The Woodlands Financial Group Inc. (TWFG), a retail and managing general agency headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, has added Charles Locke as its new vice president of claims. Locke brings more than 35 years of insurance experience in claims management, insurance adjusting and appraising.
Locke began his insurance career as an independent adjuster for State Farm. Throughout his career he has coordinated, set-up and developed protocol and guidelines for claims departments while ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance. Most recently Locke was a program director for Aggressive Insurance Company.
Prior to that he led the claims department for Texas Select Lloyds Insurance Company and developed and administered the company’s catastrophe preparedness and response program and provided back-up to the Florida Select and California Select CAT programs.
Richard “Gordy” Bunch founded The Woodlands Financial Group in 2000 as an independent insurance agency and financial services firm. Since then, TWFG has grown to include a full service general agency providing markets and support to more than 160 exclusive branch office locations and 950 independent agencies across 17 states.
Source: TWFG, www.twfg.net


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