Latest Leavitt Group Headlines
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Gates Joins The Leavitt Group as Senior Executive
Mar 13 2008 // The Leavitt Group has named Gregory L. Gates a senior executive in the organization. Gates will provide guidance and deliver quality support to a large section of the company, working with affiliated agencies located in...
N.M. Tribe Sues Regulator Over Leavitt’s Corp. Status Reinstatement
Feb 21 2008 // The Mescalero Apache Tribe in Santa Fe, N.M., contends it overpaid millions of dollars for insurance, alleging the state let an insurance agent operate after the agent was accused of submitting fraudulent documents to sell...
The Quiet Giant
Dec 23 2007 // The secret is out: Utah-based Leavitt Group is big – it now operates in 115 locations Kelly Russell, a director and chief affiliation officer for the Leavitt Group, pondered the question put before him: What would most...
Inspections Not Enough to Assure Safety of Imports, Bush Told
Sep 11 2007 // The flow of products imported into the U.S. each year is so vast that simply increasing inspections would not adequately improve safety. Instead, the government should do more to ensure products are safe before they reach...
Strength in Numbers
Jun 18 2007 // Today’s demands on independent agents are plentiful: competition, risk management, compensation disclosure, quality markets and carrier’s demands for premium quotas, to name a few. Such demands could be one...
La. Officials Hope to Create ‘Medical Homes’ for Poor, Uninsured
Sep 1 2006 // A proposed health care overhaul in the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina centers on the creation of “medical homes” – community clinics, health centers and other neighborhood facilities to...
Everest, Holdren and PrideMark Insurance Agencies Merge
May 16 2006 // Everest Insurance, Holdren Insurance Agency and PrideMark Insurance Agents/Brokers have combined organizations to form PrideMark-Everest Insurance Services. The three agencies now operate from PrideMark’s building...
Business Moves
May 8 2006 // Barlocker Insurance Services, The Leavitt Group Barlocker Insurance Services will become part of the Leavitt Group in early June. A definitive letter of intent was signed on April 6, followed by inter-company...
Barlocker Insurance Services Joins The Leavitt Group
Apr 14 2006 // Barlocker Insurance Services of Salinas, Calif., will become part of the Leavitt Group in early June. A joint statement acknowledged that a definitive letter of intent was signed on April 6th, followed by inter-company...
U.S. to Virginia: Don’t Count on Feds If Flu Pandemic Hits
Mar 28 2006 // The federal government cannot be relied upon to protect Virginia from a potential flu pandemic, and no state is fully prepared to handle such an outbreak, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt told Virginia...
Kulongoski, Leavitt Plan Oregon Bird Flu Summit
Mar 28 2006 // If bird flu breaks out among humans in Oregon, hospitals could be short of mechanical breathing machines, forcing doctors to make life-and-death decisions about who gets to use them. Ventilators essential to treating...
Utah’s GBS Benefits Affiliates with the Leavitt Group
Mar 3 2006 // GBS Benefits, a Utah employee benefits brokers and consultant, became part of the Leavitt Group effective Jan. 1. The Leavitt Group is the largest Utah-based insurance brokerage and the 20th largest insurance sales...
Leavitt Group Dismisses Albuquerque Managing Co-Owner
Oct 4 2005 // The Leavitt Group acknowledged this week that the managing co-owner in its Albuquerque office was dismissed on Sept. 23 for reported misrepresentations made in proposals to 20 current or former clients over a six-year...
Utah Supreme Court Rules State has No Holding in Workers Comp Fund
Sep 5 2005 // The Utah Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court that the state has no ownership in the Workers Compensation Fund other than as one of the 33,000 policyholders. The court on Tuesday upheld 3rd District Judge Timothy...
Utah Supreme Court Rules State has No Holding in Workers Comp Fund
Sep 5 2005 // The Utah Supreme Court has agreed with a lower court that the state has no ownership in the Workers Compensation Fund other than as one of the 33,000 policyholders. The court on Tuesday upheld Third District Judge Timothy...
Rodney Pierson
May 23 2005 // Twig Branch Seattle, Wash.-based Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company has announced that Rodney A. Pierson has been named senior vice president, CFO and treasurer. Pierson’s long history in finance includes his...
Branch Climbs Leavitt Group Ladder to VP of Development, Southeastern States
Apr 11 2005 // William “Twig” Branch has been appointed as the Leavitt Group’s vice president of Development, southeastern states. Branch will help build the Leavitt Group in the southeastern United States, operating...
Leavitt Sells Interest in Leavitt Group
Mar 22 2005 // Motivated by federal ethical standards, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has divested his interests in two Utah-based, family owned corporations. Because his agency oversees the insurance and animal health...
Stephens & Hobdy Join the Leavitt Group
Feb 21 2005 // The Leavitt Group announced that Natchez, Miss.-based Stephens & Hobdy Insurance Agency has joined the Leavitt Group, an organization of more than 80 independent insurance agencies located across the United...
HHS Secretary Must Divest Holdings in Leavitt Group
Feb 3 2005 // To avoid any conflict of interest in his new job at U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt will divest more than $5 million of stock in his family’s insurance business. The Leavitt...
