Rears Manufacturing

Workers' Compensation + Employee Benefits

HUB Team Haugen + Rears Manufacturing

Protecting the people who build it. Seventy-five years of craftsmanship, backed by one team.

Everything Under One Roof

We're proud to be your P&C partner and we'd love to continue to build our partnership by bringing your workers' comp and employee benefits under the same roof. We already know your operation, your people, and how your business runs. Bringing everything into that same relationship makes it cohesive. One team managing the full picture means when we go to market we can coordinate across all your lines and take complexity off your plate. We'd love the opportunity to earn that trust on these two lines as well.

Active Program Management

Workers' Compensation

Proactive

Experience Mod Management

We review claims, tighten reporting, and build return-to-work plans before incidents happen, working to keep your experience modifier where it belongs.

Accuracy

Classification Accuracy

Getting every role classified correctly, from the shop floor to the office, so you are not overpaying for the work your people actually do.

Prevention

Safety Program Support

Connecting Rears to HUB loss control resources, OSHA guidance, and carrier safety engineering, so prevention is built into the program.

Markets

Carrier Access

Access to specialty carriers who understand metal fabrication and equipment manufacturing, not just a generalist's short list.

Advocacy

Claims Advocacy

When a claim is disputed, we are the employer's voice, managing the process and the carrier relationship on your behalf.

The People Behind Your WC Program

Mike Godfrey

Vice President, Workers' Compensation

Primary WC Agent and Client Liaison

Mike is your principal contact for Workers' Compensation. He partners closely with clients to assess exposure, design tailored coverage, and advocate hard through the claims process, grounded in deep industry knowledge and responsive communication.

Key Capabilities

Exposure assessment and coverage design
Carrier negotiation and placement
Claims advocacy and dispute support
Experience-mod strategy
Multi-state WC programs

Alexander "Xander" D'Arcy

Workers' Compensation Claims Analyst

Certified Claims Adjuster, 14+ years

Xander manages claims from first report through resolution, focused on cost mitigation, return-to-work programs, and protecting your experience modifier. He works as an employer advocate alongside carrier teams, with a background spanning construction and other field-heavy industries.

Key Capabilities

Claims management and education
Injury-trend identification
Return-to-work and transitional duty
Claims reserves analysis
Experience-mod education
Onsite claim reviews

Where Comp Meets Benefits

Workers' comp covers the job. Disability covers the rest.

Workers' compensation responds to on-the-job injury. Short-term disability responds to off-the-job illness and injury. For a workforce doing physical work every day, both matter, and they are usually placed by different brokers. Holding both relationships lets Team Haugen coordinate them, closing the gaps and avoiding the duplicate cost that comes from running them apart.

Employee Benefits

Benefits that hold onto good people.

Skilled trades have options. For a family-owned manufacturer competing for welders, machinists, and fabricators, benefits are how you attract and keep the people who make the work possible. This is the opportunity to build a program that rivals far larger employers.

Group Life & Disability

Group life, short-term, and long-term disability. For a workforce doing physical work, disability coverage is wage protection when an off-the-job illness or injury keeps someone home.

Retirement & 401(k)

A retirement plan built around a long-tenured, multi-generational workforce, the kind of benefit that says a family business is investing in its people for the long run.

The Specialist We Bring

Employee Benefits

Samantha Bradley

Strategy & Financial Consultant, Financial Planning

A benefits program is a strategy, not a renewal quote. Samantha Bradley brings that strategy to the Rears relationship, from plan design and renewal marketing to the disability and retirement decisions that matter most to a skilled-trades workforce.

She works alongside the Team Haugen advisors you already know, so benefits become part of one coordinated relationship, not a separate broker to manage.

Renewal Strategy & Marketing
Plan Design & Benchmarking
Group Life & Disability (STD/LTD)
Retirement & 401(k) Review
HSA & Plan Education
Coordinated Comp & Benefits Strategy

The Fit

Why Team Haugen

Three coverages, one relationship. Here is what it means to bring workers' compensation and benefits under the team that already protects what Rears has built.

Manufacturing fluency

We understand metal fabrication risk specifically, not manufacturing in the abstract. Multi-role payroll, return-to-work, the realities of a shop floor. You will know quickly whether an advisor understands your world. We do.

Single point of accountability

Three coverages, one team that knows you. A comp claim, a benefits question, a property and casualty issue, you are not calling three different brokers. For a family-owned company without a large internal risk team, that simplicity is real value.

Your Team

Team Haugen

One team across every line you carry. Three Haugen principals lead the relationship, backed by HUB's workers' compensation, benefits, and risk management specialists.

Logan Haugen

SVP, Commercial Lines / Team Haugen Lead

Spencer Haugen

Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines

Hayden Haugen

Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines

Supporting Team

Nancy Tribolet

Private Client Risk Advisor

Brandon Vogel

Private Client Risk Advisor

Mike Godfrey

Vice President, Workers' Compensation

Alexander D'Arcy

Workers' Compensation Claims Analyst

Meredith Laing

Insurance Adjuster

Don Watson

Client Services Advisor

Linda Shaddon

CL Sr. Account Manager

Sindee Johnson

CL Account Manager II

Marcia Hawkins

CL Account Manager II

Dayna Oda-Kell

CL Account Manager II

Devin Sanders

Sr. Risk Management Consultant

Marcy Baker

Dana Brinkley

Rears Manufacturing

Let's Talk

Let's have the conversation.

No new pitch, no starting over. Just the next conversation in a relationship that already works, about protecting the people who build what Rears makes.

Let's talk about bringing workers' compensation and employee benefits under the team that already protects Rears, three coverages, one relationship, one point of accountability.

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