Roush Insurance Services, Inc.
www.roushins.com
PO Box 1060
Noblesville , IN 46061-1060
Contact: Melanie Derzhavets
Phone: (800) 752-8402
FAX: (317) 776-6891
Info@roushins.com

Percent of business in Illinois by line:

Commercial: 85% Personal: 15%

Are you currently appointing new agents? Yes

What type of agency is your company looking for? Independent Agency that is looking for placement of specialty business and excess and surplus lines risks

What are your premium volume requirements? (In profit sharing? In life?) While a producer agreement is required, we have no volume commitment.

Are you currently doing any niche-marketing program? Paper general contractors, pollution liability and abatement, habitational, equine farms that do not give riding lessons, e-risk and cyber liability

What is your company’s most aggressive line of business? Commercial packages

Do you use credit scoring? No

What methods do you use to distribute your insurance products? We are a general agent whose clients are independent agents.

 What do you think makes your company different, or stand out from all the rest in Illinois ? Why would an agent want to contract with your company? Prompt, courteous and professional service with access to a wide variety of excellent markets

If we had agents agree to sell homeowners policies with actual cash value endorsements, would you write more business in southern Illinois ? No. We offer low value dwelling coverage that can be customized to suit the client’s needs.

Please list your Marketing Representatives and the territory they cover: We do not have marketing representatives per se. States of operation are Indiana , Illinois and Ohio .

Do you plan on retaining your current profit sharing agreements? This is not applicable. We offer competitive commissions.

Do you offer the ability for agents to integrate third-party reports into their comparative rating process? No

If not, do you have plans to do so? Please list estimated timeframe of when this capability will be available for Illinois agents? No

Do you offer single-entry new business upload from either comparative raters and/or management systems? No

Do you provide rates and assistance to comparative rating vendors? No

Do you work with comparative rating vendors to improve accuracy? No

What is your current real-time rating strategy? Customized in-house rating system

Do you provide an agent facing website for your agent’s reference? Applications available on our website

Do you offer the ability to quote and/or issue new business? No

Can your agents service in-force policies? No

Which lines? We handle all policy changes at agent’s request.

Do you publish agent manuals and policy forms on-line? No

Do you have upload? No

Do you support policy download? No

Do you support direct bill commission statement download? No

Do you support real time service for inquiry? No

Do you have real time endorsement capabilities? No

Do you support either Transformation Station, Transact Now or other technologies? No

Is this technology available today? No

Is it in development? No

Please outline the top 3 technology initiatives your company will be implementing to benefit agency workflows, and describe how these initiatives will benefit the agency.

1. On-line applications

2. E-mail submission capability to quote@roushins.com

3. Policies via e-mail