This year's annual meeting was fairly eventful. We said a sad farewell to several of our trustees. Trusting that they'll remain stalwart library supporters.
Paula Gold Vice President and Chief Regulatory Counsel for Plymouth Rock Assurance, has been replaced by Charles (Chuck) C. Hewitt, III Executive Vice President of Guy Carpenter.
John Donohue CEO of Arbella has been replaced by Jim Hyatt, also of Arbella. In June, Jim Hyatt became the Vice President of their personal lines group.
Philip J. Edmundson, CEO and Chairman of William Gallagher Associates, who was brought on as an associate treasurer mid-term 1989 and then as a full board member as of the November 1989 meeting, also passed the torch. Patrick J. Veale, President of WGA, has taken Phil's place (he brought up some excellent points during the meeting and we're eager to see what other ideas he brings to the board).
Though his term was not up, Josiah D. Hatch, president of H. R. Hatch Insurance Agency, has stepped down. He was a special appointment to The Board in December of 1995. The Board voted to make him a Trustee Emeritus for all of his hard and exceedingly productive work over the past 15 years. A new Trustee will be appointed to fill Josiah's place.
Other changes to the board included the election of a new Board President, Donald F. Vose Vice President of The Andover Companies. He seems eager to become familiar with all of the committees and has already sat on an education committee meeting.
A good portion of the meeting was also devoted to discussing the many Massachusetts and New Hampshire insurance continuing education classes which the library provides and the future of those classes. This included highlighting our foray into webinars with "Coverage Review of the Business Auto Policy" slated to start in January. See our website for current and upcoming class listings!
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The Frank W. Humphrey Award
The Frank W. Humphrey Golden Anniversary Award was established by Maurice H. Saval (after whom our education arm is named) in honor of Frank W. Humphrey, his mentor. Mr. Humphrey was at the agency Boit Dalton & Church, later Frank B. Hall & Company and now Aon Risk Services of Massachusetts. The prize was first awarded to commemorate Mr. Humphrey’s 50th year in the insurance business and is intended to be a special tribute to his contribution to our industry by his guidance and assistance to young people entering the business.
The winner each year is chosen from among those students who have successfully completed the course in Property and Liability Insurance Principles taught by Joe Sciacca. The student with the highest grade on the national exam that year earns the award. The presentation each year takes place during the Library's Annual Meeting.
This year's winner was Michelle Mozzicato from Crum & Forster. Michelle Mozzicato has worked at Crum & Forster Insurance for the past 11 years. She began her career with C&F as an Executive Assistant, and held that title for nine years. She was promoted to an Operations Supervisor in 2008, and most recently promoted to Operations Manager in 2009.
Prior to Crum & Forster Michelle was an Executive Assistant at BankBoston for 14 years. Michelle is married with two teenage boys, and resides in Stoneham, MA.
The picture below of Joe congratulating Michelle was taken by her husband at this year's meeting. You can expect more information on the annual meeting in tomorrow's blog post!
The winner each year is chosen from among those students who have successfully completed the course in Property and Liability Insurance Principles taught by Joe Sciacca. The student with the highest grade on the national exam that year earns the award. The presentation each year takes place during the Library's Annual Meeting.
This year's winner was Michelle Mozzicato from Crum & Forster. Michelle Mozzicato has worked at Crum & Forster Insurance for the past 11 years. She began her career with C&F as an Executive Assistant, and held that title for nine years. She was promoted to an Operations Supervisor in 2008, and most recently promoted to Operations Manager in 2009.
Prior to Crum & Forster Michelle was an Executive Assistant at BankBoston for 14 years. Michelle is married with two teenage boys, and resides in Stoneham, MA.
The picture below of Joe congratulating Michelle was taken by her husband at this year's meeting. You can expect more information on the annual meeting in tomorrow's blog post!
Joseph Sciacca & Michelle Mozzicato
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
We'll Trade
We'd like to take this opportunity to share with you some teaser photos from The Insurance Professional of the Year Award Ceremony (all photographs courtesy of Emily Photography). In exchange for the pictures, we'd love to get 1,000 words (we'll settle for your two cents -- we are a non-profit after all).
As mentioned in our most recent newsletter, we're interested in people's memories and reactions to this year's event. Any suggestions for next year's event would also be welcome including recommendations for possible nominees (though we can't promise that they'll win). Please post your responses in the comments section below!
Award Winners Past and Present
As mentioned in our most recent newsletter, we're interested in people's memories and reactions to this year's event. Any suggestions for next year's event would also be welcome including recommendations for possible nominees (though we can't promise that they'll win). Please post your responses in the comments section below!
Michael J. Sabbagh, 2010 Insurance Professional of the Year Award Winner
Name Tags
Acceptance Speech
Award Winners Past and Present
(from left to right)
Monday, November 1, 2010
Annual Meeting
Following close on the heels of the Insurance Professional of the Year Award Ceremony every year is the Annual Meeting of the Association. This year the Annual Meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, November 16, 2010. All members of the Insurance Library are encouraged to attend (as an incentive there is a light breakfast served at 8:00am) and hear about current initiatives at the library, take a look at the library budget, and hear about new library business.
If you are a member and are unable to attend, please feel free to fill out the proxy form found here.
We hope to see you in a couple of weeks!
If you are a member and are unable to attend, please feel free to fill out the proxy form found here.
We hope to see you in a couple of weeks!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Products Liability Vertical File
Look two posts in one week! Remember when I said we might pop in with something brief but of interest? Here we are. The library has a number of "subject files" in our collection. These are hard copy files where we put news clippings, brochures, pamphlets etc. on various subjects related to insurance.
Today, The New York Times had an article that will likely end up in our products liability file. They also had this lovely graphic showing big settlements in drug cases:
Today, The New York Times had an article that will likely end up in our products liability file. They also had this lovely graphic showing big settlements in drug cases:
Monday, October 25, 2010
New Year's Resolution
When you're in school you follow the academic calendar, with the year starting in September. When you're in business your year starts with the new fiscal year. Here at the library, it's not official, but I feel like the year starts again after The Insurance Professional of the Year Award Ceremony is over (I might be the only one here who feels that way).
We just completed another busy start to our fall season and had a very successful (we think) event on Friday. So I feel it is time to make some new resolutions about our coming year. I vow that the library blog will no longer sit sadly neglected. We will attempt to post at least once a week, if not more.
While I cannot promise that each post will be long and descriptive, we would like to see this space be a place where we discuss current happenings at the library and in the insurance field as a whole. It might be that we just pop in and mention a great article in the New York Times that describes Insurance Exchanges (with a helpful image for clients); that we announce that the library has started an insurance fiction section (we have the entire set of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone Mysteries); or we might ask you to respond with suggestions/comments on events and offerings from the library.
We just completed another busy start to our fall season and had a very successful (we think) event on Friday. So I feel it is time to make some new resolutions about our coming year. I vow that the library blog will no longer sit sadly neglected. We will attempt to post at least once a week, if not more.
While I cannot promise that each post will be long and descriptive, we would like to see this space be a place where we discuss current happenings at the library and in the insurance field as a whole. It might be that we just pop in and mention a great article in the New York Times that describes Insurance Exchanges (with a helpful image for clients); that we announce that the library has started an insurance fiction section (we have the entire set of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone Mysteries); or we might ask you to respond with suggestions/comments on events and offerings from the library.
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