In 1999 Philadelphia Insurance Companies bought Jerger Company, a holding company that owned two insurance companies, a managing general agent and a premium finance company. Philadelphia renamed it Liberty American Insurance Group, it's headquartered in Pinellas Park. Page 4, 1999 Annual Report I believe the man in charge of Jerger Company was Thomas J. Jerger who stayed with the new company for a short time.
Here is the list of companies that made up Jerger Company: Mobile USA Insurance Company, Mobile Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Mobile Homeowners Insurance Agencies, MHIA Premium Finance Company and Jerger and Sons. Link As of 2000, after the Jerger Company became Liberty American Insurance Group, the companies were named Mobile USA Insurance Company, Liberty American Insurance Company, Mobile Homeowners Insurance Agencies and Liberty American Premium Finance. Link I don't know what Jerger and Sons, the company that listed Jodi Centonze in a corporate filing, was folded into after the purchase.
Documented in various places on FR is the Jerger & Centonze Insurance Agency. I believe the Jerger involved in that operation is one of the brothers...Richard Jerger. Both he and Jodi Centonze have active Property and Casualty and Life Insurance licenses. Richard and Thomas were born in 1945 and 1948. Search Licensed Agents
If you search Florida corporation records of corporate officers and registered agents using the name "Jerger", the entire family appears to be fairly active in various corporations, including the dad, the mom, and various kids.
http://www.sunbiz.org/corpweb/inquiry/corioff.html
Based on nothing but pure hunch, this is the type of behavior you see in typical entrepreneur wheeler-dealer types, that are always starting businesses in the hopes that they will pan out, and dumping them when they don't.
I suspect strongly that Michael Schiavo quickly proved himself to be too big of a liability, name-wise and reputation-wise.
What we DON'T see is a pattern of fraudulent insurance claims nor a vendetta against the disabled in order to maximize profits.
I would like to point out in advance that I am outraged by the killing of Terri Schiavo, and would love to find some dirt, but there doesn't appear to be any "there" there.
JMHO.
I blame the judges for bureaucratic inertia and lack of fundamental decency.
Again, JMHO.
Thank you. That looks about like what I had learned thus far. The thing you've added is that the name changed to Liberty American Insurance Group.
Steven P. Beaty, Bankers Insurance Group
Steve Beaty is senior vice president and CIO ......" Although most of his operations involved banking, he crossed over into the insurance arena, dealing with medical software, mobile home coverages, and even writing a small agency management system that was sold primarily in Florida.
Sometimes it just pays to be in the right place at the right time. When the company he'd sold his business to [Jerger] was itself sold Beaty was starting to look around and Bankers Insurance was looking for a new CIO. He was tapped for the job.
... In its 25th year, the Bankers family of companies includes four insurance carriers, 20 subsidiaries, diverse products and services, and more than 1,200 professional associates. Beaty and his crew support 5,000 active agencies....
From post 74, on this thread
Florida Trend, Sept 2000 v43 i5 p16 Beaty, 41, started as an industry outsider with his own company, Micro Business Systems, providing software to independent agents. For Pinellas Park-based The Jerger Co., he developed a pioneering program that allowed it to quickly identify mobile homes by ZIP code and park. Thus, it could grow into the largest independent mobile home insurer in the Southeast, even as it spread its risk so that a single tornado didn't mean catastrophe for Jerger. In 1986, he sold Micro to Jerger and became its chief information officer. When Jerger was sold this year, Beaty jumped to Bankers.