Aartrijk’s Morgan Named to IIABNY Board

Independent Insurance Agents, Brokers of New York Board Elects Rick Morgan of Aartrijk To At-Large Director Position

(May 18, 2009) — The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York, Inc. board of directors elected Rick Morgan, senior associate with Aartrijk, to a one-year term as an at-large director. He will help shape the association’s policies on issues vital to the interests of its 1,900 member agencies statewide.

Morgan brings to the board a wide variety of experiences in insurance and technology. As co-owner of a Boulder, Colorado insurance agency, he developed the process of transactional filing, which ultimately brought new efficiencies to thousands of independent agencies. He went on to serve as vice-president for Delphi Information Systems and Confirmnet Corp., and he co-founded Insurance Reference Systems. IRS was the creator of Silver Plume, an electronic library that revolutionized the distribution of insurance reference material to agents and insurance companies. He also served as a national director on the advisory council for software developer GEMINI and was instrumental in the development of the GEMINI Users Group, of which he became national president.

Morgan also was co-founder of HIGH-TECC, an industry-wide educational event. He was the founding editor of The Automated Agency Report, and his articles have appeared in Rough Notes and Independent Agent, among other publications. His most recent industry position was senior vice-president of marketing for Applied Systems, a leading agency management system vendor, from which he retired in October 2007.

Morgan is a graduate of Colorado State University and lives with his wife in Broomfield, Colorado.

The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York, Inc. has represented the common business interests of independent insurance professionals since 1882. More than 1,900 agencies and their 18,000 employees currently rely on the DeWitt, New York-based not-for-profit trade association for legislative advocacy, continuing education and other means of industry support. In addition, many IIABNY members represent Trusted Choice®, a national consumer brand uniting more than 7,000 independent agencies across the United States. For more information, go to www.trustedchoice.com or www.iiabny.org.

[excerpted from IIABNY news release]