PIA Connection Advertisers

Below you'll find information about PIA Connection's valued display advertisers. PIA members, please consider patronizing these companies as their advertising dollars help PIA advocate on your behalf and create deliverables to support your agency. Please tell them you heard about them in PIA Connection. If you'd like to learn more about advertising in the PIA Connection, please contact Alexi Papandon at (703) 518-1353 or alexipa@pianet.org.

AmTrust North America

Web Address:  www.amtrustgroup.com/
Contact Name:  Customer Service
Phone Number:  877-528-7878
Email Address:  sales@amtrustgroup.com
Description of Services:  AmTrust North America, through Technology, Rochdale and Wesco Insurance Companies, offers agents the opportunity to quote mono-line workers' compensation insurance for small and mid-size businesses. Within minutes, agents can access AmTrust's online quoting system to estimate premiums.

That's just the beginning. AmTrust simplifies administration and creates agent-driven technology to deliver quick underwriting turnaround. Every submission gets a personal touch – expert underwriters decide what to bind, not a software program. To further cultivate personal relationships with agents, AmTrust offers competitive commissions, easy-to-use tools and excellent customer service.

CTC Transportation Insurance Services LLC

Web Address:  www.ctcins.com  
Contact Name:  Barbara O’Brien
Phone Number:  (858) 350-4370 
Email Address:  Barbara@ctcins.com 
Description of Services:  CTC is a general agent specializing in the placement of commercial trucking insurance.  We have the capability to work with risks that are harder to place in standard markets.  Our customers are “main street” retail agents with insureds who are hauling goods to market.  We provide coverages including auto liability, general liability, physical damage and cargo.  We have offices on both the East and West Coast and can place insurance in many states from coast to coast.

Federal Motor Carriers RRG

Web Address:  www.fmcrrg.com 
Contact Name:  Thomas A. Mulligan
Phone Number:  732-751-0444
Email Address:  tmulligan@fmcrrg.com  
Description of Services:  Federal Motor Carriers Risk Retention Group, Inc. (FMCRRG) offers two $1,000,000 CSL commercial automobile liability insurance programs. Our initial program was created to insure truckers and private carriers with gross receipts between $7,000,000 and $40,000,000 who self insure a portion of the risk. Our supplemental program was created to insure truck owner operators who are members of a purchasing group. The benefits of being part of a purchasing group is the truckers receive substantial savings on their insurance by being part of a large group as opposed to a stand alone risk. The purchasing group product is now available in eighteen states.

Liberty Mutual Agency Markets

Web Address:  www.libertymutualagencymarkets.com
Contact Name:  Stacey McCabe
Phone Number:  617-654-4110
Email Address:  Stacey.mccabe@libertymutual.com 
Description of Services: Liberty Mutual Agency Markets offers personal and commercial insurance through independent agents throughout the U.S. Commercial lines products are offered through eight regional companies and Liberty Agency Underwriters, which provides specialty commercial products, including excess casualty and program business. Personal lines products are offered nationally under the Safeco Insurance brand. Liberty Mutual Surety provides nationwide contract and commercial surety and fidelity bonds, and Summit provides workers’ compensation coverage in the Southeast. Agency Markets operates under a unique regional/national model that leverages the service-oriented focus of regional operations with the cost efficiencies of a national infrastructure.

National Insurance Producer Registry

Web Address:  www.nipr.com
Contact Name:  Kingston Koser  
Phone Number:  816-783-8467
Email Address:  marketing@nipr.com 
Description of Services: The National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR) is the premier public-private partnership supporting the work of the states and the NAIC in re-engineering and streamlining the insurance producer licensing process through uniformity.  Available products include the Producer Database (PDB), electronic applications for Non-Resident and Resident Licenses (initial and renewal) and the ability to submit an Address Change Request (ACR) electronically.

Philadelphia Insurance Companies

Web Address:  www.phly.com 
Phone Number:  800.873.4552
Email Address:  phlysales@phlyins.com  
Description of Services: In operation since 1962, Philadelphia Insurance Companies designs, markets, and underwrites Commercial Property/Casualty, Personal Lines and Professional Liability insurance products, incorporating value-added coverages and services for select industries.

PIA Services Group Insurance Fund

Web Address:  www.piatrust.com/   
Contact Name:  Lockton Risk Services (Administrator)  
Phone Number:  800-336-4759
Email Address:  info@piatrust.com
Description of Services:  Help build your family's financial future with PIA Trust insurance plans. As a PIA member you can choose from several high-quality, competitively priced insurance plans to help protect you, your employees and families. Customize your protection to best suit your needs. Plans currently include: Basic Term Life Insurance, Voluntary and Dependent Term Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Hospital Indemnity, and Business Overhead Expense.

