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Indiana YAC Again Receives a National Award!
The Indiana Young Agents Committee
once again received a national award of excellence from
the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America
National Young Agents Committee. The awards were handed
out at a ceremony on Friday, September 24, 2010 at the
Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Indiana YAC received
the 2010 Outstanding Communication Award for outstanding
achievement in maintaining a communications campaign
dedicated to young agents.
The IIABA National YAC Committee
hands out awards annually in six specific categories, as
well as the award for the overall outstanding
committee. Indiana has received a total of 15 national
awards of excellence over the last ten years – the most
by far of any state, including the Outstanding Committee
three times and Runner Up twice. Presenting the
National YAC Awards were IIABA Chairman David Daniel
from Louisiana and Indiana’s own Andy Beauchamp from
Beauchamp McSpadden in Warsaw, the IIABA National Young
Agents Committee Chairman. Indiana YAC was recognized
because of its multifaceted communications campaign that
is geared toward educating members of the committee and
IIAI members about what YAC is doing. Included in this
are regular email communications, quarterly
e-newsletters, using email as the exclusive
communications medium, having one of the top YAC
websites in the country, and the development of
educational brochures about young drivers and insurance
careers, of which, thousands of copies have been
distributed to IIAI member agencies.
Accepting
the award on behalf of Indiana YAC were 2010-2011 Chair
Addie Wood from Smith Sawyer Smith Agency in Rochester
and Indiana YAC Staff Liaison Steve Duff. “We are
extremely excited and humbled to be recognized by the
National YAC Committee as the recipient of this award,”
said Addie Wood. “We work extremely hard to make our
YAC Committee the best that it can be to the end benefit
of our members. It is very gratifying to me and all of
our members that our hard work is rewarded by receiving
this award for outstanding communication, especially in
light of the tremendous things that many YAC groups
across the country are doing.
 I would also like to
thank our Communications Committee Chair Jen Kostello
from Secura in Indianapolis for her efforts in
spearheading our communications initiatives.”
“On
behalf of Indiana YAC and the Independent Insurance
Agents of Indiana, I would like to thank the IIABA and
the National YAC Committee for recognizing our state and
our activities, it is an incredible honor to be
acknowledged in this manner,” concluded Wood.
 For more information on becoming a
member of, or sponsoring the award winning Indiana Young
Agents Committee, please contact Steve Duff at
duff@bigi.org.
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