People – West

Monterey, Calif.-based Capital Insurance Group has named Andrew Doll vice president and chief actuary.

Doll began his insurance career as an actuarial analyst in 1990. Following that he began working for a national insurance company as a senior actuarial analyst, and eventually a regional actuary.

He later joined a regional property/casualty insurance provider and was eventually promoted to vice president and chief actuary. Doll has since held executive management positions for national insurance carriers.

CIG is a regional property/casualty insurer serving the Western United States.

Glatfelter Public Practice has named Martin Watkins a sales executive for California water-related accounts.

Watkins will work in the Stockton, Calif., office and focus on developing business with water entities – those that treat, store and distribute water.

Watkins has more than 25 years of insurance industry experience, with an extensive background in sales, marketing and relationship development.

Glatfelter Public Practice is a division of Glatfelter Insurance Group. It provides insurance and risk management products for more than 4,000 public entities.

Edgewood Partners Insurance Center has named Vanessa Ruiz Mitilier a senior consultant and producer in the firm’s Southern California employee benefits consulting practice.

Mitilier will be based in EPIC’s Irvine, Calif., office. She will be responsible for new business development and the design, implementation and management of employee benefits programs for her clients. She will report to Tiffany McClellan, Southern California regional director of employee benefits.

Mitilier comes from Mercer, where she spent the last three years as a senior associate and sales professional. Before that Mitilier held a range of benefits consulting positions at Lockton Insurance Brokers, Alliant Insurance Services and Humana.

San Francisco-based EPIC offers services including commercial property/casualty, employee benefits, specialty program insurance and private client services.

LP Insurance Services Inc. has named Cory Whitfield as a risk management consultant in its risk management services division in Sacramento, Calif.

At LP Insurance, he is responsible for on-site inspections, safety program development, and management training and employee education.

Whitfield has nearly 30 years of experience in the insurance industry including various safety, loss mitigation and risk assessment positions throughout California and Arizona. He was most recently a loss control consultant for Loss Prevention Specialists in Northern California

Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services specializes in property/casualty, surety, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, medical/professional practice, personal and risk management services.

McDonald-Leavitt Insurance Agency in Santa Rosa, Calif. hired Jean Stevens as an agent licensed in commercial insurance and employee benefits.

Stevens has 25 years of insurance experience. Stevens specializes in serving the agriculture, food processing, and lumber industries.

Leavitt Group is a privately-held insurance brokerage.

Preston Guthrie has joined Leavitt Insurance Agency’s St. George, Utah, office.

Guthrie will focus on employee benefits and life insurance.

He has a strong background in sales and life insurance.

Leavitt Group Insurance is part of Leavitt Group, a large largest privately-held insurance brokerage.

Barney & Barney Insurance Services LLC has named Sam Quigley director of property/casualty.

Quigley will work in the firm’s Orange County, Calif., office, where he will focus on building the firm’s presence in the region, as well as recruiting, training and developing personnel.

Quigley joined Barney & Barney in 2003 as a client executive in the property/casualty department. Since then, he has worked to develop customized risk management programs.

Before Barney & Barney Quigley worked for UBS Financial Services in San Diego.

Barney & Barney is a Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC company.

Navion Insurance Associates Inc. has named Pam Meisl director of marketing and distribution.

Meisl will be working out of the firm’s Anaheim Hills, Calif. office.

She has 23 years of insurance industry experience. Meisl previously worked for CNA Insurance as a West Coast small business sales director.

Navion is an independent insurance broker.

Jason Ferree has joined Leavitt Great West Insurance Services’ Missoula, Mont., office as a benefits agent.

Ferree began his career in insurance in 2001 as a district sales manager marketing health plans, later working as an employee benefits consultant.

Leavitt Great West Insurance Services is a Leavitt Group agency, a large privately-held insurance brokerage.

LP Insurance Services Inc. named Virginia Bolman claims and contracts specialist in its risk management services division in Sacramento, Calif.

Bolman is responsible for contract review, compliance and risk transfer as well as complex claims support.

Bolman was most recently a regulatory compliance attorney for Esurance in Rocklin, Calif. She has more than 15 years of experience in the insurance industry, including various underwriting, claims and leadership positions with Allied, Nationwide Insurance and Wells Fargo Insurance Services.

Reno, Nev.-based LP Insurance Services specializes in property/casualty, surety, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, medical/professional practice, personal and risk management services.

John Finston was named general counsel for the California Department of Insurance.

Finston, who has served as deputy commissioner for corporate and regulatory affairs for three years, will replace outgoing General Counsel Adam Cole.

Finston has practiced regulatory law for 35 years, and currently serves on the Conservation and Liquidation Office Governance Committee, and as a board member of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp.

Before joining CDI, Finston was a partner in two insurance law firms for more than 25 years. During that time his practice emphasized insurance regulation, reinsurance, corporate transactions and insurance company insolvency matters.

He began his new assignment on July 6.

NSM Insurance Group has named Victoria Millard director of the Western Region.

Millard began her programs career 25 years ago in the MGA space, later migrating to the carrier side and managing programs nationally.

Millard has worked for Lexington Insurance Co., GE Employers Reinsurance Co. and Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. Most recently, Millard was the senior vice president of Global Distribution for QBE North America.

NSM Insurance Group specializes in the development, implementation, marketing and underwriting of industry-specific insurance programs.

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has appointed state Sen. Dean Cameron of Rupert to oversee the Idaho Department of Insurance.

The 13-term Republican lawmaker is co-chair of the Joint Finance Appropriations Committee.

Cameron also owns an insurance and securities investment company in Rupert.

The insurance position has been open since former Director Bill Deal left at the end of 2014.

A Republican legislative committee from Cameron’s legislative district will nominate candidates to succeed him in the Senate.

The governor will then choose one of those candidates to complete Cameron’s term.

Starr Cos. reported that Robert Cruz has joined the firm as national branch officer, director of field operations.

In his new role, he will lead the growth and distribution strategy of Starr’s field organization.

He will report to Chuck Dangelo, president and chief operating officer of Starr Insurance Holding.

Cruz has been in the insurance industry for 11 years. Previously, he was with Hiscox as regional executive for the Southwest, and as product head for Hiscox war, terrorism and political violence underwriting in the United States.

He also worked for AIG as a program director for homeland security solutions, and as the assistant director of corporate security.

Prior to his insurance career, Cruz spent eight years as an officer in the U.S. Army and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan.