People – South Central

Dallas-based property/casualty insurance agency, CoVerica, has hired Jim Bailey as senior vice president. The role will include traditional vice president responsibilities, as well as developing the company’s California master agency. He will be based in Dallas.

Bailey brings more than 20 years of sales, marketing, underwriting, general and senior management experience to this role. Bailey is returning to Dallas where in 2002 he was Safeco’s regional vice president. More recently he was president of D.R. Sparks Insurance Services, and served as vice president and underwriting manager at Davidson-Babcock.

Bailey is a member of the Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois, Missouri Association of Insurance Agents, and Allied Insurance Company Illinois Agency Council. He will be relocating from Alton, Ill., to Dallas.

CoVerica rebranded from SIG in 2011.

Gilmer, Texas-based All-Star Insurance Group Inc., a full service independent insurance agency, has appointed Leslie Bockmon as an agent. Bockmon is at All-Star Insurance’s newest office, located at 220 East Main St. on the East side of Security State Bank in Ore City.

Bockmon has worked as an insurance agent for the past 10 years at a local Ore City agency and as a banker for nine years at Security State Bank. She has obtained the professional designation of Certified Insurance Service Representative, and was named as the outstanding customer service representative for the state of Texas in 2010 by the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research.

This is the third insurance office that All-Star has opened inside an area bank, joining locations at First National Bank in Pittsburg and Security State Bank’s loan production office in Jefferson.

All-Star Insurance Group, which has been in business for 60 years, is owned by First National Bank of Gilmer. Both First National Bank and Security State Bank are subsidiaries of First Gilmer Bankshares.

American National Insurance Co. (ANICO), based in Galveston, Texas, announced that James E. Pozzi, formerly senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer, was elected president and chief operating officer. He also has been elected a member of the company’s board of directors.

Pozzi succeeds G. Richard Ferdinandtsen, who was elected vice chairman of the company’s board of directors. Ferdinandtsen will serve as an advisory member of the board, providing strategic advice and guidance to all members of the American National group.

Ferdinandtsen’s affiliation with American National began more than 53 years ago. He was president of San Antonio’s American Security Life when that company was acquired by ANICO in 1990.

Pozzi began his career with ANICO in June 1972 as an actuarial student. In 1975, he attained fellowship in the Society of Actuaries and was elected assistant vice president and assistant actuary of the company.

Since 2008, Pozzi has served as senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer for the American National Family of Companies.

Dallas-based MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA, announced that Jason Dalton has joined the firm as an energy production underwriter.

Dalton has more than 15 years of experience in both the admitted and non-admitted marketplace. For three years, Jason served as vice president at Swett & Crawford and most recently served as an officer at LevelFirst in Dallas.

At MarketScout, Dalton will assist retail agents to secure quotes from Monster Energy for workers’ compensation, general liability and auto. Dalton will also help retail agents access other energy markets should their account fall outside Monster’s appetite, which is predominately any type of onshore upstream energy company.

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