North East Indiana Association
of Health Underwriters

IDENTITY THEFT WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU!

Our speaker at the July meeting was Dorothea "Dottie" Cole from Merrill
Lynch, she gave a great presentation on "IDENTIY THEFT".

In some areas of the insurance industry, people probably are "up to their ears"
with ID Theft programs - but many of us in NEIAHU don't deal in markets where
this type of information is often presented.

But Dottie's presentation looked at the "personal" side of the ID Theft issue!
We may be bombarded in the industry with how to "protect the client's
identity", but we do not know that much about protecting our own.

Dottie's presentation was "interactive" and everyone participated - if only to get
"sweets" to take away the "bad taste" of identity theft.

The comments from the members after the meeting ranged from: "Wow! I knew about shredding my papers, but I never thought about the mail I put out" to "I never knew that https meant that it was a secure site".

Thinking "outside" of the box is good for all us - whether in business or in our personal lives!

If any of you have attended a program that you feel might be of interest to our members, please give that information to Rhonda Lloyd or Ned Hart, our new Programs Chair.

While industry related topics are always helpful, topics that can help us in our
non-business lives can be just as helpful!

By Rita Musser