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Love/Allgas his phone stopped The LP-gas industry lost a as a member of the Alabama
ringing all the time. That is the great man with the passing of LP-Gas Board to return to the
kind of person Scott was. It Scott Lybarger on November insurance industry in 2016, I
did not matter if you were a 24, 2017. It is very diffi cult to wrote the following in an article
customer, write an that month that I still believe
vendor or article best summarizes his work
employee, about the philosophy:
he would loss of a “Scott Lybarger served on
give you friend who the Alabama LP-Gas Board
his cell embodied from July 2011 to July 2016
phone so many while employed by Allgas,
number. great Inc. Scott is returning to his
He would qualities. true passion in the insurance
also Scott’s
answer it.
If he didn’t
then that
meant he was on the phone contributions to the industry
with someone else. He would were signifi cant through his
call and say, “do you have a involvement and leadership
minute” and I would say, “ yes with the Alabama Propane
Scott, I have 30 minutes.” He Gas Association and the
would laugh, but then go on Alabama LP-Gas Board. He
to talk for the 30 minutes and served as a member and
sometimes longer. If you ever offi cer in both organizations
got an email from Scott, it was and was fundamental in
like his phone calls. He did the growth of safety within
not leave anything out. I am the industry by increasing
going to miss those phone calls standards of competency
and emails. He kept you in the and sowing seeds of industry to work for Fairmont
loop on anything going on in compromise in the interest of Specialty Insurance. Safety is
the industry and also with his safety. When Scott resigned in his DNA and has shaped his
family. Scott was a one decision making throughout
of a kind type person. If his career. While with the
you needed anything, board, Scott served as Vice-
he was there. If he had Chairman of the board and
it and you needed it, Chairman of the Rules &
he gave it to you. The Regulation Committee. His
Lybarger family and decisions were always driven
propane industry have by integrity and safety while
lost a good one. The carefully balancing economic
world was a lot better considerations, but the former
place with Scott in it. always took precedence over
Rusty Easterling the latter.”
Lampton-Love/ While Scott’s work
Allgas ethic and philosophy were
great, I believe his greatest
defi ning quality was the way
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