About Us

Islanders Insurance is a professional organization dedicated in providing the best insurance products and at the most reasonable price available in our markets. We strive to provide the best possible personal service to keep our clients as long-term, satisfied customers. We work diligently to provide service in a fair and honest manner and to be a respected member of the business community and our community at large.

As of January 1, 2016, Gigi Zakula became the sole owner of the agency, purchasing the remainder of the business from Kerwin & Margaret Johnson. Mary Wade, a long time agent in our office retired on January 1, 2017 to spend time with her husband Dick and their family. Lisa Duke is a licensed agent who joined our agency in 2015. As of 2017, Jodi Rock is our customer service and billing specialist, Jodi Logsdon has been with the agency since 2007 and became a licensed agent in September of 2017. Ian Boulton has been with the agency since 2004 and remains a mainstay in the office as the “go to guy”!

INSURANCE TAILORED FOR YOU

We also have many brokerage arrangements with area managing general agencies for difficult to place personal lines or commercial coverage. We provide personal lines products for your home, auto, boat or yachts, rental properties or secondary homes, personal umbrella’s, life, disability, health, and long term care – referring the life, disability, and long term care coverage to a specialist in our community, Jonathan Piff of Edward Jones.

OUR MAJOR INSURANCE CARRIERS

Safeco, Mutual of Enumclaw, Liberty Mutual, The Hartford / AARP, CBIC, Allstate, Foremost, Progressive, Regence Blueshield, Kaiser Permanente, GeoVera, Hagerty, Premier Marine, Maritime Program Group, and CNA provide the necessary products for our Island Clientele.

COMMERCIAL CLIENTS

For the commercial client our markets provide property & casualty, commercial auto, inland marine, fidelity, bonding, commercial umbrella, directors and officers, employment practices liability, cyber liability, and errors or omissions coverage for the professionals, etc.

AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE INSURANCE CHOICES

Islanders Insurance offers several of the top insurance companies to choose from when selecting your insurance plan. We research the rates and coverages for you to find the best options to fit your particular needs. You no longer need to call around town or search all over the Internet to find the best rates – we do the shopping and comparing for you to save you time and money!

Gigi Zakula

moved to San Juan Island in 1976. She has been a licensed agent with Islanders Insurance since 1990 , and is now the owner of the agency. She enjoys working with clients to find the best products for their individual insurance needs. In her leisure time she enjoys gardening, reading and time spent with her family, especially her five grandchildren.

Ian Boulton

started in the Insurance business, joining his family’s Agency in Miami, FL in 1981, after graduating from Florida State University. After several years training in personal lines he moved to their Boca Raton, then to the Coral Springs branch offices, where his primary responsibility was developing new business and servicing select accounts. Ian continued in the Agency through 1991, when he left South Florida to travel and wound up on San Juan Island in the Spring of 1992.After a break from the business, he joined Islanders Insurance in 2004 and like being in a smaller, more casual office environment. He enjoys working with people – helping them design an Insurance Programs that are appropriate to their individual situations. He enjoy fitness activities like day hiking and cycling, playing the guitar, and traveling with his wife Laura.

Jodi Logsdon

first came to the San Juan Islands in the summer of 1993 and worked in Roche Harbor at the little donut shop on the pier. She fell in love with the islands and moved here permanently in 1996 with the love of her life, Don Logsdon. She worked at Islanders Bank for five years before beginning her career at Islanders Insurance in 2007. In September 2017 she obtained her agent license and is excited about transitioning into her new role as an agent. In her spare time she enjoys walking the beaches, laughing with her husband.

Lisa Duke

was proposed to on a 12 foot Livingston boat while visiting the island on vacation. She moved here with her husband Andy Duke shortly after and opened their store, Duke’s Sporting Goods in 1997. Lisa worked many years at the Friday Harbor House before beginning her insurance career at Blackthorn Insurance in 2009. She joined Islanders Insurance in 2015 and is excited to be part of their team. She loves raising her children Henry and Sofia and watching them grow before her eyes. In her spare time you can find Lisa at the San Juan Community Theatre choreographing for local productions or teaching dance.

Jodi Rock

Started working at Islanders Insurance in 2017 in the role of customer service. She recently obtained her agent’s license in October 2022 and is excited to learn and expand her insurance knowledge. She enjoys getting to know all of our clients and being there to help. Jodi was raised on the island and is proud to now be raising her own family here. Outside of work she loves creating memories with her husband, Aaron and two daughters, Lily and Evelyn. Together they hike, walk the beaches and enjoy spontaneous off island adventures.