A Message from James Fichera, President
NYSIR Board of Governors

James Fichera, President NYSIR Board of Governors

To: All NYSIR Subscribers

Here’s some elementary math. If X equals Y and Y equals Z, then X and Z are the same. Simple, right? Now apply that formula to the New York Schools Insurance Reciprocal.

If NYSIR is all about schools and schools are all about kids, then NYSIR must be all about kids, too. If that’s the answer you got, you earned an ‘A.’

Our job is to make all schools from Tuckahoe to Tonawanda safe healthy places for school children and no one does it better than NYSIR. Our reputation for exceptional risk management and claims processing is second to none, a distinction bolstered by expert counsel from Wright Risk Management and continuing education in the art and science of successfully managing risk at the local school level.

NYSIR’s approach to responsibility is creative and comprehensive, encompassing training, policy reviews, safety inspections, legal advice and counsel and personal involvement in district safety committees. It’s an in-depth package that has helped us keep premiums at a reasonable level as we safeguard the assets, resources and, most important, the children of the Reciprocal’s 336 participating school districts.

Member districts own and run NYSIR, and that direct involvement provides school officials with a comfort level they simply cannot get with any commercial insurance company. When members contact us with suggestions for coverage or questions about claims, they are greeted by insurance and risk management professionals who know them by name and are familiar in detail with their concerns. That personal, one-on-one relationship draws NYSIR subscriber school districts back each year, and keeps our retention rate among the highest in the industry.

It’s a value-added formula for safety and bottom-line success, and that’s the kind of mathematical concept we all can appreciate.