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For more than a decade, the Dallas-based Costanza Insurance Agency (CIA), headed by its founder, Peter Costanza, has been providing insurance for security-related businesses throughout the United States. Clients include security guard firms, private investigators, alarm companies, insurance adjusters and salvage companies. CIA's programs include fidelity/crime insurance and workers compensation.
"I started my insurance career right out of high school," says Costanza. "I began as a bill collector for an insurance company and then went on to become an underwriter. I moved to the retail side in 1982, and that's when I began to work with niche markets, specializing in insurance adjusters, salvage companies, process servers and insurance investigators. That led me to the general private investigators market, which in turn led to security guards. By the mid-1980s, I controlled a $15 million book of business out of California."
In 1989 Costanza moved from California to Texas, where he worked for a...