NEW BERLIN – Preferred Mutual Insurance Company of New Berlin was one of six insurance companies receiving special honors recently from the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York in Albany. The not-for-profit trade association presented its 2012 Outstanding Company Partner Awards to the companies in a ceremony during day one of its annual Capital Event at the Hotel Albany.

The Outstanding Company Partner Awards go each year to those companies who earned the best scores in the IIABNY Industry Index. The group calculates an overall industry score and individual scores based on the results of annual surveys of New York insurance producers. IIABNY Chair of the Board Christopher A. Brassard presented the awards to the best national, super regional, and regional companies in the personal insurance and commercial insurance categories.

Winners in the personal insurance category were:

• National – Kemper Preferred