How you Benefit from Using ÆGIS PACIFIC Insurance Service 

    Our objective is to assist you and your clients in ways that allow you to be more productive and profitable.  As you know the best way to be more profitable is to systematically add new business and retain the business you have.  By availing yourself of our service you tap into a professional and experienced consultative and administrative resource that does not add to your costs—it enhances your profits.  It’s like having a team of professionals and staff at your disposal without the overhead.  This frees up more of your time to spend with clients and prospects.  To find out more about leveraging your time read The Advantage of Using a General Agent.

            In the highly competitive benefits market that exists today it has become more and more difficult to find and place new business.  Highly successful brokers set themselves apart from the “flock” by offering quality products, being more creative, providing better service, and exhibiting a greater degree of professionalism.  Of course, you have to do all of this very efficiently in order to make a profit.  This is where we can be of assistance to you by helping you maximize your marketing, sales, and service efforts.  Please read our Mission Statement and learn about our background

 More Than Just Quotes

            Many brokers look to General Agents as just a quick source for quotes.  While it is true that we generally deliver quotes within 24 hours of your request we pride ourselves in providing our brokers with many other forms of strategic support.  Prior to the sales process we can help you with:

            During the sales process we aid our brokers at the level of service they request and are comfortable with in:

            Once the sale has been made we are available to help you with:

 Sanctuary For The Small Brokerage

            In an age where carriers are consolidating books of business into larger, more efficient blocks appointments are being carefully scrutinized.  Carriers are starting to impose larger production requirements and the appointments of smaller brokerages are in peril.

            We work with brokerages of all sizes and have a large number who have benefited from the power of consolidation and protecting their commissions by placing their business through us.

            The marketing and sales experience of our principals and staff is an asset you can count on in routine as well as difficult and challenging situations.  Having been Blue Shield’s top producing brokerage for a number of years (before becoming a General Agent) our familiarity and experience in working with Blue Shield and other carriers is particularly valuable in carrier comparisons, product knowledge, underwriting, enrollment, installation, customer service, claims, and, of course, commission issues.

The Advantage of Using a General Agent           

A quality, full-service General Agency can provide you with a broad spectrum of value added services—generally at no cost to you.  Since the General Agent is compensated by the carriers with overrides you are normally paid the full broker commission.

By using a G.A. you are effectively adding another layer of administrative help to support you in the sales, enrollment, and service process.  Naturally this reduces your overall labor cost and ultimately your cost of sale—not to mention your servicing costs.  The G.A. should be intimately familiar with the carriers’ quoting, proposal, underwriting, and enrollment procedures, which improves your efficiency and tends to reduce your liability.

When you place your business through a G.A. you are pooling it with millions of dollars of other business the G.A. has with the carrier.  This puts the G.A. in a stronger position to be an advocate for you and your clients in underwriting, eligibility, claims, and commission issues.  Since the G.A. is not an employee of a single carrier they should be more objective and be able to focus on the specific needs of you and your client.  Æ