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
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
Arrowhead Programs appoints Mark Kaufman as new chief actuary
Arrowhead released this press release Tuesday Sept. 26. Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc., a Arrowhead Programs company, announced the appointment of Mark Kaufman, FCAS as chief actuary for the Arrowhead 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 Arrowhead Programs
Spotlight on the breadth and depth of Arrowhead 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
Power BI: What it is, how we use it, and how it provides a more accurate view of your business
Most, if not all, of the routine reports you rely on today to understand how your business is performing take time and effort. You wait for updated data to be sent to you from various sources and then you manually update primary Excel files to refresh your KPIs and charts. It’s an ongoing task that… Read More
If Hurricane Ian Was a Tipping Point, What Are We Tipping Toward?
By Tom Kussurelis, Arrowhead 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
How SubroFy subrogation tool saves time and heaps rewards
ACM’s subrogation tool, SubroFy, has been in operation a little over a year. ACM is one of a myriad of Arrowhead Programs & Services companies. We checked back in with the team recently to learn more about the tool and how it’s been working. This new digital tool significantly increases the identification of subro opportunities…. Read More
How our Vendor Management team provides contract savings to our companies
Arrowhead Programs, a collection of 45 brands, provides a multitude of services to each of our companies. We’ve written in the past about how these Shared Services help launch programs faster, broaden our market reach, streamline product launches, and help companies boost their bottom line. Today we’re going to shine the spotlight on our Vendor… Read More
Arrowhead Programs and Bridge Specialty Group launch business development team
Arrowhead 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