Amwins Brokerage
As the nation's largest wholesale broker, our specialized expertise is yours to tap into — from unparalleled market access to value-added resources and intel.
Amwins Brokerage
As the nation's largest wholesale broker, our specialized expertise is yours to tap into — from unparalleled market access to value-added resources and intel.
Expertise. Marketplace clout.
Unparalleled resources.
That's the Amwins advantage.
As a retailer, you're responsible for navigating changing landscapes, regardless of your client's industry or coverage needs. At Amwins, we know the weight of these constant shifts in market conditions makes placing specialty insurance feel like an uphill battle. But you don't have to go it alone. Amwins Brokerage is adept at navigating these intricacies. Bring us your difficult placements — your large, layered and niche accounts across all lines.
Our wholesale broker team includes more than 315 experts nationwide. Through specialty practice groups, our brokers are constantly collaborating, sharing knowledge and solutions across teams and divisions. That means when you work with an Amwins broker, you have the combined expertise of our entire firm driving your success.
With the largest specialty insurance distribution platform in the industry, we stay on top of market conditions and trends to keep our retailers ahead of the game. The result? The value-added resources, market relationships and solutions to get tough deals done.
CAT modeling + risk control resources
Our in-house team of actuaries licenses cutting-edge software to deliver catastrophe risk data analysis and the most accurate pricing possible.
Proprietary product development
Combining our product expertise, market clout and in-house facilities, we develop exclusive products that support the evolving needs of our clients and their insureds.
Data + analytics
By analyzing data from thousands of Amwins-placed accounts, we bring our clients valuable insight through tools such as benchmarking reports and price trends.
#1
largest wholesale broker in the U.S.
$15.1B
annual premium placements
849
admitted, E&S and wholesale-only carrier relationships
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AmWINS Exclusive Property Capacity
The catastrophic events that we saw in 2017 will impact the affected areas for years to come. With consensus loss estimates close to $100 billion, the industry is facing historic, market-changing losses. While it’s too soon to determine the magnitude of this change, regardless of the impact of these events, AmWINS is well positioned to provide expertise, vital market access and capacity to help you solve the toughest risk management challenges.
As the largest property wholesaler in the United States – with more than $2.6 billion in property premium placed annually – AmWINS works with you to secure the most unique and competitive solutions for your clients. AmWINS brokers have access to exclusive capacity including the following.
Exclusive Capacity:
- AmWINS Special Risk Underwriters (SRU): SRU underwrites property risks on behalf of a panel of domestic and international carriers. Broad classes and significant capacity. These exclusive products that SRU provide are only available through your AmWINS property broker.
- SRU Sidecar Facility: A new nationally available product that is designed to sit alongside our open market carrier partners on shared and layered property accounts as exclusive additional capacity. Up to $50M+ capacity available
- Velocity Risk Underwriters: Very limited access MGU with product and capacity covering all risk or named perils with a focus on risks with substantial catastrophe perils exposures of wind, earthquake and flood. Capacity up to $70M per location; $300M per risk on all CAT exposed properties. Additionally, AmWINS has exclusive access to their admitted condominium product.
- Ventus Risk Management: An MGA focused on writing Catastrophe exposed SME accounts with light to moderate commercial occupancies. Target classes include but are not limited to: apartments, condominiums, light manufacturing, retail, public entities, restaurants, elder care facilities and mixed real estate.
- Vikco - AmWINS has exclusive access to their admitted California earthquake capacity.
Additionally, We Provide:
- AIR and RMS modelling
- Claims advocacy team
AmWINS brokers maintain strong relationships with our established carriers at all levels. In addition, our specialists in commercial and habitational real estate, hospitality, construction/inland marine, transportation, energy risks, public entity and CAT-driven schedules provide insight and expertise that enable you to address clients’ unique needs.
Contact your AmWINS Property Broker for more detail.
- Property
- Property & Casualty
Collaboration and market leverage for the win.
With less than three days to bind, a retailer with a large wood-frame podium project account on the Tampa Bay came to Amwins in need of builder’s risk coverage. The competitor’s quote had room for improvement in pricing, terms and conditions. Utilizing our exclusive property capacity, we were able to negotiate a very competitive $10M primary layer the next day.
When reviewing the account, it came to light that the competitor had only quoted 10% of the flood coverage required, set the expiration date two months shy of the term needed, and had a deductible twice the amount the insured could carry. We determined with the retailer that the best approach was to completely restructure the program.
In the end, we were able to secure $50M in primary with the flood limits, water damage deductible and expiration date the insured needed. For the excess layer, Amwins Bermuda called on a long-standing relationship with a Bermuda market to achieve the terms and limits needed at a competitive price.
Amwins’ teamwork, leverage in the marketplace and proprietary products allowed us to place this risk in just over 48 hours with substantial premium savings and enhancements to coverage.
