People – West

Leavitt Group of Boise has hired Randon Lessing, Norah Culbertson and Brie Homan in Idaho.

Lessing is a loss control consultant developing and supporting safety programs. Culbertson is an operations specialist with experience in office management and medical assistance. Homan is a commercial account specialist with knowledge of financial planning, including life and disability insurance as well as investments.

Lessing’s recent positions include regional environmental health and safety manager for a national tradeshow company and logistics military officer for the U.S. Army.

Homan worked for Northwestern Mutual and the Bureau of Land Management in public relations and as a writer and editor.

Leavitt Group is a privately-held insurance brokerage offering property/casualty insurance, risk management, employee benefits solutions and other services.

Gorst &; Compass has named Russ Johnston vice president of business development and marketing.

Johnston is based in San Diego, Calif., and will be responsible for business development and marketing for the Western region.

Johnston comes from Conway E&S, where he was vice president and West Coast manager. Prior to that Johnston launched a nonprofit called We Minus Me, a national organization developing intern programs. He also worked for Keller Williams Realty and was golf professional at High Point Country Club in North Carolina.

Chatsworth, Calif.-based Gorst is a wholesale brokerage firm with regional offices in Mission Viejo, San Diego and Sacramento.

Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC named Laura Jeppson vice president.

Jeppson will report to Senior Vice President Brian Cushard and work out of the Woodland Hills, Calif office. She will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships with regional insurance executives and underwriters, and implementing risk transfer tools for financial institutions.

Prior to Beecher Carlson, Jeppson was involved with providing insurance products for the Bitcoin and virtual currencies industry.

Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc.

Hub International Insurance Services Inc. named James Gervang senior vice president and manager of the commercial risk division in Mountain View, Calif.

In addition to his division management role, Gervang will assume certain account management and consulting responsibilities.

Prior to Hub Gervang was with Wells Fargo Insurance Services in San Carlos as a senior vice president, managing director and national practice leader of the international risk division. Before that Gervang held commercial risk positions at ABD Insurance and Financial Services in Redwood City, and Woodruff – Sawyer & Co. of San Francisco.

Chicago, Ill.-based Hub provides an array of property/casualty, life and health, employee benefits, investment and risk management products and services.

SullivanCurtisMonroe has named Jaime Medrano associate vice president in its Irvine, Calif., location.

Medrano will guide SCM clients through the healthcare reform landscape and assist with the design and implementation of the employee benefits programs.

Prior to SCM Medrano was benefits senior account manager with Bolton & Co., and benefits account manager with Wells Fargo Insurance Services.

SCM is a privately-held insurance brokerage and risk management consulting firm.

California State Automobile Association Insurance Group Chief Operations Officer Greg Meyer was named a board member of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Meyer joined CSAA, an AAA Insurer, in 2014. Before that Meyer was the senior personal lines executive at Tower Group and president of their reciprocal exchanges, Adirondack Insurance Exchange and New Jersey Skylands Insurance Association.

IIHS is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to reducing deaths, injuries and property damage from crashes. The organization is supported by auto insurers and insurance associations.

The membership of the Arizona Insurance Council has elected its officers for 2015. They are:

Tim Goeller, president of AIC and regional vice president for business insurance at State Auto Insurance; Phyllis Senseman, vice president of AIC and vice president of agency management and marketing at CopperPoint Mutual Insurance; Brad Oltmans, treasurer of AIC and vice president of insurance at AAA Arizona; and Brett Clausen, corporate secretary of AIC and Arizona business unit vice president at Farm Bureau Financial Services.

AIC is a nonprofit, trade group focused on consumer education and partnership building on behalf of property/casualty insurers.