Public Entity Insurance
Public entities play a pivotal role in how we live, work and conduct business. From law enforcement to county mayors, we can help protect your organization from the unique exposures, risks, and challenges within the public entity industry.
Protection for Public Entities
SouthPoint Risk public entity customers include county governments with law enforcement as well as jails, highway departments, landfills, EMS departments, municipalities, and public utilities.
Many years ago, we identified the need to be more than just a source of insurance to our public entity customers. Talk with a SouthPoint Risk agent about the coordination we provide among public entity risk managers, elected and appointed public officials, legal counsel, and the human resource assets of the insuring pools and insurance companies.
SouthPoint Risk’s team brings to you:
- An understanding of Government Tort Liability.
- Long-standing familiarity with the insurance pools established to provide stable choices for the government.
- A history of utilizing the private sector insurance company options to round out public entity insurance programs.
We deploy our experience to identify areas within governmental entities where coordination of communication where coordination of communication is the key to unlocking good risk management and sound fiscal oversight of insurance dollars.
Public Entities We Serve
Education
- Charter/magnet schools, public & private schools
Government
- Cities & towns, law enforcement organizations, municipalities, street, road & highway maintenance departments
Miscellaneous
- EMS departments, landfills & waste management
Many more...
Examples of Public Entity Service include:
- Helping a Tennessee county identify a liability exposure and significant source of expense that was not directly related to the county’s property and casualty insurance program. The savings result is measured in millions of dollars. And the reduced liability exposure to the county has helped avoid costly liability claims.
- SouthPoint Risk staff played a key role in coordinating cyber insurance claim response resources when a county customer’s network and phone system suffered a ransom attack. Claim dollars and resources were flowing to the county within hours.
- County Mayors, Sheriffs, EMS Directors, Utility Managers, Jail Administrators, Sanitation Directors and Highway Superintendents know they can count on SouthPoint Risk to study issues and help find solutions to the challenges of effectively running risk management and insurance programs of public entities.
Common Public Entity Solutions
We offer a wide variety of coverages from the most reputable and reliable insurers – all at competitive market rates. Coverage can include: