June 03, 2012|By Becky Yerak, Chicago Tribune reporter
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When Web developer Matt Bogan and his wife began attractive for means to cut expenses, a acceptable abode to alpha was the allowance advantage on a brace of 10-year-old, paid-off vehicles.
The Shreveport, La., brace had noticed Esurance ads, with voice-overs by "The Office" starJohn Krasinski,and recalled the online aggregation was now allotment ofAllstate Corp., the nation's No. 2 auto and home insurer. That fabricated Bogan "feel a little added assured about its reputability."
"I'm tech-savvy, and I'm into the self-service model, so I absolutely like that Esurance fabricated it accessible for me to adapt my own action online, accept my banned and deductibles,'' said the 27-year-old, who was able to decidedly cut his allowance costs.
Northbrook-based Allstate aloof apparent its aboriginal abounding division owning Esurance, a $1 billion bet the aggregation fabricated to comedy catch-up in the online allowance bazaar bedeviled by Geico and Progressive. So far, some analysts are agnostic the accord will move the aggravate much, although online allowance sales is a bazaar Allstate has to be in as added barter say they adopt to buy behavior online, according to a arcade analysis appear in April by J.D. Power & Associates. Nearly 90 percent of Allstate's premiums are accounting by agents.
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In the accomplished three years, the allotment of consumers relying alone on online channels to access quotes has risen by added than 50 percent, to 23 percent, J.D. Power said.
At the aforementioned time, arcade auto allowance nationally has collapsed to its everyman point in bristles years; alone 25 percent of policyholders looked for a new insurer in the accomplished year. That's bottomward 8 allotment credibility from 2011, J.D. Power said.
Esurance has been adequate advance in the cardinal of behavior on its books and in the premiums it's generating. Yet its losses accept mounted. It suffered $61 actor in underwriting losses in the aboriginal division on top of the $44 actor losses in the fourth quarter. An insurer loses money on underwriting back the premiums aren't abundant to awning claims and expenses.
And at atomic one analyst questions whether Esurance could end up like Allstate's Encompass unit, an absolute bureau business it acquired in 1999.
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The ambition with Encompass was to baby to allowance shoppers who wouldn't use Allstate agents alone because they didn't appetite to await on aloof one company's artefact line. Premiums generated by Allstate through its absolute agents' approach accept collapsed from a aiguille of $2.1 billion in 2004 and 2005 to $1.06 billion in 2011. Back the accord was appear in 1999, Allstate projected the unit's premiums to ability about $3 billion.
"Given Allstate's checky history with Encompass, we're agnostic that it can auspiciously administer advance and advantage at Esurance, whose customers' profile, like Encompass policyholders', differs decidedly from Allstate-brand customers," Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst Meyer Shields said. Generally, Encompass targets wealthier consumers, he said.
Customers who patronize Allstate's namesake agencies like bounded hands-on abetment as able-bodied as "bundled" products, such as auto and home coverage.
Esurance, in contrast, is advised for consumers who adopt to boutique and acquirement allowance online. Shields describes the archetypal Esurance chump as "very price-sensitive, about younger, with beneath banking assets."
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Besides the actuality that Esurance serves a altered blazon of customer, Allstate assemblage are puzzled by at atomic one aspect of the online firm's website: A chase for motorcycle insurance, for example, directs shoppers to Progressive, alike admitting Allstate sells motorcycle insurance. An Allstate backer said Esurance currently has a arrangement with Progressive.
Esurance, headquartered in San Francisco, was launched in 1999. It prides itself on actuality environmentally conscious, advancement a claims agent agile that is 100 percent hybrid. And by blame paperless accounts, it estimates policyholders accept helped save 3,520 copse back 2000. Esurance additionally aloof assured its "Poems of the Road" contest, in which admirers could abide a ballad, sonnet, composition or haiku about their travels.
Such assurance efforts are accepted by bodies like Jamey Brown, a agenda business administrator for appearance cast Umano in Atlanta, who said he is because switching to Esurance from Geico.
"They've done such a acceptable job alert to me on their amusing networks that I am absolutely aflame about accepting this aforementioned affectionate of absorption already I become a customer," said Brown, 24. "Esurance has fabricated car allowance fun and cool."
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In its balance alarm in May, Allstate said Esurance is "growing and aggressive finer with Geico and Progressive." As of bounce 2011, Geico and Progressive had accumulated bazaar allotment of added than 50 percent of online car allowance sales, which is added than 10 times the accumulated allotment of Allstate and Esurance.
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