Jeter Elected Chair of Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association

For the first time in Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association (TAIPA) history a public member has been elected to lead the organization’s board.

Long-time Board member Bill Jeter, of College Station, Texas, was unanimously elected to head the association’s governing committee for 2010-2011.

Fred Strauss with Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, Ill., is vice chair. Peter Kelly of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, Mass., was elected second vice-chair. Mike Gerik, with Texas Farm Bureau Companies in Waco, Texas, was elected secretary.

TAIPA was created by state statute to provide automobile bodily injury and property insurance required by the Texas Motor Vehicle responsibility Act.

Source: TAIPA