OAPSLO
The Association provides networking opportunities, educational programs, and legislative advocacy on behalf of its members.
Today’s Wholesale Insurance Intermediary represents the gamut from standard admitted lines insurers, excess & surplus lines insurers and specialty niche carriers.
What is Specialty Lines?
In the past, most wholesale insurance intermediaries represented what are known as Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Companies (E&S). These are insurers regulated in their home state but are not an “Admitted Carrier” in other states in which they are doing business. Traditionally, E&S companies made insurance available to insureds who could not find coverage from standard (admitted) insurers. Read more
Working with Specialty Insurance Markets
If there is one way to win the heart, mind and hard work of the wholesale insurance intermediary it is in providing them with superb quality submissions. Nothing is more crucial to success than the quality of the information you provide. Agencies who demonstrate their superior ability at developing submissions have the most success with wholesalers. Read more
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OAPSLO Insurance & Marketplace Update
Thursday, May 23, 2024 from 10:45 a.m. to 2 p.m.
More information to come!
2023 Annual Meeting and Golf Outing Recap
The program included three excellent presentations by leaders in the insurance and technology industry. The participation by the audience and comments received afterwards reinforce that the topics were timely, interesting, and relevant.
Tim Makowski, Senior Vice President, Business Development at MarshBerry, “Marketplace Update: State of the E&S marketplace, the Specialty Distribution market, and E&S Mergers and Acquisitions.”
Dan Haber, Partner at Convergent Futures and Oren Goldschmidt, Partner at Convergent Futures, “Bringing Next Gen AI into Focus: Next Gen AI will have an unprecedented impact on how we live and work creating enormous opportunities, and risks, for corporations.“
Nick Coenen, Principal & Co-Founder at Wikifri, “The top 3 Innovations in the Insurance Industry: It takes the power of connections through deep industry relationships and battle-tested experience to network the resources of start-ups, insurtechs, insurance companies, and investment capital to maximize innovation in insurance.”
OAPSLO had a perfect day for its Annual Meeting and Golf Outing. Photos can be viewed here: 2023 Photos.
Thank you to our Company Sponsors
Thank you to Great American Risk Solutions (GAIG) for its generous support of OAPSLO and the Golf Outing Happy Hour.
GAIG provides industry leading non-admitted property and casualty products via wholesale brokers on an excess and surplus basis.
Contact Kyle Enderle, Producer Relations at GAIG to learn more. kenderle@gaig.com, (513) 579-6318
Thank you to Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters (CSU) for its generous support of OAPSLO and the Golf Outing beverage cart.
CSU offers local independent agents market access to excess and surplus lines products through a wide range of E&S exposures and tough-to-place products. Its six major lines of commercial business are: general liability; excess liability; property; professional/errors and omissions liability; cyber liability; and inland marine.
Contact Don Doyle, Sr. VP of Excess & Surplus Lines at CSU to learn more. don_doyle@cinfin.com (513) 870-2553