Winners Announced for the Commercial Agency Awards for Excellence

NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- National Underwriter Property & Casualty and American Agent & Broker have announced the 10^th Annual Commercial Agency Awards for Excellence winners. This year the award program was sponsored by Liberty Mutual.

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The program recognizes a "Commercial Insurance Agency of the Year," as well as "Awards for Excellence" in four categories.  The 2011 winners are:

• Agency of the Year: Parker, Smith & Feek
• Awards for Excellence in
  • Sales & Marketing: Bartlett & Co. Inc.
  • Customer Service: KMRD
  • Technology & Operations: Parker, Smith & Feek
  • Recruitment, Training & Perpetuation: KMRD

The winners are profiled in the Oct. 3 edition of National Underwriter Property & Casualty, in the upcoming November issue of American Agent & Broker, and on PropertyCasualty360.com.  They also took part in a roundtable discussion in New York on "The State of the Independent Agent," with highlights to appear in the Nov. 7 edition of National Underwriter Property & Casualty and the December issue of American Agent & Broker.

"The 2011 winners are great role models for the industry," said Bryant Rousseau, group editorial director of National Underwriter Property & Casualty. "That's why this award program is so important. It is an opportunity to spotlight agencies that talk the talk and lead by example."

Independent agencies entered the award program by completing an extensive application and providing an essay describing their unique approaches and success stories.  National Underwriter Property & Casualty and American Agent & Broker editors chose the finalists, and individual winners were determined by an outside panel of independent judges from leading insurance groups.

For more information about the 2012 award program, contact American Agent & Broker Managing Editor, Melissa Hillebrand, at [email protected].

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