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Target Markets Program Administrators Association Program Administrator World Wide Facilities, Inc. When World Wide Facilities (WWF) went into business, it wrote insurance coverage only for the staffing industry. Now, more than 40 years later, World Wide still devotes the bulk of its attention to staffing programs. “With our vast experience here, we are well acquainted with the unique exposures to loss that are present in the staffing industry,” says President Dorothy Taylor. “Of course, over four decades many changes have occurred. But we’ve made certain to keep up with them, and have designed our products to address them. By working closely with our clients and exploring their goals, we are able to customize our products to suit each client’s needs.” Another constant over those 40-plus years is World Wide’s association with its carrier. American International Group has underwritten all of WWF’s staffing industry coverages the entire time. For many years World Wide has also been associated with Regional Reporting, Inc. (RRI), a loss control/risk management company. “Teaming with these two prominent firms enables us to deliver over 100 years of combined experience in serving staffing needs,” says Taylor. While proud of the solid reputation it has built over the years, World Wide is quick to acknowledge the major role that advancing technology plays in its success. It recently updated its Web site— www.worldwidefacilities.com—to include several new features. “It’s extremely user friendly,” reports Taylor. “For any brokers who want to know more about insuring staffing, our Web site gets all their questions answered. They’ll find that our systems and procedures are so fine-tuned that we’ll fit their needs very well.” Surfers at WWF’s Web site will also learn about the relatively new workers compensation offering AIG has made available through World Wide. The timing was fortuitous for World Wide, which had received inquiries about expanding its workers comp offerings to include industries outside of the staffing area. Taylor explains further: “The 2,500 brokers that rely on us for staffing industry programs have expressed surprise and excitement that they can now consider us for workers compensation products for other industries, too. The fact that we’ve covered staffing industries so well with workers comp has helped us dramatically elsewhere. Offering it to other than staffing firms works very well for World Wide.” Its affiliation with the Target Markets Program Administrators Association is also beneficial to World Wide Facilities. Taylor describes some of the numerous advantages of TMPAA membership: “For those 40 years we had pretty much operated alone—fortunately, with generally solid success. But after the Target Markets association found us, and we discovered and embraced the whole idea that brokers can go to a source to find someone who fits their needs, well, that’s so vital to us and the other members. Nobody has time to go through 100 Internet pages anymore to find a suitable fit. Now, when you can go to Target Markets, you’ve cut right to the chase. We’ve found that latching on to the association’s new Target Programs Web site is a tremendous time and money saver. And it provides us with an excellent opportunity to get our workers compensation message out there to retail agents.” * |
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