Michael Kassing
Founder and Chief Monster Tamer, InsuranceMonster
You scanned the card. Here is everything that was on it, in a form your phone will keep - plus who we are, what we place, and the markets we are looking to add.
Who you just met
InsuranceMonster is the consumer brand of Monster Insurance Services, LLC, an independent California brokerage licensed by the California Department of Insurance (organization license #6020398). Insurance is transacted by Michael A. Kassing, principal broker (individual license #4445775) - you can check both yourself on the Department of Insurance lookup. We are a broker, not a carrier and not a lead vendor: we shop the risk, place it, service it, and keep the customer.
What we place today
- Non-standard and high-risk auto, including SR-22 filings
- Homeowners, condo, renters, landlord, dwelling fire, and mobile home
- Wildfire-exposed and non-renewed homes, through surplus lines and FAIR Plan paired with difference-in-conditions
- Pet insurance, and auto plus home bundles
How we distribute
- Our own quote-to-bind marketplace, built in-house rather than licensed from a vendor
- Renters is live and fully self-serve today: a real bindable price on screen and a policy issued without us touching it
- Auto, home, pet, and cyber are built into the same marketplace and marked coming soon while carrier connections are finished
- Card down payment and monthly installments handled in-house, so a customer can start a policy at 11pm
- A published California content library of roughly 500 pages that brings in the traffic we quote
- Property-manager and landlord programs for portfolio renters enrollment
What we are looking for
- Personal-lines appointments in California, admitted or surplus, direct or through an MGA
- Real-time rating - an API or a rater we can integrate, rather than a portal we have to retype into
- Non-standard auto markets that are comfortable with tickets, accidents, DUI, lapses, and foreign licenses
- Homeowners markets that will look at brush-exposed and previously non-renewed California risks
- Pet, cyber, and small-commercial programs we can add to the marketplace next
Start an appointment conversation
Tell me what you write and I will come back with our licensing, our production plan for the line, and how we would integrate. If it is easier, email michael@insurancemonster.com or call (916) 595-0008.
California, for now. That is where we are licensed and where we write. We would rather be excellent in one state than thin in twelve.