Your Certificate of Insurance Issuance Agent Clears the COI Queue
The AgentWorks Certificate of Insurance Issuance Agent takes the certificate requests that land on your commercial desk and sends each one out right. It receives the request, verifies current policy status and limits, applies the correct additional insured endorsement, and delivers the certificate to the certificate holder within minutes. The person it frees is your commercial CSR, who today stops whatever she is doing each time a contractor calls from a job site.
What it takes off your plate
Every commercial agency knows the afternoon rush. A contractor client calls from the gate: the general contractor won't let the crew on site without a certificate. An email arrives from a property manager asking for a COI with specific wording. A subcontract requires waiver of subrogation and primary and non-contributory language.
Each certificate means checking that coverage is current, reading the contract requirements, confirming the limits meet them, checking whether the policy actually carries the additional insured endorsement the holder needs, and building the ACORD form. It is detailed work done in a hurry, often while another client is on hold, and one wrong line on a COI can cost a client the contract, or put the agency at risk for showing coverage the policy doesn't provide.
What the Certificate of Insurance Issuance Agent does, step by step
The Certificate of Insurance Issuance Agent starts with the request, then does the checking behind it.
- Receives the request. It takes certificate requests by email, phone, text or your client portal and confirms receipt to the client, including who the certificate is for.
- Reads the requirements. It reads the contract or the holder's instructions for limits, additional insured status, waiver of subrogation, primary and non-contributory wording, and notice requirements.
- Verifies the policy. It checks in your agency management system that each policy is in force, the limits meet the holder's requirements, and the needed endorsements are actually on the policy.
- Applies the right wording. It builds the certificate from your approved templates and applies the correct additional insured endorsement reference for that holder.
- Delivers the certificate. It sends the COI to the certificate holder and a copy to the client, and records the holder for future renewals.
- Flags what doesn't match. If the contract requires a limit or endorsement the policy doesn't carry, it doesn't issue; it tells the client what is needed and sends the request to the account manager to endorse the policy.
- Reissues on renewal. When the policy renews, it sends updated certificates to every holder on file.
Where the work is recorded
An agent that cannot record its results is a chatbot. Every request, certificate and delivery the AgentWorks Certificate of Insurance Issuance Agent handles lands on the client's record in the CRM your team already sees, so when a general contractor calls to ask, anyone can see what was sent, to whom and when.
The certificate itself, the holder list and the endorsements live in your agency management system, such as Applied Epic, where certificates are already managed. The next morning, the commercial CSR sees certificates issued overnight, requests held because coverage didn't match, and endorsement requests waiting for the account manager.
What your people do instead
Your commercial team stays with the clients. The CSR works through the client's coverage questions on an upcoming project instead of building ACORD forms. The account manager reviews the flagged contracts and adds the endorsements properly. The producer talks to the contractor about the next bid and what coverage it will need, knowing the certificates will keep up with every new job he wins.
The Certificate of Insurance Issuance Agent keeps the requests, checks and deliveries moving. Client service and client satisfaction stay with your people.
Certificates connect to the rest of the account. Read how agencies keep more households with a yearly review, and how the New Policy Quoting Agent builds the comparison when a contract calls for new coverage.
One next step
If certificate requests stop your commercial desk every afternoon, find out which workflow an agent should take first. The free Insurance Industry Assessment walks through your policy administration and shows where the Certificate of Insurance Issuance Agent fits, and the insurance industry page shows the agents that work alongside it.
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