PIA Management Services Inc. announced it has partnered with Rochester, N.Y.-based FloodBroker.com to offer member agencies a unique sales tool to facilitate the sale of flood coverage and provide critical documentation of the agency’s efforts to do so.

This exclusive agreement will provide members of the Professional Insurance Agents Associations of Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York State with a customized link installed on their own agency’s website to encourage current and prospective clients to consider and purchase flood coverage.

The web portal leads consumers to flood insurance information, and with a simple application it will generate a quote for the customer, as well as a qualified lead for the agency to engage. For a reasonable monthly fee, a member agency’s website becomes a part of the exclusive FloodBroker.com network from which they can offer online quotes to all of their clients—while documenting against E&O losses.

“After our members experienced the damaging storms of Irene, Lee and Sandy, PIA has continued to look for ways to help our members as storms of this magnitude appear to be increasing in frequency,” said PIA Management Services President and CEO Mark LaLonde. “We identified FloodBroker.com as a valuable resource to help agents sell coverage and provide them with important documentation and defense should an unfortunate E&O claim occur after a disaster strikes.”

“FloodBroker.com was conceived as a tool to help agencies and property owners, and we are confident from research and extensive testing that agents and insureds alike will benefit from being a part of the network,” said Evan Spindelman, president of FloodBroker.com. “We are pleased to have the PIA endorsement and to work with the respected associations, which agents trust to bring them the best products and services available.”

FloodBroker.com collects data from the application, produces a quote and forwards the information to the PIA member agency, which can identify appropriate carriers and follow up with the client. In most cases, property owners can answer the brief underwriting survey to get a free, no-obligation, real-time flood insurance quote. If the policy can’t be rated online, the PIA member agency will work with the property owner to provide them a flood insurance quote quickly.

PIA members interested in the PIA-exclusive FloodBroker.com can sign up to get more information.

PIA Management Services Inc., is the umbrella corporation that manages the Glenmont, N.Y.-based Professional Insurance Agents associations, representing independent insurance agencies, brokerages and their employees in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New York state.

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PIA Management Services, FloodBroker.com Partner to Help Agents Sell Flood Coverage

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