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Luis Miranda Casañas, a native of Arecibo, Puerto Rico's Barrio Santana, is the Chairman of the Board of Universal, the largest insurance group in Puerto Rico, which also has a corporate presence on the United States mainland.^[1] He is credited, during his long career with Universal, as being the driving force behind the emporium's gradual but steady expansion into diverse lines of business and of successfully surviving banking's incursion into the insurance business.

A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus School of Business Administration, his professional career in the insurance business began in 1957 as an underwriting trainee. In 1959, he founded his own company, and in 1983 founded the Eastern America Insurance Agency, the cornerstone of the Universal Insurance Group, which in 2004 began its mainland United States expansion and now has operations in Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, South Carolina and Texas, and had reached $1.4 billion in total assets by 2008.

A leader of Puerto Rico's insurance industry, Miranda presided ACODESE, the insurance industry's trade group in 1985, 1990 and 1998.

Miranda is a member of the prestigious Caribbean Business Hall of Fame, and one of only 22 businessmen to obtain the annual Lifetime Achievement Award instituted in 1988.^[2] In 2007, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award.

On a personal level, he is a paso fino horse enthusiast.

References[link]

1. ^ http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues2/2005/vol09n24/CBUniversal.html
2. ^ http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/puerto_rico/business_economy/eng/achievement.php

Sources[link]

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Luis Miranda may refer to:

• Luis Miranda (painter), Ecuadorian painter
• Luis Miranda (politician), Canadian politician

See also[link]

• Luis Miranda Casañas, Puerto Rican businessman

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Medal record
Athletics
Competitor for  Cuba
CAC Junior Championships (U20)
Gold	1996 San Salvador	Discus throw

Frank Casañas at the 2010 Arena Games

Yennifer Frank Casañas Hernández (born 18 October 1978) is a Spanish discus thrower. He competed for Cuba until May 2008.

Career[link]

In the 2008 Olympic Games he competed for Spain, reaching the fifth position in the final.

His personal best throw is 67.91 metres, which he achieved in June 2008 in Castellón.

Achievements[link]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Cuba
1996	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)	San Salvador, El Salvador	1st	Discus	53.08 m
	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	3rd	Discus	54.86 m
1997	Central American and Caribbean Championships	San Juan, Puerto Rico	3rd	Discus	55.32 m
1998	Central American and Caribbean Games	Maracaibo, Venezuela	2nd	Discus	59.38 m[1]
2000	Ibero-American Championships	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3rd	Discus	59.87 m
	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	24th	Discus	60.84 m
2003	Pan American Games	Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.	2nd	Discus	62.61 m[2]
	World Championships	Paris, France	11th (q)	Discus	59.99 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	17th	Discus	60.60 m
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	10th (q)	Discus	60.94 m
Representing  Spain
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, PR China	5th	Discus	66.49 m
2009	Mediterranean Games	Pescara, Italy	1st	Discus	65.58 m GR
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	7th (q)	Discus	61.10 m
2010	Ibero-American Championships	San Fernando, Spain	2nd	Discus	62.08 m
	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	11th	Discus	62.15 m
2011	World Championships	Daegu, Korea	DNS	Discus

External links[link]

• IAAF profile for Frank Casañas

References[link]

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