The Skilled Insurance coverage Wholesalers Affiliation and the New England Surplus Strains Affiliation have merged.
This merger acknowledges the significance of the position of wholesalers within the insurance coverage business, and it’ll mix the power of two excess-and-surplus wholesalers associations into one unified entrance.
PIWA is knowledgeable affiliation that represents insurance coverage wholesalers who serve retail insurance coverage producers with specialty and E&S markets within the Northeast. This group serves as a central useful resource for wholesale brokers and specialty corporations by supporting them via advocacy, schooling and networking.
A few of PIWA’s victories embrace lobbying for laws to require retail brokers to inform premium finance corporations; lobbying efficiently for laws to permit safety guards who buy insurance coverage as a part of their licensing requirement to make use of nonadmitted carriers; and extra.
“This merger marks an essential chapter within the lifetimes of each associations,” stated PIWA President Robert Farella. “By combining our sources as a single affiliation, we are able to present the very best service to wholesalers within the Northeast.”
“We’re proud to hitch forces, and our work shall proceed below the banner of PIWA,” stated NESLA President Wealthy Martino. “Wholesalers within the Northeast will now have a broader affect and an even bigger voice within the business.”
Extra concerning the PIWA
Established in 1978, the Skilled Insurance coverage Wholesalers Affiliation is knowledgeable affiliation of insurance coverage wholesalers serving retail insurance coverage producers with specialty and excess-line markets all through the Northeast.
