The Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina (IIANC) recently announced that Dewey Meshaw has been named as IIANC’s Company Professional of the Year. Selected annually, this award recognizes an insurance company professional who has made the most outstanding contribution to the Independent Insurance Agents during the past year.
Meshaw is manager of the NCIUA & NCJUA (Beach & FAIR) Plans in Raleigh, N.C.
“Meshaw, along with the Beach and Fair Plans, have been staunch supporters of the Independent Insurance Agents of North Carolina,” stated Bob Bird, IIANC’s CEO.
In other business, IIANC named Sandy Kenley the Ernest F. Young Education Award Winner
Selected annually, this award recognizes the North Carolina agent who has demonstrated both willingness and ability, physically, to help improve the insurance education of the average IIANC agent in North Carolina.
Kenley, a veteran of the industry, is with Encompass Insurance in Raleigh.
The awards were presented during IIANC’s Annual Conference earlier this month in Asheville.


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