National Programs, a team of specialty insurance program brands, and Bridge Specialty Group, a collection of wholesale agencies and managing general agents, announced yesterday a new business development team dedicated to serving select retail distribution relationships. The two groups wrote over $9 billion in premiums in 2022 from 55 brands ranging from transactional and binding authority… Read More
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After the storm: Busting 5 flood insurance myths
This article by Patty Templeton-Jones, president of Wright Flood, appeared in PropertyCasualty360. Policyholders have filed more than 44,000 flood insurance claims with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) after Hurricane Ian. The federal flood insurance program has already paid nearly $437 million to policyholders as of early November 2022. That’s just a small portion of the… Read More
How value stream mapping leads to greater renewals for Arrowhead Tribal
Value stream mapping (VSM) is a lean manufacturing technique to analyze, design and manage the flow of materials and information required to bring a product to a customer – in this case, renewals. Arrowhead Tribal’s team of underwriters and underwriting assistants came together earlier this year for a day-and-a-half session of VSM to help them streamline… Read More
How Mile High Markets transitioned to National Programs and a new carrier at lightning speed
“Joining National Programs meant that my name was no longer next to every item that needed to be completed. We’ve had help from nearly every National Programs Shared Services team to quickly get us up and running,” said Angela Dodd, vice president, Mile High Markets. Since 1985, Mile High Markets has provided insurance coverage for the… Read More
Orchid’s Bowie explores how to stay profitable in Florida’s homeowners market
Orchid Insurance, one of 31 National Programs companies, is a program administrator and wholesale broker focused primarily on the Florida homeowners and E&S markets. Orchid is among the largest specialty underwriters of catastrophe-exposed property insurance in the United States. Orchid’s president and CUO, Ross Bowie, was recently interviewed by John Weber at AM Best TV during… Read More
How Arrowhead E&S launched a new fraternity liability program in 6 months
How we surpassed a competitor by creating a better insurance product Arrowhead’s Excess & Surplus Lines was barely a year old when Bill Murray, president of Arrowhead E&S, was approached by Peachtree Special Risk Brokers and Omni Insurance, an Atlanta retail agency, to create a better liability market for fraternities. Arrowhead is part of Brown… Read More
How our Strategic API team is broadening our market reach
“Our venture into APIs and third-party distribution platforms started in 2020. Using an API, we wanted to allow agents to submit business in a more streamlined fashion, which will increase our submissions and bound policies,” explains Tiffany Poletti, Core Commercial’s COO. “Whether you call them aggregators, comparative raters or third-party distributors, they create a greater… Read More
How Protector Plans’ Excess Executive Liability program was launched in just 9 months
From the time that Craig Grant joined Protector Plans last summer until their first binder on their new Protector Plans Excess Executive Liability (PPEL) program, the go-to-market process took just nine months. We sat down recently with Grant, chief underwriting officer and program leader for PPEL, asking him to describe the process, who was instrumental… Read More
How National Programs’ Commercial Operations team supports growth in our companies
Our Commercial Operations team supports National Programs’ companies in various ways: through a customer service center, underwriting support, policy processing and more. We believe in promoting from within. Several of our underwriters, business development specialists and Internal Operations review team started in customer service. The results speak for themselves: satisfied customers and an easier workload for… Read More
How our business analyst team plays a key role in product launches and growth
National Programs’ Business Systems Analysts, 27 strong, help our companies and new acquisitions better align themselves for growth. The team impacts product development and launch and product maintenance (particularly with regards to rate changes and filings). The team is also instrumental in integrating products with comparative raters (via API). National Programs is a conglomeration of… Read More