Alliance member Hampson Mowrer Kreitz recently received the Fabric of the Community award from the Northampton Community College. Part of the honor was a video highlighting some of HMK’s community activities. Find out more about how the HMK staff involve themselves in a wide variety of greater Lehigh Valley area associations.
Securus has announced that Tammi L. Miller, has earned her certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.
The certification, awarded by the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI), signifies that Tammi possesses the theoretical knowledge and practical experience in human resource management necessary to pass a rigorous examination demonstrating a mastery of the body of knowledge in the field. HRCI is the credentialing body for human resource professionals and is affiliated with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the world’s largest organization dedicated exclusively to the human resource profession.
Tammi serves as the Director of Service and Support for The Human Focus – a division of The Securus Group, Inc. and is responsible for the internal HR aspects as well as supporting external clients.
Recently Jane Koppenheffer, President and CEO of The Insurance Alliance, and two Alliance principals, Joe Geise of Gearhart-Herr of State College and Jonathan Zinn of Zinn Insurance of Myerstown, attended a “Dynamics of Sales Management” course sponsored by Selective Insurance. In addition to the excellent three day seminar, they had the opportunity to tour Selective’s Home Office in Branchville, New Jersey as well as have dinner with company executives.
Jane commented, “This is another excellent example of Selective’s effort to help independent agencies prepare for the future. It is an investment in time and resources and independent agents are becoming more discerning of those carriers that are working with them for mutual future success and those that are ‘planning around’ the independent agency system.”
(left to right: Jonathan Zinn, Joseph Geise, Joan Sansing and Tom Barrett of The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research and Jane Koppenheffer)
On Thursday, May 22nd, The Insurance Alliance held a sales meeting with Selective Insurance. The meeting was held in Lancaster, at the office of Securus, an Alliance member.
John Marchioni, Executive Vice President (pictured), and Charles Adams, Regional Vice President, of Selective participated along with a number of the leaders of the various SBU units and representatives from The Alliance member agencies.
A complete set of photos is available on The Alliance’s Flickr account.
The Insurance Alliance of Central PA held a new producers’ Sales Meeting on May 21st as part of its Accellerations New Producer Contest Sixteen producers, all working less than 18 months as a P&C insurance producer for an Insurance Alliance member, participated.
The meeting with the Platinum Sponsor, Ohio Casualty, was held at their Camp Hill, PA office, providing the opportunity for the producers to meet key personnel in underwriting, claims, and loss control. Regional Vice President, Don Waardenburg, participated extensively in the meeting and provided encouragement and insights to the group.
A complete set of photos is available in The Insurance Alliance Flickr account.
At the recent 40th Anniversary celebration of the Northampton Community College, Hampson Mowrer Kreitz were recognized with the Fabric of the Community award. Presented only once every five years, the honor celebrates HMK’s rich history of giving back to their community through support of various organizations and their volunteer work.
On hand to receive the award were agency owners (left to right):
David Dyson, Tim Kurtz, Bill Kreitz, Tom Hartzell, Dave Rispoli and George Mowrer.
On Monday, May 19th, 2008 , Jane Koppenheffer, President and CEO of The Insurance Alliance, had the opportunity to attend the reception and awards ceremony for the 2008 50 Best Women in Business in Pennsylvania with J. Michael Davis, Senior Vice President, and Karen Mashinski, CFO (right), of Millers Mutual Group.
Millers Mutual Group was one of the primary sponsors of the event and President, Bob Lyon, spoke at the event.
Three new editions of Insurance Insight have premiered on WITF-TV, and are in rotation, along with the first three, throughout the day’s broadcast schedule.
Topics and presenters for these segments include:
The final six editions of Insurance Insight be released in the Fall of 2008. All currently available Insurance Insight segments can be viewed online or downloaded in the Insurance Insight section of our web site or in iTunes.
The Insurance Alliance held a new producers’ sales meeting on May 5th as part of its Accellerations New Producer Sales Contest. Eighteen producers, all working less than 18 months as a P&C insurance producer for an Insurance Alliance member, participated.
The nine Corporate Sponsors of the contest, Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group, Eastern Alliance, Harleysville, Millers Mutual, Penn National, PMA, Selective, State Auto, and Westfield, introduced the new producers to their companies’ products and personnel. A meeting with the Platinum Sponsor, Ohio Casualty, is scheduled for later in the month.
(Pictured is Christian-Baker Producer Steve Swineford meeting with Craig Brandt and Harry Minskey of Penn National Insurance during the Commercial Accellerations portion of the event. To see more photos, visit our Flickr photo set for the day’s activities.)
On Friday, May 2nd, Jane Koppenheffer, President and CEO of The Insurance Alliance, presented John Knoll, President of Knoll Insurance Agency, an affiliate of The Insurance Alliance, with a $25,000 check from Selective Insurance. The funds were provided to help assist in the small business center expansion of the agency.
Jane Koppenheffer, commented, “Selective Insurance is a true partner with The Insurance Alliance. As part of our annual agency planning with Selective we both identified our desire to grow our book of profitable small business with Selective. However, many of our members do not aggressively solicit small business, so when the opportunity arose for one of our affiliates to expand its small business center it created a ‘win-win’ situation for the agency, The Alliance, and for Selective Insurance.”