People – West
IMA Inc. named Rick Dingman director of enterprise risk management.
Dingman will work with the operations teams and sales teams in developing and marketing alternative risk strategies for IMA’s larger clients. He’s based in the Denver, Colo. offfice.
Dingman has more than 30 years of experience in the industry. He began in underwriting large commercial casualty.
IMA is a diversified financial services company specializing in risk management, insurance, surety and employee benefits solutions.
Jennifer Dumag has joined Hull & Company Inc. in its Stockton, Calif., office as a commercial lines underwriter and broker.
Dumag will be responsible for marketing, underwriting and placement of excess and surplus and commercial managing general agent risks.
Dumag began her insurance career with the Chubb Group and later joined the Glatfelter Insurance Group as senior underwriter. She also worked for Richter-Robb as well as in retail, producing with two local agencies.
Hull & Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc.
Capital Insurance Group named Davis Tyndall as vice president and chief financial officer. CGI also named Radhakrishna Mydam vice president and chief information officer.
Tyndall succeeds retiring Bob Erickson. He reports to CIG President and CEO Peter Cazzolla.
Mydam also reports to Cazzolla. He replaces former CIO David Todd, who retired in December 2013.
Tyndall has more than 16 years of experience in the insurance industry. He joined CIG in 2008. Prior to CIG, he was controller and human resource manager for Public Risk Underwriters.
Mydam has more than 23 years of experience in technology. He has been with various organizations, including IBM Global Services, John Hancock and the Norfolk & Dedham Insurance Group.
CIG serves the Western U.S. and manages personal, business and agriculture risks underwritten by its affiliate companies.
The Leavitt Group’s Tacoma, Wash., office has expanded services to include employee benefits by bringing on three employee benefits professionals.
Jon Montgomery, senior executive vice president of benefits, will lead the new division with Rick Rosaaen and Patty Rice.
Montgomery started in insurance more than 23 years ago and has worked in benefits throughout his career.
Rosaaen is a senior analyst with experience in underwriting for insurance companies, including 13 years in management.
Rice’s benefits experience started in 1976.
The Leavitt Group’s offerings include property/casualty insurance, risk management and employee benefits solutions.
Gorst & Compass Insurance is opening an office in Northern California and has hired Brad Chesnutt to expand the Gorst & Compass brand into the region.
Chesnutt joins Gorst & Compass as senior underwriter/personal lines broker reporting to Executive Vice President Bryan Clark.
Chesnutt began his insurance career in 1985, and since he’s been a claims specialist, underwriter and retail agent. Most recently he was with a national wholesaler in Northern California.
Chatsworth, Calif.-based Gorst & Compass is an independently owned, full service wholesale operation that offers general liability, property, homeowners, professional liability, transportation, workers’ compensation and excess coverage for licensed agents and brokers.
Adelson, Testan, Brundo, Novell & Jimenez, a national law firm focusing on workers’ compensation defense, opened an office in Los Angeles and has named Michelle Y. Wu as managing partner in the new office.
The new office gives ATB 13 locations throughout California and 24 offices in 12 states.
Wu was most recently a partner with ATB representing clients in matters involving workers’ comp defense. She began in 2001 as an associate attorney with two California law firms.
ATB has more than 130 professionals serving clients across the U.S.
The Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation named Gary C. Petrosino, executive vice president and Western U.S. Territory field operations officer of Chubb & Son, chairman of its national board of governors.
Petrosino assumes the role after serving on the IICF’s national board and Western division board.
Petrosino has more than 35 years of insurance industry experience. He will succeed Bruce Basso, who has been named chairman emeritus of the IICF national board.
Not-for-profit IICF has contributed more than $20 million and 179,000 volunteer hours to nonprofits.