In today's E&S market place, we know that your competitive advantage depends on the speed with which you provide quotes to your customers.  With E&SExpress, our online rate & quote system, you can have a presentation-ready quote in as little as five minutes for over 600 E&S classes ...more> 

Special Event Palooza

Need some extra summertime cash?  Let Combined Group & USLI make that money for you.  It's a Special Event Palooza!  From July 15th through August 31, 2008, get a $10 Wal-Mart gift card for every 3 USLI Special Event submissions.  For every USLI Special Event binder we receive from your office, you will be entered into a drawing for a $100 Visa gift card ...more>

Claims Management

We're very pleased to re-introduce our dedicated Nonsubscription nurse case manager, Ms. Susan Hopper.

Susan Hopper has been with the Anchor Claims & Combined Group team for over 5 years and is dedicated to helping our Nonsubscribers be the very best they can be.  She is a Certified Case Manager (CCM) with over 30 years nursing experience in a wide variety of settings.  Her clinical background includes critical care, emergency room, oncology research, home health, managed care, quality management and utilization review.  Susan has spent the last 7 years focusing on occupational ...more>

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Combined Group:  "From the Agent's Perspective"

Combined Group is a company which offers both standard and specialty insurance coverages for your business needs.  Our priority is to provide our independent retail insurance agents with solutions that simplify their lives and those of their clients.  We focus on fulfilling the agents' needs by providing easy access to carriers through our leading-edge technology, expert insurance professionals, and a wide variety of standard and specialty markets ...more>

Middle Market

The competition is fierce.  Sometimes you are the winner of the price war.  Other times it seems you just cannot get the premium low enough to match your competitors.  This is where Combined Group can help.  We have workers' compensation markets for manufacturers, contractors, distributors, restaurants, apartment managers and more.  Risks with some loss trouble or even a death claim can be considered in certain circumstances.  Let's write it and retain it! ...more>

Premium Finance

Combined Premium Finance maintains as its primary goal the consistent provision of the best possible customer service to our client (you, the agent), and in turn to your client, the insured.  A prime example is our 24/7 on-line finance program;  this allows you to "self-approve" finance notes to a maximum of $99,999.  on virtually any commercial policy, and you can combine any number of policies for your insured on a single note ...more>

Visit our website at www.combinedgroup.com

Nonsubscription

Recently an Underwriter was on a customer call with an agent.  Between the two of them, they made a great presentation on an Occupational Accident program, going over all the policy highlights and protection offered to this customer.  They discussed the savings on premium from purchasing workers' compensation and how the customer would be able to have greater control of their claims, resulting in a better on-the-job injury program.

Then the big questions... What happens "The Day After"? ...more>

Risk Management

Carbon monoxide is said to be the silent killer.  Why?  Because carbon monoxide is tasteless, colorless, and odorless...and deadly.

When people think they do not have any carbon monoxide (CO) emissions because they can't smell it, they have smelled sulfides or other odorous parts of auto emissions they believe to be indicative of carbon monoxide.  More reliable are the physical reactions to the presence of carbon monoxide:  headaches, nausea and dizziness--especially if these symptoms occur only inside.  If persons are in a closed atmosphere (especially in a building or vehicle) and have these symptoms, the exhaust system of heaters and fuel ignition should be investigated ...more>

Solutions Spanish

Now you can read the Solutions eNewsletter in Spanish.  Just click Spanish in the menu on the left.