What's Going On
It is no surprise that Miramar has evolved so quickly to be a force within the market; we keep up to date with what is happening in our industry and react accordingly.
Our news section is updated with information that will assist you.
- Miramar Underwriting Agency now has a dedicated claims notification email address.
Read More - Miramar announce a New Liability Facility supported 100% by Lloyds
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Miramar Underwriting
What's Going On
It is no surprise that Miramar has evolved so quickly to be a force within the market; we keep up to date with what is happening in our industry and react accordingly.
Our news section is updated with information that will assist you.
New Claims Information Update
Miramar Underwriting Agency now has a dedicated new claims notification email address. Forward your claim form and initial documentation to the below email address.
claims@miramaruw.com.au
Miramar Claims will immediately advise you of their claim number and the name of the Claim Controller managing your claim. All future information should be forwarded to the Claim Controller's email address for a prompt response
Miramar announce a New Liability Facility
Supported 100% by Lloyds
11.03.10
This new facility is designed to give us an important competitive edge in the underwriting of niche products and also general market occupations.
We are very confident that this facility will provide you with a great opportunity to secure business especially when utilising our reserving policy.
We believe our liability facilities are in a good position to support our property facilities in the following areas where we have had previous success.
- Medium to Large Shopping Centres
- Commercial Cleaners
- Heavy Engineers
- Plastics Mfts
- Non Marine Fibreglass Mfts
- Truck Body & Trailer repairer
- Large Property Owner Schedules
- Paper Product Mfts
- Woodworkers
- Clothing & Textile Mfts
- Rubber Products Mfts
- Food Mfts
- 'Distressed’ business ie those risks that have relatively poor claims history but can demonstrate risk improvement & are able to carry higher deductibles.
Please remember we are not limited to the above occupations - they are only a sample of what we can do. We can now offer terms on most occupations and we urge you to contact us here at Miramar for all your clients Liability needs.
Minimum Premium starts at $500 +
This facility will support the Steadfast approved wording and is available via our website.
Please contact Michael Carroll or Simon Lightbody in the first instance.
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Michael Carroll Email: mcarroll@miramaruw.com.au Phone: 02 8962 2728 |
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Simon Lightbody Email: slightbody@miramaruw.com.au Phone: 02 8962 2702 |
YOU CAN ACCESS OUR UNDERWRITERS DIRECTLY
YOUR STRENGTH IN THE GENERAL MARKET
Announcing a New Facility writing
Fine Arts and Jewellers Block
01.03.10
Supported 100% by a dedicated Fine Arts Syndicate in London we can offer brokers the ability to place this specialised cover with Miramar.
The majority of brokers will have either Galleries, Exhibition Centres or high worth personal collection clients. The same applies for Jewellers Block, most will have some on the client lists.
You already know that Miramar can help you place the general business package, now we can also look after the specific Fine Arts cover as well.
We are looking for and can assist with:
- Art Galleries
- Exhibition/Conference collections
- High Valued Net Worth Customers
- Personal Collections
- Jewellers Block
- Warehousing/Storage of Art/Collectables.
- Minimum Premium starts at $1000.
- A specific Fine Arts Wording and Proposal/Application form is available from our website.
Please remember we are not limited to the above occupations - they are only a sample of what we can do. We can now offer terms on most occupations and we urge you to contact us here at Miramar for all your clients Fine Art needs.
Please contact Anthony Jodrell in the first instance.
Email : ajodrell@miramaruw.com.au
Phone : 02 8962 2701
YOU CAN ACCESS OUR UNDERWRITERS DIRECTLY
The Miramar PI policy wording provides a full Civil Liability cover (NOT limited to breach of professional duty) with the inclusion of the following benefits:
30.11.09
- Vicarious liabilities from sub-contractors and joint ventures
- Automatic inclusion of deemed employees and sub-contractors
- Broad cover for loss of documents
- Disciplinary procedures cover
- Fines and penalties cover
- Automatic joint venture cover as well as new subsidiaries
- Pollution Cover Buy-back – automatically included
- FULL bodily injury & property damage cover
Our PI capabilities will enable us to assist you in writing a broader range of occupations, such as:
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It is important to remember we are not limited to the above occupations - they are only a sample of what we can do. We can now offer terms on most occupations and we urge you to contact us here at Miramar for all your clients’ Professional Liability needs.
Minimum premiums on the PI start from $1,200.
We can also assist with all your Management Liability and D&O requirements
YOU CAN ACCESS OUR UNDERWRITERS DIRECTLY
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Stuart Finlay sfinlay@miramaruw.com.au Direct Ph: 02 8962 2703 |
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Cass Seaward cseaward@miramaruw.com.au Direct Ph: 02 8962 2707 |
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Martin Donnelly mdonnelly@miramaruw.com.au Direct Ph: 02 8962 2706 |
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Maree Finlay mfinlay@miramaruw.com.au Direct Ph: 02 8962 2726 |
Miramar Asset Protection Update
04.06.09
Firstly thank you to the members that have supported this product since its inception in early March. The submission levels combined with a strong strike rate would suggest this is a market leading product that members have embraced.
4 sections – Material Damage, Business Interruption, Liability and Management Liability. Section 1 and 2 based on the Steadfast ISR wording format.
