February 2022 Training Opportunities
Hippo Weekly Webinar
Register for an upcoming webinar to learn about the benefits of Hippo and see a live quote demo.
Neptune Flood Webinar
Learn how to sell Neptune private flood insurance! A webinar was held on Feb 2, 2022 10:00 AM PST. View the recording.
February 2022 Incentives
Cover
Sweet incentives with Cover!
Our incentives are nothing but sugar this month: Earn $750 for 10 sales, $500 for 5 sales, and $250 for 3 sales with Cover. Mark your calendars, as this exclusive promotion ends March 1st, 2022.
Rules:
- Policies must be submitted as bound during February 2022.
- Policy must be new business (Re-writes are NOT eligible).
- Funds must be collected (NSF voids the policy, and would not count as a bound policy)
- These bonuses are fully earned! No charge-backs!
Earn 5% Bonus Commission on Restaurant Coverage
At NEXT, we have a big appetite for restaurants and offer comprehensive, affordable coverage made to order. Our best-in-class plans make it easy for you to write more restaurant business.
Plus, between now through March 31, 2022, we’re offering a 5% bonus commission* on new restaurant policies.
Coverages available for your restaurant clients:
- General liability (includes professional liability)
- Liquor liability: only available with general liability coverage
- Workers’ compensation
- Commercial property
- Commercial auto
Here’s a taste of our target market
- New or existing restaurants
- One to 10 employees
- One business location (can be home-based or include work out of locations like venues or clients’ homes)
- Dine-in and/or delivery services
- Less than $500,000 in revenue per year
- Café, fine dining, casual dining, fast casual, diner, family style, farm-to-table, coffee shop and pop-up restaurants are all welcome
NEXT’s restaurant coverage is available in AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, GA, HI, ID, IN, LA, KS, KY, MD, ME, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, WV and WY.
For a full list of coverages, state availability and eligibility, refer to the appetite checker on the agent portal and our Writing New Restaurant Owners: A Recipe For Success Guide.
To qualify for the 5% bonus, restaurant policies must be bound with an effective date between now through March 31, 2022. When quoting, select “Restaurant” for “What type of work does your customer do?” question.
January 2022 FC News
Quote Connector
We just launched our quote connector pilot program and hope to release to the new quoting tool to all agents in early February.
Email [email protected] if you have any questions.
January 2022 Training Opportunities
Hippo Weekly Webinar
Register for an upcoming webinar to learn about the benefits of Hippo and see a live quote demo.
Neptune Flood Webinar
Register for an upcoming webinar to learn about Neptune Flood. Webinar will be held Feb 2, 2022 10:00 AM PST.
January 2022 Carrier Announcements
Pie
Pay-as-you-go billing
We heard you when you said your small business clients needed a Pay-as-you-go option to help them manage their workers’ comp costs over time.
We’re excited to partner with Reliable Premium Management to offer Pay-as-you-go as a billing option in the partner portal. Head to our website to learn more about RPM and their Pay-as-you-go solution. If RPM’s Pay-as-you-go services are a good fit for your agency, please call the partner experience team at 855-858-5988 to have the option added to your agency’s account. Once your agency is set up with RPM, you’ll see Pay-as-you-go listed as a billing option when you bind your client’s policies in the partner portal. Questions? Reach out to the partner experience team at 855-858-5988.
Openly
Openly Launches in New Hampshire
Today, I am really excited to announce that Openly is launching its premium homeowners product in New Hampshire. New Hampshire is Openly’s sixteenth state of operation and we are looking forward to bringing our wide and transparent product to your clients! Openly’s quoting portal is now officially live in New Hampshire. If your agency has indicated that they are licensed in NH, agency admins must add NH to their appointed agent. This can be done by using the settings link in the upper right corner of the portal, updating your agency details, and adding licensed agents to your agency. If you use EZLynx, please follow the instructions in the link below to finish setting up your authorization to use Openly through the EZLynx platform: https://openly-inc.elevio.help/en/articles/169
We ask that all of you please provide us with feedback. This can include competitiveness, unique scenarios that you are seeing with the quoting platform or our data that prefills your quotes. Please do not hesitate to reach out to [email protected] or your Openly Business Development team member with this feedback. We will address all questions and comments in our standard timely manner. Thank you again for the partnership and trust! We couldn’t be more pleased to be providing our comprehensive coverage to the state of New Hampshire.
Aegis
Aegis does Ivans Downloads now!! Below is the link for agents to request this.
NEXT
Helping agents like you sell more small business insurance faster is always our goal. One way we do this is by expanding the availability of NEXT coverage.
We just launched coverage for six new auto service and repair classes of business:
- Auto parts store
- Tire shop
- Oil change station
- Auto repair shop
- Auto body shop
- Car wash
The lines of business available for these classes of business include:
- General liability
- Commercial property
- Commercial auto service
This coverage is available in AL, AR, AZ, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY, LA, MD, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV and WY.
Plus, if your customer has a AAA Approved Auto Repair, ASE Blue Seal of Excellence or I-Car Gold Class certification, they can receive a 10% discount on their policy.
For more details about NEXT coverage for auto service and repair businesses, see our coverage guide.
Thanks for partnering with us to help small businesses thrive.
Palomar
New Business Moratorium for Residential and Commercial Flood
Effective January 6, 2022, at 11:00 PM PST, Palomar has implemented a moratorium for new residential and commercial flood business in the following regions:
Residential and Commercial Flood: OR and WA – entire state
Moratorium Guidelines
- Online PASS system will allow new residential flood quotes, but no binds to be processed in affected moratorium areas
- Commercial flood submissions will be accepted, but no binds to be processed in affected moratorium areas
- Renewals will be honored during the moratorium period
- The Company will lift the moratorium at its discretion
