Dave Mitchell - CV

Curriculum Vitae updated 10/20/2022 Work 602-938-7579 Cell 602-463-5520 dave@idealins.com David Mitchell (“David”) has held an Arizona Property and Casualty License since 1980 and Life and Health license since 1988. He has held the Certified Insurance Counselor (hereinafter “CIC”) for over thirty years. Per the latest statistics of the National Alliance for Education and Research less than 1% of insurance producers in the United States have attained this achievement. To become a CIC an individual must attend one hundred hours of formal classroom hours and pass five rigorous examinations involving insurance policies and their applications to the clients along with agency management policies and procedures. Upon receiving the designation, a CIC must attend 20 hours per year of classroom instruction over various insurance policies. David has attended over five hundred hours of classroom instruction with CIC primarily involving insurance policies. In addition, David completed his Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (“CPCU”) in 2022. The CPCU designation consists of eight parts and is known by many as the highest professional property/casualty designation in the insurance industry. David and his father Jack Mitchell co-founded Ideal Insurance Agency in 1982. Dan Mitchell joined the Ideal Insurance Agency in 1983. The same year Ideal Insurance Agency Incorporated. David remained an active partner with his brother Dan Mitchell until September of 2021. At that time Dan Mitchell sold his shares in the business and David is now 100% owner. David’s responsibilities as owner include Marketing {including sales}, Strategic Planning, Finances, Human Resources including supervision. Ideal Insurance Agency Inc. has offices in both Glendale and Surprise Arizona. In 2022 Ideal Insurance Agency was voted best insurance agency in Glendale Arizona in the month of August. The voting was done through the Glendale Star Newspaper. In addition, in 2022 Ideal Insurance Agency Inc. was voted Best Insurance Agency in the West Valley. The voting was done through the Glendale Star and Peoria Times {Pueblo Publishing}. David has taught continuing education insurance courses for the Independent Insurance Agents of Arizona and the Customer Service Insurance Representation Designation through the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research since 2002. David has taught both personal lines (residential and personal auto courses), and commercial lines courses. He also has taught and continues to teach Agency Operations. In January of 2023 the Mayor of Glendale named Ideal Insurance Agency “Business of the Week”. David has been an owner and insurance producer for over forty years. In addition, David teaches insurance producers in continuing education. David has his experience and education to draw on as he reviews cases and renders opinions. In court cases David has consulted on over fifty cases as an insurance consultant and/or expert witness. The cases have primarily involved standard of care and coverage issues. David has drafted reports and testified as both a plaintiff and defense expert witness. In addition, he has both deposition and trial experience.