Media room
March 16, 2005
Seattle and Portland Sales Offices Earn Multiple Awards
Individuals and team honored by Assurant Employee Benefits
SEATTLE – Assurant Employee Benefits has honored the sales teams and support staffs of offices in Seattle and Portland with multiple awards for performance in 2004. The two individual awards and one team award recognize outstanding sales performance achieved by providing creative employee benefit solutions to meet the unique needs of employers and brokers.
Awards earned by the team:
- The Office of the Year Award. Assurant Employee Benefits presented two Office of the Year Awards this year, based on sales volume categories. Seattle/Portland won in its category for the third consecutive year.
- Voluntary Sales Leader Award – Larry Meitl, the team's sales manager.
- True Group Sales Leader Award – Sales Representative Luke Knutson.
Winners of the Office of the Year Award are selected for excellence in premium coverage, managed underwriting, budgeting and customer satisfaction, and success in exceeding the office's annual goal.
“The Seattle and Portland sales offices are consistently among our top performers because our associates there have embraced, as a group, the partnership approach to employee benefits,” said Chris Calos, senior vice president for distribution. “Like all our top performers, they work hard to develop the expertise to serve as benefits consultants to help employers solve problems and explore new possibilities.”
True Group Sales Leader Awards are presented to sales representatives who achieved $3 million in sales or 150 percent of their sales goal. Voluntary Sales Leader Awards are presented to sales representatives who submitted $2 million in sales or 150 percent of their sales goal.
Knutson submitted more than $4.6 in true group sales and Meitl submitted more than $2.9 in voluntary sales.
True Group products are sold to companies that provide them to employees as part of a compensation package. Voluntary products are sold to employees via payroll deduction.
Meitl lives in Bellevue, Wash., and Knutson lives in Seattle, Wash.
Products and services marketed by Assurant Employee Benefits are underwritten and/or provided by Fortis Benefits Insurance Company or an affiliated prepaid dental company.
Assurant Employee Benefits specializes in quality employee benefits and services, including long-term and short-term disability, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, dental coverage, 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 market tailor-made benefit plans for groups of most any size. Assurant Employee Benefits is located in Kansas City, Missouri.
Assurant Employee Benefits is part of Assurant, which offers specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected other markets. Its four key businesses – 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 market segments and 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:
Kim O'Halloran
Corporate Communications Group Inc.
800.726.2990 or kohalloran@ccgcorp.com