Centralized Placement
Explore how this unique brokerage service works.Help Finding Quality Solutions to Meet Clients’ Needs
Through Centralized Placement, the unique brokerage arm of ISNE, a participating agency can broaden their access to top-quality insurance companies that offer a wide range of risk management solutions and services for home and business owners, private client individuals or families, and more. This can make it substantially easier to find a good match for a client’s insurance requirements, even a client that is especially hard to place.
The Centralized Placement team is deeply familiar with all ISNE preferred carriers, and their products and risk appetite, because they have worked with these companies consistently for years. As an ISNE agency, you can take advantage of their knowledgeable guidance every step of the way, from initial inquiry to application submission and, ultimately, final proposal of terms.
With ISNE’s Centralized Placement at Your Disposal, You May Be Able to Increase Your Business Opportunities
Based on our extensive market knowledge and historical experience with carriers, our team carefully evaluates agency submissions and provides a fast turnaround so you can quickly communicate the results to your client. Following are the steps a submission usually takes:
While one member of Centralized Placement is assigned to lead the process for a submission, every person on the team has detailed knowledge of the risk. This ensures that an agency will have multiple ISNE professionals who can assist them at any point in the process.
Agencies will hear from the Centralized Placement team within a day of an inquiry. The team will confirm if there are ISNE preferred partners that meet the client’s needs and, if so, ask for a formal application.
The Centralized Placement team reviews the formal application and ensures it meets submission guidelines. This is where our experience really pays off because we can quickly identify any information that is missing or insufficient, which could hold up the process.
Centralized Placement may identify one carrier that is a fit. Or, in other cases, there may be several companies that should be able to meet the client’s requirements. An agency can lean on this team of professionals to narrow down multiple carrier options, or the agency can let the Centralized Placement team know where to send an application.
While Centralized Placement takes responsibility for much of the legwork, our team is completely transparent with the agency throughout the process. For example, if the carrier requests more information for an application, the team provides the agency with the exact communication from the carrier. In the spirit of efficiency and transparency, the agency will always know what the Centralized Placement team knows.
If an agency’s application is approved, our team will provide the agency with a written proposal of terms for the quote and ensure the application gets across the finish line with the carrier. We also provide complete transparency if an application is declined and can help an agency rethink how it may be able to get approved in the future.
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What Our Participants Are Saying
"Joining ISNE was one of the single-most important decisions about our agency’s future that we have ever made."
Georgetown Insurance
“Our agency joined ISNE in 2011. It was a decision based mostly on our desire to maximize our revenue with our carriers. As it turns out, we have gained so much more from our ISNE relationship."
Finck & Perras Insurance Agency, Inc.
“Joining ISNE is the best business decision we ever made. The agents that are members of ISNE are a valuable resource for us as they continually provide advice on operations, employees, and insurance markets. ISNE is the premier insurance network in New England.”
MTM Insurance Associates
“Joining ISNE is the best business decision that we have ever made. The advantages of collaborating with 65+ agencies are numerous. As our relationship with our common companies has grown, they appreciate and listen to what we have to say. The Independent Insurance Agency System is best for the consumer, for like-minded agencies in partnership, and it is best for the companies we represent. The possibilities are endless.”
Gallant Insurance Agency
“There were other good options, but ISNE was the best option. I preferred ISNE for the combination of professional management, heavy focus on agencies with lower-than-average loss ratios, franchise value, a central placement person for standard markets we don’t represent, and reputation amongst the carrier representatives. ISNE has a very low annual cost and provides the highest net return to its agency members.”
Foy Insurance
“We really wanted to be sure that we were aligned with an aggregator that was not only going to help us maximize profit sharing and commission contracts but also would support our goals going forward; ISNE was the perfect fit for us.”
Howes Insurance Group
“ISNE is an invested partner in my agency, building a strong relationship with us all while increasing efficiency and providing better services to our clients.”
Avery Insurance Agency
Andover
Chubb
Concord
Foremost
Hanover
Hospitality
Jencap
Johnson
Liberty
Main Street America Insurance
Mapfre
Merchants
Nationwide
N&D
NLC
Patrons
Philadelphia
Plymouth
Quincy
Ryan Turner
Safeco
Safety
ShoreOne
State Auto
The Hartford
Travelers
Union
Utica
Vermont
XS
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