At Nationwide, a U.S. property & casualty insurance and financial services company, we’re passionate about providing service so good that it sells our product. We work with customers through three distribution channels: our exclusive insurance agents, independent insurance agents, and direct sales. I am the service leader for our exclusive agency channel, which sells only Nationwide-branded products. The customers we deal with are exclusive agency customers only.

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