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2/18/2009
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5th Annual ASI Charity Golf Tournament Raises $64,000! |
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Benefiting ALS Association and Autism Society of America |
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ASI’s 5th Annual Charity Golf Tournament was a success!! Our goal was to raise $60,000 to split between the two chosen charities, ALS Association and Autism Society of America, and we surpassed it! Thank you to all the sponsors who made this possible and thank you to all of the participants for coming out to show your support.
Our first place team consisted of Larry Howard with ASI, Steve Kay with Capstone Surety, Jason Cromwell with Smith-Manus Agency and Geoffrey Russell with Collins coming in with a 57!! And congratulations to Mitchell Kaplan with Zarwin, Baum, DeVito, Kaplan, Schaer & Toddy Attorneys at Law who took home one week's accomodations and roundtrip airfare to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Special thank you to the following sponsors:
Gold Sponsor HCF Insurance
Hole Sponsors AJ Jain and Laura Ervin Aon Corporation Beacon Consulting Group Inc. ASI Finance Brown and Riding Capstone Surety Cardinal Industrial Insulation Co. Carlson Law Group Inc. Champion Special Risk Cherry, Seymour & Hundley PC Clausen, Miller PC Crawford & Company CRC Custard Insurance Adjusters Dealerguard EBCO International Inc. Eidyia Solutions Inc. ELK Consulting Services EMC Corporation Engle Martin & Associates Inc. Ernstrom & Dreste LLP Everguard Fields, Howell, Athans & McLaughlin LLP Gartner + Bloom PC Gordon & Rees LLP Graves & King Guy Carpenter International E & S iPartners Joe Scollo Julia Davis and Pat Kirschling Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC KBW Langsam Stevens & Silver LLP Larry Geneen Lemac and Associates Litchfield Cavo Lockton Companies Low, Ball & Lynch Lydecker Law Firm Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien & Courtney PC MedSave USA Inc. Norman-Spencer Agency Partners Specialty Group Phoenix Underwriting Managers ASI Legal Raymond James Rubin, Fiorella & Friedman LLP Specialty Claims Management Steve Crim Steve Groot Sutherland Thomco Insurance Thompson, Slagle & Hannan Truck Claims Inc. United Risk Management Corporation Westermann Hamilton Sheehy Aydelott & Keenan LLP Willis Re Worldwide Facilities Zarwin, Baum, DeVito, Kaplan, Schaer & Toddy Attorneys at Law
2/18/2009 Equipment Breakdown Coverage Now Available
ASI’s property underwriting team can now include equipment breakdown coverage on commercial multi-peril and monoline property policies. Standard commercial property policies typically do not cover losses sustained by an insured from equipment breakdown. In fact, property policies specifically exclude mechanical breakdown, electrical arcing or damage due to a surge of electrical power, explosion due to centrifugal force, explosion, cracking, or burning (overheating) of steam boilers or pipes. Uninsured gaps like these could mean big losses to an insured without the appropriate coverage.
Under ASI’s equipment breakdown coverage, electrical, mechanical, air conditioning, and production equipment as well as heating boilers and pressure vessels and key machinery and equipment are covered losses. In the event of an accident or breakdown to equipment, the following are covered:
- Electrical burnout of motors, electrical distribution equipment (circuit breaker box including facility electrical wiring), and emergency generators and transformers.
- Mechanical breakdown of compressors, pumps, fans, blowers, and other machinery.
- Cracking or collapse of air conditioning or refrigeration system vessels, coils, or piping.
- Explosion of steam boilers and steam piping.
- Burning (overheating) of boilers due to insufficient water.
- Cracking of sections in cast iron boilers.
- Bulging, cracking, or collapse of pressure vessels, such as water heaters, compressed air tanks, steam cookers and kettles, expansion tanks, and condensate return tanks.
- The extra cost of expediting repairs.
- Damage to other people's property in your care, custody, or control.
- Losses to property from the release of hazardous substances caused by an accident.
- Business Interruption protection, covering the expenses to get you back on track as soon as possible.
For further details on ASI's insurance solutions for commercial property, click here or contact an underwriter at 732-933-2960.
