Ind. PIA Announce 2007 Award Winners

May 16, 2007

The Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana Inc. (PIA) announced its annual awards on May 10th at the 2007 PIA of Indiana Annual Convention. Each year, PIA of Indiana honors two individuals and one company for exemplary professionalism and dedication to the insurance industry.

PIA of Indiana presented the following three awards: Paul Sites, CPIA, North Manchester, Ind. as the Professional Agent of the Year and David Moore, CIC, Indianapolis, Ind. as Company Representative of the Year. Standard Mutual Insurance Co. was given the Company Award of Excellence.

Additional details on the awards and award winners are as follows:

PIA of Indiana Ralph Cleveland Professional Agent of the Year Award, which was named for a past-president of PIA who dedicated himself to professionalism and community service, was presented to Paul Sites of North Manchester. Sites is president of Sites Insurance in North Manchester. He is a past-president of PIA and continues to serve on the board. As a former chairman of the association’s education committee, Sites also supports PIA’s commitment to providing top-quality training that helps agents continually improve the quality of service they provide to their clients. Sites is a Certified Professional Insurance Agent (CPIA).

The PIA of Indiana Company Representative of the Year Award is presented to an insurance company field representative who strives to make improvements to the insurance industry, demonstrates a strong support of the independent agency system and has made positive contributions to assisting agents serve their customers’ needs.

Award winner David Moore is an agency advisor at Standard Mutual Insurance Co., working out of its Indianapolis office. Moore serves agencies in the southern half of Indiana, offering expertise on market conditions and technical policy assistance. Recently, he began presenting an emergency contact program, helping agents provide a new critical service to their clients when they need it most.

PIA agents who nominated Moore for the award praise him as “…an excellent field representative who always shows concern and always has the knowledge to find solutions to problems.”

PIA of Indiana Company Award of Excellence was presented to Standard Mutual Insurance Co. to recognize the company’s dedication to building strong relationships with independent agents and its commitment to supporting the independent agency system.
Mark O. Roberts, Jr., president of Standard Mutual Insurance, accepted the award.

Standard Mutual has been providing insurance since 1921. PIA conducts the Annual Satisfaction Survey to allow agents to rate their carriers on various areas of service, products, competitiveness and technology.

PIA members nominated Standard Mutual for company of the year due to their commitment to offering continual support and assistance to agents, including advice on marketing strategies and offering Certified Insurance Service Representative (CISR) courses through PIA’s Education Center.

“They are exactly what an agent wants in a small, regional company,” said PIA of Indiana vice president, Peggy Miller. “Standard Mutual offers a huge benefit to today’s insurance marketplace.”

The Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana Inc. is an independent insurance agents’ association that has represented agents’ interests since 1945.

Source: Professional Insurance Agents of Indiana

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