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Insurance & Technology February 19, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	Health Insurer Signs CSC Seeking to simplify systems and improve speed-to-market, Livonia, Mich.-based health insurer American Community Mutual Insurance Co. has signed a seven-year, $12 million contract for software and services with CSC.
Insurance & Technology December 2, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	West Bend Mutual's SOA-Based Underwriting System Drives Flexibility and Increased Revenue The P&C carrier's best-of-breed automated underwriting solution leverages service-oriented architecture to support long-term profitability in small-commercial and other lines of business.
Insurance & Technology January 17, 2006 Maria Woehr	It's Electric To reduce operating costs, improve customer service, enhance underwriting consistency and strengthen its relationships with its agents, Austin Mutual Insurance converted its manual, paper-based application process to a Web-enabled business submission system.
Insurance & Technology July 19, 2004	New Contracts Unitrin, csc outsource... Ifb/iex deal... Mmoh licenses vips... etc.
Insurance & Technology October 6, 2006 Maria Woehr	Growth Engine SVP of Information Systems Al Bowen is modernizing Ohio National Financial Services' infrastructure to support agents' use and aggressive business growth.
Insurance & Technology May 13, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell	CEOs to Watch: Edmund F. Kelly Under the direction of Edmund F. Kelly, Liberty Mutual has been a carrier on the move.
Insurance & Technology April 8, 2010 Anne Rawland Gabriel	Ohio Mutual Takes a Bite Out of Policy Admin Transformation After migrating to CSC's POINT IN platform, Ohio Mutual Insurance Group successfully presses the vendor for incremental releases to enable 'bite-size' modernization.
Insurance & Technology February 12, 2009 Nathan Conz	Medical Mutual of Ohio's EmployerLink Redesign Take an inside look at Medical Mutual of Ohio's redesigned EmployerLink group insurance Web site, winner of a 2008 Web Marketing Association Outstanding Web Site Award.
Insurance & Technology May 27, 2010 Nathan Conz	New York Central Mutual Emerges From 5+ Year Tech Project New York Central Mutual spent the better part of the last decade on a massive technology modernization project and now finds itself in a more competitive position in the marketplace.
Insurance & Technology January 16, 2009 Nathan Conz	Physicians Mutual Centralizes Customer Data Physicians Mutual has worked with IBM to create a customer information management system.
Insurance & Technology March 31, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	CSC to Launch Java-based Version of its Exceed Policy Administration System Unitrin will be the first customer of Exceed J, which provides a path to new technology to current users of the tier-one P&C carrier policy admin system.
Insurance & Technology February 21, 2005	Nordlin Drives Alignment The CIO of Farmers Insurance says that future gains dependent upon enhancing IT and business alignment.
Insurance & Technology October 10, 2007 Nathan Conz	Grinnell Mutual CIO Dennis Mehmen Uses Business Strategy To Make IT A Priority A GMRC By redefining his department as a strategic business partner, Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company CIO Dennis Mehmen has turned the carrier's IT organization into an innovator in the insurance space.
Insurance & Technology February 22, 2010 Nathan Conz	Q&A: Peggy Scott, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets A short conversation with Peggy Scott, assistant VP and manager of marketing information services at Liberty Mutual.
Registered Rep. January 5, 2010 David A. Geracioti	Fund Manager Leuthold Says Outlook Good for Stocks--at Least in the First Half of 2010 Good and bad news for the S&P 500 this year, according to this fund manager.
Insurance & Technology November 15, 2006 Maria Woehr	Unisys Clears Processing Path North Star Mutual Insurance Co. has upgraded its IT platform to a Unisys ClearPath Libra Model 590 mainframe-class enterprise server to cut policy processing time and enable the carrier to provide Web-based rating and other services to its independent agents.
Insurance & Technology September 15, 2009 Nathan Conz	CSC Launches FS Mobile Solutions, Partners with Blackberry CSC has announced the launch of Financial Services Mobile Solutions, which includes mobile software applications, consulting and management services.
Insurance & Technology May 5, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Ohio National's IT Organization Shines in Challenging Business Environment Long-term technology decisions, sound resource allocation and good communication have helped Ohio National's IT professionals to respond to a rapidly changing business environment in life and annuities.
Insurance & Technology September 14, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	Mega-Deal a Bellwether? Seeking to transform itself into a nimble, line-of-business oriented enterprise, Zurich Financial Services has signed a major applications outsourcing agreement with CSC to support all of the carrier's lines of business.
Insurance & Technology March 16, 2004 Julie Gallagher	Growing Up and Out After experiencing rapid growth, First American P&C is taking advantage of current conditions to prepare for the soft market.
Insurance & Technology November 26, 2003 Julie Gallagher	Doing a Lot with Little Although it works with a modest IT budget, Cincinnati Equitable is able to cater to agents' needs.
Insurance & Technology May 6, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Wilton Re Signs $90 Million Outsourcing Contract with CSC Ten-year contract includes full back-office administration services for an additional 270,000 life policies to be converted onto the vendor's CyberLife policy admin system.
