Announcement - Homeowners on BriteCore

​BriteCore: Homeowners Policies

As you know, Bremen Farmers Mutual has been working for a while to implement a new online software system called BriteCore. 

To date, the Agri-Pak, Businessowners, and Inland Marine policy types are fully on the BriteCore system.

At this time, we are pleased to announce that we are ready to begin releasing the Homeowners line of business onto the BriteCore system.

The implementation will be in two stages.

The first stage will be new applications.

• As of today, the quoting interface from BriteCore for Homeowners is available to begin using. Please see these help videos for help specifically with Homeowners quoting. If you are not familiar with the BriteCore quoting interface overall, please see these help videos.
  
• For the time being, you can still quote and submit new applications from the current quoting site.
  
• However, new Homeowners applications submitted from the original quoting site and processed by us on September 16, 2019 or after will be converted to the BriteCore system.
  
• Also, as of September 16, 2019, new Homeowners quotes will no longer be able to be created from the original quoting site (although existing quotes will remain available).

The second stage of the implementation will be renewal policies.

• Homeowners renewals will be renewed from BriteCore beginning with either November 1, 2019 or December 1, 2019 policy effective dates.
• We will advise you later on the exact date the renewals will begin to be converted.

​Corn and Pellet Stove Change

​Along with the release of Homeowners into BriteCore, we are also changing an underwriting guideline for this line of business regarding corn stoves and wood pellet stoves.

In the past, we have treated corn and wood pellet stoves like a wood stove on the Homeowners line. Beginning with policies that are issued from BriteCore we are changing this guideline.

Going forward, a properly installed, UL approved, corn or wood pellet stove will no longer disqualify a risk from the Preferred program and will also not be surcharged in the Standard program.

If you have current in-force policies that this guideline change affects, let us know and we will make the appropriate change on the next policy renewal.

Policy Search Screen

Last, we want to mention a change to the policy search interface in BriteCore for all lines of business. While the functionality of this screen is not changing much, the look and feel of it is being modernized. To help get accustomed to it, there is a ​​help video here.