Since its founding more than 50 years ago, Assurex Global has propelled local independent agencies well beyond their local markets to become international intermediaries through an alliance with peers across the country and around the world.
At its founding in West Virginia in 1954, the most popular form of cross-ocean travel was the luxury liner, and communication was speedily handled by a rotary telephone or teletype. In large office buildings, documents and messages were either handwritten or typed on manual typewriters and passed through vacuum tubes. The use of carrier pigeons for handwritten notes might not have even been laughed at then.
Against this backdrop, explained Jim Hackbarth, president and chief executive officer of the Columbus, Ohio-based group, several brokers met with the idea of helping one another through talking about how they did business and how to keep accounts that were beginning to expand beyond their individual regions.
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