Member Benefits

Membership in the Texas Professional Insurance Agents is an investment that provides tangible benefits & services, saving you time and money so you can increase your agency’s bottom line.  Texas PIA members qualify for many benefits offered through PIA National. For more than two decades, the Texas PIA has been providing meaningful assistance to member agents with the daily challenges of running an agency. We provide specialized resources and services helping members and their staff with all aspects of their business. Whatever the issue, whatever the question, Texas PIA members turn to association experts for answers. We provide insight from experts with real-world experience.  

E & O Programs
Exclusive programs from Utica and other carriers where members can find quality coverage at competitive pricing.

Cyber and Privacy

PIA and U.S. Risk Brokers, Inc. are pleased to announce an exclusive Cyber & Privacy Insurance program for PIA Members.  This new product is being offered by Capitol Specialty Insurance Corp. (Rated "A" by A.M. Best) on their newly created CPR "Premier" Policy.  

TDI approved CE classes, at regional meetings and on-line.  Members can even receive CE credits for attending the annual convention.  Download TDI Association CE Form and follow the instructions.

Annual Convention & Trade Show
Continuing Education classes, Seminars on agency management & increasing business, internet and social media marketing, work and fun. Members earn up to 4 hours of Association CE.  

Insurance Products to Sell

PIA Market Access Program
Brought to you in partnership with InsureZone, Inc., based in Fort Worth, Texas, PIA Market Access is a wholesale market access program that will help PIA members access over 50 nationwide and specialty personal and commercial lines markets from a number of admitted “A” or better-rated companies. Agents submitting applications through the platform can receive quotes from many of these companies through a technologically advanced personal and commercial lines rater.

Flood Insurance Through the Hartford

Since 2004, PIA and The Hartford have joined together to provide PIA member agents the opportunity to offer your customers flood insurance through The Hartford, a WYO company. The program is available to PIA members and their policyholders in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. PIA members earn great commissions on flood insurance sales with The Hartford and, if they want, a flood insurance processing center that does most of the heavy lifting for them.

Agency Revenue Tools
In cooperation with Agency Revenue Tools, LLC, PIA has initiated its “Take Back Personal Lines” campaign to enable agents to effectively and efficiently counteract the mass marketing/mass advertising approach to Personal Lines being taken by the direct writing carriers.  Agency Revenue Tools (ART) is a proven method for agencies to profitably engage in employee worksite marketing using their appointed markets at regular commission rates. Agencies across America are using the ART method and its accompanying software to sell personal lines P&C coverage to insureds utilizing payroll deduction billing.

Marketing Materials for PIA Members

PIA Branding Program
Through the PIA Branding Program, PIA provides a growing collection of advertising and marketing support materials to PIA members. This includes print and radio advertisements, in both English and Spanish. PIA also publishes the annual Agency Marketing Guide to assist members in planning their marketing efforts. PIA provides these items at no cost to its members.

Agency Marketing Guide
Each summer PIA publishes the PIA Agency Marketing Guide. This annual publication helps PIA members stay ahead of the curve when it comes to marketing their services in the modern insurance marketplace.

Floodbrooker.com
Floodbroker creates agency branded microsites for participating agents. These microsites contain Floodbroker’s proprietary National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) quoting engine.

Services and Resources

AVYST eForms Wizard
This automated workflow management solution is a fast and easy solution that will allow you to quickly prepare submissions. Each form has intelligence that allows information to be keyed once and shared across all other applications and forms for that client!

Agency Agreement Review Service
Looking for guidance on agency agreements? PIA offers a review service for agency agreements to both members and carriers.

DocIT for Agents - A Traffic Violation Reporting Tool
PIA members across America are discovering the many advantages of using DocIT for Agents, one of PIA’s newest member-only services. Using DocIT for Agents’ driver violation information, PIA members can help applicants for auto insurance policies recall their motor vehicle violations early in the quoting process, find undisclosed drivers in a household, and better place drivers with the right auto insurance carrier earlier in the quoting process.

Insurance Business Practices and Technical Information
More and more, e-format is the way "signature" needs in insurance/insurance related documents is going. In representing multi-carriers, it is very important to PIA agencies that the industry adopts common standards and procedures that share common meanings, practices and protocols. This is in addition to PIA agencies' (their customers and carriers) need for a secure and legally vetted/accepted system.

The PIA Partnership

Founded in 1996 with start-up funding from PIA National, the companies participating in The PIA Partnership are committed to working with the American Agency System to increase market share by improving the dialogue between agencies and companies. Through its activities, The PIA Partnership identifies area of opportunity in the agency-company partnership and conducts solution-oriented research.