God is aware of that I really feel like I’m simply hitting my stride and constructing the kind of regulation agency I’ve dreamed of for a very long time. But, my good friend and age modern, Ray Altieri, is having a retirement occasion in the present day. Ray actually deserves to take pleasure in no matter goals he has for his journey. I really feel lucky to have been a small footnote to his success.
Eleven years in the past, I wrote a publish, Ray Altieri Turns into President of the Nationwide Affiliation of Public Insurance coverage Adjusters:
Time flies. It looks as if yesterday when Ray Altieri excitedly met me exterior the doorway to the December 1992 Nationwide Affiliation of Public Adjusters Mid-12 months Assembly. Ray is Italian and really obsessed with issues that matter to him–normally his household, work and the New York Yankees.
That morning, he was frightened and upset. He requested if I might do one thing to assist public adjusting in Florida, the place a consultant from Florida’s Division of Insurance coverage indicated that public adjusting could also be banned.
Ray ushered me into a gathering with numerous NAPIA’s Board of Administrators. Apparently, a couple of non-member public adjusters, primarily from New York, had been arrested and have been accused of staging extra injury to property broken by Hurricane Andrew. This exercise was flawed and legal. It was executed by a couple of dangerous apples, and everyone knows how that lyric performs out.
Following the assembly, I known as numerous public adjusters who resided in Florida. We would have liked to prepare. Whereas there are a whole lot of public adjusters in Florida in the present day, the checklist of Florida resident public adjusters in late 1992 couldn’t have been greater than 100.
Doug Grose known as and requested if he might assist type the group. With approval from Ray Altieri and Steve Lesser, we chosen the title. Utilizing NAPIA as a base, we named the group the Florida Affiliation of Public Insurance coverage Adjusters (FAPIA). Doug Grose filed the company papers. A graphic artist in my agency, Carol Bowels, designed the brand used on the first assembly in Orlando, 1993.
I felt that FAPIA wanted passionate and sincere management. From dealings with Ray and people with Adjusters Worldwide, I knew Ray Altieri was sincere, honest and wished to make public adjusting a life’s work that will make his spouse and kids proud. He was the plain alternative for FAPIA’s first President.
Why does time appear to fly quicker as we become old?
His agency web site humbly says this about Ray:
Ray moved to Florida in 1986 along with his spouse and two sons, as a property insurance coverage adjuster with The Hartford Insurance coverage Firm. By January 1, 1988, Ray opened for enterprise as a Florida Licensed Public Insurance coverage Adjuster. Competing with a number of different public adjusting corporations on the time who have been established years forward of his arrival, Ray constructed his enterprise one declare at a time, using naturally discovered abilities from his blue-collar mother and father: work exhausting, shield your status, and be true to your phrase.
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Throughout his profession, Mr. Altieri turned President of the Nationwide Affiliation of Public Insurance coverage Adjusters (NAPIA), from June 2011 to June 2012. He’s the one Public Adjuster from Florida to ever serve in that capability. NAPIA elected Mr. Altieri to the ‘Officer’s Ladder’ in 2004, the place he has held each Workplace throughout his rise to the Presidency. Ray has additionally served on NAPIA’s Board of Administrators since 1991. NAPIA was based in 1951 and stays the preeminent trade group for public adjusters in the present day. Mr. Altieri has earned the revered designation of Licensed Skilled Public Adjuster (CPPA) from NAPIA and in December 2017, was honored by NAPIA as their ‘Individual of the 12 months.’
In early 1993, after Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida, the insurance coverage trade and Florida Legislature have been transferring to get rid of public adjuster licenses in Florida. To fight that effort, Florida’s public adjusters fashioned a brand new group and voted Mr. Altieri because the founding President of the Florida Affiliation of Public Insurance coverage Adjusters (FAPIA). Ray led a contingent of public adjuster colleagues, attorneys, and lobbyists to Tallahassee to craft legislative oversight designed to reign in unseemly conduct and protect public adjuster licensing. His management within the Affiliation continued for the following 25+ years and has been instrumental within the group’s success the place he was honored by FAPIA in 2006 with its Distinguished Service Award. In 2002, Mr. Altieri was requested by FAPIA to function President for a second time period. Ray has served on FAPIA’s Board of Administrators since its inception in 1993.
Right now, there appear to be many public adjusters who promote themselves on social media—however do they actually have the respect of their colleagues and the insurance coverage trade? Ray has all the time tried to signify himself and his career, so all people benefited from his work. He has set an instance as a public adjuster. I additionally know Ray personally, and he units an amazing instance of being a father and husband. His household is fortunate, and Ray has constructed luck from his household.
David Moore was his companion for numerous years. David had this to say about Ray:
From our days that we began organizing FAPIA with Chip Merlin and dealing collectively at Adjusters Worldwide, after which at our companion days at Altieri-Moore within the nineties, we laughed collectively and we’ve cried collectively over enterprise, youngsters, and medical problems with mine. To today, I don’t know of a finer individual, adjuster, Father, Husband, good friend or mentor than Ray Altieri. A lot deserving of retirement .
In a day and age the place former companions say nothing good concerning the relationships they’d, David Moore’s feedback are putting about Ray. All of us ought to work to have these kinds of relationships that Ray has constructed over time.
Others could cease me and take me away to the hereinafter whereas I’m passionately advocating for a policyholder in courtroom or in a speech, however I can not think about going out in a deliberate retirement.
Retirement from one’s work is a time for reflection. All of us ought to replicate on the journey we need to have and the life we would like. This life we live collectively shouldn’t be a costume rehearsal.
For these of you who know me nicely, you realize I really like competitors and being the winner, my sailboat racing, after which listening to Zep as my diversion. Whereas we ponder the retirement of a pacesetter and one to comply with for instance in so some ways, I depart you with these Led Zeppelin lyrics:
Oh, let the solar beat down upon my face
And stars fill my dream
I’m a traveler of each time and area
To be the place I’ve been
To take a seat with elders of the light race
This world has seldom seen
They speak of days for which they sit and wait
All might be revealed….
Oh, father of the 4 winds, fill my sails
Cross the ocean of years
With no provision however an open face
Alongside the straits of concern
Oh, once I need, once I’m on my approach,
And my ft put on my fickle method to keep
Ray—cheers! You’re an inspiration.
Thought For The Day
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