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> InsuranceMonster - a brand of Monster Insurance Services, LLC, independent California insurance brokerage (CA DOI Lic. #6020398).

# 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.

Michael A. Kassing, founder and principal broker

## 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](https://cdicloud.insurance.ca.gov/cal/LicenseNumberSearch). We are a broker, not a carrier and not a lead vendor: we shop the risk, place it, service it, and keep the customer.

- **#6020398** - CA DOI organization license - Monster Insurance Services, LLC, active

### 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

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