BI adds staffer in Chicago office

CHICAGO—Louise Esola has joined Business Insurance as an associate editor in its Chicago office.

Ms. Esola will report on risk management and benefits management issues for both the weekly newsmagazine and BI's Breaking News on the Web at www.BusinessInsurance.com.

For the past four years, Ms. Esola was a reporter at North County Times, a daily newspaper in San Diego where, among other things, she led the paper's education coverage. Ms. Esola had previously worked on newspapers in Virginia and as a stringer for The Associated Press.

Ms. Esola holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pa.

She can be reached by phone at 312-649-5282 and by e-mail at lesola@businessinsurance.com.