Most LTC Insurance is purchased through financial advisors and agents, and backing those agents are General Agencies who work closely with insurance carriers. These "GA's" support help individual and corporate clients secure coverage, and provide marketing and sales support.
LTCI Partners, the organization behind the Planning For LTC in America Blog, were the fastest growing General Agency in the largest category of organizations. See the Press Release from the AALTCI below...
Contact: Jesse Slome, Executive Director, American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance
(818) 597-3227 E-mail: jslome@aaltci.org
Top Long-Term Care Insurance Agencies Recognized
Five of the nation's leading long-term care insurance agencies have been recognized for their significant achievements marketing and selling long-term care insurance protection.
Presentations of the 2011 Long-Term Care Insurance Agency Achievement Awards were presented earlier this week by the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance. Awards were presented at the 2011 National LTCi Summit. The industry's leading sales and marketing conference was held this week in Las Vegas and attended by 550 of the nation's leading producers, agencies and insurers.
"There are several hundred small, medium and large agencies who provide enormous training, marketing and sales support to tens of thousands of insurance producers," explains Jesse Slome, AALTCI's executive director. "The nation's agencies and their staffs are the unsung heroes of this industry, and most deserving of recognition for their efforts."
Five categories were established so that agencies of all sizes would be recognized. "The awards are presented to the agency that reported the greatest growth in paid long-term care insurance sales over the prior year," Slome adds.
Category 1: 2010 LTC Insurance Sales Under $500,000
Capitol Metro Financial Services, Columbia, Maryland - 93% Increase in paid LTC insurance sales
Category 2: 2010 LTC Insurance Sales Between $1 Million & $2.5 Million
LTC Benefits Group, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska - 55% Increase in paid LTC insurance sales
Category 3: 2010 LTC Insurance Sales Between $2.5 Million & $5 Million
Individual Commercial Brokerage Inc., Rockaway, New Jersey - 34% Increase in paid LTC insurance sales
Category 4: 2010 LTC Insurance Sales Between $5 Million & $ 10 Million
MasterCare Solutions, Inc., Portland, Oregon - 26% Increase in paid LTC insurance sales
Category 5: 2010 LTC Insurance Sales Over $10 Million
LTCI Partners, LLC, Lake Forest, Illinois - 32.5% Increase in paid LTC insurance sales
Established in 1998, the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance is the national association serving insurance and financial professionals who provide long-term care financing solutions.
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