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A Nationwide Association Of Insurance And Risk Consultants, Educators And Experts

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AAIMCo Members Are The Most Sought-after Fee Based Professionals On Matters Related To Insurance And Risk

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Areas Of Expertise Include Agent/Agency, Company/Wholesaler, Corporations/Enterprise, Government And Law

AAIMCo Members Are Widely Published. From Books And Resource Documents To White Papers And General Articles

AAIMCo is a non-profit trade association comprised of insurance and risk professionals who provide fee-based consulting and educational services to their clients.

The Professional Members of AAIMCo are among the most knowledgeable and highly sought after, fee-based consultants, experts and educators in the insurance and risk management fields. Their clients include insurance agencies and associations, multi-national insurance companies, corporations and attorneys for services ranging from consulting and expert witness to education and training.

AAIMCo’s purpose is to provide an insurance and risk forum for professionals of the highest caliber to share ideas and exchange information for the betterment of our professions. AAIMCo also strives to set the highest professional standards for our members and our industries and will publish official position papers in support of that goal.

Nationally Recognized
Authoritative Publication of AAIMCo

"Standards & Guidelines For Appraising Insurance Agencies/Brokerages"

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AAIMCo Annual Conference May 2-4, 2024

In Chandler, Arizona at the Crown Plaza Phoenix-Chandler Golf Resort

AAIMCo Phoenix Conference 2024

Featured Consultants

Joe Williams

Mr. Williams has over 57 years experience as an insurance agent/broker and insurance consultant. From 1970 until 2007 he was a principal shareholder in a large Houston firm, Wisenberg Insurance + Risk Management and was its Chairman and CEO when the firm was sold to a subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank. He has a particular expertise in insurance coverage analysis. Mr. Williams is very familiar with all phases of the ...
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Terry J. Friedman, CPCU

Mr. Friedman began his insurance career over 42 years ago, when he joined his family's independent insurance agency as a producer, eventually focusing on property and casualty commercial insurance. In addition to developing a substantial book of business that included a wide range of businesses and organizations, he was President of the agency from 2004 – 2018, and CEO from 2004 – 2020. In 2022, he retired from the retail ...
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Lezlee Liljenberg

Lezlee Liljenberg, entered the insurance business in 2004 as she started her first agency from ground zero, growing the business to over $6 million in revenue in less than 12 years. Ms. Liljenberg holds a BA in Journalism/Public Relations and a MA in Political Science/Public Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington.  She is a Professional Financial Representative holding licenses as 6 & 63 Securities, a Property & Casualty ...
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Ralph Korn, CPCU

I have over fifty years' experience in insurance and risk management.  I am a graduate of Loyola University, Chicago.  My corporate experience includes Director of Insurance for Duplan Corporation, Risk Manager for E. & J. Gallo Winery and Vice President of Insurance for Greyhound Corporation.  In addition, I have over thirty-five years' experience as an independent Risk Management consultant specializing in formation of captive insurance companies, insurance archaeology, policy analysis, ...
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Brent Winans

Brent Winans provides, objective, fee-based insurance and risk management consulting services for mid-sized companies.  He also serves as an expert witness in insurance agents’ errors and omissions suits and other insurance litigation. Risk Management – Brent helps his clients plug coverage gaps and obtain the most competitive pricing on insurance.  In addition, he implements other risk management techniques when they are more effective than insurance.  His extensive risk management background ...
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Dr. Brenda Powell Wells

Brenda Powell Wells holds both a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Ph.D. in Risk Management and Insurance from the University of Georgia.  She holds the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Accredited Advisor of Insurance (AAI) and Construction Risk Insurance Specialist (CRIS) designations.  She also holds a graduate certificate in Business Analytics from East Carolina University. Brenda has spent over 30 years studying and teaching risk management and insurance.  ...
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Featured Library Publications

Agency Valuation-How And Why

Agency valuations are rarely obtained simply to satisfy an owner’s curiosity about the value of his business. Every valuation has a purpose.

To Service Center – Or Not To Service Center

Service Center must not be unilateral. In order for Service Center to make sense they must save more money than they cost for BOTH agent and carrier.

“Ten Claim-Handling Lessons from `The Game of Thrones'”

Kevin extracts insights from HBO’s popular series and sees implications for how claim professionals approach the challenges in their work.

PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS

It has always been the opinion of Agency Consulting Group that evaluations are important ONLY as a development tool for an employee.  Further, one should only evaluate performance that can be controlled by the employees.  This requires the standards of performance to be known, to be written and to be acknowledged by the employee.   A Position Description should set – …

ACQUIRING AGENCIES Why Agents Sell Their Agencies

Many agents would love to acquire an agency’s book of business and get hundreds or thousands of clients at once with support staff to take care of those clients. But when someone comes to us with an offer to sell there’s usually something that we don’t know about the agency and the transaction. This article will make you aware of – …