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| Who We Are . . . What We Do . . . |
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American Sterling Insurance Services (ASIS) is an insurance brokerage and consulting firm based in the Kansas City metropolitan area. ASIS serves a business and corporate clientele in the placement of insured employee welfare benefit plans, the administration of self-funded medical plans and the marketing and service of commercial property and casualty coverage. Represented products include employee benefits like group life insurance, short and long-term disability coverages, major medical and dental. Commercial products include business owner packages, commercial liability, property coverage and worker’s compensation plans. ASIS is unique in the insurance brokerage and consulting business because the sales and service organization is national in scope and includes a Third Party Administration (TPA) department. TPA services include claim payment and eligibility administration of self-funded medical and dental programs for employer groups. The ASIS TPA also administers and pays claims on the Sterling Benefit Solutions Limited Indemnity Medical plans insured and underwritten by a highly rated life insurance carrier. As a full-service broker, consultant and administrator, ASIS works with business clients across the full range of risk management and administrative needs and the agency has underwriting and sales relationships with a wide array of both national and regional insurance carriers to best serve its clients. American sterling Insurance Services:
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| Corporate Governance |
| Board of Directors |
| Michael D. Thompson | Chairman |
| Lawrence K. Dodge | Founding Chairman/Director |
| John W. Meara | Director |
| Executive Management |
| Lawrence K. Dodge | Chief Executive Officer |
| Michael D. Thompson | President |
| John L. Hunt, CLU | Executive Vice President and COO |
| Ron Dearden | CFO, SVP, Treasurer and Assistant Secretary |
| Janice K. Thrower | Corporate Secretary |
| Backgrounds |
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Lawrence K. Dodge founded American Sterling in 1977. He is the Founding Chairman, CEO, Director and Majority Stockholder of American Sterling Corporation and its subsidiaries. At 27 years of age he acquired a national insurance group making him the youngest CEO of a national insurance group, a benchmark that still exists to this day. In 1971, he acquired a controlling interest in a national bank and became the youngest national bank chairman, another benchmark that still survives today. |
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Michael D. Thompson was involved with the formation of American Sterling and has worked in various positions throughout American Sterling Corporation. He is Chairman, President and COO of American Sterling Corporation and most of it subsidiaries. He has over thirty years experience in insurance and banking. Thompson earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Kansas State University. |
| Ron Dearden was originally Vice President of Finance for American Sterling Corporation and became Chief Financial Officer in 1985. He earned a Bachelors degree in Accounting from California State University, Long Beach. |
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John L. Hunt joined American Sterling in July of 2006 and has been involved in group insurance sales, marketing and operations for over 30 years. His experience includes sales management, home office underwriting, customer service and third party administration. |
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John W. Meara is an outside director on the board of American Sterling Corporation and each of the boards of its subsidiaries. He is owner and CEO of Meara & Associates a public accounting firm located in Kansas City, Missouri. The firm specializes in forensic accounting and business valuations. Mr. Meara is a CPA with extensive public accounting background. |
| Janice K. Thrower is the Senior Executive Assistant for the CEO and President of American Sterling. She was appointed Corporate Secretary in 1998. |
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