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113th Annual Convention
It's a Spooky Market out there!
October 30 - Nov. 1, 2011
Charleston Place Hotel
Charleston , SC
Read convention report below, see photos at left
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Thank you Sponsors!
Palmetto Partners
Diamond Level
Johnson & Johnson
IIABSC Agency
Platinum Level
Bankers Insurance Group
United Property & Casualty Ins. Co.
Gold Level
Montgomery Insurance member of Liberty Mutual Group
/ Safeco Insurance member of Liberty Mutual Group
Progressive Insurance
St. Johns Insurance Company
Silver Level
American Strategic Insurance
Companion Property & Casualty Ins. Company
Frontline Homeowners Insurance
RPS Continental
Travelers
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Bronze Level
AFCO/ Prime Rate Premium Finance Corp.
AmTrust North America
Auto-Owners Insurance Company
Berkley Mid-Atlantic Group, LLC
Capitol Preferred Insurance
General Casualty
Hanover Excess & Surplus
The Hartford
Insurance House
Jackson Sumner & Associates
Main Street America Group
Preferred Specialty, LLC
Southern Cross Underwriters
State Auto Insurance Companies
Tapco Underwriters, Inc.
Universal Ins. Co./ The Seibels Bruce Group
Zurich Small Business/ Farmers/ Foremost
General Sponsors
Allied Insurance
Builders Mutual Ins. Co.
Burns & Wilcox
Chartis Insurance
Grange Insurance
Olympus Insurance
Penn National Ins.
Southern Mutual Ins. Co.
SwissRe/ Westport
Universal North America
Universal Property & Casualty Ins. Co.
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113th Annual Convention report
IIABSC leader John Braddy, CIC, AAI, delivered the oath of office to the incoming Board of Directors during their installation Monday night of the 113th Annual Convention held October 30 - Nov. 1 in Charleston, SC.
Ashley Brady, CIC, of First Charter Insurance in Marion was elected Chairman of the Board by the general membership during the annual meeting. Ken A. Finch, CPCU, CIC, CRM, AAI of Countybanc Insurance in Greenwood was elected Chairman-Elect and Treasurer of the Board of Directors. R. Scott Moseley of the Irmo Insurance Agency in Irmo was elected as the Board's Secretary. All three are two-year terms.
Kathy D. McKay, CIC, CPIW, of McKay Insurance in Mt. Pleasant, moved to the position of Immediate Past Chairman.
Three new directors were also elected to three-year terms on the Board of Directors beginning Jan. 1. 2012: William J. Bowers, AIP of Russell Massey & Co. in Columbia; J. Robert Bryant, Jr., of Robert Bryant & Son in Orangeburg; and Willard A. Silcox, III, ACSR, of C.T. Lowndes & Company in Mt. Pleasant.
Retiring directors Larry G. Joyner, CIC, AAI of CWS Insurance Agency in Spartanburg and James G. Taylor Jr., CIC of the Kinghorn Insurance Agency of Beaufort were recognized for their service and dedication to the association in the past three years.
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Agent of the Year
Lee P. Ellis, CPCU, CIC, AAI, of Ellis Realty & Insurance Agency in Hampton has been named the 2011 Hayne P. Glover, Jr. Agent of the Year in recognition for outstanding community service and contributing to the betterment of the insurance industry.
Lee is the President of Ellis Realty and Insurance Agency, a family agency founded in 1948 by his father, E.P. Ellis, Jr. Lee has been an active member of IIABSC having served on the Board of Directors from 1997-99 and has served on or chaired the Education Committee, the CIC Committee and Young Agents Committee. He is the current chairman of the Trusted Choice Big "I" Junior Golf committee, a position he has held for more than 10 years. Lee has been recognized for his leadership in education, young agents and the junior golf tournament, but with all his commitments he still finds time to teach continuing education courses for the Big "I."
Of those commitments in his community, Lee is involved with the Hampton Rotary Club, JAHAB Shrine Club, Hampton County Country Club, Hampton County Airport Commission, Hampton County Watermelon Festival, Town of Hampton Planning Commission, the local Boy Scouts, both the Hampton County and SC Gamecock Clubs and even the Financial Committee of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hampton.
The Agent of the Year is named for Hayne P. Glover, Jr. to honor his many years of dedicated service to the Big "I" state and national associations. Glover was from Greenville and is the only South Carolinian to serve as the national association president. Glover was an outstanding example of service to his community as well as the industry, which are the criteria used to evaluate nominees for the award.
The award is sponsored by AFCO/ Prime Rate Premium Finance in Florence.
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Young Agent of the Year
Lowcountry insurance executive James G. Taylor, Jr., CIC of Kinghorn Insurance Agency of Beaufort has been named the 2011 Young Agent of the Year.
Jay is completing a three-year term on the Board of Directors, where he has been an active leader for the Young Agent and Trusted Choice committees. Jay led the Trusted Choice® Committee last year when the association first decided to support the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life® events statewide, and the was recognized then with an outstanding achievement award.
