Press Release - Erica Borden Completes Insurance Sales Program

PRESS RELEASE

Contact Mary Ellen O’Connor 
Marketing Communications Manager

West Bend Mutual Insurance Company 262-334-6442 moconnor@wbmi.com

Erica Borden completes insurance sales program

WEST BEND, WI 14 June 2013 – Erica Borden of Mid-State Insurance recently completed the Producer Development Program offered by West Bend Mutual Insurance Company. The five- month program is designed to teach disciplines and behaviors that will help participants adjust to and benefit from the dramatic changes in the ever-changing insurance industry.

Training consists of classroom development and technical training, group discussions and assignments, independent course study, and one-on-one coaching sessions. The program concludes when each participant prepares and presents a business plan. West Bend agents who complete the program also receive continued coaching throughout their careers.

Twenty-three independent insurance agents who represent West Bend completed the program. They are from Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Kentucky.

Mid-State Insurance helps companies protect capital and financial assets with flexible insurance and financial planning programs that meets consumers’ specific needs. Since 1986, Mid-State provides clients with business and commercial insurance, employee benefits, home insurance, life insurance, health insurance and auto insurance.

West Bend Mutual Insurance Company, headquartered in West Bend, Wisconsin, provides property/casualty insurance products throughout the Midwest. Approximately 1,200 independent insurance agencies throughout Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, and Kentucky represent West Bend. The company has been rated A (Excellent) or better by A.M. Best since 1971 and is consistently ranked at the top of a nationwide ease-of-doing business survey.

West Bend partners with Polestar Performance Program, Inc., a leader in the insurance training industry, to provide the program to independent insurance agents who represent the company.

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