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 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
How COVID-19 Has Changed Cyberbullying Risks in Schools
by Andrew Graham, managing director, risk management services for Wright Specialty Insurance, a National Programs company. This article appeared in Big I’s Jan. 2022 magazine. Cyberbullying is a side effect of internet use by students. It typically combines two or more factors, such as the broad reach of the internet, the cloak of anonymity and a… Read More
How ACM’s subrogation tool was created by our Data Science team
How our Data Science team and ACM built an innovative subrogation tool When ACM wanted to identify more subrogation opportunities, they called on National Programs’ Data Science team. Working together, they created a list of keywords from closed subrogated claims to use as identifiers for potential high opportunity claims for subrogation. Using machine learning and… Read More
How our distribution network helped us grow a program from 28 to 50 states
When Arrowhead lifted out the small commercial program from QBE and created Arrowhead Core Commercial, in less than a year they went from a product offering in 28 states to 50 states, thanks to a distribution network already in place. “I like to call it distribution prowess,” explained Rich Dern, Arrowhead’s director of business development…. Read More
How carrier relationships helped Arrowhead Workers’ Compensation Program expand to new states
Arrowhead expands its Workers’ Compensation Program into 5 southern states Arrowhead’s and National Programs’ carrier relationships were the cornerstone to help their Workers’ Compensation Program expand into five new southern states this fall. Those states include Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Carolina and Alabama, with more states to come next year. “Expansion in these states… Read More
An Inside Look at M&A Strategies for MGAs
National Program’s acquisition strategy This article originally published in Insurance Business’s special section on M&As in Spring 2021. Today’s MGAs are engines of profitable growth, heating up the M&A space, say Steve Bouker, Arrowhead EVP, and Chris Walker, Arrowhead CEO and president of Brown & Brown National Programs. Both have 30-plus years of experience and… Read More