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Baker Joins LevelFirst in Dallas

LevelFirst, a wholesale broker and managing general agency based in Dallas, Texas, has announced a new staff addition. Sara Baker has joined LevelFirst as an insurance technician. She will be responsible for handling support functions with a focus on LevelFirst …

Dallas-Based Capstone Underwriters Announces Management Changes

Capstone Underwriters LLC announced that Roger F. Bogan has joined the group in Dallas as executive vice-president, brokerage. Bogan will head a new brokerage department specializing in oil and gas, hard-to-place casualty and excess liability risks. He has experience and …

Nationwide Insurance Recruiting New Agents in Texas

Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Insurance announced that the company is looking to add 100 new Advantage Program insurance agents in the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio, Texas markets. Nationwide Insurance Advantage Program agents will serve as independent contractor exclusive …

Good Alignment Between All Parties Benefits Insurance Agency Buyout

Situation: A majority partner wants to sell the agency; the rest of the partners don’t. What to do? Gaylon Brown and his partners had that problem last year. When he received a marketing email from Carmel, Ind.-based Oak Street Funding …

Cook Named Vice President of Risk Management for IMA in Colorado

IMA Inc. named Lawrence Cook to its risk management team as a vice president. Cook will be focused on the management of existing captive insurance programs as well as the development of new group captive opportunities. Cook began working in …

Dallas Man Charged With Insurance Agency Robberies

Dallas police have arrested a man suspected of more than a dozen robberies at North Texas insurance businesses. Dallas County jail records show 30-year-old Michael Cleveland was being held Oct. 21 on charges of aggravated robbery, possession of marijuana and …

XL Group’s Insurance Operations Grow in Dallas

XL Group announced an expansion of its insurance operations in Dallas. The company’s U.S. Risk Management business is setting up operations in Dallas and welcoming Gabriel Martinez as casualty underwriting director. Martinez joins XL Group from Ironshore Insurance Services where …

IMA Names Broz President, Maley Executive VP in Dallas Office

Retail insurance broker, IMA Inc. has added Rob Broz as its new president in Dallas and Kathie Maley as executive vice president. Broz joined the Dallas team to lead the company’s initiatives for growth. Maley transferred from IMA’s Wichita office …

MarketScout Adds Bourret in Commercial Program Underwriting Practice

MarketScout, an insurance distribution and underwriting company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has expanded its commercial insurance specialty program underwriting practice with the addition of Jackie Bourret as vice president, program development. Bourret was formerly vice president at Argo Group US …

MSW Restructures as Specialty Insurance Intermediary

MarketScout Corp., an insurance distribution and underwriting company headquartered in Dallas, announced it has acquired 100 percent of the stock and assets of MSW. MSW will convert from a generalist brokerage to a specialty intermediary providing access to unique and …