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Duff Named YAC
State
Liaison of the Year!
Independent Insurance Agents of
Indiana Vice President of Government Affairs and Indiana
YAC Staff Liaison Steve Duff
was named as the 2010 Young Agents State Liaison of the
Year by the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of
America at a ceremony on Friday, September 24, 2010 at
the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
It was presented as a part of the IIABA Young
Agents Leadership Conference.
The award was presented by IIABA
National Young Agents Committee Chairman Andy Beauchamp
from Beauchamp McSpadden in Warsaw.
“The Big ‘I’ is proud to recognize Indiana’s Steve
Duff as the Young Agent State Liaison
of the Year for his outstanding support and leadership
to the national and Indiana Young Agents programs,” said
Beauchamp.
The award recognizes the
contributions of a state young agents committee staff
liaison who has provided outstanding leadership to their
state’s young agents program.
2009 marked the inaugural year for the state
liaison of the year award, as the National Young Agents
Committee posthumously recognized Dan Fulwider for his
outstanding efforts toward building
Iowa’s young agent program and
his work on behalf of the Big “I.”
The award was presented to his parents, Jan and
former IIABA President Bob Fulwider.
Dan was the YAC Liaison for
Iowa
and passed away in late 2008 after a courageous battle
with cancer.
The committee decided to continue this honor on
an annual basis as a remembrance of Dan Fulwider.
Duff has served as Staff Liaison for
Indiana YAC since 1999, after joining the Indiana Big I
in 1996 as its Vice President of Government Affairs.
During this time, the Indiana Young Agents
Committee has grown into one of the top young agent
groups in the country.
Indiana YAC has received 15 awards recognizing
its outstanding contribution to the IIAI and the
insurance industry since 2000, the most of any state,
including being named the Outstanding Young Agents
Committee in the country three times and runner-up
twice.
“It
is an extremely humbling honor to receive this award
from the IIABA.
I knew Dan and I cannot describe how much it
means to me to be the first recipient of the award after
him, knowing the great things that he did for
independent agents in Iowa and countrywide,” said Duff.
“This award is a reflection of not
only what I have done, but what our committee and the
outstanding volunteers I have had the privilege to work
with in
Indiana
have done during the time I have served as the staff
liaison. It
is something that I will cherish and I am truly honored
to be recognized with this award by IIABA,” concluded
Duff.
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