 September 2011 | meritsociety@namic.org
A membership count of 200 isn’t something to scoff at, but the potential membership numbers for the NAMIC Merit Society could be so much more. Increasing awareness – and subsequently membership numbers – of the group will be the focus for Patrick Faga, the 2011-2012 Merit Society chairman and vice president of West De Moines, Iowa-based Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa, during his year at the helm of the society.
It takes dedication to professionalism, educational attainment, and service and contributions to industry associations to become a member of NAMIC’s Merit Society. So far, 200 or so insurance professionals have fulfilled those requirements. Not all of them remain active in the society, but as Patrick Faga, senior vice president of Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa in West Des Moines, Iowa, and the Merit Society’s 2011-2012 chairman, says, many more people qualify to join the membership. They just haven’t applied yet.
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