Working with retail agents nationwide, Amwins' underwriting team delivers personal lines insurance coverage for a wide variety of risks — across a wide variety of markets.
Working with retail agents nationwide, Amwins' underwriting team delivers personal lines insurance coverage for a wide variety of risks — across a wide variety of markets.
Your personal lines clients need niche coverage options. And they need it in a time-sensitive fashion, without any lapses in communication. As a retailer, you're responsible for securing coverage for your clients' hard-to-place risks — yet without the right relationships or market access, you might be left scrambling to address their immediate business challenges. If you're at a loss about where to begin, Amwins has you covered.
As the largest P&C wholesale broker in the U.S., Amwins provides access to best-in-class and exclusive personal lines markets to help our retail partners gain a competitive edge for their clients. With the introduction of Amwins Instant Quote (Amwins IQ), our online marketplace, obtaining niche coverage options is now faster and more convenient than ever. Amwins IQ enables swift access to firm, bindable quotes from multiple carriers within minutes, ensuring your clients receive the specialized coverage they need without delay. Unlike brokers who take a one-size-fits-all approach to securing coverage, our local underwriters are exclusively dedicated to personal lines insurance, working alongside you for hard-to-place risks — and even-harder-to-satisfy clients.
With both admitted and non-admitted markets, as well national and international carriers, Amwins works to place policies as either standalone coverage or part of a larger package.
From luxury homes to valuable articles and nature-based perils, our personal lines insurance safeguards your clients against the risks they've anticipated — as well as those they haven't.
With underwriters solely focused on personal lines insurance, who average more than a decade of experience, you can rest assured your clients' coverage is in capable hands.
One factor is that there are so many more unique claims which ultimately get tagged to the general liability (GL) carrier. Just about anything that goes wrong – other than traditional property losses such as fire, wind, flood, etc. – is considered a GL claim. While it used to be that the owner or manager had to be negligent in order for a GL claim to be paid, that’s hardly the case anymore. Carriers have traditionally been the most concerned with “typical” GL claims including slip-and-falls, violent attacks, and sexual assaults; they now have to also deal with unique, obscure claims for which a GL carrier is ultimately held liable. This diminishes any chance of the account being profitable.
Here are some examples of fairly obscure claims, both of which settled for well over $1,000,000:
a. At a property for elderly tenants, a woman wanted to take a bath. She drew the bathwater, didn’t realize how hot the water was until she got into the tub, and couldn’t get out fast enough before she was scalded.
b. A motorcyclist was trying to enter a gated apartment community but didn’t know the appropriate gate code. The motorcyclist was closely following the car in front whose driver had the access code. Unfortunately for the motorcyclist, once the car passed through the entrance, the gate “arm” closed abruptly and knocked him off his motorcycle, causing injury. The claim eventually closed for nearly $1,000,000.
Again, these “once in a lifetime” claims are particularly present in the multi-family sector, with many of these claims eventually closing with substantial defense and indemnity payments. When reviewing five years of loss runs, it is not uncommon to see at least one of these type of claims (paid or reserved) for between $500,000 to $1,000,000, as well as one or more of the “traditional” claims mentioned above, on the even very best habitational property risks.