By David Colmans
The functions of Georgia Insurance Information Service (GIIS) have now been expanded into an adjoining state with the establishment of the Alabama Insurance Information Service (AIIS).
Both organizations provide consumers with news and information about auto, homeowners, renters and workers compensation insurance. Both the Georgia and Alabama services are not-for-profit, non-lobbying associationsof property and casualty insurers doing business in the two states.
The mission is to provide news and information to the public, primarily through the news media, about issues relating to personal lines insurance, including flood and earthquake insurance, along with a wide range of consumer safety news and information. Learn more about GIIS and AIIS via their websites: http://www.giis.org and http://www.aiisnews.org.
There are a number of other insurance trade associations in the Southeast including in the states of South and North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky and Louisiana. Member insurance companies believe that the public is better served when there is an organization that helps translate complex insurance issues into everyday language and works closely with the news media on these issues.