Lowers & Associates is proud to be associated with selected companies through alliances and strategic partnerships.
Alliances and strategic partnerships are at the core of every successful business today. They ensure a mutually beneficial and lasting relationship through a shared vision by combining expertise and business best practices. L&A is proud to work with a select group of organizations providing products and services that complement L&A's Risk Mitigation and Loss Prevention capabilities.
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
Great American Insurance Company
Lowers & Associates proudly offers a broad range of support and advisory services in partnership with Great American's Fidelity & Crime Division. From customers who are merely seeking general advice to those who need more in-depth risk assessment and/or mitigation assistance, we provide a variety of services to Great American's insureds, including:
- Quarterly Newsletters - Our jointly produced Fidelity & Crime Observer and Casino Shield newsletters cover topical subjects such as Vendor Fraud, Employee Dishonesty, Embezzlement, Loss Control, and Information Technology Crimes.
- Fidelity & Crime Hotline - Our "hotline" is available to field customer inquiries via both telephone and email. The hotline service is intended to provide assistance with such topics as Internal Fraud, Computer Crime, Loss Prevention, Best Practices, and general Crime and Security matters.
- Risk Assessment Services - Lowers & Associates provides a multi-tiered set of Risk Assessment services that are offered to Great American insureds at a reduced cost.
- Screening & Due Diligence Services - In conjunction with Proforma Screening, we offer Great American insureds complete Pre-Employment Screening (e.g., criminal, civil, credit, drug, DMV, etc.) and Vendor Screening Services (e.g., corporate records, tax, employees, licensing, etc.)
- General Consulting Services - Our general consulting services include such things as Compliance Reviews, Threat Assessments, Network/Computer Vulnerability Testing, etc.
For more information, please visit the Great American Fidelity & Crime website at, http://www.crimeinsurance.com.
Proforma Screening Solutions
Lowers & Associates' sister-company, Proforma Screening Solutions, is a Consumer Reporting Agency providing strategic risk management solutions to human resource professionals in a variety of industries where people are the resource. Proforma's solutions protect the brand, property, associates and customers of some of the most recognizable names in America. Proforma offers a wide range of individual pre-employment screening services as well as both individual and corporate due diligence investigations. To begin experiencing the Proforma advantage please visit, http://www.proformascreening.com.
OUR OTHER TRUSTED PARTNERS
Aon
Lowers & Associates has a long working relationship with Aon, both domestically and internationally, primarily London, as respects the types of risk mitigation services that we offer. Currently, Aon is acting as Special Advisory Partner on the Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) for our new Commercial Mortgage Asset Management Service. The SAT is a multidisciplinary group of banking, insurance, and risk professionals who advise on the full complement of commercial mortgage asset management, loan workout, restructuring, and disposition matters, including construction loans. For more information about Aon, please visit their website at, www.aon.com.
Beazley
In May of 2009, Lowers & Associates' IT Risk Practice partnered with Beazley to provide services in connection with Beazley's Information Security & Privacy and Errors & Omissions Liability insurance policies, as well as the new Beazley Breach Response product. Beazley is the preeminent insurer of technology or cyber risks in the marketplace today. For more information about Beazley, please visit their website at, www.beazley.com.
CAP Index
CAP Index is the world leader in crime forecasting and has been at the forefront in responding to the need to foresee where crime is likely to occur. For over 20 years, their expertise in evaluating the likelihood of risk to personal and commercial property crime, through forecasting models, has resulted in a comprehensive Crime Report like that which they have provided for many Fortune 500 companies.
The alliance combines CAP Index's crime reporting that identifies crime patterns and how they affect businesses with L&A's expertise in risk mitigation and loss prevention solutions. With our combined offerings, L&A and CAP Index address the increasing need to help prevent and protect against loss resulting from criminal activity or events.
Through this alliance, L&A is able to offer CAP Index's Crime Reports at a discounted rate via our referral program. For more information about CAP Index and the products and services that they offer, please visit their website at, www.capindex.com.
Ethical Advocate
Chapel Hill, NC based Ethical Advocate provides confidential and anonymous incident reporting, available 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Reports can be submitted in privacy, security, and anonymity, by phone or via their unique web-based process and in multiple languages.
The alliance provides Ethical Advocate's state-of-the-art solutions and L&A's fraud prevention expertise to offer our customers, in both the private and public sectors, an excellent combination of investigative, consultative, and operational services that effectively respond to the rising need to protect assets, develop and deepen ethical cultures, meet regulatory compliance, and mitigate risk. For more information about Ethical Advocate, please visit their website at, www.ethicaladvocate.com.
GamePath
GamePath is the innovative leader in gaming education and course studies. Working with experts in the Casino & Gaming Industry, GamePath's courses, workshops and seminars are designed to target today's changing gaming environment and to provide the most comprehensive and timely information for both properties and gaming leadership. For more information about GamePath, please visit their website at, www.gamepathedu.com.
Talent+
Lincoln, Nebraska based Talent+ is the premier global human resources consulting firm with over 200 world-class, quality-growth-oriented clients. Based on empirical data, Talent+ has developed reliable and validated instruments that enable clients to assess an individual's aptitude to perform a specific job with excellence. The proven methodologies of Talent+ determine how personal talents affect performance in every part of the workplace, from top to bottom. Through this approach, client partners are able to further define their culture through the acquisition, retention and recognition of top talent.
Through a triad partnership between Talent+ and Proforma Screening Solutions, L&A is able to offer a best-of-breed, integrated solution for the optimization of the human resource, talent management, and enterprise risk management needs of our customers. For more information about Talent+, please visit their website at, www.talentplus.com.
Willis
Lowers & Associates has a long working relationship with Willis, both domestically and internationally, primarily in London, as respects the types of risk mitigation services that we offer. Most recently, Willis and Lowers & Associates (along with two insurer partners Chubb and Beazley, and two law firms with noted privacy practices, Proskauer Rose and Goodwin Procter) co-hosted a series of informative business seminars on IT/Cyber Risk Management. For more information about Willis, please visit their website at, www.willis.com.
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