NYLIAC MainStay Annuities Achieve DALBAR Award for Superior Customer Service for Third Consecutive Year
NEW YORK, N.Y., February 21, 2003 New York Life Insurance Company, parent company of New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation (NYLIAC), announced today that NYLIAC's MainStay Annuities received the 2002 DALBAR Annuity Service Excellence Award for outstanding customer service. This is the third consecutive year that NYLIAC's MainStay Annuities has received this prestigious award.
"New York Life is proud to receive this honor from DALBAR because our policyholders are extremely important to us," said Robert D. Rock, senior vice president in the company's Individual Annuity Department. "Providing outstanding customer service and support is at the heart of our strategy to continually enhance our service and meet the needs of our customers."
DALBAR, a financial services market research and consulting firm, only grants its service awards to the industry's elite service providers and measures company merit based on rigorous evaluations over a 12-month period. DALBAR evaluates forty annuity providers' competency in service both over the telephone and through written communications to customers. Companies that exceed a variety of industry benchmarks after one year of testing earn the DALBAR Service Award. This year only ten annuity providers received this prestigious award.
New York Life Insurance Company, a Fortune 100 company, is the largest mutual life insurance New York Life Insurance Company, a Fortune 100 company, is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the largest life insurers in the world. Founded in 1845 and headquartered in New York City, New York Life and its affiliates offer life insurance, annuities and long-term care insurance. New York Life Investment Management, LLC, a New York Life affiliate, provides institutional asset management, retirement plan and trust services. Other New York Life affiliates provide an array of securities products and services, as well as institutional and retail mutual funds.
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