Commercial Marine Insurance Underwriter
Kansas City, Missouri Area
- Current
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- Regional Marine Underwriter at The Hanover Insurance Group
- Past
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- Executive Marine Underwriter at Hartford Financial Services
- Marine Underwriter at Hartford Insurance Company
- Sr. Inland Marine Specialist at United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company
- Regional Inland Marine Specialist at St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company
- Special Agent at Marine Office of America Corporation
- Education
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- Associate in Marine Insurance Management
- Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter
- Rockhurst University
- University of Missouri-Kansas City
- Program in Supervisory Management
- Connections
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- Industry
- Insurance
- Websites
Matthew Starr’s Summary
Commercial Inland Marine, Ocean Marine and Property Insurance Underwriter in the greater Kansas City area since 1977.
CPCU-Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter designation.
AMIM- Associate Degree in Marine Insurance Management designation.
Leader for various continuing education credit classes for Independent Insurance Agents, on various topics including Property Insurance, Inland and Ocean Marine coverages.
Member of the People to People International insurance delegation going to insurance companies in Russia and the Czech Republic in 1997.
Ocean Cargo Insurance Marketing presenter, Ocean Cargo Workshop, Oct. 2003.
CPCU Sections Liason for the Kansas City Chapter, 1995-1998.
Ocean Cargo Insurance Presentation for the Kansas Professional Insurance Agents- July 2009
Matthew Starr’s Specialties:
Marine Insurance Underwriting- in depth knowledge of over 50 different marine coverages.
My specialties include design and creation of:
1. Marketing tools with custom flyers, brochures and PowerPoint presentations.
2. Templates, word forms and applications with check box, drop downs, fill in boxes, etc.
3. Internet/online tools.
4. Excel Worksheets for underwriting analysis and rating of Property/marine insurance premium.
5. My slidespace: http://www.slideshare.net/mstarr
Matthew Starr’s Experience
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Regional Marine Underwriter
The Hanover Insurance Group
(Public Company; THG; Insurance industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Inland Marine, Ocean Marine and Property Underwriter. · Worked with others to open the Kansas City office in 2007.
· I was the guest speaker at the Kansas Professional Insurance Agents at their July 2009 meeting, giving a presentation on Ocean Cargo Insurance. -
Executive Marine Underwriter
Hartford Financial Services
(Public Company; HIG; Insurance industry)
May 1998 — January 2007 (8 years 9 months)
Underwrite Monoline Inland Marine, Ocean Marine and Monoline Property business, for agents in KS and MO.
· In 1999, received the "Regional Vice-Presidents Quality Award".
· 1999 "Top Performer" Award, for the Hartford Kansas City Regional Office.
· Received the National Award for the 1999 Hartford "Winner's Circle" for Sales Performance and Effectiveness.
· For more effective underwriting and rating of property and marine policies, I created Excel worksheets to assist in the analysis, underwriting and rating of risks.
· Created an HTML formatted Newsletter for sending to agents as a part of email marketing campaigns.
· Created many Property/Marine Insurance Applications using Microsoft Word “forms” to make it easier and quicker for agents to submit and write business.
· In 2003-2006, was recognized as one of the Top performers among all Hartford Marine Underwriters countrywide, for high score for “Quality of Underwriting”.
· I was the “Ocean Cargo Marketing” presenter at the Hartford Insurance Co. Home Office Ocean Cargo Workshop for marine underwriters October 2003. This included Ocean Cargo prospecting, hot leads, cross selling and prospect management programs I created.
· In 2006, I developed a Marine New Business Work Order Form that was considered a best practice and used countrywide.
· Dec. 2006- recognized as the “Online Quote” Master in the Master’s Program. -
Marine Underwriter
Hartford Insurance Company
(Insurance industry)
1998 — 2007 (9 years )
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Sr. Inland Marine Specialist
United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company
(Insurance industry)
September 1993 — May 1998 (4 years 9 months)
Inland Marine, Ocean Marine and Property Underwriter.
· In 1996, for increased productivity, consistency and time efficiency, I created Excel Worksheets for rating Builders Risk, Contractors Equipment and Motor Truck Cargo with Microsoft Excel.
· Created an Excel workbook to help manage a Marine Book of Business. -
Regional Inland Marine Specialist
St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company
(Insurance industry)
April 1985 — September 1993 (8 years 6 months)
Underwriter handling inland marine and HPR property business. Also handled National Accounts Property business.
· Winner of The St. Paul Companies, "Chairman's Service Excellence Award", July 1993.
· I developed and lead several Continuing Education Seminars (for agent's license education credit) on various Inland Marine subjects, including Computer Insurance and Manufacturers Output.
· I used my creativity to suggest several new Inland Marine forms, procedures and "New Product" Ideas to the St.Paul 1985 to 1993.
· Service Center "Employee of the Month" for The St. Paul Insurance Co., for Sept. 1989, and February 1993.
· Winner of "The People Difference" (Customer Service Award) for the St. Paul Companies, January 1986.
· My Marine success story was included in the Communiqué (St.Paul Agents magazine) in the Spring of 1989, in an article "All-Direction Inland Marine Specialists Aim to Write Anything That Moves".
· Created a new equipment insurance policy program for a group of professional photographers.
· Created Museum Fine Arts marketing and prospect management tools to increase premium for this class of business. -
Special Agent
Marine Office of America Corporation
(Public Company; Insurance industry)
March 1977 — October 1984 (7 years 8 months)
Inland Marine and Ocean Marine Underwriter.
Matthew Starr’s Education
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Associate in Marine Insurance Management
AMIM , Marine Insurance , 1988 — 1990
Successful completion of all parts of AMIM in Jan 1990. National Exam results for the Inland Marine Insurance AMIM 122 and the Ocean Marine Insurance 121, in 1988 was "Excellent" on both exams.
- Activities and Societies:
- Associate degree in Marine Insurance Management
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Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter
CPCU , Insurance , 1978 — 1990
- Activities and Societies:
- · Sections Liaison for the Kansas City Chapter of CPCU, 1995 to 1998.
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Rockhurst University
Program in General Insurance 1978 — 1979
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University of Missouri-Kansas City
Biology and General Studies 1975 — 1976
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Program in Supervisory Management
SM , Insurance
Additional Information
Matthew Starr’s Websites:
Matthew Starr’s Interests:
Insurance, sports, marketing, art, outdoors, internet, Kansas City Sports History. My slidespace: http://www.slideshare.net/mstarr Marine Insurance: http://www.marine-insurance.webs.com/
Matthew Starr’s Groups:
Board of Elders- New Summit Church since 2009.
Member of the Board of Directors for the People Helping People Network 2000-2009.
Communications and Steering committee for Celebrate Sacrifice, 2003-2006.
Member of the Kansas City Chapter of CPCU.
Member of the People to People International insurance delegation going to insurance companies in Russia and the Czech Republic in 1997.
Kansas City Baseball Historical Society
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Insurance Professionals -
Global Insurance Professionals -
Global Insurance Network -
Link to Kansas City -
Kansas City Wizards Fans
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Kansas City Chiefs Fans -
Kansas City Royals Baseball Club Fans -
CPCU -
Confluence (Insurance professionals & Insurance recruiters) -
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) -
Insurance Sector Jobs
Matthew Starr’s Honors:
Eagle Scout.
Member of the Tribe of Mic-o-Say.
Winner of the People Difference Award Jan. 1988.
Employee of the Month Sept 1989 and Feb 1993.
Chairman's Service Excellence Award July 1993.
Regional Vice President's Quality Award Dec.1999.
Winner's Circle 1999.
Matthew Starr’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
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- business deals
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