American Agency Insurance Group, Inc.
AAIGI
In 1993, several Independent Insurance Agencies partnered together to form the cluster agency known as the American Agency Insurance Group, Inc. (AAIGI).
Current Member Agencies belonging to AAIGI include the following:
- St. Louis County – Chas. W. Dewitt Insurance Agency, Yates Insurance Services
- St. Charles County – HSGW Insurance Services
- Jefferson County – Southern Insurance Group, LLC and Five Star Insurance Agency, Inc.
- Lincoln County – K. Flynn Insurance Agency
- Dunklin County - Baker Wellman Brown Insurance Agency, Inc.
- Camden County - Mills & Sons Insurance
Cluster Companies represented include the following:
- Chubb, Hartford, Liberty Mutual, Missouri Employers Mutual, Nationwide, Safeco, State Auto, and Travelers
The Mission of the American Agency Insurance Group, Inc. (AAIGI) is to provide our Independent Agency Members the option to be part of a dynamic group while remaining fully independent.
AAIGI achieves this Mission by offering the following:
- Each agent maintains complete ownership of their agency accounts and its identity
- Access to premier regional and national insurance markets
- A group of colleagues with many years of combined experience in the industry
- No large “up front” costs and no expensive or complicated exit constraints
- Discounted access to comparative rating programs and membership in MAIA
- Higher commission levels with some carriers
- 100% of contingencies received from carriers go to members based on pro-rata share of business written (no internal volume requirements)
- Built-in perpetuation – the ability of AAIGI or one of its members to maintain the first right of refusal
- Retain company contracts with companies not affiliated with the cluster
- Offers geographic spread so catastrophic losses have less impact on overall Loss Ratio
- Regular meetings to discuss issues facing the industry and/or the Independent Agency Members
- Members select a liaison for each cluster company relieving each agency from having to meet separately with every company representative. The information gathered by the liaison is shared at the regular Board Meeting.