- Full Accidental Damage
- Machinery included up to $250,000 inc BI cover
- Transit
- Temporary Removal
- Auto Money Limits
- Full blown ML wording (up to 2m limit)
- 20% commision
- LAOL Basis, Not Sun insured (limit $20m)
What have we been successful with in May?
- Supermarket
- Hardware – Retail/Wholesale
- Freight Forwarder
- Publisher/Printer
- Tile importer
- Property Owners – across many risk types
- Design/supply of irrigation equipment
- Shopping Centre
- Medical Centre
- Clothing Manufacturer
- Clothing Importer
- Licensed Clubs
- Warehouse – electrical products
- Plus way more
IMPORTANT REMINDER
Our reserving policy :
We will reserve only to the first completed submission received.
What this means is if you do not slip us and work with us then there is a very real chance you will come up against us.
Our team are ready to assist you.
New Business
Peter Takos
ptakos@miramaruw.com.au
Tel: 02 8962 2712
Adam Thackeray
athackeray@miramaruw.com.au
Tel: 02 8962 2718
John Goodman
jgoodman@miramaruw.com.au
Tel: 02 8962 2714
Jerome Futardo
Jfurtardo@miramaruw.com.au
Tel: 02 8962 2721
Miramar Suncorp Joint PI Statement
05/03/2009
Miramar Underwriting Agency Pty Limited and Suncorp Metway have mutually agreed to cease their Professional Indemnity (PI) underwriting arrangement.
This arrangement was originally entered into to provide all members of the Steadfast Group with access to Suncorp Metway security across all our product lines and granted Miramar the authority to underwrite bind and issue policies for professional indemnity insurances.
This agreement will cease with effect from 14th March 2009 for New Business and 1st April 2009 for all Renewal Business.
A twelve month moratorium on Suncorp PI renewal business held with Miramar has been agreed and your ongoing PI requirements will be met and serviced by Miramar.
Miramar and Suncorp are continuing their relationship in respect to the property and liability portfolios.
The termination of this agreement will not diminish product availability or service to the Steadfast Group in anyway.
Any questions regarding this release should be directed to:
Miramar
Stuart Finlay
PH: 02 8962 2703
Suncorp
John Phillips
PH: 02 9295 4354
Miramar and Lloyd's
19/02/2009
Miramar have been operating 3 binders into Lloyd's since inception of the company in 2005. In this short period of time the three facilities of Property, Casualty and PI/D&O has grown to over $20m (AUD).
As all three facilities are well established and a premium base is established we are excited about the continued possibilities that this market can present to Australian brokers.
Property
We write a varied occupation type under this cover, with flexibility to compete in all states of Australia. Whilst the book is predominantly low to medium hazard business (or local market business) we do have the capability to compete on higher hazard risk types
Liability
Miramar operates a wide ranging facility up to $20m AUD across over 450 different occupation types. The facility operates under full binding conditions with the added ability to access key markets for that business that is a little harder to place. This facility has grown very quickly built on quality service and competitive pricing.
PI
Although our PI book is predominantly miscellaneous in nature we do have a natural slant and expertise towards Engineering or design and construct exposures. This is a well established facility that has operated sucessfully on industry proven wordings coupled with market competitive pricing.
Miramar and Lloyd's a combination that gets results.Keep up to date with our news section for Lloyds as we are soon to announce to new exciting product initiative.
From the Liability team
19/02/2009
It has been sometime since we have informed brokers of news concerning the Liability side of Miramar, news such as our risk appetite and strengths, improvements in excesses and finally a guide of who to go to in the team.The capabilities and depth of knowledge of our underwriting capacity allows us to offer competitive pricing on a broad range of businesses from SME's to Corporates, and this hasn't changed. We have however been able to reduce EXCESSES on the majority of our occupations to fall in line with our competitors.
We feel this is a major move which will allow us to remain competitive in the market whilst providing solid authorized security.Below are some examples of the occupations where Miramar have been successfully in helping Brokers win new business;
- Food Manufacturer
- Clothing Manufacturer
- Plastic Manufacturer
- Steel Fabrication
- Restaurant/Cafe
- Supermarkets
- Function/Reception Centre
- Contract Cleaning Services
- Sprinkler Installation
- Shopping Centre Property Owners
- Property Owners
- Various Manufacturing and Engineering risks INCLUDING US EXPORTS
- Wholesaling Operations
These occupations are just a sample of our 400 classes of business we can quote onPlease remember Miramar supports Steadfast approved wordings on all our covers.In order for you to have your quote/renewal/query dealt with efficiently please find below the details of our Underwriting, Administration and Claims team.
New Business Quotes
Michael Carroll on mcarroll@miramaruw.com.au or 02 8962 2728
John Goodman on jgoodman@miramaruw.com.au or 02 8962 2714
Renewals
Kym Raymen on kraymen@miramaruw.com.au or 02 8962 2713
Administration/Processing
Alex Kelly on akelly@miramaruw.com.au or 02 8962 2725
Chermaine Bentley on cbentley@miramaruw.com.au or 02 8962 2730
Claims
Geraldine Grace on ggrace@miramaruw.com.au or 02 8962 2719