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Triple Threat: Carrier-Insurtech-Agency Partnerships Can Transform Commercial Lines

COVID-19 has changed many things in the insurance industry. Seemingly overnight everyone is working from home and the companies with the best digital customer experiences have the advantage. Yet, commercial lines insurance has a long way to go when it …

Accredited Surety Unveils Program Underwriting Partnership for Western States

Accredited Surety and Casualty Co. Inc., a Florida-domiciled insurance company licensed to write admitted business in all 50 states, has entered into a new program partnership with M.G. Skinner & Associates Insurance Agency Inc. Accredited will be the issuing carrier …

Western Growers Partners with JLT

Western Growers Insurance Services has formed an alliance with JLT Specialty USA. The alliance provides Western Growers the ability to offer agribusiness and food clients access to global insurance carriers. Additionally, Western Growers and JLT collaborated to create a cargo …

Energi, HDI-Gerling America Extend Partnership for the U.S. Energy Industry

Energi and HDI-Gerling America have entered into a multi-year agreement to extend their risk management and insurance programs to certain segments of the United States downstream, midstream and upstream energy markets. Energi provides distribution management, underwriting, policyholder services and loss …

Argo Surety, SureTec Launch Mid-Market Surety Program

Argo Surety, together with SureTec Financial Corp., is now providing expanded combined capacity for the middle market contract surety segment. Through the new program, Argo Surety and SureTec can extend up to $50 million in contract bond capacity to select …

NAS Insurance, Swett & Crawford Launch Cyber Liability Program for IIABCal Members

NAS Insurance Services and Swett & Crawford have created new cyber liability products for IIABCal members and their clients. Members can now log on to NAS Online to quote and issue cyber liability policies for their clients through the program …

Vertafore, DocuSign Partner to Offer E-Signature Services to Technology Users

Insurance technology provider Vertafore and digital transaction manager DocuSign have teamed up to offer e-signature services to Vertafore’s insurance clients. DocuSign’s Digital Transaction Management Platform (DTM) will be available to Vertafore’s personal and commercial line customers who use its Vertafore …

Hartford Steam Boiler Announces Help Desk Service for Homeowners

The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. (HSB) is now offering technical support services for homeowners through a partnership with Sutherland Global Services (Sutherland), a provider of business process outsourcing. The services are available as part of MyHomeWorks, a …

Vertafore, StoneRiver Partnership Aims to Make Selling Flood Insurance Easier

Insurance software firm Vertafore has formed a partnership with flood insurance policy processing firm StoneRiver National Flood Services (NFS) to provide independent agents a new way to quote and cross-sell flood insurance when selling homeowners insurance. The partnership integrates NFS’s …

LIU Partners with BitSight Technologies to Provide Information Monitoring to Insureds

Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has collaborated with BitSight Technologies to provide LIU Data Insure policyholders with current ratings on their company’s information security health to help better protect their sensitive business and customer data. Through …