Tellus Brokerage Connections, a Crump Company, Announces Addition of Jim Duff to Its Management Team

ROSELAND, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tellus Brokerage Connections, a Crump company, recently announced the addition of Jim Duff as senior vice president and general manager. Tellus provides sales and service solutions to the general agency market place, leveraging the strength of Crump’s carrier and product portfolio, service offering and technology while allowing the general agencies to maintain their market independence.

Duff comes to Tellus most recently from Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company where he spent 10 years in sales management and executive positions including president, Transamerica Life Solutions, LLC, which serves the life settlement market. Prior to joining Transamerica, he served as president of a brokerage general agency in Pittsburgh, PA in addition to working as a career agent for MONY Financial Services in Richmond, VA.

“Jim’s nearly 25 years of experience in the insurance industry uniquely position him to take our Tellus channel to the next level,” said Rob Carney, executive vice president, marketing and product management for Crump Life Insurance Services. “We are pleased to have Jim join our team and leverage his expertise to drive the strategy and expand the Tellus offering. We have seen tremendous success in this channel this year with growth dramatically outpacing the industry with the addition of several new clients. We are continuing to make Tellus a more robust and attractive offering providing value to general agencies as they build their businesses.”

About Crump Life Insurance Services

Crump Life Insurance Services is part of Crump Group, Inc., the largest wholesale insurance distributor in the United States and, through its Ascensus division, the nation’s largest independent provider of recordkeeping and support services to company-sponsored retirement plans in the micro to large segments of the market. Crump Life is a prominent independent wholesale distributor of life insurance, linking a national network of approximately 200,000 financial services professionals with the products manufactured by approximately 100 highly rated insurance companies.

Crump supports the distribution of traditional and variable life, long-term care, disability, annuity products and life settlements with the industry's premier sales and back-office support services.

Crump’s technology-driven insurance distribution solutions are among the insurance brokerage industry’s most advanced, including Internet-based capabilities and a leading edge administration system to support all aspects of processing with multiple insurance companies. Crump Life Insurance Services includes the following entities: Crump Life Institutional Group, LifeSource^TM, Crump Potomac Affluent Markets, RiskRighter^SM , Tellus Brokerage Connections and TIME Financial.