Cincinnati Financial Corp. (CINF) announced the January 7 death of its director emeritus Robert Schiff. He was a founding agent, a director of The Cincinnati Insurance Company since 1950 and a director of Cincinnati Financial since its incorporation in 1968.
Schiff retired in 2004 from the boards of Cincinnati Financial and its four insurance subsidiaries. At that time, he also retired from Schiff, Kreidler-Shell Inc., a large, Cincinnati area insurance agency that he had served as chairman since 1991 and president from 1984 to 1991.
He formed Schiff, Kreidler-Shell in 1984 after leaving his position as senior vice president of Cincinnati Insurance to expand his agency business. He began his insurance career as an agent in 1945, following graduation from The Ohio State University, where he played third base for two years on the baseball team.
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