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VOL. 2 ISSUE 9 NOVEMBER 2011
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MS Insurance Commissioner Post Up for Election in November, Meet the Candidates Mississippi voters will have three candidates to choose from in the race for Mississippi Insurance Commissioner come the Nov. 8 general election: Republican incumbent Commissioner Mike Chaney, Democrat Louis Fondren, and Reform Party candidate Barbara Dale Washer, according to gulflive.com. The position has a four-year term and $90,000 annual salary. As the incumbent, Chaney’s campaign emphasis has been his achievements during his time in office. According to Chaney, his in-office accolades include; modernization
of the department’s records system, streamlining of the agent licensing process, collection of more than $4 million in refunds and additional claims for policyholders, transfer of $99.9 million to state’s windpool to help stabilize rates, an increase of 125 new companies writing policies on the Coast, and a $1 million program that led to grants for homeowners who strengthened their homes against wind damage. Chaney describes his campaign as grassroots. Chaney, who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives See MS Commissioner, Page 36
Health Care Panel at: NACE/CARS 2011 Moderator, ASA’s Bob Redding
Steve Grimshaw, Caliber Collision
Cathy Bonner, Service King
Rollie Benjamin, ABRA Auto Body and Glass
CEOs of Four of the Largest MSOs in the Industry hold first-time MSO Symposium at NACE/CARS See MSO Insights, Page 24
Chip Foose on Bringing it to SEMA by Chip Foose
Terri Seefeldt, Rogers Benefit Group
See preview at: autobodynews.com Don Seyfer, Seyfer Automotive
Brock Bulbuck, The Boyd Group
Jim Houser, Hawthorne Auto Clinic
An auto service-oriented Health Care Panel at NACE/CARS revealed surprising misconceptions, passionate disagreement, divided opinions and competing priorities for Health Care and how it should be paid for and managed in America. A three-part series on Health Care and its likely impact on shop owners begins here next month.
The SEMA show (Specialty Equipment Marketing Association) has always been a big part of Foose Design. I have personally been attending for well over 25 years. Some of our guys at Foose Design first attended more than 25 years ago. One of them even Chip Foose went to the very first SEMA show when it was under the bleachers at Dodger Stadium! For the past ten years Foose Design has
featured or unveiled specialty vehicles at SEMA. For three years in a row we built cars live in front of the SEMA audience for TLC’s TV Show Overhaulin’. We were proud in 2005 when Foose Design featured total of 32 Foose Vehicles at SEMA, a record for any designer/fabricator and more than any of the OEM’s that year. So, needless to say, we have history at SEMA. For SEMA 2011 Foose design will be featuring three vehicles. We are currently working feverishly like all of the other shops to make the deadline. This year we will be proudly displaying the following Foose DeSee Foose Brings It, Page 18
The 2011 SEMA show will occupy the Las Vegas Convention Center from October 31 to November 4 and attendance numbers continue to climb as the show draws closer. The show boasts over 2,000 exhibiting companies already registered for booths, more than 500 of which are exhibiting for the first time. The ever-popular Paint, Body and Equipment section will also return this year, showcasing companies who offer products, services and equipment suited for the collision repair professional. See page 15 for I-CAR and SCRS RDE Schedule.
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