Cavignac & Associates Selected by IIABA as “Best Practices” Agency for Ninth Straight Year

SAN DIEGO - Sept. 30, 2015 - PRLog -- For the ninth year in a row, San Diego-based risk management and insurance brokerage firm Cavignac & Associates has been selected by the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA) as part of its elite “Best Practices” study group, comprised of independent insurance agencies across the United States.

         Each year since 1993, IIABA and Reagan Consulting, an Atlanta-based management-consulting firm, join forces to study the country’s leading agencies in six revenue categories. The agencies comprising the study groups are selected every third year through a comprehensive nomination and qualifying process and awarded a “Best Practices Agency” designation. The selected “Best Practices” agencies retain their status during the three-year cycle by submitting extensive financial and operational data for review each year.

         “We’re proud to maintain our status as part of the prestigious group of agencies participating in the IIABA ‘Best Practices’ study group,” said Jeff Cavignac, president and principal of Cavignac & Associates. “It validates our success at fulfilling our mission to be a highly customer-focused, excellence-driven agency that hires and retains quality employees who wholeheartedly support this mission.”

         This year concludes the current three-year study cycle in which more than 1,100 independent agencies throughout the United States were nominated to take part in the annual study, but only 217 agencies qualified for the honor.  To be chosen, the agency had to be among the 35-45 top-performing agencies in one of six revenue categories.

         The “Best Practices” study was initiated by IIABA as the foundation for efforts to improve agency performance. The annual survey and study of leading independent insurance agencies documents the business practices of the “best” agencies and urges others to adopt similar practices. The agencies are nominated by either an IIABA-affiliated state association or an insurance company, then qualified based on their operational excellence.

         Founded in 1896, IIABA is the nation’s oldest and largest national association of independent insurance agents and brokers, representing a network of more than 300,000 agents, brokers and their employees nationally.  Its members are businesses that offer customers a choice of policies from a variety of insurance companies.  Independent agents and brokers offer all lines of insurance – property, casualty, life and health – as well as employee benefit plans and retirement products.  The organization’s Web address is www.independentagents.com.


About Cavignac & Associates:

         Founded in 1992, Cavignac & Associates is a leading risk management and commercial insurance brokerage firm providing a broad range of insurance and expertise to design and construction firms, as well as to law firms, real estate-related entities, manufacturing companies and the general business community. Company principals are Jeffrey W. Cavignac, CPCU, ARM, RPLU, CRIS, MLIS; James P. Schabarum II, CPCU, AFSB; Scott A. Bedingfield, AAI, CIC, CRIS; Patrick Casinelli, RHU, REBC, CHRS; and Matthew Slakoff, CIC, CRIS. The firm employs a staff of 45 at offices located at 450 B Street, Suite 1800, San Diego, Calif., 92101.  More information about the company can be found on the Web at www.cavignac.com.