WAHVE
Work At Home Vintage Experts (WAHVE) gives FAIA members access to highly qualified, trained, and experienced insurance industry pros who want to stay engaged and productive in retirement.
WAHVE’s unique qualifying process and technology platform match the right retirees and “pretirees”—wherever they may live—to insurance agencies and companies that need staff, wherever they are located. And because WAHVE work from home, agencies can save between 40 and 50 percent on staff costs and overhead. Plus, FAIA members receive a 50% discount on the standard one-time set-up fee of $2,500.
Staffing services—available on a dedicated full- or part-time basis, and for long-term projects—include:
- Live customer service representative*
- Sales and marketing assistant
- Claims representative
- Underwriter
- Hard to place or niche lines of business expert
- Mentors and trainers
- Preparation of new and renewal business applications
- Quoting and proposal preparation
- Loss run ordering and analysis
- Policy checking
- Premium audits
- Certificates issuance
- Change requests/endorsements
- Indexing of scanned documents
- Claims support
- Excess and surplus lines filings
- Accounting and finance
*A wahve serving in this capacity would be required to hold a 20-24 Personal Lines Agent license (only applicable for personal lines business) or a 2-20 General Lines Agent license. Read this blog post for a refresher on what 4-40s can and cannot do. Visit the Education Library for common scenarios.