The Reign In Maine is Plainly Down The Drain

Unregistered Carriers on 12/01/2009 - 1439
Unregistered Carriers on 12/02/2009 - 1422

Illinois - 93.34%
Maine - 93.23%

No, that's not a typo.

Yes, we did pass up Maine - rather handily, I might add - this morning.

Of course, we always have to acknowledge the disclaimer about the Fed update process, but .... it would appear that we have achieved (at least temporarily) one of our major goals - the highest State registration percentage.

As I've indicated before, this goal is important to me because I have maintained from the start that you don't have to be an IRP agency to do well in the UCR program. In fact, I'm convinced that many states suffer from "IRP myopia" - if we just register IRP carriers, we will have done our job.

One milestone goal left - registering 20,000 Illinois carriers. According to the Iteris numbers, we are 82 registrations shy of that goal. And, by the way, we now lead California by over 200 registrations.

Finally, for those you who THINK you have good employees .... Kathy told me this morning that she's not going to rest until we've reduced the Unregistered list to 0. She even called me a "slacker" for pausing to enjoy today's moment. Now that's dedication!

As General George Patton once said, "God, I actually pity those poor SOB's we're going up against."