Assurant Specialty Property Opens 2nd Service Center in Duluth, Ga.
April 02 2009 - 3:21PM
PR Newswire (US)
New Facility Provides Collateral Protection, Vehicle Title Services
to Auto Lenders ATLANTA, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Assurant Specialty
Property, a leading provider of creditor-placed collateral
protection insurance and related services, today announced the
opening of a new service center in Duluth, Ga., to support its
growing auto collateral protection insurance and vehicle title
administration businesses. While most of the new center's current
staff of 175 transferred from two other Atlanta metro sites, the
70,000 square foot facility has been configured to accommodate up
to 685 employees. The company has invested approximately $6.5
million in the leased site, which includes parking for
approximately 700 vehicles. Assurant Specialty Property is part of
Assurant (NYSE:AIZ). Assurant Specialty Property provides hazard
and flood insurance tracking, escrow disbursement, loss draft
tracking and other hazard insurance-related customer service to
mortgage lenders and their customers, as well as complete
collateral coverage and vehicle title tracking services for auto
lenders. "Our company is in the fortunate position of being able to
continue to look forward in the current environment," said Gene
Mergelmeyer, president, Assurant Specialty Property. "This new
center illustrates our commitment to our clients in the auto
industry and to being well positioned to support their businesses -
and to seek additional clients - when the economy begins to
recover." The new service center at 2975 Breckinridge Blvd. is
located approximately one mile from Assurant Specialty Property's
other Duluth service center at 2405 Commerce Ave. That facility,
which currently has about 1,000 employees, will now focus
exclusively on supporting the company's insurance tracking and
creditor-placed homeowners insurance business. James Hankish, who
manages the Breckinridge site, said the company has hired 20 new
employees to supplement the employees transferred from other sites.
"Gwinnett offers a quality labor pool, and that made it an
excellent location to expand our business," he said. Open positions
for both Duluth service centers, as well as other Assurant
locations, are posted on http://www.assurant.jobs/ and in the
Careers section of http://www.assurantspecialtyproperty.com/.
Assurant Specialty Property is part of Assurant, a premier provider
of specialized insurance products and related services in North
America and selected international markets. Assurant, a Fortune 500
company and part of the S&P 500, is traded on the New York
Stock Exchange under the symbol AIZ. http://www.assurant.com/ Media
Contact: James A. Sykes, 770.763.1015, DATASOURCE: Assurant
Specialty Property CONTACT: James A. Sykes of Assurant Specialty
Property, +1-770-763-1015, Web Site: http://www.assurant.com/
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