As of Aug. 29, 2008, ASI's Middletown, NJ office will be located at:
106 Apple St.
Suite 101B
Tinton Falls, NJ 07724-2670
Main Phone: 732-933-2960 Main Fax: 732-933-2961 Toll Free: 866-397-0835 Claims: Pat Kirschling: 732-933-2975 Excess & Umbrella Department: Jackie McLaughlin: 732-933-2967 Mark Bennett: 732-933-2973 Primary Casualty Department: Carol Ferris: 732-933-2964 Carolyn Cook:732-933-2963 Jerry O'Neill: 732-933-2970 Jim Brogan: 732-933-2968 Joe Savarese: 732-933-2972 Mei Lee Cruci: 732-933-2974 Sue Rothberg: 732-933-2976 Property Department: Carol Biafore: 732-933-2962 Dee Quinn: 732-933-2966 Donna Heffern: 732-933-2965 Jeannette Guercio: 732-933-2969 Jim St. John: 732-933-29712/18/2009
Environmental Insurance Unit Now Offers Workers Comp Our environmental underwriting unit has partnered with managing general agent AGAI-MGA to provide workers comp for coverage for ASI insureds with an A.M Best "A" rated carrier.
Coverage is available on a monoline basis upon policy renewal or inception for insureds with a pollution liability policy with ASI. States where the program is currently available include: AK, AR, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, KY, LA, MD, MN, MS, NC, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA and WI.
All submissions should include a completed ACCORD application, three to four years of currently valued loss information, current experience mod, a narrative of operations and a copy of the ASI dec page. Please allow a minimum of 30 days of lead time prior to the desired effective date.
For additional information, please contact Theresa Stout with AGAI-MGA at (888) 393-5071 or via email at tstout@agaimga.com or contact your ASI environmental underwriter.
8/27/2007
Restoration Contractors Program Fills Void in General Liability Coverage ASI now provides coverage for certain classes of restoration contractors. The combined general, professional and pollution liability policy, which can include coverage for mold, targets fire, water and disaster restoration contractors who perform operations in accordance with the restoration contracting guidelines published by the Institute of Inspection, Cleaning and Restoration Certification.
The program is intended to fill the gap in professional liability coverage for services rendered in accordance with the S520 Standard and Reference Guide for Professional Mold Remediation and the S500 Standard Reference Guide for Professional Water Damage Restoration. The ability of ASI to provide a complete package eliminates the need for brokers to piece together an insurance program that meets the specifications of most insurance service providers and provides them with a complete solution.
Coverage is written on non-admitted American Safety Indemnity Co. paper, which carries an “A” (Excellent) rating from A.M. Best. Limits up to $11 million are available. General and pollution liability coverages are on an occurrence form, with profession liability and optional mold coverage offered on a claims-made basis. Premiums begin at $2,500 with a mold exclusion and $5,000 with mold coverage.
The program is available through a limited ditribution channel. For more information on the program, please contact your underwriter at 1-800-388-3647.
7/27/2007Preston Starr Promoted to Director of Environmental Insurance Group.
Effective June 1, 2007, Preston Starr has been promoted to Director of Environmental Underwriting. He will be responsible for the overall management of ASI's Environmental Insurance Group, which includes overseeing the strategic direction of the unit and monitoring the unit's progress towards its goals and objectives. Mr. Starr has more than 11 years of insurance industry experience, with 7 of those years in environmental underwriting. Prior to assuming his role in ASI's Environmental Insurance Unit, he was a Senior Underwriter in the Company's Construction Underwiting Unit in Atlanta, Ga., where he was responsible for helping develop underwriting guidelines, risk selection, and production underwriting. Before joining American Safety Insurance in 2004, Mr. Starr was a Senior Underwriter in the Environmental Division of Gulf Insurance Group. His background also includes three years with Zurich North America in the Construction Division as Senior Underwriter, and two years with Liberty Mutual Insurance Group as an underwriter. Mr. Starr has a bachelor's degree in accounting from Albany State University. For additional information on ASI's environmental insurance products, click here, or contact ASI's Marketing Department at 1-800-388-3647 7/20/2007Minimum Premium Reduced on EnviroStarTM Product. ASI has reduced the minimum premium requirement for its EnviroStar environmental insurance product available through ProStar Online. Minimum premiums for the product now begin at $2,500. Coverage for the EnviroStar product is written on an ISO-based form and combines contractor's pollution liability, general liability and environmental consultant's professional liability into one convenient package. Coverage is available for bodily injury, property damage, and clean-up costs arising from the insured operations. Limits up to $11 million are available. For additional information on EnviroStar, please click here.
