About Us
Our Office History.
For over 60 years, we have provided risk management, and financial products and services to corporations, institutions and individuals throughout the world.
What Makes Us Different
We take a pro-active approach to the management and servicing of your account with:
- tailor-made programs shaped to your needs, not to the needs of a representative peer group
- pre-implementation services such as contract reviews, exposure analysis, and professional wrap-up feasibility studies
- the skill and knowledge to develop innovative new products to address wrap-up issues and exposures as they arise
- large investment in technology to allow rapid transfer of vital information to clients and wrap-up markets
- in-house wrap-up professionals acting as your committed advocates
We have vast resources that enable our team of professionals to deliver innovative solutions to our clients. By utilizing the experience and creativity of top-level insurance experts in conjunction with the firm’s worldwide resources, your Alera Group Las Vegas is able to provide sophisticated products and service unparalleled in the insurance industry.
Our Mission
Every client is important to us. Whether a single individual or multimillion dollar corporation, each is assured of receiving the most competent insurance analysis and placement available.
The insurance industry is continuously evolving. Our resource capabilities provide us with the tools necessary to keep our clients informed regarding regulatory issues and current events that can affect our clients’ bottom line. We utilize the most efficient technological methods available that align with the needs of our clients. Our professionals have real time access to the most current news and business intelligence available. These management tools allow us to maintain the highest level of client service.
Our vision is guided by a commitment to understanding, anticipating and meeting our clients diverse and changing needs.
We consider it both a privilege and a pleasure to represent our clients. Our goal is to maintain relationships that extend well beyond the realm of an insurance broker. Our unwavering dedication to integrity, professionalism and service ensures that Alera Group maintains its position as the pre-eminent insurance broker.
Meet Our Team
Mary Keefer
Account Executive
Mary Keefer has been with the firm for the past 7 years and has been working in the insurance industry for over 25 years. She has been licensed since 2005 in commercial property and casualty lines and has been working with the Medical Malpractice insurance for the past 5 years. She enjoys reading, movies, and travelling.
Joseph Loretz
Account Executive
My medical malpractice professional liability career began in 8 /1979 where I was first hired as a underwriter/policy services tech for The Underwriters for the Professions, as attorney in fact ( managing the TDC) book of physicians and clinic business.
I transitioned into my sales and Broker responsibility as of 10/1985. My partner and I formed Loretz Insurance, LLC., as Executive Vice President DBA The Doctors Agency of Nevada . We helped many Nevada physicians insure their practices, clinics and staff and managed that book of business with two offices in Reno and Las Vegas. We also were very instrumental with Tort Reform help to the current tort laws enacted today.
The Loretz Insurance, LLC Agency was merged into Acordia of Nevada, 10/1998.
After several years we then merged with Wells Fargo Insurance 6/2007, where I was Executive Vice President of Nevada sales and assistant to managing two offices. We also helped with the grass roots efforts to” Keep our Doctors In Nevada “; and worked diligently and closely with the KODIN for legislative reforms.
I formed Loretz Insurance, LLC after the 6/07 transition from Wells Fargo Insurance and that of service and continued new business with my team.
The merger with Loretz Insurance, LLC to Kaercher Insurance /Alera Group 11/2018, continues as my role as managing partner continues to strive to service our mutual clients.
My unique previous underwriting work as well as experience with Wholesale and Retail brokers has been a benefit to our clients.
We have continued to service the providers in Nevada and other territories.
Jason Mann
Sales Consultant
Jason is a licensed agent and specializes in sales and service for Commercial Lines.
He earned a BS in Business Administration from Dixie State College in Utah.
His outstanding customer services skills were honed as a Banquet Manager at Emerald Gardens in Las Vegas, and as the owner of a coffee shop, It’s A Grind.
Jason serves the community through Shine A Light as a Board Member and Volunteer Coordinator (Homeless Outreach).
He is an avid boating enthusiast and owner of an Ebbtide Speedboat; Jason also collects Classic Cars.
Nicole Meeks
Accounting Assistant and Licensing Coordinator
Nicole Meeks joined the firm in 2006 as the Executive Assistant to Allen Kaercher. Nicole is currently working in the Administration Department as an Accounting Assistant and Licensing Coordinator.
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Insights
Property and Casualty
Commercial Real Estate Insurance Market Shows Signs of Relief, With Conditions
There are emerging signs that the commercial property insurance market is beginning to soften. However, the benefits of this shift are not being felt uniformly across all real estate portfolios.
July 16, 2026
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Property and Casualty
Why is umbrella liability getting so expensive?
While most commercial insurance pricing has softened in 2026, umbrella liability has not. In fact, it’s moving in the opposite direction.
May 4, 2026
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AI Isn’t Liable for the Mistake. You Are.
Artificial intelligence is powerful. It’s also wrong more often than people want to admit.
If you use AI to support or deliver professional services, any mistake it makes is still your responsibility. Not the software’s. Not the vendor’s. Yours.
April 1, 2026
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Identity hijacking is surging. Here’s what leaders need to know.
Cyber incidents across our client base have been sharper, faster and more costly this year. Even organizations with strong controls are being hit in ways that look very different from past attacks.
March 13, 2026
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