Media room
March 9, 2004
National award earned by San Francisco senior sales executive
Shannon Norton honored for achievement by Assurant Employee Benefits
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - Assurant Employee Benefits – formerly Fortis Benefits – has recognized Shannon Norton with the Product Line Solutions Award for outstanding sales and customer service performance in 2003. The awards recognize sales success achieved through the winners' commitment to crafting creative employee benefits solutions that meet the unique needs of employers and brokers.
The award honors the third banner year for sales success in a row for Norton, senior sales executive with the Assurant Employee Benefits San Francisco Group Sales Office. Last year, Norton won not only a Product Line Award but also the President's Award, the top level of recognition. The year before, she earned the Rookie of the Year Award, presented annually to the top performer among sales representatives with less than three years of experience.
“Shannon succeeds by forging real partnerships with brokers and employers and developing knowledge and expertise not just in employee benefits products and services, but in her customers' businesses,” said Chris Calos, senior vice president for distribution. “Her success demonstrates the capabilities of this partnership approach to serving companies and their employees.”
Norton earned the Product Line Solutions Award in the Group Dental category. Individual product line sales awards are presented in two categories, Voluntary and True Group. Voluntary products are sold to employees via payroll deduction. True Group products are sold to companies that provide them to employees as part of a compensation package.
Assurant Employee Benefits -- The Benefits Solutions PeopleSM -- specializes in non-medical employee benefits. Assurant Employee Benefits provides long-term and short-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage, dental insurance, employee absence management services and disability reinsurance management services. Assurant Employee Benefits also offers voluntary (employee-paid) disability, life and dental plans. Underwriting flexibility allows Assurant Employee Benefits to develop tailor-made benefit plans for groups of any size.
Assurant Employee Benefits is part of Assurant, a premier provider of specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected other markets. Its four key business units -- Assurant Employee Benefits; Assurant Health; Assurant Preneed; and Assurant Solutions -- have partnered with clients who are leaders in their industries and have built leadership positions in a number of specialty insurance market segments in the U.S. and selected international markets.
Assurant is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AIZ. The Assurant Web site is www.assurant.com.
For more information contact:
Jama Akers or John Martellaro
Corporate Communications Group
800-726-2990 or jakers@ccgcorp.com