\nPR Newswire\n\nCINCINNATI, Sept. 2, 2026\n\nCINCINNATI, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cincinnati Financial Corporation\n(Nasdaq: CINF) announced that Marc J. Schambow, CPCU, AIM, ASLI, chief claims\nofficer for its property casualty subsidiaries, led by The Cincinnati\nInsurance Company, will retire in January 2027.\n\nSchambow has served as Cincinnati's top claims officer since 2020, capping a\nnearly 40-year career with the company. After serving agents and policyholders\nas a field claims representative in Wisconsin for nearly a decade, he moved to\nOhio as a casualty claims supervisor in 1997. Schambow became the first claims\nmanager for The Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Company in 2007\nand transitioned to lead the field claims team in 2014.\n\n\"Marc took the reins of our claims team during the height of the Covid-19\npandemic,\" commented Stephen M. Spray, president and chief executive officer.\n\"We needed an experienced and steady leader and Marc delivered. He also worked\nto increase efficiencies and implement technology that boosted claims\nsatisfaction. His talents are evident in the consistently high marks we\nreceive from agents and policyholders about our claims service.\"\n\nTodd V. McMillan, J.D., will assume executive responsibility for the\nheadquarters and field claims teams upon Schambow's retirement. McMillan is an\nindustry veteran with nearly 30 years of experience, most recently serving as\ncorporate senior vice president, head of liability claims for Safety National\nCasualty Corporation. He started his career in private practice and then as\nstaff counsel for GEICO before joining The Hartford in 2003 where he held a\nvariety of claims leadership roles of increasing responsibility.\n\nMcMillan holds degrees from the University of Dayton and Widener University\nLaw School. He also earned his Master of Laws in Insurance from the University\nof Connecticut School of Law.\n\nAs part of this transition, executive oversight of the company's claims\noperations will transition to Thomas C. Hogan, Esq., chief legal officer.\n\nSpray continued: \"Todd's deep understanding of complex claims as both a legal\nadvisor and a claims professional make him the ideal candidate to lead our\nclaims operations. He's also a proven communicator with a reputation for\nbuilding collaborative teams. I'm confident he'll not only preserve – but\nenhance – our reputation as an industry-leading claims team that provides\nfast, fair and empathetic service.\n\n\"Tom began his career in field claims and has worked closely with our claims\nteam throughout his career as counsel for our company. I believe aligning our\nclaims and legal teams under his direction will improve coordination and lead\nto stronger outcomes on litigated claims for the company, our agents and our\npolicyholders. Tom, Marc and Todd will work together to ensure a smooth\ntransition.\"\n\nAbout Cincinnati Financial\nCincinnati Financial Corporation offers primarily business, home and auto\ninsurance through The Cincinnati Insurance Company and its two standard market\nproperty casualty companies. The same local independent insurance agencies\nthat market those policies may offer products of our other subsidiaries,\nincluding life insurance, fixed annuities and surplus lines property and\ncasualty insurance. For additional information about the company, please visit\ncinfin.com.\n Mailing Address:             Street Address:\n P.O. Box 145496              6200 South Gilmore Road\n Cincinnati, Ohio 45250-5496  Fairfield, Ohio 45014-5141\n\nSafe Harbor Statement\nOur business is subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause\nactual results to differ materially from those suggested by forward-looking\nstatements. Any forward-looking statements contained herein, are based upon\nour current estimates, assumptions and plans that are subject to uncertainty.\nThese statements are made subject to the safe-harbor provisions of the Private\nSecurities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be\nidentified by words like \"seek,\" \"expect,\" \"will,\" \"should,\" \"could,\" \"might,\"\n\"anticipate,\" \"believe,\" \"estimate,\" \"intend,\" \"likely,\" \"future,\" or other\nsimilar expressions. