New Thanksgiving Arcade Game is Announced: HangWayne! The 2018 addition to the JSA Arcade is now available! Every year, our IT Department works on a new video game for your enjoyment, and this year it is an instant classic; it's Hang Wayne! It has all the fun of Hangman mixed with your knowledge of vegan nutritional [...]
At the IIANC Tech Symposium was held November 13th, 2018. Please enjoy these symposium highlights. Visit IIANC to learn more about this event. Symposium Highlights
Seasonal Special Events Coverage Is The Perfect Gift We have moved on to Christmastime – sorry Thanksgiving, you can't compete with all the fun events that the Christmas holiday provides! There are many insurance classes for special events, but this time of year these special events are not "one-size-fits-all." That is where the expertise of [...]
Congratulations to our winners in the 12th Annual JSA Costume Contest: The Golden Girls! SOPHIA P& C Underwriter Haley Everett, DOROTHY Assistant Transportation Underwriter Andrew Davis, BLANCHE Transportation Renewal Underwriter Allison Gabriel, and ROSE Assistant Transportation Underwriter Elizabeth Banks. They won the contest with a whopping 500 votes cast in their favor. Our second [...]
CONGRATS TO THE AGENCY WINNER! Thanks for being a part of the voting, JSA. The winning agency will win lunch for their office. It was a super-tight race for the top and the winners really spoke to our corporate culture of costumes with pop culture appreciation and weird hair. We hope this was fun [...]
You may know that Jackson Sumner and Associates takes our in-house Halloween Costume Contests very seriously. We allow YOU to vote on your favorite and the JSA winner has bragging rights - that they exercise often and loudly - all year long. We often say that who we dress up as for Halloween is the closest to [...]
Congrats to The Golden Girls! Haley, Andrew, Allison and Elizabeth have won the 2018 JSA Halloween Contest!
When Wayne Sumner started Jackson Sumner & Associates, it was just Wayne Sumner and Mimi Dobbins. Mimi and Wayne. That was in 1981. For 37 years they've been a team. And they STILL are a great team. When you see working relationships like that as an employee, it tells you that you're working somewhere that [...]
When we go through our archives, we find all sorts of things that take us way back. This banner is one of those. One year, JSA hosted the NC Insurance Women's group in Boone at Shadrack's - an all-you-can-eat buffet with barbecue, and other Southern foods, that was hugely popular in the high country in the [...]
The simple Rolodex: the original contact list; the OG database. Nothing fancy. Just a way to keep your contacts and phone numbers in alphabetical order. You met someone, they went in your 'dex. And often times that card would get scratched out and re-written many times over the course of business relationship. The Rolodex was [...]