(Dayton, Ohio) June 14, 2018 – Thorn Valley Safety, a national leader of commercial auto risk control, claims advocacy and technology enabled solutions has named Mark Aussicker as its president. In this role, Aussicker’s focus will be to challenge status quo thinking, develop and strengthen customer partnerships and to continually improve quality and product offerings across the organization.
One of Thorn Valley’s key offerings is a series of cutting edge telematics solutions. This technology provides actionable insights into driving behaviors such as speeding, phone usage (distracted driving), hard braking, acceleration & cornering. This data enables fleet managers to identify and proactively address poor driving habits which ultimately leads to a safer fleet, fewer & less severe accidents, improved productivity & profitability and stronger client partnerships.
“With commercial auto running at combined ratio north of 110%, there is significant opportunity for us to assist our insurance carrier, managing general agent, broker and individual insured partners,” says Aussicker. “The belief that higher rates and better risk selection alone will get the market to where it needs to be is a bit of a ‘hope-so’ strategy. It is a market ripe for disruption, and we believe enabling technologies can and will play a key role.”
“Telematics helps us to facilitate the continuous interchange of information and data across the risk control, underwriting, claims and insured/broker teams to work cohesively to achieve better outcomes and ultimately save lives. Our risk control team is second to none, and when you enable them with a powerful tool like telematics, great things happen,” said Aussicker.
“With more than 30 years of successful risk management and claims experience at the carrier, agency and third party administrator levels, we are confident Mark is the right leader to drive value added services and sustainable growth for the future,” said Paul Norman, Chairman of Thorn Valley’s parent company, NU Holdings, Inc.
Thorn Valley and its associates have been providing risk management services to carriers, managing general agents, brokers and insureds since 2000. Learn more about the company and its offerings at www.thornvalleysafety.com.
“With commercial auto running at combined ratio north of 110%, there is significant opportunity for us to assist our insurance carrier, managing general agent, broker and individual insured partners,” says Aussicker. “The belief that higher rates and better risk selection alone will get the market to where it needs to be is a bit of a ‘hope-so’ strategy. It is a market ripe for disruption, and we believe enabling technologies can and will play a key role.”
“Telematics helps us to facilitate the continuous interchange of information and data across the risk control, underwriting, claims and insured/broker teams to work cohesively to achieve better outcomes and ultimately save lives. Our risk control team is second to none, and when you enable them with a powerful tool like telematics, great things happen,” said Aussicker.
“With more than 30 years of successful risk management and claims experience at the carrier, agency and third party administrator levels, we are confident Mark is the right leader to drive value added services and sustainable growth for the future,” said Paul Norman, Chairman of Thorn Valley’s parent company, NU Holdings, Inc.
Thorn Valley and its associates have been providing risk management services to carriers, managing general agents, brokers and insureds since 2000. Learn more about the company and its offerings at www.thornvalleysafety.com.
