PIA Management Services Partners with FloodBroker.com
PIA Management Services Partners with FloodBroker.com
GLENMONT, N.Y.—PIA Management Services Inc. announced it has partnered with Rochester, N.Y.-based FloodBroker.com to offer member agencies a unique sales tool to facilitate the sale of flood coverage and provide critical documentation of the agency’s efforts to do so.
This exclusive agreement will provide members of the Professional Insurance Agents Associations of Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York State with a customized link installed on their own agency’s website to encourage current and prospective clients to consider and purchase flood coverage. The web portal leads consumers to flood insurance information, and with a simple application it will generate a quote for the customer, as well as a qualified lead for the agency to engage. For a reasonable monthly fee, a member agency’s website becomes a part of the exclusive FloodBroker.com network from which they can offer online quotes to all of their clients—while documenting against E&O losses.
“After our members experienced the damaging storms of Irene, Lee and Sandy, PIA has continued to look for ways to help our members as storms of this magnitude appear to be increasing in frequency,” said PIA Management Services President and CEO Mark LaLonde, CPIA, CIC, AAI. “We identified FloodBroker.com as a valuable resource to help agents sell coverage and provide them with important documentation and defense should an unfortunate E&O claim occur after a disaster strikes.”
“FloodBroker.com was conceived as a tool to help agencies and property owners, and we are confident from research and extensive testing that agents and insureds alike will benefit from being a part of the network,” said Evan Spindelman, president of FloodBroker.com. “We are pleased to have the PIA endorsement and to work with the respected associations, which agents trust to bring them the best products and services available.”
FloodBroker.com collects data from the application, produces a quote and forwards the information to the PIA member agency, which can identify appropriate carriers and follow up with the client. In most cases, property owners can answer the brief underwriting survey to get a free, noobligation, real-time flood insurance quote. If the policy can’t be rated online, the PIA member agency will work with the property owner to provide them a flood insurance quote quickly.
John Miklus is New AIMU President
NEW YORK, NY –John A. Miklus has been named the new president of the American Institute of Marine Underwriters (AIMU), it was announced by AIMU chairman Roger F. Ablett. AIMU is the trade association representing the U.S. ocean marine insurance market.
Miklus succeeds James M. Craig, president of AIMU since 2003, who will retire December 31, 2013.
A senior ocean marine insurance and reinsurance executive, Miklus most recently was senior vice president at Guy Carpenter & Co., where he managed reinsurance client relationships for several leading U.S. marine insurers, as well as global marine insurance companies based in Japan, South Korea and China.
Miklus began his insurance career as an inland/ocean marine underwriter trainee at The Hartford Insurance Group in 1982 and held several positions at Hart Re Company before becoming senior vice president & marine treaty underwriter. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Miklus also has served as an instructor for AIMU educational courses.
