Agency Markets Expands Agent Access to SeaPass Hub

Quoting resource available through six more regional companies

Boston, MA -  August 6, 2009 – Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, a strategic business unit of Liberty Mutual Group, today announced that six of its regional companies are joining Peerless Insurance™ in making the SeaPass Hub commercial lines comparative rater available to their agents.

In addition to the regional companies’ agency portals and their own agency management systems, appointed agents with America First Insurance™, Colorado Casualty™, Golden Eagle Insurance™, Indiana Insurance™, Montgomery Insurance™, and Ohio Casualty™ can also obtain real-time quotes and issue policies through SeaPass Hub, a multi-carrier, comparative commercial lines quoting tool.

“Our regional companies’ focus is to make it easy for our agents to do business with us,” said Peggy Scott, assistant vice president, Agency Markets, and manager, Marketing Information Management. “Multiple re-keying of data to obtain quotes is something we are working towards eliminating within our agency distribution network. This is a tool that allows our agents to leverage data they have already keyed, to easily get a valid quote proposal for multiple lines of business.”

“We appreciate and respect Liberty Mutual Agency Markets commitment to independent agents and we both appreciate the value that agents realize by obtaining accurate commercial lines multi-carrier quoting and issuance in real-time,” said Eric Gewirtzman, chief executive officer, SeaPass Solutions. “SeaPass Hub is a unique, ease of doing business tool for independent agents to increase their commercial books and improve service to their customer base.”

About Liberty Mutual Agency Markets

Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, a business unit of Liberty Mutual Group, offers personal and commercial insurance through independent agents throughout the United States. Commercial lines products are offered through eight regional companies and Liberty Agency Underwriters, which provides specialty commercial products, including excess casualty and program business. Personal lines products are offered nationally under the Safeco Insurance brand. Liberty Mutual Surety provides nationwide contract and commercial surety and fidelity bonds, and Summit provides workers compensation coverage in the Southeast.

Agency Markets operates under a unique regional/national model that leverages the service-oriented focus of regional operations with the cost efficiencies of a national infrastructure to deliver quality products and services to agents and brokers and the customers they serve. 

Commercial Lines:

• America First Insurance™ (Central Region)
• Colorado Casualty™ (Mountain Region)
• Golden Eagle Insurance™ (California)
• Indiana Insurance™ (Midwest Region)
• Liberty Northwest® (Pacific Northwest Region)
• Montgomery Insurance™ (Southeast Region)
• Ohio Casualty™ (Mid-Atlantic Region)
• Peerless Insurance™ (Northeast Region)

Personal Lines:

• Safeco® Insurance (National)

Other Product Lines:

• Liberty Agency Underwriters™ (Specialty Commercial Products)
• Liberty Mutual Surety™
• Summit™ (mono-line Workers Compensation)

Liberty Mutual Group ranks 86 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations based on 2008 revenues. The company has financial strength ratings of A (Excellent) from the A.M. Best Company, A2 (Good) from Moody’s Investors Service, and A- (Strong) from Standard & Poor’s.

About SeaPass Solutions

SeaPass Solutions is headquartered in New York City. The company develops and markets solutions that enable insurance carriers, agents, and brokers to transmit and receive data in real time. The SeaPass Hub Solution provides a real-time, single-entry multi-carrier/multi-line commercial lines comparative quoting platform that leverages existing systems to interact with one another, leading to reduced costs, better new business and successful transactions. Since 2001 - SeaPass has been implementing innovative technological solutions and services at national insurance carriers, regional carriers, banks, large agencies and brokers of all sizes. SeaPass is a privately held company. For more information about SeaPass, please visit: www.seapass.com.

Contact:

Christopher Goetcheus
774-279-5923
Christopher.Goetcheus@LibertyMutual.com