FEATURES
SPECIAL REPORT TRUCKING
ENVIRONMENTAL
JIM JOYCE JR.
BILL TWITTY
President
President
NATIONAL TRUCK UNDERWRITING MANAGERS
ENVIRONMENTAL UNDERWRITING SOLUTIONS
Described by a peer as an insurance professional with the “utmost integrity and professionalism,” Jim Joyce Jr. is president of National Truck Underwriting Managers, a third-generation company based in Bloomington, Minnesota, that provides insurance solutions for truckers and trucking companies.
With 30 years in the industry under his belt, Bill Twitty understands the importance of environmental concerns and how to structure a policy and sell it to the insured. Twitty currently serves as president of Environmental Underwriting Solutions, a Birmingham, Alabama-based wholesaler with 15 years of experience in the environmental insurance space.
TRANSPORTATION
ANDREA DICKINSON Executive vice president, transportation practice leader AMWINS BROKERAGE OF TENNESSEE
As the leader of the transportation practice at AmWINS Brokerage of Tennessee, Andrea Dickinson directs a team of specialists who service the needs of retail clients in the trucking fleet space. A 15-year veteran of the insurance industry, Dickinson began her career as a marketing representative for National Interstate Insurance Company, where she was first introduced to the transportation insurance space. She also worked for Colemont Insurance Brokers prior to its acquisition by AmWINS in 2010. Although she has a passion for the trucking industry, Dickinson recognizes that the space is not without its difficulties. “Trucking is not an easy specialty – the losses across the industry in commercial auto have been a challenge,” she says. “We have seen significant market changes in the last 10 years and truly substantial tightening in the last three years. Telling the full story of what customers are doing to advance safety at their company is critical to selling the deal. Additionally, developing market relationships and keeping up-to-date with all of the carriers’ appetites is a necessity as
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EARTHQUAKE
L-TANYA MABRIE Senior vice president, producer/broker USG INSURANCE SERVICES
a specialist.” A strong believer in giving back, Dickinson recently co-founded Community Kids, a charity that helps families with young children find hands-on volunteer opportunities in the Nashville area. She also served on the board of the Midwest division of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation from 2012 to 2013 and is a member of the Motor Carrier Insurance Education Foundation.
L-Tanya Mabrie started her insurance career working in the mailroom at a small insurance agency. She was soon offered a trainee position at another agency, where she was first introduced to production. In the 30-plus years since, Mabrie has learned to enjoy and excel at the challenge of going after hard-to-place risks and accounts other brokers would turn down. After learning about the difficulties of placing earthquake coverage, Mabrie made it her prime focus, learning all she could about how plates shift and how construction can influence quake accounts. She says her major challenges have been learning the specifics of the markets and the different ways to structure an account for a successful placement.
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