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Lockton’s Mountain West practice in Denver announced that Mike Roark has joined the firm as its senior vice president and construction practice leader.
Roark comes to Lockton from the Moody Insurance Agency, where he was executive vice president. Previously he was an underwriter and marketing representative for Travelers Insurance and an underwriter for Aetna.
Kansas City, Mo.-based Lockton is a large privately held independent insurance broker.
M.J. Hall and Company Inc. promoted Sarah Marsh to assistant vice president.
Marsh is part of the firm’s Stockton, Calif., team. She will continue to underwrite and broker excess and surplus line business in the Western U.S. She focuses on general liability, property, excess and professional liability.
Marsh has been with M.J. Hall since 2006. She began as the marketing and event coordinator for M.J. Hall.
M.J. Hall is an insurance brokerage with offices in Stockton, Napa, Woodland Hills, and San Francisco.
Crawford & Co. has named Steve Christensen executive general adjuster for Crawford’s global technical services division in the Los Angeles, Calif., office.
Christensen has 28 years of insurance experience. His specialties include hospitality, flood, earthquake, hurricane, builders risk, wildfire, construction defect, mold, property, boiler and machinery and product liability.
Global technical services is Atlanta, Ga.-based Crawford’s global solution for large, complex and specialty claims.
San Deigo, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Vy Ouk a commercial lines account manager.
Ouk will identify exposure to loss for clients, educate them on compliance issues and advise them on coverage.
Ouk has nine years of experience the insurance industry. Prior to Cavignac & Associates, Ouk was a mid-loss field property adjuster for Mercury Insurance, a property claims adjuster for Travelers Insurance and a commercial lines marketer for J.L. Hubbard Insurance & Bonds.
Cavignac & Associates is a risk management and commercial insurance brokerage firm.
Owen Oakley, vice president at Heffernan Insurance Brokers, has been named chairman for the San Francisco chapter of the California Trucking Association.
Owen previously served as a steering and planning committee representative for the association. His new duties include overseeing membership growth and the overall success of the San Francisco Bay area unit.
Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Heffernan has offices in San Francisco, Petaluma, Menlo Park, Los Angeles and Orange County, as well as in Portland, Ore.; St. Louis, Mo.; Long Island and New York, N.Y.
San Francisco-based Socius Insurance Services Inc. named Ian Bell senior vice president.
Bell joined Socius Insurance Services in 2013 and works on the firm’s management and professional liability team.
Socius Insurance Services is a property/casualty and management liability wholesale broker.
Carl Swan joined Tacoma, Wash.-based Propel Insurance’s national senior living practice as a sales executive.
Swan spent the last several years developing risk solutions for long-term care communities across the country.
Propel is a privately owned insurance agency that provides property/casualty, risk management, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, personal insurance and other products.