Professional Insurance Agents Political Action Committee (PIAPAC) 

Web Address:  Click Here
Contact Name:  Mike Becker
Phone Number:  703-518-1365
Email Address:  mikebe@pianet.org
Description of Services:  PIAPAC contributes to the campaigns of candidates to federal office who share our pro-insurance, pro-business perspective and who support our issues.  PIAPAC is funded by the contributions of individual PIA members.

Program Brokerage Corporation (PBC)

Web Address:   www.programbrokerage.com
Contact Name:  Gary Shapiro, Senior Vice President
Phone Number:  516-496-1346
Email Address:  gshapiro@programbrokerage.com
Description of Services: PBC is a leading wholesale operation serving as a market resource for brokers and agents, and is also a trusted partner for carriers that reach the commercial insurance buyer.

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TAPCO Underwriters, Inc.

Web Address:  www.gotapco.com
Contact Name:  Ellen McBride, CPCU, AU
Phone Number:  800-334-5579
Email Address:  emcbride@gotapco.com
Description of Services:  TAPCO Underwriters, Inc. is the Logical Choice. Through TAPCO’s exclusive call-center service model, quotes and applications are delivered and coverage can be bound, all within minutes, and all delivered to your e-mail inbox—before you even hang up the phone. Policy issuance and renewal is just as easy. Call. Quote. Bind. It’s as easy as that! TAPCO writes business in CA, DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, NJ, SC, TN, TX and VA.

The Hanover Insurance Group

Web Address:  www.hanover.com 
Contact Name:  Sherri Ferguson
Phone Number:  508-855-3214
Email Address:  sferguson@hanover.com 
Description of Services: The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (NYSE: THG), based in Worcester, Mass., is the holding company for a group of insurers that includes The Hanover Insurance Company; Citizens Insurance Company of America, headquartered in Howell, Mich., and their affiliates. The Hanover offers a wide range of property and casualty products and services to individuals, families and businesses through an extensive network of independent agents, and has been meeting its obligations to its agent partners and their customers for more than 150 years. The Hanover ranks among the top 40 property and casualty insurers in the United States. Learn more at www.hanover.com.

The National Underwriter Company

Web Address:  www.NUCOstore.com 
Contact Name:  Hillary Keller 
Phone Number:  859-692-2329
Email Address:  hkeller@nuco.com 
Description of Services:  The National Underwriter Company  strives to provide the highest-quality information for those in the insurance, financial and professional services markets. The information we provide spans all types: news, analysis, senior management perspective, editorial opinion, market and consumer trends, regulatory and compliance, and how-to. Information is delivered via print weeklies and monthlies; via electronic newsletters and blogs updated daily, and websites updated with news as it happens; via live events, including trade shows, conferences, classroom-type seminars and web seminars; via reference materials, disseminated in both book and electronic formats; and financial and marketing databases.

Ventura Insurance Brokerage, Inc.

Web Address:  www.venturainsurance.com 
Contact Name:  Christine Sadofsky 
Phone Number:  212-702-3300
Email Address:  Christine@venturainsurance.com 
Description of Services:  Provide complete insurance programs for all businesses in the Entertainment Industry, Fine Art world, Aviation Industry, Business Managers & Family Office Practices as well as General Private Client and Commercial Business.  Our teams are arranged so provide you with 24/7 access to your information and our comprehensive service.  We also work with P&C Agents & Brokers to assist them with their client’s special needs in the Aviation and Entertainment sectors.  We truly become your Broker of Choice!

VGM Insurance

Web Address:  www.vgminsurance.com
Contact Name:   Warren G. Freeman
Phone Number:  1-866-497-0521
Email Address:   warren.freeman@vgm.com
Description of Services:  VGM Insurance specializes in insuring liability risks for HME (Home Medical Equipment Providers), Medical Product Manufacturers, Medical Product Distributors, and Orthotic/ Prosthetic Companies. Our experienced and knowledgeable staff is committed to the success of your client.  We value the relationship you have formed with your client and will work hard to bring the best solution for them. We are the largest, quickest, and most experienced with in-house underwriting and in-house claims to make you the super star for your clients.  Call us today to discuss your current or prospective client.  1-866-497-0521.