While workers’ compensation insurance is required by law, businesses should not blindly renew their policies. Workers’ compensation insurance should never be an automatic renewal. Even though businesses are required by law to have a policy for their employees, businesses have an opportunity to streamline costs and methodology, but only if they ask the right questions. There Read More
Human Resources (HR) is there to make sure that your company does not get into legal trouble, but there are a few obstacles that may stand in their way. HR is there to help businesses keep out of trouble. They are the Hall Monitors of the business world, only instead of telling kids not to Read More
Pay as you go workers’ compensation is headed towards the standard of the business world, but why is that? Pay as you go workers’ compensation is becoming more and more popular in the business universe. This is partly due to the array of benefits it can provide to a number of companies. The old way of Read More
The end of the year allows us to reflect on our whole year and offer the opportunity for change and improvements, your clients’ businesses are no exception. This is around the time of year where nostalgia hits everyone and they prepare for champagne toasts, the ritual singing of Auld Lang Syne, and the countdown to Read More
When it comes to workers’ compensation in MA and your clients, make sure that they know everything about audits. There’s nothing more annoying than your client having to pay an additional fee after a policy year has been expired. There are a number of reasons why this happens and they all have to do with Read More
You have put countless hours into making your home care agency great and the growth isn’t what you expected. Here’s how you can accelerate that growth. Every business goes through dips in growth, but if your home care agency’s slowdown has lasted more than a few months, your growth may be stalled and you need Read More
Should you accept the benefits of workers’ compensation insurance from your employer? Workers’ compensation insurance is something that you may have received from a previous employer, but many employees don’t give much thought to this kind of insurance. While workers’ comp may benefit some, it could be a big mistake for others. Here are things Read More
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As a Transportation Broker for PMC’s Transportation Workers’ Compensation Division, Janet Elliott provides expertise, guidance, and customized Workers’ Compensation solutions to PMC’s agency partners. She brings more than 30 years of experience in Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Accident wholesale brokering, underwriting, management, premium auditing, and marketing. Janet specializes in placing coverage for all types of transportation risks including long and short-haul trucking, last mile, busing, waste hauling, limousine service, towing and many more. She offers guaranteed cost, loss sensitive, PEO, and Workers’ Compensation package programs nationwide.
Janet’s experience began as a retail agent and she later worked in underwriting and field premium auditing specializing in high-risk Workers’ Compensation with a focus on Trucking/Transportation, USL&H, the oil and gas industry, and commercial construction. In 2012, she joined the Winter Group a wholesale insurance broker, now a division of One80, where she has worked for over 10 years, delivering Workers’ Compensation and Trucker’s Occupational Accident solutions to her trucking agency partners.
Janet holds the Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) and Certified Professional Insurance Woman (CPIW) designations, both with 25+ years tenure. During her time spent at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, studying business and law, she began forming the foundation of her insurance career. In her spare time Janet is a volunteer wrangler at a horse and cattle ranch in Arizona working with OCJ Kids and Hope Kids organizations
Amey Spardel is a broker/underwriter for PMC’s Small Business team, working with our agent partners to place Workers’ Compensation accounts under $35,000. Her cross-disciple training at the retail, MGA, and carrier levels adds a breadth of experience. perspective and great added value for our agent partners and carriers.
Previously Amey worked at a Maine based MGU and as an underwriter for MEMIC, and prior to that was a PMC account manager. She takes pride in providing caring customer service, enjoys helping agents, and loves to create long lasting relationships. In her free time Amey enjoys being creative - refinishing furniture, drawing, and singing - and enjoys hiking and traveling with her husband.
Tara is a Small Business Broker for PMC, assisting our internal brokers and retail agent partners with new business placements. Prior to joining PMC, Tara was a pharmacy technician at PillPack by Amazon aiding in account management.
In her spare time, she loves going for walks and hikes with her dog, Kale, and watching movies on the couch with her cat, Nellie.
Rose is a Sales Assistant in the PMC Healthcare Division, supporting the team of PMC brokers that administer our national Worker’s Compensation Healthcare Program and our retail agent partners. Prior to joining PMC, Rose worked at Liberty Mutual for 37 years, holding positions as a Supervisor of Underwriting Support and as an Underwriting Technical Assistant. She worked in both Middle Markets and Small Commercial Units.
In her free time, Rose enjoys spending time with her sister, mom, and daughters, reading books together followed by in-depth discussions and creating crafts using all kinds of material.
As Vice President, Regional Broker, Stephen can be counted on for quick turnarounds while delivering Workers’ Compensation expertise and creative solutions to our agent partners. Whether it be assisting with tough-to-place classes of business, a need for a mono-line Workers’ Compensation solution or access to our competitive national program(s) Stephen is relentlessly committed to finding the best options for his clients. Stephen has a degree in Business and Finance from Champlain College.
As Vice President, Regional Broker, Stephen can be counted on for quick turnarounds while delivering Workers’ Compensation expertise and creative solutions to our agent partners. Whether it be assisting with tough-to-place classes of business, a need for a mono-line Workers’ Compensation solution or access to our competitive national program(s) Stephen is relentlessly committed to finding the best options for his clients. Stephen has a degree in Business and Finance from Champlain College.
As Vice President, Regional Broker, Stephen can be counted on for quick turnarounds while delivering Workers’ Compensation expertise and creative solutions to our agent partners. Whether it be assisting with tough-to-place classes of business, a need for a mono-line Workers’ Compensation solution or access to our competitive national program(s) Stephen is relentlessly committed to finding the best options for his clients. Stephen has a degree in Business and Finance from Champlain College.
Claudia serves as a Broker for PMC's Healthcare Division where she is responsible for providing the most innovative and competitive market solutions for agents and their clients nationwide. With more than 30 years in the insurance industry, Claudia brings a depth of experience and much success in the marketing and placement of complex policies across all lines of commercial business.
Before joining PMC, Claudia served in several key roles at various well-recognized retail agencies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire such as Brown & Brown, Eaton & Berube, Fred C. Church, so she understands the importance of an agent-client relationship and the agent-carrier partnership. Throughout her career, Claudia's expertise has resulted in invitations to participate in Agency Councils with Peerless Insurance, Merchants Insurance, Guard Insurance and Acadia Insurance. Claudia holds both her CIC and CRIS designations.
Dan Prochniak is part of the PMC Healthcare Division where he serves clients as Specialty Broker, delivering guidance and creative Workers’ Compensation solutions for agents and their clients in the Northeast and South regions. Dan has extensive industry experience having been involved in commercial property & casualty underwriting for over 20 years, with a focus on writing Workers' Compensation policies for healthcare businesses.
He is a trusted advisor who is skilled at helping clients expand their business and retain existing client accounts.
Jamie received his bachelor’s degree in Organizational Psychology from Fairmont State University and M.S. in Safety Management from West Virginia University.
Julie is a graduate of Valencia College in Orlando, FL. In her spare time, she enjoys outdoor recreation with her family.
Jacob is a graduate of Worcester State University, where he studies Business Administration and Management