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EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants has added risk management and insurance professionals Rose Nordbrock, Jeff Breskin, Pabla Barros and Jose Fuentes to the firm’s operations in Southern California.
Nordbrock joins EPIC as principal and practice group leader. Breskin joins as vice president in his specialty of workers’ compensation. Barros joins as vice president and account executive. Fuentes joins as senior account manager.
The practice group will be based in EPIC’s downtown Los Angeles office and report to Jim Gillette, president of EPIC’s Pacific south region.
Nordbrock, Breskin, Barros and Fuentes will be responsible for the design, placement and management of property/casualty and workers’ comp programs, and providing risk management solutions for mid-market and large clients across a range of industries.
All join EPIC from the Los Angeles office of Crystal & Co.
San Francisco, Calif.-based StateFund First, a sister company of Charity First Insurance Services, has promoted Erica Bro to program manager.
Bro began her career at StateFund First in 2013, reviewing new business submissions.
She was promoted first to agency representative and then to a supervisory role.
StateFund First is a program manager in the property/casualty insurance industry, exclusively providing workers’ compensation insurance coverage.
Flow Insurance Services has named Adam Matheny a program administrator in its Spokane, Wash., location.
Matheny has been in the insurance industry since 2011, having started with Safeco Insurance. In 2012, he opened an agency with American Family Insurance. He also worked as a commercial underwriter with Travelers Insurance.
Flow Insurance Services a San Francisco Bay area wholesaler specializing in private flood, earthquake, workers’ compensation, building insurance and high value homes.
SAIF has named former Oregon insurance commissioner Laura Robison as its chief actuarial officer.
The appointment is effective in September.
Robison will manage the loss reserving process, oversee ratemaking and rate filing, and manage SAIF’s reinsurance program, among other duties.
Robison is currently chief financial officer at Oregon Health Authority. She was previously the insurance commissioner, chief actuary, and administrator within the Division of Financial Regulation in the State of Oregon’s Department of Consumer and Business Services. Previous positions include consulting actuary for Willis Towers Watson, an underwriting manager for Applied Underwriters and an actuarial analyst for Liberty Mutual Group in Boston.
SAIF is Oregon’s not-for-profit workers’ compensation insurance company.
Pinnacol Assurance in Colorado is revamping its leadership structure.
Mark Isakson, who had been senior vice president of operations, now becomes the company’s chief customer officer. He will serve as the senior executive overseeing operations, information services and agency relations.
Quincy Douglass, previously the associate vice president of customer experience, will become vice president of operations, overseeing underwriting, claims, medical operations and customer experience.
Prior to assuming the role of senior vice president of operations, Isakson was vice president of insurance operations, and has also held the roles of vice president of underwriting, business director and senior underwriter. Previously, Isakson was a business analyst and financial advisor for GAF Materials Corp. and Raymond James Financial Services.
Douglass joined Pinnacol in 2008 as a product manager, and was promoted to business director in 2011. He assumed his most recent role as associate vice president of customer experience in 2014. Prior to joining Pinnacol, he spent time at Accenture Consulting and Corporate Express.
Pinnacol provides workers’ compensation insurance to 57,000 employers.
Alliant Insurance Services Inc. has named Kelley Bernal senior vice president and senior director of underwriting in its SIU a division.
Alliant also named David Harper senior vice president within its healthcare group.
Bernal will be based in SIU’s Glendale, Calif., headquarters and is charged with using her expertise within the difference in conditions market to grow the division.
Bernal has 17 years of experience. She was previously vice president and senior earthquake underwriter at Catalytic Risk Managers & Insurance Agency Inc.
Harper will be based in Orange County, Calif., and design customized insurance and risk management solutions for clients throughout the Western Region.
Harper was previously regional director with Beecher Carlson. He was president and founder of DW Harper Group Inc. before that.
Newport Beach, Calif.-based Alliant provides property/casualty, workers’ compensation, employee benefits, surety, and financial products and services.
Monarch E&S Insurance Services has promoted Lynn Bertram to senior underwriter and manager of commercial lines operations.
Bertram has worked with Monarch E&S for 15 years, underwriting new business for the past seven.
Monarch E&S is a California-based wholesale brokerage and managing general agent.
Beecher Carlson Insurance Services LLC has named Jeff C. Rhoades vice president.
Rhoades joins the practice in Portland, Ore., and will report to Erin Lynch, president of the energy practice. Rhoades will focus his efforts primarily on the West Coast.
For the last seven years, he has been a producer at McGriff, Seibels & Williams.
Beecher Carlson is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brown & Brown Inc.
Everest Insurance has added Becky Biermann as a senior underwriter within the environmental division.
Biermann will be located in the company’s Walnut Creek, Calif., office and will be responsible for managing broking relationships across the West and Central regions.
She has 18 years of experience underwriting casualty and environmental liability. Biermann began her career at AIG in 2005 in the environmental casualty division, and in 2011 she was promoted to regional manager for environmental business.
She most recently worked for Enviant, an environmental specialty MGA, as vice president and lead environmental underwriter for the West Coast.
Everest Insurance is part of Everest Re Group Ltd., a Bermuda holding company that operates through subsidiaries.