Since 1897, OIA has been the champion advocate and trusted advisor for independent agents in Ohio. To advance the independent agency system, OIA has made strategic partnerships over the years in several areas. Through our partnership with Utica, Westport and Fireman’s Fund we provide excellent E&O coverage to our agents. Our partnership with CompManagement allows us to provide a worker’s compensation solution for our agent’s and their commercial clients in Ohio.
As a trusted advisor we continually explore ways to help our agents grow and succeed in an ever-changing marketplace. In the coming months, you will learn of many partnerships the OIA is vetting and entering into to continue to foster the growth for the independent agency system. At OIA’s upcoming annual conference, IACON19, you will interact with several financial partners, insurance companies, wholesalers, brokers, networks, alliances and tech vendors all who support OIA’s mission of helping the independent agent.
The core of an independent agent is providing options to your clients. Similarly, OIA believes success of the independent agent depends on their ability to have access to options. We want the IA channel to be open and inclusive. Our partnerships over the years have been with this core idea in mind and that philosophy has not changed with any partnership we have entered in the past or in the future.
In our efforts to provide options for agents to grow their businesses, we are willing and interested in exploring partnerships with all entities that support the growth of independent agencies. We want agents to have options for market access and OIA is fortunate to work with some of Ohio’s strongest market access providers, wholesalers, brokers, networks, aggregators and alliances to educate our members on a solution that is the right fit for their agency.
With that in mind, the recent announcement of the Indium-Secured Advantage relationship is not meant to exclude the possibility of exploring and entering into similar arrangements with other entities that provide agents with options and will ultimately help independent agents grow. Quite the contrary, it is a sign that OIA is at the heart of the IA community and we are open to partnerships that support the growth of the independent agency system. We look forward to seeing you at IACON19 on September 20!
