But, I have a Broker
There are many excellent professional insurance agents in the marketplace, many of them keep your best interests in the forefront. You can remain with your current broker or agent or consider other options.
If you recognize any of the following issues, you may want to consider using an independent consultant:
It is difficult to get a competitive bid, when your current agent controls the bid process, due to the inherent conflict of interests. Why would your agent want to create competiton from a second broker? A consultant will create competition based on uniform insurance specifications created for you.
The current broker may "block" the marketplace by sending submissions to most of the insurance carriers that write your class of business. This prevents the competing broker from obtaining a quote from these insurance carriers. When your agent requests proposals from many markets, you should see each request with your renewal proposal?
Your controller, bookkeeper, office manager or owner does not have the time, inclination or expertise to to devote to the "Risk Management and Insurance" Renewal Process.
You do not want to spend unnecessary time with multiple agents discussing the same issues, answering the same questions, copying the same policies and providing the same information over and over in a series of meetings, emails, faxes and telephone calls.