Markel E&S Homeowners Product in New Marketplace Accessing 5,000 Agencies
Markel’s Excess & Surplus homeowners product is live on Bridge Specialty Group’s new personal lines digital marketplace powered by Cogitate, providing API-enabled quoting to 18,000 users across 5,000 agencies. The unified platform streamlines underwriting through structured workflows and comparative rating, boosting distribution reach and efficiency.
1. Launch of Digital Personal Lines Marketplace
Bridge Specialty Group has rolled out a personal lines digital marketplace built on Cogitate’s DigitalEdge platform, designed to simplify agent quoting and carrier integration. The new platform offers a single application process with side-by-side premium indications for participating carriers, replacing complex permissions models with a templatized, scalable framework.
2. Integration of Markel’s E&S Homeowners Product
As one of the early carriers, Markel made its Excess & Surplus homeowners product available via the marketplace, leveraging API-enabled connectivity for real-time eligibility checks and premium indications. This integration allows agents to compare Markel’s offering alongside other carriers without compromising individual underwriting approaches.
3. Scale and Efficiency Implications for Markel
At launch, the platform supports over 18,000 users across 5,000 agencies, instantly expanding Markel’s distribution footprint in the personal lines E&S segment. The structured workflows and comparative rating features are poised to improve submission quality, accelerate quote-to-bind times, and potentially drive incremental premium volume for Markel.