Emery Kunzman, a really skilled property insurance coverage adjuster, lately handed away. I obtained a lot of messages about his passing. He was usually a subject of dialog in our agency as a result of he was concerned in lots of high-value claims.
I all the time had a smile develop on my face on the Windstorm Insurance coverage Convention once I bumped into Emery and his accomplice, Jose Palacios. Jose wrote the next LinkedIn message about Emery’s passing:
It’s with a lot sorrow that we inform you of the passing of EVP Emery Kunzman. The PIB household expresses its condolences to Emery‘s household, his spouse of 36 years and two daughters.
Emery‘s contributions to our firm have been profound. His experience and personable nature helped safe, pivotal partnerships with main insurers, propelling us right into a league the place we compete with business giants. His skill to navigate battle with tact and equity earn him the respect of colleagues and adversaries alike. This was a testomony to his character and unwavering rules.
To Emery, my expensive good friend and enterprise accomplice, thanks for sharing your knowledge, humor, and heat with all of us. Could your legacy proceed to encourage and information, and will your reminiscence endlessly be a blessing to these whose lives you enriched. Relaxation peacefully, my good good friend.
His obituary famous partly:
Emery was born and raised in Miami. A real Floridian to the core. He graduated from Chaminade Madonna in 1973 and went on to earn his bachelor’s diploma in Criminology from The Florida State College in 1977. He was the largest Seminole fan you ever met.
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Being a father was Emery’s biggest achievement in life. His two daughters, Kelly and Kara, his infant, have been his satisfaction and pleasure. Some males are born to be ‘lady dads,’ that was Emery….
For over 40 years, Emery was an Insurance coverage Adjuster. He began his profession with CJW and spent a number of years working in St. Croix. He liked to inform tales about his island life. He went on to function Govt Vice President of Peninsula Insurance coverage Bureau since 1995 together with his enterprise accomplice and good friend, Jose Palacios. They labored to develop the corporate to be larger than both of them ever imagined. Emery was good, very good, he knew his stuff, however the final decade or so he was a real persona within the business and at PIB. He was a mentor to younger folks he employed and educated, he was a supply of solutions to those that had questions, and he was actually nice at taking folks out to dinner and drinks. He liked to schmooze over a steak and an costly bottle of purple wine.
Emery all the time noticed the great on the earth. He was extraordinarily optimistic and handled each single individual he met with the identical respect and a spotlight. He might discuss to anybody, whoever sat subsequent to him on the bar was certain to change into a good friend….
Jeff Pellet despatched me a message that demonstrated Emery’s very excessive diploma of emotional intelligence and an instance of the influence he had on many:
I had the enjoyment and pleasure of working towards Emery over the previous 27 plus years as opposing appraisers. My very first encounter with him was a North Miami water loss. Emery approached me, caught out his hand, and we entered right into a handshake. He held onto my hand, cupped it together with his different hand, and in a really respectful tone mentioned, “I do know all about you, and your loopy letters.” Then, his subsequent phrases have been, ‘I wish to be your good friend – not your enemy.’
That began an extended {and professional} relationship. Truth was, we frequently acquired collectively submit loss, to scrub away the day’s grind.
My spouse reached out to Emery and invited him to my fiftieth shock celebration held at Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale. I used to be amazed to see him on the desk that night. There was such a heat to his smile. He even dressed within the traditional Tommy Bahama shirt he all the time wore. He gave me one for my birthday. I nonetheless have it at the moment. I’ll proceed to put on in hope that we are able to meet up once more for one more toast.
Hidden professionalism is all over the place.
Property insurance coverage claims work is difficult to do at a excessive skilled degree. It takes a deep information of so many fields of examine, which is honed solely after years of expertise. A type of required talent units is a deep emotional understanding and listening skill of others. Greater than his technical information of adjustment, Emery was an individual who had this studied present of a excessive degree of empathy and emotional intelligence, which endeared him to so many. Emery’s smooth vital abilities, like empathy, self-regulation, and social deftness, definitely have been key elements to his success in enterprise relationships and together with his household.
For his closest mates, I’m sure you will have comparable tales to share, that are much like Jeff Pellet’s outstanding story about Emery.
Thought For The Day
Empathy just isn’t about being good or agreeing with the opposite facet. It’s about understanding them.
—Chris Voss