About Us
Our office (formerly Barkley Risk Management & Insurance) is dedicated to helping organizations create safer, healthier workplaces. We simplify insurance, employee benefits and risk management, so you can focus on what matters most. For over 20 years, we’ve gone beyond the status quo — offering comprehensive, cost-effective insurance and risk solutions tailored to your business needs.
In 2020, we joined Alera Group to provide our clients with the resources, technical expertise and best practices of a larger national firm, while maintaining the personal local service our partners expect.
Meet Our Team
Sean Copeand
Co-Managing Partner
Sean currently serves as Co-Managing Partner of Alera Group's Oxnard, CA office.
Connect on LinkedInNate Wollenman
Co-Managing Partner
Nate serves as Co-Managing Partner of Alera Group's Oxnard office.
Connect on LinkedInJustin Veyna
SVP, Employee Benefits
Justin serves as the Oxnard office's SVP, Employee Benefits.
Connect on LinkedInArmando Torres
Director of Safety & Loss Control Services
Armando serves as the Oxnard office's Director of Safety & Loss Control Services.
Resources
Educational Resources
Academy of Risk Management workshops are open to clients and any business interested in the latest updates, trends and best practices in risk management and human resources. Join us for free, interactive sessions covering essential topics.
Explore upcoming and past Academy workshops, here.
Safety Training and Consulting Whether you want in-house training, sessions at our facility or virtual courses, we offer flexible options to help you create a custom training plan and get your staff up to speed quickly and efficiently. Get in touch to explore the best training options for your team, get your questions answered and schedule your courses.
Start building a customized training program today by contacting Armando Torres, Director of Safety & Loss Control Services, at armando.torres@aleragroup.com or (805) 220-9241. Training topics include:
Heartsaver® CPR AED Training (Adult/Child/Infant)
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
OSHA Compliance
Training Employees and Managers How To Reduce Workers Comp Claims
Facility Risk Assessment
Forklift, Hazardous Materials, First Aid, Heat Illness Prevention, Lockout/Tagout and more
Accident Investigation Training
IIPP Plan Preparation and Management
- Workplace Violence Prevention Program Development & Training
Client Portals
EaseCentral
EaseCentral is an online benefits enrollment platform. EaseCentral makes it simple to set up and manage benefits, onboard new hires, stay compliant, and offer employees one destination for all their human resources information. As an Employer, this portal eliminates the needs for paper forms, reduces errors, provides you access to real-time progress updates, and even integrates with most HRIS applications. Your Employees will receive a unique login to explore benefit options. Your Barkley Health Advocate will customize your online enrollment portal with your company logo and benefit plans. It’s that simple!
Risk Management Center
The Risk Management Center is the most comprehensive insurance risk management, workplace safety, and compliance platform available. It’s ideal for proactively managing risk exposures, developing effective workplace safety programs, reducing claims, losses, and associated costs.
Community Outreach
The Barkley Risk Management & Insurance community outreach team is one of the many ways that we positively impact Oxnard and the surrounding Ventura County area. The team works closely with nonprofit partners to focus on food and shelter support, education, and the preservation of the environment.
More than just a great place to work
The Oxnard team has been awarded Great Place to Work distinctions for 2022, 2023 and 2024. Our optimistic spirit, creative thinking, and determination to serve our clients well drives our work and makes Barkley a great place to be. Cheers to our team for making Barkley a great place to work!
EXPERT EDUCATION
Events and Webinars
Employee Benefits
Q3 2025 Quarterly Compliance Webinar
Alera Group's quarterly employee benefits compliance roundup will help you stay current on the latest national regulatory developments impacting employers.
September 9, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Employee Benefits
Navigating Medicare: Educational Virtual Seminar
Navigate Medicare options to ensure you feel confident in your post-65 healthcare coverage.
September 10, 2025 at 12:00 pm CT | Virtual
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New Era, New Options: Understanding the Employee Benefit Impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and Direct Primary Care
With the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the employee benefits landscape is shifting. This webinar brings together legislative insight and real-world application to help employers and advisors make informed decisions in a changing regulatory environment.
September 25, 2025 at 02:00 pm CT | Virtual
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Insights
Property and Casualty
Alera Group’s 2025 Property and Casualty Market Update
Alera Group’s 2025 Property and Casualty Market Update, designed as a bridge between Alera Group’s annual Market Outlooks — provides insight into pricing, coverage availability, market capacity and underwriting trends for the balance of 2025.
August 1, 2025
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Employee Benefits
Legal Alert: IRS Issues Affordability Percentage Adjustment for 2026
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Rev. Proc. 2025-25, which contains the inflation adjusted amounts for 2026 used to determine whether employer-sponsored coverage is “affordable” for purposes of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer shared responsibility provisions and premium tax credit program.
July 23, 2025
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Employee Benefits
Legal Alert: Enforcement of the HIPAA Reproductive Health Care Privacy Rule Vacated Nationwide
On June 18, 2025, a federal district court in Texas vacated a significant portion of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (“Final Rule”), which was implemented on April 24, 2024, on a nationwide basis. The Final Rule, which was implemented in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (effectively overturning Roe v. Wade), was intended to protect the ability of individuals to receive reproductive health care when the care is provided lawfully under the circumstances without risk of an individual’s identity or health information being disclosed for purposes of state criminal, civil or administrative investigations (or for imposing liability related to lawfully providing or obtaining reproductive healthcare).
July 21, 2025
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Legal Alert: Employee Benefits Provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
On July 3, 2025, Congress passed a reconciliation bill (the “Reconciliation Act”) previously named the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but subsequently redesignated “An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.”
July 8, 2025
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