Park Shifts into Drive

Park Insurance has changed gears pretty neatly, moving from its formative stages up to a speed level fit for a promising road ahead.

President Tom Polsinelli is at the controls daily, even hourly, measuring and navigating admirably to keep his growing enterprise on the straight and narrow, from personnel decisions to court appearances. It’s the kind of hands on management that delivers better and better results.

His pedal skill shows its power in the company’s aggressive approach to claims. He told the Insurance Advocate: “Showing up, taking a ‘no settlement’ approach and having superior market and claims knowledge and excellent files working for us, we have vastly improved our claims results and have given Park a bit of a reputation as willing to fight it out with winning results.”

Polsinelli, who grew up in the construction heavy trucking business, has begun to expand further into commercial auto emphasizing often difficult lines: tow trucks, car haulers, tractor trailers, construction and cement trucks and ambulettes. “We are not afraid of wheels,” he stated, “since we know there is a right and profitable way to be creative and to grow in this market- place – it just takes some courage, a willingness to work claims really hard and a commitment to serve agents’ clients well, all at the same time,” he stated.

Park’s expanded staff in Manhattan and Queens is geared up to offer premium financing and is mulling other structural changes and refinements: “We have stream- lined and refined operations to be able to deal with fewer, better risks and with agents and brokers seeking a better level of relationship, as we grow,” he stated.

“Our engine is running efficiently and powerfully; watch us in 2015 and beyond,” he concluded.