7/11/2007Meet ASI's Property Underwriting Team! Based in our Middletown, New Jersey underwriting office, this highly experienced and well-respected team joined ASI in June. For additional product information, click here to be redirected to the product's webpage. Jeannette Guercio- Director of Property Underwriting Jeannette joins ASI from Markel Underwriting Managers, where she was Associate Vice President of Property Underwriting. Prior to Markel, she served in various underwriting capacities with both Swett & Crawford and Galaxy Insurance Co., both in New York City. Jeannette has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. James St. John- Director of Property Underwriting James joins ASI from Markel Underwritng Managers, where he was Associate Vice President of the Property Package Department. Proir to Markel, James was an underwriter with Jefferson Insurance Group in Jersey City. He has more than 15 years of experience in the insurance industry. Carol Biafore- Underwriting RepresentativeCarol joins ASI from Markel Underwriting Managers, where she was a property underwriter. She has more than 10 years of experience in the surplus lines industry. Dee Quinn- Sr. Underwriting Assistant Dee joined Markel Corporation in 1995 and moved into the Property Department in 1996. She has 10+ years experience as a Property E & S Underwriting/Technical Assistant.
6/14/2007 Expanded Environmental Coverage Now Available Through ProStar Online(TM) Web-based Rating System In response to high demand from our producers, ASI’s EnviroStar product is now available via the ProStar OnlineTM internet-based rating and quoting system. The EnviroStar product is a combination GL and pollution liability product for small- to medium-sized environmental contractors and consultants. Professional liability can also be added for environmental consultants.
EnviroStar is an ISO-based GL occurrence coverage form which includes coverage for on- and off-site bodily injury, clean up and property damage costs arising from the policyholder’s operations. Optional coverages are available for prior acts, mold remediation, and pollution incidents arising from transportation performed by the policyholder.
Limits are available up to $11 million (with optional umbrella coverage) on a blanket basis or for individual projects or on a blanket basis.
For additional information, please contact your underwriter. If you are not currently a ProStar Online producer and would like to find out more, please contact ASI’s Environmental Insurance Unit at 1-800-388-3647.
6/1/2007 eSubmit@amsafety.com: ASI Launches Streamlined Submission Process for Non-Environmental CGL and Excess/Umbrella Coverages
In order to provide our producers with more prompt and efficient service, ASI has established a universal email box to receive all of our approved producers’ new non-environmental submissions. Effective immediately, all NEW submissions for our construction, products liability, non-construction commercial general liability and excess/umbrella products should be emailed to eSubmit@amsafety.com.
We believe that this process will streamline communication among our three offices that handle these business lines. Our eSubmit folder will be checked hourly for submissions to ensure that your accounts receive timely attention. In addition, our underwriters will forward any new account submissions that they receive to the eSubmit mailbox to ensure that our staff is clearing accounts in an organized and methodical fashion.
Please note this email box is only for current approved producers. If you are interested in accessing ASI’s array of specialty insurance products, please contact us at 1-800-388-3647 ext. 4310.
ASI Receives Air Quality Association’s Endorsement for Indoor Air Quality Professionals Program ASI has been selected as an approved insurer for the American Indoor Air Quality Council (AIAQC), the premier association for air quality professional’s accreditation. In conjunction with a national program manager, we have developed a program for contractors and consultants which includes mold coverage, and will consider submissions for up to 100% mold remediation operations for AIAQC certified mold remediation contractors, due to extensive training requirements for the certification. For non-AIAQC certified remediation professionals, mold operations are limited to 50% or less of receipts.
Please visit the program’s website (www.iaqa-marketing.com) for further information.
2/13/2007 American Safety Insurance Rolls Out New Email Addresses
To coincide with the launch of our new, improved website, all email addresses for ASI employees have changed to @amsafety.com. The names before the "@" will remain the same. For example, jdoe@americansafetyinsurance.com would now be jdoe@amsafety.com.
If you are having difficulties recieving email from ASI employees, please first check your junk mail folder, as your SPAM filter system may not recognize the new addresses. Also, you can add any employees with whom you regularly correspond to your "safe sender" list to avoid missing emails.
For additional information, please contact our offices at 1-800-388-3647.
1/25/2007 New Version of ProStar OnlineTM Users Manual Now Available We have recently released a new ProStar Online user’s manual for our approved ProStar Online producers. The manual contains valuable information on the following topics:
Accessing ProStar Online Orientation for the Log In Window Guidelines for First Time Access Using the Unlock Account function - how to set a Secret Question & Answer Welcome & General Overview Orientation for the functionality of the navigation pane Account Summary window Indications and Quotations Overview Clear New Account (when & how to) Create New Indication (how to) Create New Quotation (how to) Request to Bind (how to)
If you have additional questions about ProStar Online, please contact your underwriter.
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