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Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, a retail property, casualty and employee benefits insurance brokerage, named Hilton Brown to oversee client claims and advocacy in the company’s California offices in Los Angeles and Irvine.

Brown will also provide claims support for EPIC’s sister company PowerGuard Insurance Services in Irvine.

Brown, who has 22 years in claims management and client advocacy, will oversee client care and service, claims management, claims review and audits, negotiation and client advocacy.

Before EPIC, Brown spent nine years with Marsh Inc. in Los Angeles, starting as an associate consultant and moving to vice president.

Concord, Calif.-based Jenkins Insurance Group, a Leavitt Group firm, has hired Chuck Somers as vice president of business insurance.

With more than 28 years’ experience, Somers will specialize in construction, food processing and manufacturing.

Somers first worked with California Casualty in San Mateo, Calif., specializing in personal lines, including homeowners and auto insurance. He later joined Andreini and Co. and worked as a producer in its agriculture and construction divisions, and worked for Arthur J. Gallagher.

Jenkins provides risk management, property/casualty insurance and employee benefits programs to clients.

Marsh & McLennan Companies announced that Vanessa Wittman, the company’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, is resigning for a senior role at Google Inc. Wittman will assist the company in the transition of her responsibilities until later this month before joining the Internet search giant.

Mike Bischoff, vice president of corporate finance, will assume the role of chief financial officer on an interim basis while the company conducts a search for a permanent CFO.

Wittman has been serving as Marsh & McLennan’s CFO since 2008. Prior to Marsh & McLennan, she was CFO and executive vice president of Adelphia Communications Corp. from 2003 to 2007. She also served as CFO of 360networks, and has held positions with Microsoft, Metricom Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead Wholesale Insurance Services named Tony McIntosh assistant vice president of its workers’ compensation practice in Northern California.

McIntosh, who will be based in Bencia, Calif., has more than 25 years of experience in workers’ compensation and has held positions in on both the carrier and agency side of the business, including field underwriting, program development and management and wholesale brokering.

He will be responsible for primary and excess workers’ compensation brokering along with agency development for AWIS.

Dotson Louie has joined Tustin, Calif -based managing general agent Yates in its Walnut Creek, Calif., office.

Louie spent the past 11 years at a national wholesale MGA. Louie, who has a broad background in commercial property/casualty as well as professional lines, brings over 20 years of underwriting and wholesale brokering experience to Yates.

Stephanie Roush joined Agoura Hills based B & B Premier Insurance Solutions Inc. as an account executive.

Roush, who specializes in workers’ compensation and business insurance, joined B & B after relocating to California from Colorado. Her expertise is in restaurants, nonprofits, professionals and the real estate industry.

B & B provides coverage in the areas of property/casualty, personal insurance and business/commercial insurance.

Topics California Claims Agencies Workers' Compensation Property Casualty