P&C Insurance Associations & Memberships

FirstBest Systems considers associations & memberships to be strategic to our business and a critical element to our overall success. We strive to partner with the top industry assocations because it's our core belief that partnering with the industry’s best companies provides FirstBest with a strategic advantage in the Property & Casualty market, affording us the ability to leverage the years of experience and success of our partners.

 

Based in New York, ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a global, nonprofit insurance association whose mission is to facilitate the development and use of standards for the insurance, reinsurance and related financial services industries. With offices in London as well, ACORD accomplishes its mission by remaining an objective, independent advocate for sharing information among diverse platforms. ACORD Standards and services improve efficiency and expand market reach. Affiliated with ACORD are hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies, and thousands of agents and brokers, related financial services organizations, software providers, and industry organizations worldwide.

Founded in 1895, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) is a full-service national trade association serving the property/casualty insurance industry with more than 1,400 member companies that underwrite more than 40 percent of the property/casualty insurance premium in the United States. NAMIC members are small farm mutual companies, state and regional insurance companies, risk retention groups, national writers, reinsurance companies, and international insurance giants.

The Insurance Accounting & Systems Association, Inc. (IASA) is a non-profit, education association that strives to enhance the knowledge of insurance industry professionals, and participants from similar organizations closely allied with the insurance industry by facilitating the exchange of ideas and information. IASA is one of the insurance industry’s largest, and most well represented trade association. IASA membership includes insurance companies of all types (Property & Casualty, Life, Health, Fraternal, HMO and others) as members, as well as companies serving the insurance industry, regulators and also organizations more broadly representative of the financial services industry, including banks and investment brokerage firms.

The American Association of State Compensation Insurance Funds, or AASCIF, is an association of workers' compensation insurance companies from 27 different states, plus 10 workers' compensation boards in Canada. Some of these companies operate as private insurance companies, whereas others act as agencies of their respective state governments.

The Insurance and Marketing Communications Association (IMCA) is an international organization of insurance communications professionals who specialize in marketing, marketing communications, advertising, sales promotion, and public relations. Membership includes some of the largest multi-line insurance companies and brokerage firms in the country, regional and specialty companies, general agencies, and prominent industry suppliers.

To inquire about associations & memberships, please contact Meira Primes, VP, Marketing at 781.863.6005 or marketing@firstbest.com.