Indiana Agent Named to "Big I" Executive Committee

September 20, 2005

Indiana insurance agent J. Michael Miley has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (the Big "I").

Miley, an account executive with Gibson Insurance Group in Plymouth, Ind., began working with the Big "I" in 1978, as a member of the Marshall-Fulton-Starke Counties Independent Insurance Agents Association. Miley has served on a number of committees at the state level, including: Young Agents Committee of Indiana, State Government Affairs Committee, as chairman of the New Products and Services Committee, as chairman of the Big "I" PAC, and as an Executive Committee member. Miley served of President of the IIAI in 1995, and was elected Indiana's State National Director in 1997.

On the national level, Miley has served on several boards, including: Membership Services, Inc., Agency Administrative Services, Inc., and Trusted Choice, Inc. Most recently, Miley served on the Board of the Big "I" Advantage, chairman of IIAA Agency Administrative Services, Inc., and chairman of the Professional Liability Committee's Rating Subcommittee.

Founded in 1896, the Big "I" is the nation's oldest and largest national association of independent insurance agents and brokers, representing a network of more than 300,000 agents, brokers and their employees nationally.