A young professional on the Gannon Associates Insurance team recently received intense classroom training from one of the nation’s premier insurance providers and finished at the head of his class. Nicholas “Nick” Spencer returned from Travelers Commercial Lines New Producer Training 2017 in Hunt Valley, Maryland, and was awarded top honors in his class of 28 insurance professionals from all over the country. “This class deeply expanded my knowledge of commercial insurance, and how to better serve our business customers,” reported Spencer, a Penn State graduate with a degree in Business Management [...]

Michael Pasko joins the Gannon Associates Insurance team as Account Manager, overseeing and helping to serve the needs of personal insurance policyholders. Personal insurance coverage includes auto, home, life, disability and even long-term care. “I am excited to be a member of Gannon Associates and my role here as an account manager,” reports the Sayre resident and 2005 Troy High School graduate. Pasko, who has already been on the job for more than a month., benefits from experience in various components of the insurance business and comes to Gannon from State Farm [...]

Gannon Associates Insurance welcomed Stevens Lambert, Jr., to its Troy office earlier this summer where his immediate duties were selling life and health insurance. Lambert should be right at home in Troy, where he resides with his four children, and comes to Gannon with about a decade of experience in customer relations in marketing, technology, purchasing and sales. Although he is new to the insurance field, the 2002 graduate of the New Covenant Academy in Mansfield is an experienced hand at working with customers and helping them come up with the best [...]

A Wyalusing area resident and a junior at Bloomsburg University majoring in Business Education is working as an intern this summer in the Marketing Department of Gannon Associates Insurance. “I hope to gain valuable experience that I can use when I begin to pursue my career after I earn my college degree,” reports Justin Haley, a 2015 graduate of Wyalusing Valley High School and a former outstanding wrestler there. His duties as an intern, he reported shortly after starting there, are assisting in the Marketing Department, and he is looking forward to [...]

Gannon Associates Insurance proudly announces the launching of a new and totally remodeled website at www.gannonassociates.com. One of the major innovations, aside from an impressive user-friendly design that gets you where you want to go, is access —24 hours a day, seven days a week —to everything from amending coverage to filing a loss claim. That means you can go online and make a claim, initiating the process without having to abide by the office hours at Gannon’s 12 locations in one of the largest service areas of any independent insurance agency [...]

In the insurance business, risks are something you don’t take lightly, and our new loss control initiative underlines how important it is to keep risks at a minimum. Loss control is synonymous with risk management, or identifying risks and minimizing them as much as possible to prevent loss. This is an industry where we insure people and businesses from losses by taking on the risk for a price, knowing we may have to pay for a significant loss down the road. Naturally, it is good business practice to avoid customers whose lifestyles [...]

A Towanda Area High School alumnus has returned to his roots by accepting a position as a commercial insurance producer for Gannon Associates Insurance. Kyle D. Kintner brings to the table the dual expertise and experience of a former public school teacher as well as a field supervisor and division manager in the oil and gas industry. “I’m excited about joining Gannon Associates and working as an insurance specialist within the oil and gas industry,” reported Kintner, who says he “enjoys working and interacting with others” and welcomes what he believes will [...]

Customer referrals have always been the lifeblood of local businesses, but it doesn’t hurt to give your valued customers incentives to pass the word on. That’s the theory behind the new Customer Referral Program recently implemented by Gannon Associates Insurance. Not only is this a potential financial reward for those making referrals to the region’s largest independent insurance agency and the customer’s preferred agent, but at the same time, it means a donation to the chosen local charity of the winner. The theme for the referral program is: “Together, everyone wins!” Here’s [...]

Insurance coverage is all about risk, but the biggest risks, and the hardest to predict, are from natural and man-made disasters. How do insurance companies handle catastrophic insurance losses? According to Property Claim Services, a catastrophe is “an event that causes $25 million or more in insured property losses and affects a significant number of property/casualty policyholders and insurers.” There are, of course, insurance carriers, known as reinsurers, who specialize in covering catastrophic losses. Insurance companies have to pay the price for the peace of mind that they will be able to [...]