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they\nwere made; we assume no obligation to update such statements. Factors that\ncould cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in, or\nimplied by, the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:\n\nInsurance-Related Risks\n\n * Risks and uncertainties associated with our loss reserves or actual claim\ncosts exceeding reserves\n * Increased frequency and/or severity of claims or development of claims that\nare unforeseen at the time of policy issuance\n * Unusually high levels of catastrophe losses due to risk concentrations or\nchanges in weather patterns, environmental events, war or political unrest,\nterrorism incidents, cyberattacks, civil unrest or other causes; and our\nability to manage catastrophe risk\n * Risks associated with analytical models in key areas such as underwriting,\npricing, capital management, reserving, investments, reinsurance, and\ncatastrophe risk management\n * Inadequate estimates or assumptions, or reliance on third-party data used for\ncritical accounting estimates\n * Events or conditions that could weaken or harm our relationships with our\nindependent agencies and hamper opportunities to add new agencies, resulting\nin limitations on our opportunities for growth\n * Mergers, acquisitions, and other consolidations of agencies that result in a\nconcentration of a significant amount of premium in one agency or agency group\nand/or alter our competitive advantages\n * Our inability to manage business opportunities, growth prospects, and expenses\nfor our ongoing operations\n * Changing consumer insurance-buying habits\n * The inability to obtain adequate ceded reinsurance on acceptable terms, for\nacceptable amounts, and from financially strong reinsurers; and the potential\nfor nonpayment or delay in payment by reinsurers\n * Domestic and global events, such as the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle\nEast, future pandemics, inflationary trends, changes in U.S. trade and tariff\npolicy, and disruptions in the banking and financial services industry,\nresulting in insurance losses, capital market or credit market uncertainty,\nfollowed by prolonged periods of economic instability or recession, that\nlead to:\n* Securities market disruption or volatility and related effects such as\ndecreased economic activity and continued supply chain disruptions that affect\nour investment portfolio and book value\n * Significant or prolonged decline in the fair value of securities and\nimpairment of the assets\n * Significant decline in investment income due to reduced or eliminated dividend\npayouts from securities\n * Significant rise in losses from surety or director and officer policies\nwritten for financial institutions or other insured entities or in losses\nfrom policies written by Cincinnati Re or Cincinnati Global\n * An unusually high level of claims in our insurance or reinsurance operations\nthat increase litigation-related expenses\n * Decreased premium revenue and cash flow from disruption to our distribution\nchannel of independent agents, consumer self-isolation, travel limitations,\nbusiness restrictions and decreased economic activity\n * The inability of our workforce, agencies, or vendors to perform necessary\nbusiness functions\nFinancial, Economic, and Investment Risks\n\n * Declines in overall stock market values negatively affecting our equity\nportfolio and book value\n * Downgrades in our financial strength ratings\n * Interest rate fluctuations or other factors that could significantly affect:\n* Our ability to generate growth in investment income\n * Values of our fixed-maturity investments and accounts in which we hold\nbank-owned life insurance contract assets\n * Our traditional life policy reserves\n * Economic volatility and illiquidity associated with our alternative\ninvestments in private equity, private credit, real property, and limited\npartnerships\n * Failure to comply with covenants and other requirements under our credit\nfacilities, senior debt, and other debt obligations\n * Recession, prolonged elevated inflation, or other economic conditions\nresulting in lower demand for insurance products or increased\npayment delinquencies\n * The inability of our subsidiaries to pay dividends consistent with current or\npast levels impacting our ability to pay shareholder dividends or repurchase\nshares\nGeneral Business, Technology, and Operational Risks\n\n * Ineffective information technology systems or failing to develop and implement\nimprovements in technology\n * Difficulties with technology or data security breaches, including\ncyberattacks, could negatively affect our, or our agents', ability to conduct\nbusiness; disrupt our relationships with agents, policyholders, and others;\ncause reputational damage, mitigation expenses, data loss, and expose us to\nliability\n * Difficulties with our operations and technology that may negatively impact our\nability to conduct business, including cloud-based data information storage,\ndata security, remote working capabilities, and/or outsourcing relationships\nand third-party operations and data security\n * Disruption of the insurance market caused by technology innovations – such\nas driverless cars – that could decrease consumer demand for insurance\nproducts\n * Delays, inadequate data developed internally or from third parties, or\nperformance inadequacies from ongoing development and implementation