Peter Resnick of Interboro Insurance Co., accepts the PIANY Company Executive of the Year award.

The luncheon also featured a presentation to Peter Resnick of Interboro Insurance Co., who received PIANY’s Company Executive of the Year award. Both MetroRAP chair Michael P. Cracco, who presented the award, and Resnick noted the importance of loyalty in our industry and held the success of Interboro in its emergence from rehabilitation as an illustration of its importance in the New York broker community.

“It’s quite amazing that a broker community can come together and stick by the side of an individual that steers a company out of rehabilitiation like they did for our honoree,” said Cracco in reviewing Resnick’s myriad successes. “He asked everyone to stick by his side, while he rolled up his sleeves and took his company out of rehabilitation. We all know that if it was anyone else steering the ship through that storm we would have taken our books of business to another carrier and the rest would be history.”

Two scholarships also were presented during the ceremony. PIANY-member employees Richard Barquero of Bellido Insurance Brokerage in Glendale, N.Y., and Melissa Skidmore of Ruchman Associates Inc. in Rockville Centre, N.Y. were presented with the prestigeous Bernard I. Kozel Memorial Scholarship and the Arthur I. Moll Memorial Scholarship, respectively. The scholarships provide full-tuition coverage for all five certified insurance service representative seminars conducted by the association.

Shelly Kagel presents Richard Barquero of Bellido Insurance Brokerage in Glendale, N.Y., and Melissa Skidmore of Ruchman Associates Inc. in Rockville Centre, N.Y. with the prestigeous Bernard I. Kozel Memorial Scholarship and the Arthur I. Moll Memorial Scholarship, respectively.