History

In 1952, Dixie Leavitt opened an insurance agency in Cedar City, Utah, with one company appointment and no clients. By the decade's end, Dixie had thousands of clients throughout southwestern Utah and southern Nevada.

When Dixie Leavitt and his brother, Bert, incorporated Leavitt Insurance Agency of Las Vegas in 1959, Dixie owned 60% and Bert owned 40%. Using this 60-40 arrangement, Dixie and other co-owners invested in and created agencies in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. Dixie formed Leavitt Group Enterprises in 1962.

Dixie built the Leavitt Group on a foundation of able and trusted co-owners. He recognized that each agency should have nurturing insurer relationships, autonomy in staffing, and increasing sales and profits with which to build an adequate capital base.

Today, each Leavitt Group agency has strong local ties in the community it serves. In day-to-day operations, each co-owner exercises significant autonomy in organizing the agency's affairs.

As the number and size of affiliated agencies grew, the potential of strength in numbers became apparent. In 1978, the Group formed Leavitt Group Agency Association (LGAA), providing member agencies with the multi-agency strength necessary to maintain insurer relationships, to offer placement services, to provide employee benefits, and to provide other support as agencies served clients.

Leavitt Group Enterprises continues its pattern of carefully expanding into new areas by working with qualified individuals to create or acquire sound independent insurance agencies and to recruit effective producers.