{"id":332,"date":"2015-05-10T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtmic.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2015-05-10T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T14:00:33","slug":"from-the-desk-of-john-karlen-cpcu-apa-are-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/from-the-desk-of-john-karlen-cpcu-apa-are-11\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Desk of John Karlen, CPCU, APA, ARe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mtmic.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/john-karlen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-78\" src=\"http:\/\/mtmic.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/john-karlen-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"john-karlen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/john-karlen-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/john-karlen-404x400.jpg 404w, https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/john-karlen-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Last month I wrote you about the fun of delivering 2.5 million dollars\u2019 worth of member dividend checks. We had 544 member checks. The average check amount was $4,596.00 which equates to 19.6% of the individuals paid premiums. Probably another interesting statistic, for 106 members their dividend was greater than 50% of their annual workers compensation premium. As a reminder the dividend had two parts, part one was a loyalty dividend for all members with policies by 12\/31\/12 that were still insured on February 19, 2015. The second part of the dividend was based on the loss ratio of your individual account. The Board thought, all members should be rewarded and those will great loss histories should get a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Many wonderful stories came out of our \u201csurprise\u201d deliveries. I had many myself. Special fun with Julie Grimm at Star Cutter Company, Celeste and Dennis Johnson at Thread-Craft, Inc., the management team at Symmetry Medical, and Maritza Gaskin at AB Heller. Regarding the loyalty piece, I should mention that both Star Cutter and AB Heller have been with MTMIC and the Trust before since 1976. Yes 39 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mtmic.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/heller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-334 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mtmic.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/heller-1024x597.jpg\" alt=\"heller\" width=\"560\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/heller-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/heller-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/heller-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/heller.jpg 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as important as old \u201cnews\u201d is new \u201cnews\u201d. Please mark your calendar on October 15th for the MTMIC annual members meeting. It is a quick moving 2 hour luncheon at Inn at St. John\u2019s in Plymouth. At this meeting, not only do we have two speakers, we will also complete the first review for the next dividend. It will be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Please plan to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I wrote you about the fun of delivering 2.5 million dollars\u2019 worth of member dividend checks. We had 544 member checks. The average check amount was $4,596.00 which equates to 19.6% of the individuals paid premiums. Probably another interesting statistic, for 106 members their dividend was greater than 50% of their annual workers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtmic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}