Jay is a grassroots contact for local legislators in Beaufort County and has participated with the SC delegation at the national Big "I" legislative conference in Washington, D.C.
And like past young agent leaders, he is just as active back home with community service.
The Young Agent of the Year award is given to an independent insurance agent age 40 or younger for outstanding service to his or her community outside the field of insurance and has contributed to the betterment of the insurance industry. It is sponsored by AFCO/ Prime Rate Premium Finance in Florence.
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Industry Person of the Year
David McLellan of Safeco Insurance in Lexington has been named the 2011 Industry Person of the Year for making independent insurance agents and strong company partnerships a priority his entire career. The award recognizes industry representatives other than independent agents who have contributed greatly to the insurance industry in South Carolina.
David is a rare breed, he is a company representative that has stayed more than 30 years with the same organization. Insurance is in his DNA, he was born into a family of insurance agents. His father and his uncle were both Big "I" past presidents, and he grew up in Columbia before moving to Dillon where his father bought an agency that his brother Felix owns and operates today.
After graduating from Clemson, David started his career with Aetna. He later moved to American States Insurace, which was purchased by Safeco, which was absorbed into Liberty Mutual Group, and he continues a career track that has been dedicated to serving independent insurance agents in South Carolina.
There is no more loyal, dedicated and persistent supporter of the independent insurance agency system and South Carolina insurance agents than David McLellan.
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IIABSC Outstanding Committee Chairperson
Greenville insurance executive Thomas M. Bates, Jr. has been recognized for his outstanding service to IIABSC by being named the Committee Chairperson of the Year.
Bates, Vice President and COO of Herlong Bates Burnett Insurance, is an IIABSC Board Director and chairman of the Trusted Choice® state branding committee. He has embraced his duties as chairman fully, taking every opportunity available to learn more about Trusted Choice® and to share that knowledge with the membership. Through his leadership, the committee built the agent participation in the Relay for Life® events significantly, and the American Cancer Society® reported back that between the association and agent/company partner participation more than $200,000 was contributed.
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Additional Recognition
Sandra K. Braddy, AAI, CPIW, of AFCO Prime Rate Premium Finance in Florence, John R. Braddy, CIC, AAI, of Braddy Insurance in Dillon and Julius J. Anderson, Jr., AAI of Anderson Insurance Associates in Charleston were recognized for their service to IIABSC with Chairman's Citations from Kathy D. McKay, CIC, CPIW.
Grange Insurance won "Elly Pachy Derm" the Golden Elephant awarded to our exhibitor named "Best Booth" overall by a panel of judges during our trade show. It was a tight race, but Mark Brandt of Grange was also awarded "Best Exhibitor Costume."
Read about Elly's adventures from 2010 - 2011 (also with Grange)
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Henry G. Turner Golf Tournament
The Henry G. Turner Golf tournament was held at Patriot's Point Links. Cash prizes and golf clubs were awarded to the winners, which are as follows:
1st Place Team:
Ken Dunnett, John Miletti, John Mulvey and Todd Hiott
2nd Place Team:
William Boswell, Ken Fort, Jack Puckett and Tracy Puckett
3rd Place Team:
James Berry, William Bowers, Ben Myers and Lee Ruef
Long Drive Winner:
Eddie Young
Closest to the Pin:
Rick Amick and Lee Ellis
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Door prizes & drawings:
Door prizes were awarded to Allen Altman, USI Insurance; Audrey Booth, Booth & Company Ins Agency; Faye Bradham, Bradham Ins Agency; Ruth Brady, First Charter Co.; Bobby Bryant, Robert Bryant & Son; Matt Copeland, C2G Capital Management; Paul Eaddy, Adams Eaddy & Associates; Kellie Gilmore, C2G Capital Management; Gail Graham, Anderson Insurance; Bryan Hatfield, Jr., Palmetto Pride Insurance; Ricky Hill; Buck Inabinet, Taylor Agency; Brooks Johnson, Harleston Insurance Group; Carrie Johnson, Carrie Johnson Insurance; Mark Johnson, Carrie Johnson Insurance; Nick Latto, RA Wright Agency; Henry Lowndes, CT Lowndes & Co.; Tracy Mau, USI Insurance Solutions; Rudy Painter, Countybanc Insurance; Randy Stec, Countybanc Insurance; Terry Tadlock, Coastal Plains Ins; Tonya Thomason, David A Crotts & Assocs; Dale Wingate, Palmetto Pride; and Donnie Wingate, Palmetto Pride.
Joe Upchurch of Upchurch & Jowers won the iPad in Sunday's agent drawing. Mark Johnson of Carrie Johnson Insurance won the regular agent drawing and Tonya Thomason of David Crotts & Assocs won the second chance agents drawing. Zan Eaddy of Adams Eaddy & Associates won the spouses drawing.
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