Sorrow to head BB&T Huffaker in Chattanooga

photo John Sorrow heads BB&T

BB&T Insurance has named John W. Sorrow as chief agency executive and senior vice president for BB&T Huffaker Insurance, Chattanooga's largest and oldest insurance agency.

Sorrow, who previously headed Cigna health insurance operations in Chattanooga and mostly recently was corporate vice presient for Magellan Health Services, succeeds Roger Smith and Bill Wilder as head of BB&T's insurance operations in Chattanooga.

Smith is retiring at the end of this year after 33 years of service. Wilder will remain with BB&T Huffaker Insurance as an agent, the role in which he began his career in 1975.

In his new role, Sorrow will oversee about 85 employees at offices across Tennessee.

Sorrow brings more than 24 years of leadership experience in the insurance industry to his new role.

Raised in Chattanooga, Sorrow earned a bachelor of business administration degree in risk management insurance from the University of Georgia and an MBA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

BB&T Insurance Services, the sixth largest insurance broker in the nation and the world, is a subsidiary of Branch Banking and Trust Company (BB&T). BB&T bought the former Huffaker & Trimble Inc. insurance agency in 2005.

Founded in 1922, BB&T Insurance Services operates more than 100 insurance agencies in Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Kentucky and California.

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