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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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Membership News

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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

Al Diamond

Over the years, Al has been thoroughly immersed in all facets of insurance agency operations including serving on committees, instructing, consulting and as an author. Building a solid track record of performance assisting agencies and company operations including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, perpetuation and strategic planning, organizational development, compensation and salary administration programs, administrative and financial operations, marketing and automation planning, ESOP, and perpetuation issues. Al also helps agencies create and ...
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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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Michael Gay

An interpreter of “insurance-ese” assisting others in understanding insurance policies, procedures, and practices of the industry. Expert Witness/Litigation Consultant in P&C coverages and Agent/Broker “Best Practices”. Four decades of insurance program development in the specialty P&C insurance space. Skilled in the identification, analysis, evaluation, and treatment of complex risk and loss exposures. Insurance Educator for over 30 years; Author of more than 60 course guides and workbooks. Designations earned: AAI, ...
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Peter Marchel

Peter Marchel is President and Founder of Marchel & Associates Risk Consulting.   Types of the services offered: Risk review and consulting, broker review and selection,  insurance policy review, analysis, and placement, program development, insurance management issues, policy enforcement, claims advocacy and expert witness testimony.   Peter has more than 24 years experience in Legal and Insurance matters.  His back ground is unique; from working on Insurance Opinions as a ...
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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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Scott E. Bushnell

Mr. Bushnell is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of experience providing Forensic Accounting services through national and global professional services firms. Know as the “numbers guy” his professional expertise covers Business Interruption Claims, Economic Damage Analysis, and Fraud Investigations. Mr. Bushnell has advised clients in mediation, arbitration and appraisal as a third party neutral, provided expert testimony in court and assisted in high profile fraud investigations. His ...
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Featured Library Publications

Differentiating Your Agency From Your Competitors Customer Bills Of Rights And Exectations

Is your agency on the cutting edge of your customer’s needs?

E&O Q&A

This is a monthly column in which agents can pose quetions related to E&O (Errors & Omissions) risk management and loss control as it relates to sales, service and operations. This month’s column focuses on using professional designations in advertising and whether doing so can create a higher expectation from the customer.

Perpetuating Agencies

The difference between a merger for perpetuation and an acquisition in disguise

Splitting Contingency Income In Agencies

Many agencies split contingency income among owners, producers, offices, cluster partners, VIA (Virtual Insurance Agency) partners, etc. Most do so solely based on volume. While this is simple (def. easy), it could also be simple (def. not very intelligent) because it is often over-simplified and does an injustice to one or more people or entities while benefitting others beyond their – …

IRMI- PLI- The Dangers of Late Notice under Professional Liability Policies

“This number (224) likely represents just a small fraction of the notice-based denials that never make their way to a courtroom. More must bedone to educate policyholders on how to comply with their policies’ claims-made reporting requirements. How did notice-based denials under claimsmade forms become so common? To understand how the industry has arrived at this point, it is important – …

E&O Q&A – Does Using Professional Designations Increase Liability?

This is a monthly column in which agents can pose questions related to E&O (Errors & Omissions) risk management and loss control as it relates to sales, service and operations. This month’s column focuses on using professional designations in advertising and whether doing so can create a higher expectation from the customer.