Ascent Insurance Solutions

Overview

The Background...

With careers focused in the public sector and the like, our hearts are truly in this.

Jodie was an underwriter in governmental risk pooling (CSDSIP & CIRSA) for almost 9 years before joining the private sector in 2019. Working for a high volume/high turnover work comp focused insurance brokerage which seemed to focus solely on "the close," she knew there was a better way to merge the client care and support she held dearly from risk pooling with savings opportunity found in the open markets. Ascent was launched in March of 2021 and we've had great success in the build-out while helping entities of all sizes and types with their specialty insurance risks!

Georgia has been a Risk Manager in school districts large and small for many years and she understands the challenges in getting a partnership feel and support with brokers who truly understand the needs of schools. She has been gracious to lend her support to our mission around her busy schedule.

Specialized Services

Workers' Compensation

We have relationships developed with Pinnacol and other top competitors, bringing the utmost in savings to our public sector client base without sacrificing service. Each insurance carrier brings their own value and part of our process is to show you competing offers. We strive to help you make the decision on what insurance carrier and program is best for your entity instead of who is paying us the most.

We also have options for self-insured, high deductible programs, and TPA's.

Ongoing Training

Workers' Compensation

Whether you prefer carrier developed programs, on demand, or training developed specifically for you, we're in your corner!

We have topics we get regularly that we're in the process of developing generalized modules to share with our client base. Meanwhile, these are created specific to our clients and their needs.

We have years of experience in development of training specific to specialty insurance and the public sector. We also LOVE face time and can come for in-person training sessions and meetings.

Analytics

Workers' Compensation

Analytics

Want to know what the biggest drivers of premium are, what's controllable, and how to reduce costs?

We have analytics to back up our programs and work with you to implement practices to reduce risk, thus lowering costs.

Claims

How Can Ascent Become my Broker?

Analytics

Some high pressure/high volume agencies will tell you that nobody is ever involved with claims or has access to claims assistance. Baloney....

We have been known to pick up new clients when they have claims and can't reach their agent, but when an injury occurs, not only are we notified but there are teams of professionals available in:

Nurse Triage

Case Management

Cost Control

Return to Work

We work along WITH our clients and insurance carrier pros in effort to help bring amiable and swift resolution and we work with carriers who have public sector specialty divisions.

Additional Support

How Can Ascent Become my Broker?

Looking for help with human resources, safety & loss control, cost containment, audit support, or streamlined renewals?

We are available for you and here to support you. This isn't a high pressure turn & burn shop where you never know who you're working with and clients can always reach the owner directly, even after hours via cell.

Need onboarding training after hours or in video format for your team to do at their leisure? We've got you!

Working out of the box is the best part of what we do because we can work for YOU with no big broker constraints.

How Can Ascent Become my Broker?

Super easy! If you have your insurance through a carrier we already work with, we can easily get to work by way of a broker of record letter. We then get to advocating for you in the renewal process as well as pulling information needed to check competing markets.

If you simply want to check competing markets, we can get started with a declarations page for preliminary review & market comparison.

For official quotes from competitors, we would also need:

5 years of loss runs (claims report)
NCCI Experience modification report (for workers' compensation quoting)

We have streamlined methods to help gather this with your approval if it's too cumbersome to pull the information.

We know you wear many hats!

Specialty Package Programs

What is entailed?

For School Districts in the CSDSIP Pool, we know they have a wonderful team and program. We do have relationships with carriers of competing programs, though there are some considerations to take into account before venturing down that path and we believe in transparency above all.

For Charter Schools, Private & Parochial Schools, Higher Education, and Non-Profits, we have a full array of options to meet your needs combined with personalized service and support.

For Special Districts, we do have a relationship with the Special Districts Pool so that you can have the best of both worlds in pooling while also having personalized agent representation! We also have competitive options for private markets if you'd like to see competing offers.

For Municipalities with CIRSA, there are competitive options for the package that we would be happy to discuss as well as standalone options if it makes better sense to peel away only the workers' compensation.