NU Online News Service, April 9, 2:50 p.m. EDT
The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. said Richard J. Zick will receive the organization's 2010 Long Island Regional Awareness Program Executive of the Year Award.
Mr. Zick is president and chief executive officer of Utica First Insurance Co. of Oriskany, N.Y., in upstate Oneida County. The formal presentation will take place April 15 during the Long Island Regional Awareness Program in Great Neck, N.Y.
The Executive of the Year Award recognizes an individual from an insurance company, general agency or managing agency who has forged strong working relationships with agents and brokers in the insurance industry.
Mr. Zick currently serves as the chairman of the New York Insurance Association, is on the board of the Property Casualty Insurers of America, and has served as chairman of the American Association of Insurance Services and president of the Utica Chapter of the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Society.
The association also said that Garrett M. Duffy, president of Babylon Spirit Inc. in North Babylon, N.Y., will receive the Louis A. Morelli Memorial award.
The award is given in memory of PIA of New York's honorary director, Lou Morelli, to an individual who has a reputation for working toward the betterment of the American agency system and for the professional growth of the association.
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