Business Wire | September 08, 2020
CoreLogic®, a leading global property data and analytics-driven solutions provider, announced today Aviva Canada has adopted CoreLogic’s leading digital insurance hub. Aviva chose CoreLogic’s digital insurance hub because it enables the seamless unification of all parts of the claim supply chain on one cloud-native concurrent platform. CoreLogic simplifies claims workflows, enables innovation agility through best-in-class InsurTech solutions and integrates its supply chain partners into the claims workflow with a flip of a switch.
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Core Specialty Insurance Holdings | October 18, 2021
Core Specialty Insurance Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries is pleased to announce to its brokers a new agreement with Risk Placement Services ("RPS") to provide lawyers professional liability. RPS is a leading specialty program manager in the professional liability and errors & omissions marketplace. The new relationship will build on RPS's underwriting and marketing experience in this niche. The program is now available on a non-admitted basis and the Company plans on offering admitted based coverage upon completion of its filings. This program, for standard market lawyers business with RPS, was established to complement Core Specialty's non-standard lawyers product, offered through the Company's limited distribution, and Core Specialty remains committed to servicing this market segment long-term.
This new RPS Signature Programs offering will be available Nationwide (except AK) on A-(Excellent) AM Best Rating, Financial Size Category XI, and will provide Lawyers Professional Liability (LPL) coverage for small- to mid-sized Law Firms.
Highlights of the Lawyers Professional Liability Program are:
1 to 50 Attorney Firms
Broad Definition of Professional Services
Claims Expenses in addition to the limit of liability available
First Dollar Defense deductible available
50% reduction for agreement to use mediation and the claim is settled at mediation (Up to $25,000)
Per Claim and Aggregate deductible options
Relaxed Consent to Settle Clause 50/50
Limits of Liability up to $5,000,000 available
Pre-Claim Assistance
"RPS Signature Programs has more than 35 years of underwriting experience with the primary focus on this line of business. We are using our expertise in professional liability writing $30,000,000 in premium placed this past year, which means that when you have questions, we have answers,"
- Adrienne Woodhull, area president with RPS Signature Programs.
Jeff Consolino, President and Chief Executive Officer of Core Specialty commented, "When Core Specialty completed the recapitalization of StarStone U.S. Holdings, Inc. on November 30, 2020, we established the Errors & Omissions Professional Liability Division and recruited Jeff Jacobs as Division President to increase our focus on these product lines. We believe many professional liability classes are continuing to see strong opportunity after changes in appetite in the admitted market created a void that has not yet been filled by E&S markets."
About Core Specialty
Core Specialty offers a diversified range of property and casualty insurance products for small to mid-sized businesses. From underwriting offices spanning the U.S., the Company focuses on niche markets, local distribution, and superior underwriting knowledge, offering traditional as well as innovative insurance solutions to meet the needs of its customers and brokers. Core Specialty is an insurance holding company operating through StarStone Specialty Insurance Company, a U.S. excess and surplus lines insurer, and StarStone National Insurance Company, a U.S. admitted markets insurer. The Company is rated A- (Excellent) by AM Best.
About RPS Signature Program
RPS Signature Programs manages a variety of specialized programs on behalf of highly rated carriers, offering proprietary insurance solutions in niche markets. Headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, RPS Signature Programs is a division of Risk Placement Services, one of the nation's largest specialty insurance product distributors.
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Sedgwick | September 24, 2021
Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, today announced it has acquired Managed Care Advisors, Inc. (MCA), a Bethesda, Maryland-based government contracting firm and leading provider of workers' compensation and specialty health plan products and services to the U.S. federal government.
Managed Care Advisors' expertise includes a comprehensive, outsourced federal agency workers' compensation case and claims management solution, anchored by the full functionality of its technology platform. MCA's federally compliant solutions and established performance record will broaden Sedgwick's access to a wide range of public sector opportunities. The acquisition will also enable MCA to expand its breadth and depth of offerings to the government to include a broad array of world-class risk management and claims solutions that Sedgwick currently delivers in the commercial sector.
Sedgwick and Managed Care Advisors have a shared focus on delivering excellence and taking care of people. We are well aligned to optimize outcomes for our clients and look forward to bringing our combination of value-added services to the employees of federal government agencies.
- Elizabeth Demaret, Sedgwick president, specialty.
MCA will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sedgwick Public Sector, a Sedgwick holding company dedicated to delivering claims services to government entities.
Joining forces with Sedgwick opens the door to new opportunities for bringing the public sector an even higher level of industry best practices and expertise. I'm excited for what lies ahead in our next chapter with Sedgwick.
- Lisa Firestone, Managed Care Advisors president and CEO.
About Sedgwick
Sedgwick is a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions. The company provides a broad range of resources tailored to our clients' specific needs in casualty, property, marine, benefits, brand protection and other lines. At Sedgwick, caring counts; through the dedication and expertise of more than 27,000 colleagues across 65 countries, the company takes care of people and organizations by mitigating and reducing risks and losses, promoting health and productivity, protecting brand reputations, and containing costs that can impact the bottom line. Sedgwick's majority shareholder is The Carlyle Group; Stone Point Capital LLC, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Onex and other management investors are minority shareholders.
About Managed Care Advisors
Established in 1997, Managed Care Advisors specializes in workers' compensation, case and claims management, disability and absence management, analytics, technology solutions, specialty health plan management and employee benefits. Based in Bethesda, Maryland, Managed Care Advisors services customers throughout the United States and all U.S. territories. Since 2005, MCA has provided a comprehensive suite of products and services to the federal market to support federal agencies in improving outcomes, reducing costs, and avoiding unnecessary medical and vocational disability resulting from work-related injuries and illnesses.
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