Providing Best Practice Assessments, Training & Insurance Management Consulting
Product Development, Product Management
Mike Averill and Nancy Bock excel in Product Development, Pricing Support and Product Management for both personal, commercial and specialty lines. They have created products specifically tailored for each client. Using their extensive knowledge and experience, Mike and Nancy integrate all the various segments of the business into a strategically focused whole, maximizing the value of your particular product by coordinating its construction with an understanding of the market’s current needs.
Product Development and Product Management Services Include:
- Analyzing policy forms and endorsements.
- Revising forms and endorsements to comply with state requirements.
- Conducting program market assessments.
- Developing new personal, commercial, and specialty lines products (rates, rules, policy forms and endorsements).
- Preparing filing letters, state mandated filing forms, explanatory material; making filings with regulators and answering regulatory questions on behalf of the client.
- Tailoring programs to allow rating and coverage flexibility to better recognize the difference in each risk.
- Developing amendatory endorsements to tailor coverage for an individual risk.
- Reformatting independent forms and endorsements for utilization of basic ISO, NCCI and other rating organization forms.
- Developing side-by-side comparisons and disclosure forms.
- Providing periodic status reports to the client as well as educational opportunities for the client’s staff in regard to all programs we develop.
- Creating company rate and rule pages.
- Researching regulatory issues.
- Completely handling the development of company primary and expansion applications (admitted and surplus lines), including: business plans, pro-formas, information on capital and surplus and regulatory deposits, and all filing aspects of the UCAA and state forms.
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Pricing Support Services Include:
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Evaluation and translation of existing data into valuable information leading to best product decisions.
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Creating pre-entry market assessments to understand a state’s unique nuances and current competitive arena.
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Developing new programs and all relevant pricing, underwriting rules and acceptability guidelines.
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Reviewing the program’s trends via collection and analysis of loss data and market reports to determine if a revision is required.
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Analyzing program results to determine if it produced the desired and anticipated results, or if not, how it shifted and impacted the existing book of business.
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Analyzing market trends and competitive data to determine the current status of the program in the marketplace and if it is consistent with the target production and profitability goals.
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Reviewing competitor filings to determine what segment they are targeting, their loss experience in a particular segment, etc.
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Preparing and submitting rate, rule and form filings to the Department of Insurance.
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Servicing as a liaison between actuarial and sales/marketing areas to synthesize the quantitative and qualitative data provided from both areas to make appropriate product decisions.
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Assisting with the implementation of the program.
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For more information contact Kathleen J. Robison, CPCU at
423-884-3226 or 423-404-3538
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