The Team Behind the Program
Three people anchor Sherman Bros.' WC program. Strategy, loss-side discipline, and day-to-day claim coordination across multiple states and jurisdictions.
VP, Workers' Compensation
Mike Godfrey serves as Vice President, Workers' Compensation for HUB International and is one of the senior workers' compensation specialists on Team Haugen. With decades of experience advising Oregon businesses on workers' compensation strategy, claims management, and cost containment, Mike brings a deep technical understanding of the workers' compensation marketplace and how to structure long-term solutions for employers.
Prior to joining HUB International, Mike held a leadership role with Ward Insurance Agency, where he specialized in workers' compensation consulting and client advocacy. Throughout his career, he has worked closely with businesses, public entities, and safety teams to help reduce claim frequency, improve loss performance, and create sustainable workers' compensation programs.
Mike is actively involved in the Oregon workers' compensation community and has served in advisory leadership roles with SAIF Corporation, collaborating with agency leaders and industry professionals on workers' compensation trends, market conditions, and employer solutions statewide.
Known for his steady, practical approach and extensive industry knowledge, Mike serves as a key resource for clients navigating complex workers' compensation challenges, from program design and experience modification management to claims strategy and carrier negotiations. Clients value his experience, responsiveness, and ability to simplify complicated workers' compensation issues into actionable solutions.
Sr. Risk Management Consultant
Devin Sanders works as a HUB International Sr. Risk Management Consultant. He brings extensive safety management and environmental compliance experience to HUB Clients across a wide variety of industries including wood products, construction, manufacturing, hospitality, wastewater treatment, industrial stormwater, air emissions, ISO and forest sustainability certifications, food processing, transportation, and professional services. In his current role, he partners with clients to minimize employee and public environmental, health and safety losses, achieve regulatory compliance, and build a robust environmental, health, safety culture.
Commonly Provided Services
Workers Compensation Claims Analyst
Xander is the workers compensation analyst/consultant at HUB International. He has 14+ years as a Certified Claims Adjuster, as well as an agent and account manager. His claims management background will assist HUB clients across a wide variety of industries, including: wood products, construction, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, higher education, food processing, public entities, nonprofits, and transportation.
In his current role, he partners with clients to assist them in understanding the claims process as well as helping them manage claims for the best optimal outcome. He will assist in minimizing employee and public safety losses, while providing invaluable education and service to the management of claims.
Commonly Provided Services
Workers' Compensation, Where the Risk Lives
Sherman Bros. carries a layered, multi-hazard WC exposure that most carriers and brokers will price generically as "trucking." The opportunity for Team Haugen is to peel back those layers and demonstrate that we understand how each division, role, and geography contributes to, or protects, their experience modifier.
Drivers and terminal workers handling liquid chemicals, methanol, fuels, and industrial waste face some of the highest-severity WC exposures in transportation. Chemical burns, inhalation incidents, and spill-related injuries require specialized underwriting. The dual-terminal structure (OR + AR) adds multi-state complexity.
Over-dimensional loads require pilots, spotters, and extended rigging time. Significantly more manual exposure per move than standard OTR. Stretch trailers, 5-10 axle configurations, and logging freight are historically high-severity injury segments. Falls from equipment and crush injuries are primary concerns.
Flatbed drivers, particularly on steel and glass loads, perform significant manual labor at height. Climbing on loads, throwing tarps, and strapping oversized materials is a leading driver of WC claims frequency in flatbed operations. Glass loads add the specific risk of laceration injury.
Operations across 48 states and Canada create multi-jurisdictional WC obligations. Oregon's WC system (SAIF and private carrier options), the Arkansas terminal, and interstate driver routing all affect how claims are filed and managed. A broker who doesn't specialize in multi-state trucking WC will miss these nuances.
The lease-purchase and gross-percentage programs create a potential classification gray zone. Oregon's construction of "independent contractor" in transportation can expose an employer to WC liability for leased operators if not structured correctly. This is a value-add conversation most brokers never initiate.
Employees cleaning chemical and petroleum tankers work in confined-space, wet, chemical-exposure environments. Slip-and-fall, chemical irritant, and confined space asphyxiation claims in this segment are often higher severity than the trucking claims, and frequently under-scrutinized at renewal.
OTR and team-driver operations generate musculoskeletal claims from prolonged sitting, ingress/egress from high cab trucks, and sleep disruption. Cumulative trauma claims in long-haul trucking are growing nationally and are heavily influenced by return-to-work program quality and managed care networks.
Your Team
Eugene-based, locally accountable, structured to deliver HUB International's national carrier breadth with the responsiveness of a local team. Four team leads anchor the Sherman Bros. relationship: WC strategy, account stewardship, and contracts review.
SVP, Commercial Lines / Team Haugen Lead
Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines
Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines
Client Advisor, Legal/Contracts
Vice President, Workers' Compensation
Sr. Risk Management Consultant
Workers' Compensation Claims Analyst
Private Client Risk Advisor
Private Client Risk Advisor
Insurance Adjuster
CL Sr. Account Manager
CL Account Manager II
CL Account Manager II
CL Account Manager II
One conversation. One specialized team. Mike, Devin, and the Team Haugen WC practice are ready to walk through what a program built around Sherman Bros.' actual exposure profile looks like.
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