Cornerstone gets accolades for quality insurance service delivery

Cornerstone Insurance plc has wrapped up the year with four prestigious business and community service-related awards. The honours are in recognition of the company’s exceptional strides in providing world-class insurance solutions in a customer –focused and socially responsible manner.

First to be recognized is the company’s innovative online platform, which serves as a one-stop vending solution for customers; thereby giving them the opportunity to buy and make claims at the click of a button. The e-Platform represents significant value to insurance clients, making Cornerstone ‘The Best Online Insurance Company of the Year’ at the 2015 Lagos Chambers of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) Awards.

While addressing dignitaries and captains of the industries present at the event, the President of the Chambers; Remi Bello stressed that the awards are to recognize, promote and celebrate private and public institutions operating in Nigeria for best business practices, growth through innovations, business sustainability and positive impact on the people and society at large.

The chambers praised Cornerstone  ‘for developing a first of its kind, end-to-end insurance platform which provides a suitable alternative channel to the conventional outlets in the areas of online engagement, data collection and real time information dissemination’. The channel which cuts clients’ travel time, reduce carbon footprints in the environment and reduces other attendant business cost.

The company’s position as a leading insurance solution provider was reinforced at the recently held Nigeria Technology Awards, where Cornerstone was honoured as the ‘Best Insurance Company Website of the Year, 2015’.

In the words of the organizers: “the aim of the event is to recognize and reward exceptional achievements in the area of technological advancement, provision of innovative and creative solutions by professionals and businesses”.

In the same vein, Halal Takaful Nigeria; the Islamic Insurance window of Cornerstone was also recognized for deepening insurance penetration through Sharia compliant insurance offerings at the just concluded Annual International Conference on Islamic Finance in Abuja.

Just as the year draws to a close, the underwriting company was once again recognized by the Nigeria CSR Awards (SERAs 2015).

The encomiums came on the heels of the company’s significant contribution to social development through the provision of safety infrastructures to accident prone schools in Lagos in collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Corps via the ‘Safe Route to School’ campaign of the company.

Cornerstone Insurance emerged as the ‘Best Company in Community Involvement’ brushing off stiff competition from Shell, First Bank and Lafarge. The Nigeria CSR Awards is reputed to be the major promoter and force behind galvanizing businesses across various sectors and industries in Nigeria to imbibe the ethos of CSR and Sustainability in Nigeria.

The company’s Group Managing Director, Ganiyu Musa while receiving the award stated that the accolades are like icing on the cake, given the deep sense of fulfilment that comes from creating an enduring value for the customers. “Cornerstone customers are happy customers and going by the positive feedback we get on a daily basis, I am particularly pleased that we are winning with our customers. Nothing could be more gratifying,” Musa said.

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