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Fall River, MA, October 19, 2010 – The Rua-Dumont-Audet Insurance Agency is part of an elite group of independent insurance agencies around the United States participating in the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) “Best Practices” Study Group.

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 are honored to receive recognition as a 2010 Best Practices Agency. Michelle and I would like to thank the entire staff for their commitment to our agency and our agency’s mission. An honor such as this could not be accomplished without an entire team effort and we extend our appreciation to all our employees and agency partners.”

More than 1,200 independent agencies throughout the U.S. were nominated to take part in the annual study, but only 224 agencies qualified for the honor. To be chosen, the agency had to be among the 35-40 top-performing agencies in one of six revenue categories.

The agency was nominated by either an IIABA affiliated state association or an insurance company and qualified based on its operational excellence.

The Best Practices Study was initiated by IIABA in 1993 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 Rua-Dumont-Audet Insurance Agency, a result of the merging of Giroux-Audet-Rua Insurance Agency and R.A. Dumont Insurance Agency, was founded in 1908. RDA can offer insurance products from a number of different companies including EMC Insurance Co.; Safety Insurance Co., Commerce Insurance Co. and many more.

For further information, please contact Jason Rua or Michelle Vezina of RDA Insurance Agency at 508-673-5808.

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. Web address: www.independentagents.com