Now is the time to identify and nominate an exceptional insurance customer service representative for the 2010 Outstanding CSR of the Year Award competition. The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research is now soliciting entries for candidates who consistently provide quality service, exhibit strong leadership capabilities, and have made valuable contributions to their agencies and communities.
A $1,000 cash award will be presented to the nominator of the national winner; the four national finalists will each receive $500; and the national winner will receive $2,000.
Established in 1991, the Outstanding CSR of the Year Award is one of the greatest professional honors a customer service representative can receive. “This award is a great opportunity to honor our frontline employees for the significant roles they play within our industry,” said Jack Watson, CIC, Chairman of PIA’s CIC and Education Committees.
The award is open to everyone, regardless of affiliation or designation. The only requirement is that the candidate be an insurance CSR or have primary duties in the customer service arena.
Once nominated, a candidate fills out a form, submits letter(s) of recommendation from professional reference(s), and writes a two-page essay on a designated topic.
State recipients of the award receive a framed Certificate of Achievement and become candidates in the National Outstanding CSR of the Year Award competition. From this field, four finalists are chosen who receive $500 each, a gold and garnet pin, and publicity in national publications. The winner of the
National Award receives a $2,000 cash award, a gold and diamond pin, and a scholarship for his or her agency/company to any National Alliance program. The nominator of the National Award winner receives a $1,000 cash award.
Nominations are currently being accepted by The Professional Insurance Agents of Georgia for the state of Georgia. To nominate an individual, please send his/her name, agency/company, address, and phone number to: PIA of Georgia; 3805 Crestwood Pkwy NW, Ste. 140; Duluth, GA 30096; or by email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Your nomination can be kept anonymous if you wish. Upon receipt of nominations, candidates will be mailed all materials necessary to complete the entry process. The deadline for submission of the candidate form and essay is May 1, 2010.
You may also download a nomination form from PIA’s website and submit it to PIA of Georgia.
For further information contact: Carolyn B. Dodd, Associate Director; PIA of Georgia; 3805 Crestwood Pkwy NW, Ste. 140; Duluth, GA 30096; 800/233-4902, fax 770/921-7590; This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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The Georgia Association of Professional Insurance Agents ("PIA of GA of GA") respects the privacy of its members and other visitors to its Web Site. PIA of of GA has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our commitment to user privacy. The following applies to the information gathering and dissemination practices for information collected on or submitted to this web site.
How Information Is Collected
The PIA of GA Web Site only collects personally identifiable information from you if you choose to provide this information to us. In a few areas on PIA of GA Web Site, we ask you to provide information — or log-in as a PIA of GA member, or PIA of GA chartered affiliate employee, or a PIA of GA partner (collectively known as "Authenticated Users") — to enable PIA of GA: to verify whether you are entitled to access and use certain information, materials and services available from PIA of GA Web Site; to enhance your site visit; to assist you with customer service or technical support issues; to follow up with you after your visit; to provide information about products and services; or to otherwise support your customer and/or member relationship with PIA of GA. While failure to provide this information may mean that you cannot access and use certain information, materials and services on the PIA of GA Web Site or PIA of GA partner web sites, providing personally identifiable information on the PIA of GA Web Site and logging-in as an Authenticated User are completely optional.
The PIA of GA Web Site is not set up to automatically collect personally identifiable information from each visitor to the PIA of GA Web Site. However, basic contact information (name, company name, address, phone number, email address, member identification number, etc.) about Authenticated Users is uploaded from PIA of GA's membership database to the PIA of GA Web Site to enable Authenticated Users to log-in and access password-protected information and programs.
The PIA of GA Web Site does automatically collect information that does not identify users personally. Via Web server logs, for example, PIA of GA may monitor statistics such as the number of people that visit the PIA of GA Web Site, which page(s) are visited onthe PIA of GA Web Site, from which domain our visitors come (e.g., aol.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to visit the PIA of GA Web Site (e.g., Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.).
Cookies: A "cookie" is a small file that is placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can be read only by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
Each time you initiate a session on the PIA of GA Web Site the site sets the cookie in order to identify you and determine your access privileges. Cookies do not store any of the personal information that you have provided to the site. They are simply identifiers. Cookies on the PIA of GA Web Site are removed from your hard drive when you end the current session, unless you specifically click the "Remember My Login" box when logging in with a username and password. Clicking on this box will store the cookie on your hard drive so that you will not have to log in each time you visit the PIA of GA Web Site.
You have the ability to delete cookie files from your hard drive at any time. However, you should know that cookies may be necessary to provide you with access to much of the content and features of the PIA of GA Web Site. We use cookie technology to enable Authenticated Users to move quickly and securely through access-controlled areas of the PIA of GA Web Site and to take advantage of certain useful features on the PIA of GA Web Site.
How Information Is Used
Information you provide and information that is uploaded to PIA of GA Web Site from PIA of GA's membership database may be used to verify whether you are entitled to access and use certain information, materials and services available from PIA of GA Web Site; to enhance your site visit; to assist you with customer service or technical support issues; to follow up with you after your visit; to provide information about products and services; or to otherwise support your customer and/or member relationship with PIA of GA.
PIA of GA strives to keep the personal information you provide to us when using the PIA of GA Web Site and information that is uploaded to the PIA of GA Web Site from PIA of GA's membership database confidential. Agents or contractors of PIA of GA who are given access to your personal information are required to keep the information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for PIA of GA.
We may disclose information you provide to us and information that is uploaded to the PIA of GA Web Site from PIA of GA's membership database to third parties in order to complete a transaction that you requested or to improve your customer experience. We may also outsource some tasks, including the operation of certain Web Site functions, that require access to information you supply online. On occasion, PIA of GA may also provide data supplied online to third parties that offer products and services. We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary in order to comply with the law or legal process.
PIA of GA monitors the PIA of GA Web Site "traffic" statistics using information that does not identify users personally so we may improve PIA of GA Web Site. We use an outsourcing program to assist us in analyzing this data. Aggregated statistics may also be provided to advertisers and other third parties, but the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.
Security
PIA of GA takes steps to protect against the loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally identifiable information. We utilize industry standard SSL encryption when accepting credit card information during our online checkout process. Access to some computer data and files at PIA of GA are secured by password coding with access to personally identifiable information strictly limited to those employees who need access in order to carry out their job responsibilities. Our network is behind a firewall designed to prevent unauthorized access.
Means of Redress
If any PIA of GA Web Site user suspects PIA of GA has handled its personal information in a manner that does not comply with this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
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Privacy Policy Changes
PIA of GA reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Updated versions of the Privacy Policy will appear on PIA of GA Web Site and are effective immediately. You are responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy. Continued use of PIA of GA Web Site after any such changes constitutes your consent to such changes.
