Thomas O. Michel of Los Angeles will lead the association as President; Cammie K. Scott of Arkansas will continue her service in the role of Immediate Past President.

LifeMark Securities Corp., a leading broker-dealer based in Rochester, NY, reacted to news that a handful of former NAIFA-NY board members voted to disaffiliate with NAIFA by offering LifeMark’s continued support for NAIFA’s national association and its members in New York State.

“Let it be known that LifeMark Securities continues its support [of NAIFA],” said a letter to NAIFA President Cammie Scott signed by LifeMark Securities President Jim Prisco and Chairman Andy Kalinowski. “We will continue to demonstrate this support by paying the NAIFA dues on behalf of our representatives who are desirous of maintaining their membership in NAIFA.”

NAIFA-Texas has issued a public letter of support for their fellow NAIFA members who make up the NAIFA-New York chapter. The letter states that NAIFA-Texas’s Board was “shocked and dismayed to learn that a small group of New York State members were seemingly hoodwinked into voting to disaffiliate with NAIFA” and, particularly, that they did so without the knowledge of the rest of the state chapter’s membership.

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NAILBA’s 2019 ID Twenty Awards recognize the “most courageous innovators and visionaries who have important contributions to the insurance profession” in independent distribution. NAIFA would like to congratulate all of the winners and particularly the seven who are NAIFA members:

NAIFA CEO Kevin Mayeux is attending the Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) annual conference in Boston, Oct. 13-15. Watch for Kevin’s tweets (@KevinMayeux) on goings on at the event.