About Rick
Rick attended his entire school career in Wagoner and graduated from Wagoner High School in 1986. While involved in high school athletics, he also began working at Lancaster Agency as a janitor. His mother, Betty Moore, was the office manager at Lancaster Agency for both Bill Lancaster and his father, Euel Lancaster, for a combined 66 years. Rick continued working as a janitor while attending Northeastern State University and earning a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. It was at NSU where he was first introduced to real estate and insurance by way of college courses. Much of his insurance acumen was honed while working for State Farm Insurance over the course of a nearly 27-year career. As a licensed adjuster having completed more than 300 hours of continuing education, an Associate in Claims, Fraud Claim Law Specialist designation and completed several courses towards a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter designation, Rick considers himself to be a life-long learner in the insurance industry. He also holds residential and commercial roof damage assessment certificates from Haag Engineering of Dallas, Texas.
Rick’s State Farm career posed many assignments which are detailed at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rdmoorefam/ for your review. One highlight is a nearly eight year stint working in a specialized litigation unit where he was responsible for managing attorneys, experts and strategy for files in the states of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. It was this environment where Rick learned of many unusual risk exposures by working claims involving copyright infringement, hostile work environment evoking racial issues, EEOC claims, contractual breaches, slip-and-fall accidents, Oklahoma Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act claims, embezzlement, product completion claims, trademark infringement, food poisoning, defamation, gunshot negligence, dog bite, motor vehicle/cow claims and more.
Rick has served as a deacon at First Baptist Church of Wagoner since 2003, served as chairman of deacons for two terms, and served on the Finance Committee from 2003 through 2009 and again since 2019. Rick serves at the pleasure of the Wagoner mayor and city council as a commissioner on the Wagoner Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. In 2006, he served as master or president of Wagoner Masonic Lodge No. 98 and elected to serve as secretary since 2017. The 2021 and 2022 Grand Masters of The Oklahoma Grand Lodge appointed Rick to serve as his District Deputy Grand Master representing all Masons in the Wagoner/Coweta/Muskogee/Ft. Gibson/Haskell/Webbers Falls area. Rick is also active in the Tulsa Scottish Rite, the Wagoner Chamber of Commerce and serves on the board of directors and president of the Wagoner Rotary Club. Rick also served on the board of directors (divan) of the Bedouin Shrine of Muskogee raising money to assist the Shriners Children’s – also known as Shriners Hospitals for Children.
