Assure America’s an Erie Insurance Gem

9/27/2009

WEIRTON Assure America Corp. was presented the West Virginia Gem Award for a third year in a row by Erie Insurance.

The Gem Award recognizes the West Virginia agency with the highest production of all Erie agencies in the state for the 2008 Annual Dinner Meeting Contest. During the recent 30-day contest period, Assure America wrote 455 property and casualty policies, which was an Erie company record for 2009.

Matthew Magnone, Assure America president, stated, “Our team of agents at Assure America are exceptional and really set the standard for production. The fact that we led not only West Virginia but company-wide in policies written during the 2009 contest period says a lot about the quality of our agent and Erie Insurance, especially in light of the economic challenges we face locally.”

Mike Fletcher, Erie vice president in charge of the state of West Virginia, said, “What Assure America did during this contest was simply unbelievable. The numbers they produced were astounding. They wrote more property-casualty applications than any other agent not only in the state of West Virginia, but also more than any other agent in Erie’s entire operating territory for all spring contests,” Fletcher said.

“To put this in perspective, Erie is a Fortune 500 company, and there is serious competition. However, the numbers are only half of the story with this agency as far as I’m concerned. The agency is knowledgeable, professional, well-managed, and very structured. It is a very impressive organization,” he added.

“This is really a win-win because in addition to outperforming every other Erie agent in the country during this contest period, our agents were able to reduce the insurance premiums for the participating clients by over $75,000,” added John Frankovitch, Assure chief operating officer.

Assure America Corp. is one of West Virginia’s largest independent insurance agencies representing 10,000 policyholders throughout West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Assure America maintains office locations in Weirton, Chester and Wellsburg.

Source - Weirton Daily Times