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Friday, 05 December 2008 |
SCBIZ Daily Staff
FLORENCE -- Assurant Specialty Property announced Thursday that its Florence hazard insurance service center plans to hire as many as 100 additional employees during the next four to five months to accommodate the growth of its creditor-placed homeowners and insurance tracking business.
The Florence center, which moved to its 100,000-square-foot facility in 2003, currently employs more than 700. It has about 40 open jobs in a variety of areas including clerical, customer care, processing, and entry-level and midlevel management.
Deborah Davis, vice president and service center manager, said Assurant Specialty Property is forecasting continued growth for business serviced by the Florence center. “When we built the center in 2003, it was designed for about 750 employees. It is now configured to accommodate about 980, which means we are well-positioned for growth.”
Davis said the Florence community and state of South Carolina have been supportive of the company over the years. “This support, plus the quality of the labor pool and competitive labor costs, all contributed to our decision to build this center in the first place and to continue to expand the facility,” she said.
Assurant Specialty Property provides hazard and flood insurance tracking, escrow disbursement, loss draft tracking and other hazard insurance-related customer services to mortgage lenders and their customers.
The company also operates similar hazard insurance service centers in Duluth, Ga.; Springfield, Ohio; and Santa Ana and Tustin, Calif.
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