• Submit your nominations by September 5, 2025
  • Voting for the finalists begins September 22, 2025. Watch this website to submit your votes.
  • Voting closes October 10, 2025
  • Winners will be announced at The 16th Annual Extended Warranty & Service Contract Innovations, scheduled for October 27–29, 2025, The Drake, Chicago, Illinois. www.warrantyinnovations.com

2024 Winners!

Category 1: Innovative Product Design
  • Bolt Solutions & Choice Home Warranty - Transforming the device protection industry by distributing through home warranty and covering all phones in a household.
Category 2: Transformative Technology Innovation
  • Daimler Truck & Tavant - Integration of AI into the warranty system process to ease coding and data entry.
Category 3: Customer Experience Excellence
  • Apple - The AppleCare program has maintained excellent customer services since the introduction of the iPhone and has been exceptionally successful.
Category 4: Operational Performance & Administrative Excellence
    These companies had the most efficient and effective claims handling processes  
  • Brunswick Corporation
Category 5: “Warranty Industry Champion” – to recognize one individual who, in the eyes of their peers, contributed the most to the Warranty/Service Contract industry.
Tim Meenan, Managing Partner, Meenan, P.A.
Steering Committee

The 2025 Warranty Innovation Awards will be supervised by the following distinguished steering committee:

Eric Arnum

Publisher

WARRANTY WEEK

Travis Moore

General Counsel

Service Contract Industry Council (SCIC)

Roz Applebaum

Vice President

Warranty Innovations Conferences

Dan Tafel

Chief Development Officer

Ironwood Warranty Group

Gregory Myers

Executive Managing Director

Brown & Brown

Paul Swenson

Senior Vice President

Domestic and General

PRESS RELEASE

2025 Warranty Industry Awards Nominations Open – 5 Award Categories Showcase Best of Industry

The warranty industry announces the 2nd Annual Best-of-Industry Awards! Strategic Solutions Network (SSN) opens nominations for the Warranty & Service Contract Industry Annual Awards on August 4, 2025. These are peer-nominated industry awards to recognize and showcase innovation and excellence in the warranty and extended warranty/service contract industries. All industry professionals invited to submit nominations. www.warrantyawards.org

The awards feature 5 categories with one winner per category. The awards will honor companies in each category with the exception of the "Warranty Industry Champion" award, which will recognize the most significant individual contributor to the industry.

AWARD CATEGORIES
  1. Innovative Product Design
  2. Transformative Technology Innovation Leadership
  3. Customer Experience Excellence
  4. Operational Performance & Administrative Excellence
  5. Warranty Industry Champion

Please visit: www.warrantyawards.org for detailed criteria for each category and to submit your nomination. Deadline for nominations is September 5, 2025.
The 2025 Award nominees will be announced the week of September 15, 2025. Voting for one of the top 3 finalists will opens September 22, 2025, and winners will be announced on October 28, 2025, at The 16th Annual Extended Warranty & Service Contract Innovations, scheduled for October 27-29, 2025, The Drake, Chicago, Illinois. www.warrantyinnovations.com
The awards steering committee will oversee the voting process to ensure fairness and transparency:

  • Eric Arnum, Publisher, Warranty Week
  • Travis Moore, General Counsel, Service Contract Industry Council (SCIC)
  • Paul Swenson, Senior Vice President, Domestic and General
  • Dan Tafel, Chief Development Officer, Ironwood Warranty Group
  • Gregory Myers, Executive Managing Director, Brown & Brown
  • Roz Applebaum, Vice President, Warranty Innovations Conferences, SSN
Please visit: www.warrantyawards.org for more detailed information and to submit your nominees. Deadline for nominations is September 5, 2025.
Strategic Solutions Network (SSN) is also the producer of highly acclaimed industry-wide events including:
  • The 16th Annual Extended Warranty & Service Contract Innovations, scheduled for October 27-29, 2025, The Drake, Chicago, Illinois www.warrantyinnovations.com
  • The 4th Annual Warranty & Service Contract Innovations for Vehicle, Home, Smart Products & Consumer Goods, Spring 2026 www.globalwarrantyinnovations.com
For more information, contact: Roz Applebaum at [email protected].

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