b"Kym, who had been working in Clare with Brian, Having survived becoming almost a footnote in soon jumped at the chance, too.Australian insurance history, the business that could trace its origins twenty-five years back to JR George I was well and truly entrenched in the broker market,Insurance Services was once again thriving. The and it didnt take long to do the sums to realise that Whittles side of the group was also going strongI would be better off running the authorised rep systemas it expanded interstate, buoyed by the apartment rather than just being a paid employee, he says. construction boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s.In 1998, MGA had eighteen offices in South AustraliaThe MGA Whittles Group had every reason to look and Victoria. With the backing of Austbrokers andoptimistically towards the new century.the new authorised representative model, this number dramatically increased over the next few years. Revitalised, MGA entered the late 1990s with aIn 1998, MGA had eighteen millennial spring in its step. In 1998, MGA launchedoffices in South AustraliaMillennium Underwriting Services. It grew out of MGAs Commercial Farmers Insurance Agencies, principally and Victoria. With the backing a vehicle for farm pack policies.of Austbrokers and the new57MGA established Millennium Underwriting Agenciesauthorised representative Pty Ltd in response to a changing insurance market, industry regulation and transparency of riskmodel, this number management. The Commercial Farmers Insurancedramatically increasedAgencies was outdated and needed an overhaul. It was one of the parts of the business that had suffered underover the next few years. AIBA. With Millennium, MGA renewed its commitment to providing rural businesses with complex risk profiles with an underwriting partner that understood them. Opposite Brokers' conference,Clare, South Australia, 2005."