Insurance & Technology March 18, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell	Man and Machine Insurers generally tout the human factor as the most decisive element in successfully combating fraud, and Medical Mutual of Ohio is no different. They also credit technology as a key player in preventing fraud.
Insurance & Technology May 13, 2005 Anthony O'Donnell	NMM to Implement Guidewire As part of an ongoing IT-driven transformation, workers' compensation carrier New Mexico Mutual Group selected Guidewire ClaimCenter as its new claim system.
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Selena Maranjian	How Much Is Management Costing You? Be picky. Look at fees. Look at a fund's turnover, because the higher the turnover, the higher the taxes on gains will likely be. Look at the long-term returns, too, because given the thousands of mutual funds out there, many are run by not-very-good managers.
Insurance & Technology August 24, 2009 Nathan Conz	CSC's Social Network Reaching Critical Mass CSC carrier clients are embracing WikonnecT, the vendor's business-to-business social network, as a way to collaborate with one another to solve IT issues.
Insurance & Technology June 14, 2005 Lisa Valentine	Hitting the IT Target Robert Eshelbrenner discusses the technology strategy for Hastings Mutual.
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Insurance & Technology February 18, 2005 Lori Widmer	Going With the Workflow State Fund Mutual looked for a cost-effective software system to go paperless - and they found it.
Insurance & Technology February 24, 2008 Anthony O'Donnell	Midwest Family Mutual Goes Green After recently evaluating its efforts to virtualize its IT environment and reduce its energy consumption, Midwest Family Mutual Insurance Co. declared itself "operationally green."
Insurance & Technology May 3, 2006 Anthony O'Donnell	Real-Time Vision Dan Carmichael's career-long interest in technology standards culminated in a successful corporate turnaround at Ohio Casualty.
Insurance & Technology November 7, 2008 Nathan Conz	CSC's Java-based POINT IN Update Marks a New Beginning Moving to compete with new-technology systems vendors, CSC introduced a Java EE-compliant version of its POINT IN policy administration solution for P&C insurers.
Insurance & Technology March 24, 2005 Paul McDougall	CSC Wins Contract With Chinese Insurer IT services vendor Computer Sciences Corp. said that it has won a $17.6 million, five year software and services contract from China's China Pacific Property Insurance Co.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007	International Flight Over the last three years, foreign mutual funds have posted annual returns twice those notched by the S&P 500, prompting investors to dump shares of U.S. stock funds and park that cash overseas in search of fatter returns.
Insurance & Technology October 31, 2006 Maria Woehr	Rewriting a Legacy To provide more-accurate rates and meet stricter global governance requirements, among other benefits, Munich Re launched a new IT platform, known as the Global Reinsurance Application, or Gloria.
Insurance & Technology April 3, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	Indiana Farm Bureau Sees Java as a Bridge to New Policy Admin Technology Tough times have made aggressive pursuit of new technologies less of a focus, and have put a premium on vendor stability.
Insurance & Technology November 16, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell	Medical Mutual of Ohio Acquires Benefit Services Addressing market changes driven by rising healthcare costs, the insurer has added the boutique capabilities of small group focused third-party administrator Benefit Services, Inc. to the carrier's own TPA offering.
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Insurance & Technology July 19, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	The Emerging Wireless World Wireless may not yet live up to the hype, but many insurers are steadily moving wireless strategies off the drawing board and into the competitive arena.
Insurance & Technology September 14, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	The Power of One Creating a single, unified technology infrastructure built with an eye to future channels can make taking advantage of insurance market opportunities easier and much less costly.
Insurance & Technology June 29, 2010 Nathan Golia	Symetra Inks Licensing Agreement with CSC The life insurer will use CSC products to manage distribution and streamline annuities processing.
Insurance & Technology September 1, 2007 Anthony O'Donnell	Legacy Systems Yield To Modern Technologies The continued success of newer technology platforms is clarifying the likely future state of policy admin systems and reshaping how insurance carriers large and small think about legacy migration.
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Insurance & Technology April 15, 2010 Lisa Valentine	Carriers Look to Billing to Improve Customer Service and Retention Billing is a critical but often overlooked aspect of customer service and retention -- not only for policyholders, but for agents and distributors as well.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Lumpy Results Ahead Don't expect smooth sailing when you're investing. In the short run, the stock market is especially volatile, and your performance over a few months could be a gain of 25%, or a loss of 18%, or something else.
Insurance & Technology July 12, 2006 Maria Woehr	Digging for Dollars The insurance agent often is portrayed as going door to door with an oversized briefcase brimming with paper applications. While that might have been so in the 1950s, today, selling insurance means connecting with the customer, and it takes more than just a smile and a shoeshine. It takes knowledge.
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Insurance & Technology March 16, 2004 Anthony O'Donnell	TOWER Powers West Bend Combined workflow and imaging solution saves P&C carrier from expanding staff and facilities.