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Charles Luce

Charles Luce has joined Allen Insurance and Financial as a Group Benefits Account Manager in the company’s Benefits Division.
Luce, who has his State of Maine Life, Accident & Health Producer’s license, will work with clients on a variety of insurance products, including group health, life, dental and disability insurance.
Luce is based at the company’s offices at 31 Chestnut Street in Camden. He joined the company in March 2018.
Luce is a graduate of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. He brings decades of experience in the financial services industry, including Fidelity Investments, Nationwide Insurance, and more than over nine years with Unum, as well as valuable group benefits agency and brokerage experience.
He and his wife and twin 16-year old daughters live in Camden.

Wendy Byrd

Wendy Byrd, group benefits account manager at Allen Insurance and Financial, has obtained her State of Maine Life and Health  insurance license so that she can help clients with a variety of insurance products, including health, life, dental and disability insurance.
Byrd joined Allen Insurance and Financial in July 2017 and is based in the company’s Benefits Division, located at 31 Chestnut Street in Camden. She assists clients with insured benefits questions.
Byrd is a graduate of Lewiston High School and the University of Maine, and is certified as a benefits account manager by the National Association of Health Insurance Underwriter (NAHU).
The NAHU Benefits Account Manager Certification provides account manager professionals with an understanding of the complex and critical role an account manager plays in the health and benefits arena.

Sherree L. Craig, CEBS

Sherree L. Craig, CEBS, senior account executive in the Insured Benefits Division at Allen Insurance and Financial, has achieved an Advanced Self-Funding Certification from the National Association of Health Underwriters.
The NAHU Advanced Self-Funding Certification ensures knowledge of regulatory concerns, service model options, cost-containment strategies and underwriting concepts necessary for providing advice and direction on employer self-funded health plans.
Craig has been with Allen Insurance and Financial for 20 years. She works with businesses across Maine on their employee benefits offerings.
“Employers have limited options to control their own health plan expenses with an insurance company. Self-funding is a valuable tool to consider for a company’s health plan strategy,” said Craig. “This certification allows me to better assist businesses who elect to self-fund their medical plans with using the most cutting edge cost-control techniques, while assuring that they are fulfilling their plan sponsor obligations.”

Jaime Hannan-McMurrin.

Jaime Hannan-McMurrin of Union has joined Allen Insurance and Financial as a processor in the company’s business insurance division. She is based in Camden.
Before coming to work for Allen Insurance and Financial, Hannan-McMurrin, a native of Warren, worked for a local bank and then a local insurance agency, gaining valuable account and customer service experience. She earned her Maine property & casualty insurance license in 2016.
Outside of work, Hannan-McMurrin enjoys spending time with her two daughters, especially when they are scrapbooking or taking a Zumba class.
“I love my job,” she said. “I work with great people, I find myself doing something different every day and every day is a challenge. I love the learning and opportunity to learn so much more.”

Amanda Corson

Amanda Corson, a personal insurance account manager in our Southwest Harbor office,  is now licensed to sell life insurance in Maine.
Our Southwest Harbor office operates as  L.S. Robinson Co., the independent insurance agency which has served Mount Desert Island since 1932.
“Expanding her insurance knowledge to life insurance will allow Amanda to better serve our agency’s personal insurance customers,” said Scott Carlson, manager of the personal insurance division at Allen Insurance and Financial.