Robert C. Schiff, director emeritus of Cincinnati Financial Corporation, died January 7. A charter director of both The Cincinnati Insurance Companies in 1950 and Cincinnati Financial Corporation in 1968, Bob was the last living of the company's four founding agents. He remained actively involved with the company as a board member until 2004.

In the early years, Bob emphasized what would become one of our enduring competitive advantages: to carefully select independent agents, then offer products and underwrite accounts giving those agents broad flexibility to adapt the policy to each client's needs.