Client Story
Independence American Insurance Company
Empowering innovative employee benefits with Claris FileMaker.
As a strategy for retaining or attracting employees, businesses are always looking for ways to set themselves apart through the benefits they offer to their team. Independence American Insurance Company (IAIC) is helping meet this need by providing companies with a new and innovative benefit: company-sponsored Group Pet insurance. With nearly 70% of households having at least one pet and the rising costs of medical care, affordable pet insurance is a valuable and much-needed benefit.
To bring this product to market, IAIC needed a proposal generation system that could allow brokers to easily configure and price plans to meet any need. Their complex Excel-based pricing tools were built for internal underwriters and were insufficient for this purpose, and platforms built for quoting human health care options weren’t a viable option either.
Having worked with our team while at a separate division of the company, the EVP of the Pet Insurance Division reached out to Soliant to help design and build a new proposal generation tool. The primary objective was to enable their network of agents and brokers to quickly and easily design and price plans for companies interested in adding a pet insurance benefit.
We built the application on the Claris FileMaker platform as a hybrid solution using both FileMaker Pro and WebDirect. Hosted on our AWS-managed hosting service, Soliant.cloud, the solution is secure, performant, and elegant. Using the FileMaker platform allowed us to model sophisticated business logic that would have been impossible in a low-code platform, and it required a fraction of the time and budget that would have been required using other development tools. Following our agile/scrum development process, we were able to work with IAIC to prioritize features and plan releases that focused on providing business value.
As a company with many beloved pets, we loved being part of the process of bringing this innovative new product to market, and Soliant itself will be exploring providing our team with a group pet policy option. If your organization would like to get more information about including this as a benefit for your staff, please visit https://www.independenceamerican.com.
About Independence American Insurance Company
Independence American Insurance Company is a pet-focused underwriter with deep insurance industry experience, offering a product with proven consumer appeal. Its policies feature shorter waiting periods and industry-leading, innovative pre-existing condition coverage after 12 months, as well as optional add-on policies (like Inherited and Congenital coverage) that can help meet any budget and pet’s needs.