Public Risk Underwriters of Florida Public Risk Underwriters (PRU) of Florida, Inc. serves as the program administrator for the Preferred Governmental Insurance Trust (Preferred). As a program administrator, PRU provides underwriting, loss control, marketing and accounting services for Preferred while offering property and casualty insurance to more than 400 public entities located throughout the state… Read More
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How Arrowhead’s Excess & Surplus team launched a new product and wrote a $100,000 policy on the same day
Arrowhead’s Excess & Surplus team, led by SVP Britt Sellers, launched a Primary GL product in May and wrote a six-figure policy on the first day. We sat down with Britt Sellers and Rich Collins, VP of Operations, to learn how they did it—and how they saw success so quickly. What were you seeing (or… Read More
National Programs appoints Mark Kaufman as new chief actuary
Arrowhead released this press release Tuesday Sept. 26. Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc., a National Programs company, announced the appointment of Mark Kaufman, FCAS as chief actuary for the National Programs Division of Brown & Brown, Inc. Jimmy Curcio, chief strategy & analytics officer for the division, remarked “Our core value proposition as an MGA… Read More
Public entities: A specialty of National Programs
Spotlight on the breadth and depth of National Programs’ public entity programs Public entities and pools have unique challenges with regards to mitigating risks and exposures. According to Munich RE, public entities are not only wrestling with rising costs of risk in property and liability, but they’re also challenged by inflation and labor shortage. Enter… Read More
If Hurricane Ian Was a Tipping Point, What Are We Tipping Toward?
By Tom Kussurelis, National Programs COO, as published in Carrier Management. As 2023 began, property insurance markets were struggling with the fallout of massive losses from Hurricane Ian in fall 2022. Ian was accompanied by 17 other billion-dollar storms in 2022’s significant disaster season. And those came on top of $596 billion in costs from… Read More
National Programs and Bridge Specialty Group launch business development team
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
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 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 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