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Employee Benefits Department: UPDATE

November 19, 2019

Good afternoon,

Please read the attached announcement below from Matt DeFendis regarding changes to our Employee Benefits Department.

As you may or may not have heard, Debbie Pittman, our current manager in Employee Benefits, will be relocating to Phoenix at year end.  Fortunately, she will be staying with the company and work from Phoenix in a sales and service role.  Debbie has been a strong leader of our Benefits team and a strong voice on our Management team over the last six years.

 As a result of Debbie’s move, we have asked Sandy Rogers to assume the day to day management of the department and she has accepted.  Sandy has been with D&D for 20 years and has been instrumental to the overall growth of the Benefits Department.  Sandy will be working closely with Debbie and Chris Peters during the transition.  As a result of this change, we anticipate reassigning some accounts within the department.  Sandy and Debbie will be reaching out to the producers to discuss changes within the department.

Chris Peters will remain as Sales Manager and we ask that all new business opportunities be discussed with Chris before being assigned within the department.  Your patience and understanding during this transition is greatly appreciated.

We wish to thank Debbie for the years of leadership she has provided to our Benefits Department and have complete confidence in Sandy’s experience and abilities to assume her new leadership position.

Matt DeFendis

Modesto Office: Holiday Card

November 18, 2019

For those in the Modesto Office we’ll be shooting our holiday card this Thursday 11/21 and next Monday 11/25.

We’ll knock out the “glamour shots” in the morning of each day. Then we can get them to City Signs to create our card.

For those of you who are working remote, simply take a head shot with a blank background and send to Curt Zimmerman. Let us know if anyone wants to volunteer their photography skills with a camera, otherwise we’ll figure out our other options.

Having everyone’s participation will make this card fun and we can use to promote our business.

Thank you and please contact Curt for any other questions:

[email protected]

Happy Halloween!

October 31, 2019

Wishing you a safe and fun holiday from all of us at D&D! Our producers look forward to this day every year and always surprise us with their creativity. Can you guess one of the themes this year?

Updated Phone List: 2019

October 29, 2019

Here is the latest phone list for all DiBuduo and DeFendis Offices in California, including IT contacts.

Fresno Office: Halloween Pet Costume Contest

October 21, 2019

Whether they have fur or feathers, they are welcome to enter the contest! Winner gets a $25 giftcard to Petco. Rules & Details are below:

  • Only 1 pet per person can enter.
  • Email your picture to Dia Mathews at [email protected] between Monday Oct. 21st – Tuesday Oct. 29th
  • Late entries will not be accepted.
  • Entries will be adjusted in size without diminishing the quality so that each photo is equal.
  • An email will go out to all who have entered on Wednesday, Oct. 30th to make sure Dia hasn’t missed anyone.
  • If you don’t receive an email confirmation by Wednesday at noon, please contact Dia.
  • The contest poll will be sent out on Thursday, Oct 31st at 8am to only the Fresno office. Poll closes at 11:30am.
  • Winner will be announced at the Halloween party in the kitchen at 12pm!

Pets Account for Nearly 400 Workers’ Comp Claims A Year in Oregon

July 25, 2019

“Slip and falls, flying tools, poor posture. The workplace can be dangerous, and now you can add pets to the risks that Oregon workers face.

Dogs and cats have accounted for more than 1,900 claims since 2014 received by SAIF, Oregon’s not-for-profit workers’ compensation insurance company. That averages out to nearly 400 pet-related worker’s comp claims each year.”

To read the full article in Insurance Journal and for tips to send to clients on staying safe around animals, click here.

Reminder: Email Transition

February 14, 2019

A note from Jon McNally

Hello everyone,

A reminder about this weekend.

This weekend will be a large transition for this agency.

We will be upgrading our e-mail system to Office 365.

It will take a lot of work from the IT Department and a massive amount of patience on your part.

Our e-mail will be down all this weekend while the transition happens, 99% of the e-mail will still come through to you on Tuesday, but things may happen.

Please make sure to leave your computer on when you leave on Friday.

For all our users, please be extremely patient on Tuesday morning the 19th.

All users’ passwords to log in to your computer will be changed over the weekend to: This is your new password.

You will be prompted to change it at that time.

There might be a lot of cleanup and organization for the IT Department to do in order to get you up and running 100%.

We have over 295 e-mail accounts across all our locations, nothing about this is easy.

If we could do it one at a time, I would have; unfortunately, it is an all or nothing scenario.

I will be coordinating the efforts to get everything running 100%, so please only call me next Tuesday the 19th with e-mail issues.

We will create a list and work our way down it 1 by 1.

Please do not call Reece or Chris directly during this time.

If you are a producer or manager and have e-mail on your smartphone or laptop, this will be down during this time.

We will need to change your settings after the weekend, please be patient with us as we will have a lot going on at once on Tuesday.

If you normally leave your laptop in the office, please leave it fully plugged in and turned on.

If you take it home, we will connect to it the next time you return to the office (please call me to schedule this) or you can call me on Sunday to schedule a time to have us connect to the laptop to change the settings this weekend.

Thank you for your consideration.

If you have any questions prior to this weekend, please let me know.

Jon McNally
Director of Information Technology

DiBuduo & DeFendis Insurance Brokers, LLC
6873 North West Avenue, Suite 101 | Fresno, CA 93711
Office: 559.432.0222 | Direct: 559.437.6660
Email: [email protected] | Fax: 559.437.6661
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