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Nancy Frost Joins Lawson-Hawks as Employee Benefits Vice President

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 27, 2008 — John Miller, Chief Executive Officer of Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associates, announced the recent appointment of Nancy Frost as the Vice President of Employee Benefits for the Mountain View, CA-based insurance intermediary and broker.

Addressing Ms. Frost's appointment, Miller said, "Ms. Frost brings with her to Lawson-Hawks an incredibly impressive work and service background in the Employee Benefits arena. She has spent over twenty years in virtually all facets of Employee Benefits consulting, design and plan implementation. She is a consummate professional who not only brings a vast working knowledge of Employee Benefits coalitions, trusts, Joint Power Authorities, fully insured and self-insured plan designs and pooled insurance products, but is also possessed of incredible coaching and managing skills. In recent years, Nancy has focused her considerable skills on the healthcare and technology industries, although her expertise in self-funded plans augmented by stop-loss contracts has broad applicability for virtually any large business seeking to create benefits customization and savings."

Ms. Frost will lead a team of client account managers, assistants and dedicated marketing personnel who oversee the day-to-day servicing of her client accounts. While her primary role at Lawson-Hawks is the development of new business, Ms. Frost will proactively monitor and assist in fulfilling client-specific requests, open-enrollments, plan and design changes and employee education. Per Ms. Frost, of particular interest to many of her current clients are employee wellness programs and initiatives. The implementation of such programs will be a primary goal of Lawson-Hawks and Ms. Frost in 2008.

Of her recent affiliation with Lawson-Hawks, Ms. Frost explained her choice as follows: "For as long as I have been in the business, it has been my practice to employ a consultative approach based on discovery of client needs and a tiered delivery of solutions facilitated by teams of professional who have the capability to fulfill expectations on a timely basis. With Lawson-Hawks, I will again have the luxury of delivering not only healthcare-specific expertise but fully committed servicing and support personnel to address the ongoing needs of my clients. I am excited – I believe the interests of my clients are really enhanced by this affiliation."

About Lawson-Hawks Insurance Associates

Founded in 1937, Lawson-Hawks is a national independent insurance brokerage representing many diverse insurance carriers and underwriting facilitators and providing risk management, commercial and personal lines insurance, association programs, specialty programs for hospitals and the healthcare industry, retirement planning and employee benefits to over fifty-thousand global clients. Lawson-Hawks (http://www.lawson-hawks.com) currently maintains regional offices in Mountain View, Sacramento, San Francisco, Monterey, Irvine, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.

For further information, contact Jon Hilgers, Senior Vice President, New Business Development, at 650.237.3023 or Email.

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