InsuraGuest selects Swarts, Manning & Associates Insurance Agency

GlobeNewswire | August 20, 2020

InsuraGuest Technologies, Inc. (TSX.V: ISGI) (the “Company”), under its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary InsuraGuest Insurance Agency, LLC (the “Agency”), has signed Swarts, Manning & Associates (“SMA”) for its agency/broker program, which focuses on agencies and brokers that write general liability polices specifically for hotels. InsuraGuest will utilize SMA’s brokers and business network in Utah, Nevada and California to access SMA’s hotel clients and integrate InsuraGuest’s insurtech software platform to deliver its hospitality liability coverages. Our focus has always been on risk management and improving the risk profile of our hospitality clients,” states Mark Swarts, founder and president of Swarts, Manning & Associates. “Adding InsuraGuest’s products to our partner list will help us reduce their hotel clients’ risk ratios and claim ratios while potentially lowering their GL premiums.”  InsuraGuest insurance coverage, which is purchased by a property, automatically delivers hospitality liability coverages through the property’s management system via the Company’s proprietary insurtech (insurance + technology) platform. These coverages address claims from guests and their room occupants during their stay at a hotel; coverages insert a layer of protection on a primary basis should a guest experience an accident or theft.

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