Year-End 2009 Results
A message from Stu Henderson, President & CEO

As you know, there’s no such thing as a ‘quiet’ year in our industry.  If it’s not weather issues, it’s soft-market or legislative issues.  That’s why, even for a year where the soft-market and economic pressures once again created a very challenging environment for growth, 2009 was nonetheless an active and successful time for Western National and our independent agency partners. Read more...

Partner Agency Profile
Cragin & Pike (Las Vegas, NV)

The Cragin & Pike Agency was formed over 100 years ago in 1909, but back then the sign above the door read, "Real Estate and Insurance...Peter Buol".  Not surprisingly, Peter Buol was the founder and has set forth a vision that has kept the agency running to become the second-oldest continuously operated business in Las Vegas. Read more...

Employee Profile
John Tollefsrud & Jon Sticha

What's the best part of managing Western National's $470+ million investment portfolio? According to Western National Investment Analyst Jon Sticha (one half of the group's two-man investment management team), it's the fact that no two days are ever the same. And that's a fact that's been all the more true these past few years. Read more...

Welcome to Our Newest Partner Agencies

Western National welcomes the following agencies with whom we formed new partnerships between November 1, 2009 and February 28, 2010:

• Action Commercial Insurance Agency (Orem, UT)
• Choice Insurance, LLC (Kirkland, WA)
• Community Insurance & Associates, LLC  (Amherst, WI)
• Kramer Agency. (Bismarck, ND)
• Lumbermens Insurance (Bend, OR)
• MN Insurance Services Agency, Inc. (West St. Paul, MN)
• Nicholson & Associates, Insurance (Olympia, WA)
• The Unity Group, Inc. (Bellingham, WA)

Celebrating Milestone Agency Anniversaries

Congratulations to the following Western National agency partners who celebrated a milestone partnership anniversary between November 2009 and February 2010. Read more...

Deadlines: WNIG Scholarship, Community Champions

Is your son or daughter eligible to apply for one of our college scholarships? Or do you have a commercial policyholder you'd like to nominate for recognition through our Community Champions program? Please take note of these upcoming deadlines for applications and nominations:

• Community Champions nominations for our First Quarter 2010 selection must be received no later than March 31, 2010. (You can nominate policyholders year-round, and we will select one nominee each quarter.)
• Western National Insurance Scholarship applications must be complete and postmarked no later than April 15, 2010.

$50 Gift Card Winner: Dawn Rupp (GLB Insurance Group of Las Vegas, NV)

Congratulations to Dawn Rupp (GLB Insurance Group of Las Vegas, NV) who won a $50.00 Visa Gift Card for recognizing Western National Claims Representative Walt Pinkerton for a job well done. Here's what Dawn had to say. Read more...