Benefits company CEO named to review panel

 CSA’s Repass selected for knowledge and experience

 

Tom Repass of Johnson City, Tenn., chief executive officer of Corporate Systems Administration Inc., was selected to serve in an advisory capacity for one of the nation’s leading business insurers. Repass is founder of CSA, which provides employee benefit management services to major employers in the Southeast.

 

Repass accepted an appointment on the Group General Agency Council of Harleysville Life Insurance.

 

Harleysville selected the panel of seven from general agents across the eastern United States, based on experience and knowledge of the insurance industry.

 

“We will advise on policy design and underwriting criteria as well as service and performance,” Repass said. “We will provide input on behalf of our clients who use their insurance services with self funded plans. We also represent all agents and third-party administrators who do business with Harleysville.”

 

Repass has 31 years’ experience in group insurance and founded CSA as a third-party administration firm in 1980. CSA helps employers offer affordable and efficient health care coverage. Services include the design of self-funded plans, cost management and expert local administration from CSA’s locations in Johnson City and Savannah, Ga. CSA’s products include Harleysville group life and disability insurance.

 

Headquartered in Harleysville, Penn., the Harleysville Life Insurance Co. is part of the Harleysville Insurance Companies. They are among the nation’s premier providers of insurance, with operations in 19 states and offering a variety of insurance products and services.

 

Repass also has served as chairman of the National Association of Employee Benefit Administrators and is president of Qubic Inc., a national consortium of third-party administrators. In 2002, Repass represented CSA as one of only five firms in the nation to receive an outstanding sales achievement award from Highmark Life and Casualty Group.

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