of\nunderwriting and pricing models and methods, including usage-based insurance\nmethods, automation, artificial intelligence, or technology projects and\nenhancements expected to increase our efficiency, pricing accuracy,\nunderwriting profit, and competitiveness\n * Intense competition, and the impact of innovation, emerging technologies,\nartificial intelligence and changing customer preferences on the insurance\nindustry and the markets in which we operate, could harm our ability to\nmaintain or increase our business volumes and profitability\n * Inability to defer policy acquisition costs for any business segment if\npricing and loss trends would lead management to conclude that the segment\ncould not achieve sustainable profitability\n * Unforeseen departure of certain executive officers or other key employees that\ncould interrupt progress toward important strategic goals or diminish the\neffectiveness of certain longstanding relationships with insurance agents and\nothers\n * Our inability, or the inability of our independent agents, to attract and\nretain personnel\n * Events, such as a pandemic, an epidemic, natural catastrophe, or terrorism,\nwhich could hamper our ability to assemble our workforce, work effectively in\na remote environment, or other failures of business continuity or disaster\nrecovery programs\nRegulatory, Compliance, and Legal Risks\n\n * Actions of insurance departments, state attorneys general or other regulatory\nagencies, including a change to a federal system of regulation from a\nstate-based system, that:\n* Impose new obligations on us that increase our expenses or change the\nassumptions underlying our critical accounting estimates\n * Place the insurance industry under greater regulatory scrutiny or result in\nnew statutes, rules, and regulations\n * Restrict our ability to exit or reduce writings of unprofitable coverages or\nlines of business\n * Increase assessments for guaranty funds, other insurance‑related\nassessments, or mandatory reinsurance arrangements; or that impair our ability\nto recover such assessments through future surcharges or other rate changes\n * Increase our provision for federal income taxes due to changes in tax laws,\nregulations, or interpretations\n * Increase other expenses\n * Limit our ability to set fair, adequate, and reasonable rates\n * Restrict our ability to cancel policies\n * Impose new underwriting standards\n * Place us at a disadvantage in the marketplace\n * Restrict our ability to execute our business model, including the way we\ncompensate agents\n * Adverse outcomes from litigation, environmental claims, mass torts or\nadministrative proceedings, including effects of social inflation and\nthird-party litigation funding on the size and frequency of litigation awards\n * Events or actions, including unauthorized intentional circumvention of\ncontrols, which reduce our future ability to maintain effective internal\ncontrol over financial reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002\n * Effects of changing social, global, economic, and regulatory environments\n * Additional measures affecting corporate financial reporting and governance\nthat can affect the market value of our common stock\nRisks and uncertainties are further discussed in other filings with the\nSecurities and Exchange Commission, including our 2025 Annual Report on Form\n10-K, Item 1A, Risk Factors, Page 30.\n\nView original content to download\nmultimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-cincinnati-insurance-company-chief-claims-officer-announces-retirement-302867716.html\n(https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-cincinnati-insurance-company-chief-claims-officer-announces-retirement-302867716.html)\n\nSOURCE Cincinnati Financial Corporation\n\n\n\nInvestor Contact: Andrew F. Gossard, 513-870-2768, CINF-IR@cinfin.com or Media Contact: Betsy E. Ertel, 513-603-5323, Media_Inquiries@cinfin.com\n\nPhoto: \nhttps://mmx.prnewswire.com/media/MS262662/CINCINNATI-FINANCIAL-CORPORATION-LOGO.jpg?id=OA2924262\n\nCopyright (c) 2026 PR Newswire Association,LLC. All Rights Reserved."},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-09-02T13:05:00.262002304Z","server_sent_at_ms":1788354300262},"received_at":"2026-09-02T13:05:00.484Z","source_url":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-cincinnati-insurance-company-chief-claims-officer-announces-retirement-302867716.html"},"analysis":{"id":"122925","press_release_id":"134029","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Insurance","sector":"Financials"},"redFlags":["claims operations will be consolidated under the chief legal officer — structural realignment worth monitoring for execution risk"],"eventType":"executive_change","narrative":"Cincinnati Financial (Nasdaq: CINF) said Marc J. 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