Thanks to a generous donation match challenge issued by National Guardian Life Insurance Company, the Selected Educational Trust raised $14,400 in donations from Selected member firms, individuals and supporting organizations between Sept. 1 and Oct. 15, 2023. Combined with NGL’s pledge to match donations dollar for dollar up to $10,000,…
Read MoreFor over two decades National Guardian Life Insurance Company has been offering continuous insurance coverage and peace of mind for the residents of Michigan. When other preneed insurance carriers stopped selling preneed insurance in Michigan due to the highest Consumer Price Index rates in over 30 years, making providing preneed…
Read MorePreneed marketing and senior executives involved in or interested in preneed are encouraged to attend a one-of-a-kind networking and educational meeting hosted by National Guardian Life Insurance Company from Nov. 15-Nov. 16 in Madison, Wisconsin. The 2023 LIC Preneed Forum includes meeting sessions from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on…
Read MoreBy Thomas A. Parmalee If you haven’t noticed that there has been someone new at the helm of National Guardian Life Insurance Company for the past four months, you can be forgiven. That’s because it’s a familiar face: Kimberly A. Shaul has been at the company for almost 10 years,…
Read MoreThe Funeral Service Foundation recently announced that its board of trustees has approved a grant of $40,000 earmarked for the Foundation’s Crisis Response Fund. Additionally, the foundation has received commitments of $25,000 from the National Funeral Directors Association; $25,000 from Legacy.com; and $10,000 from The Messenger Co. These total funds…
Read MoreThe Selected Educational Trust is launching a matching gift campaign in partnership with National Guardian Life Insurance Company. Now through Oct, 15, NGL will match dollar-for-dollar all gifts made to the Trust up to $10,000. “The Trust funds crucial initiatives to align the next generation of the profession with the…
Read MoreIf you’re wondering what the former CEO of National Guardian Life Insurance Co. is up to these days, well, FuneralVision.com has the answer. Knut Olson, who served as NGL’s president and CEO for over four years, having signed on at the beginning of 2019 before leaving in June, has been…
Read MoreBy Thomas A. Parmalee National Guardian Life Insurance Co. – known ubiquitously throughout the profession as simply “NGL” – continues to make some big moves. On the heels of hiring industry stalwart Tim Fish as a regional vice president and naming Kenn Peterson vice president of business and lending development,…
Read MoreBy Thomas A. Parmalee Tim Fish, who has spent more than 20 years in various roles in the death-care profession, has taken on a new challenge: He's joined National Guardian Life Insurance Co. as a regional vice president. Fish, who graduated with a degree in marketing from the University of…
Read MoreKenn Peterson, a board member at the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science and a leader in the preneed insurance space, having worked at companies such as Forethought, Homesteaders Life Company and Great Western Life Insurance, has made a strategic move that will reverberate throughout the profession. In a news release, National…
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