Arizona workers’ compensation insurance provider CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Co. named Rick Jones executive vice president and chief operating officer.
CopperPoint is formerly SCF Arizona.
Jones will be responsible for executing changes to CopperPoint’s operations in support of long-term strategies while focusing on day-to-day activities.
Jones will play a role in CopperPoint’s business development and expansion of products and services, and he will remain president of the company’s subsidiaries: CopperPoint Premier; CopperPoint American; CopperPoint Western; CopperPoint General; CopperPoint National; CopperPoint Indemnity and CopperPoint Casualty; as well as Mountain West Agency Services.
Jones has more than 30 years’ experience in the insurance industry, beginning with risk management for a division of Teledyne.
Prior to joining CopperPoint in 2006, Jones served as senior vice president of compliance and assistant secretary for CNA National Warranty Corp. In 1982, Jones opened the Arizona branch office of EBI Insurance Companies, and in 1986 moved to Corroon & Black as vice president of marketing.
Based in Phoenix, CopperPoint has a presence throughout Arizona.
Pacific Specialty Insurance Co. in California has promoted Brian Weaver to senior vice president of sales.
Weaver heads the company’s efforts working with the independent brokers and agents who sell the company’s products in California and nationally. He was vice president before his promotion, and he joined Pacific Specialty in 1980.
Pacific Specialty has offices in Menlo Park and Anaheim, Calif., and serves individuals and small-business owners with specialty and general policies, including homeowners insurance, recreational vehicle insurance and business insurance.
Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. named Cheryl Heller senior account manager in employee benefits in its California North Bay office.
Matt Goughnour has joined Woodruff-Sawyer as vice president the firm’s Portland, Ore., office.
Heller will focus on client service and account management, with a focus on the winery, real estate, educational and solar sectors.
Heller has an extensive background in the insurance and employee benefits industries. Before Woodruff-Sawyer, Heller was at Vantreo Insurance Brokerage in Santa Rosa for six years.
Goughnour will focus on growing and servicing companies in the forest products industry.
Goughnour has more than 14 years of experience in the insurance industry.
He began specializing in forest products with Lumberman’s Underwriting Alliance and has spent the past several years working with a global brokerage firm.
San Francisco, Calif.-based Woodruff-Sawyer is an active partner of Assurex Global and International Benefits Network. Woodruff-Sawyer has offices throughout California and in Portland.
Heffernan Insurance Brokers named Lisa Castagnola assistant vice president in its Orange County branch.
Castagnola will focus on building the contractors niche for Heffernan in Southern California.
Castagnola has expertise in all areas of commercial insurance, including property/casualty, risk management and workers’ compensation.
Her background includes account servicing for a range of businesses, including general contractors/developers, property managers, associations, restaurateurs and manufacturers.
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., and New York, N.Y.
Leavitt Central Coast Insurance Services has hired Joe Bonura in its Central California operation.
Bonura specializes in commercial insurance for trucking and agriculture.
Prior to the Leavitt Group, Bonura sold individual health plans.
He also worked as a media consultant selling print and digital advertising for the Monterey Herald, and was a territory manager in the floor covering industry.
The Leavitt Group offers services including property/casualty insurance, risk management and employee benefits solutions.
Sean Morris has joined McDonald-Leavitt Insurance Agency, and will specialize in commercial insurance.
Prior to McDonald-Leavitt, Morris worked for 15 years selling real estate.
McDonald-Leavitt is part of the Leavitt Group, which has more than 125 locations across the United States.
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