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Insurance & Technology
March 2, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Smoother Selling In response to agent requests for more-streamlined transactions, The Main Street America Group is developing an end-to-end, Web-based point-of-sale (POS) system.   |
Insurance & Technology
May 16, 2007
Susana Schwartz |
Drive For Automation Causes Insurance Carriers To Integrate The Internet has yielded more choices among comparative raters and aggregators, thus elevating agents to a more powerful position as the gatekeepers to multiple company ratings. |
Insurance & Technology
June 16, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Hartford Boosts E-Service The company is demonstrating how carriers can improve the claims experience for their policyholders and independent agent business partners with online initiatives. |
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
August 25, 2004
Vicki Gerson |
USFL Gets in Touch With Its Parent Producing tailored business information on demand is easier said than done, as U.S. Financial Life recently discovered. |
Insurance & Technology
October 29, 2003
Greg MacSweeney |
What's your Legacy plan? One thing's for sure: A monolithic approach won't work. Depending on the particular application and platform, insurers' legacy replacement/enhancement strategies vary widely according to the project specifics. |
Insurance & Technology
September 7, 2007
Susana Schwartz |
Main Driver Behind STP Initiatives Today Is Ease Of Doing Business Straight-through processing is more a business issue than a technology, and is fundamental to the ability to drive intelligence into the underwriting process and throughout the organization. |
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
August 7, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Policy Admin System Replacement: Insurers Shift Focus From Systems to Functionalities Interboro Insurance Co.'s policy administration replacement initiative was in key respects a classic case. |
Insurance & Technology
June 24, 2009
Nathan Conz |
Carrier-Agent Transactions Increase Significantly in 2009 IVANS has reported that electronic communication within the insurance industry has increased significantly in the last year, citing data from its Automation Reporting solution. |
Insurance & Technology
September 5, 2006 |
October Techwatch Document Scanners... Policy Administration... PDF Automation... Legacy Renewal... Web Interface... BPM... IT Infrastructure Library... Actuarial Grid... Portable Storage... |
Insurance & Technology
February 10, 2009
Katherine Burger |
Research Reveals Most Agents Are Using Real Time Functionality Popular uses include inquiries, endorsement processing, rating, agency management; more carriers get on board. |
Insurance & Technology
July 25, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Fireman's Fund Taps Itemfield Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. selected Itemfield ContentMaster data transformation software to enable modernization of multiple mainframe applications, including loss notification and quotation generation, and ACORD compliance. |
Insurance & Technology
March 25, 2008
Nathan Conz |
Chubb Standardizes and Automates Producer Appointment Process The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has implemented ACORD's standard producer appointment form and data standards. |
Insurance & Technology
May 18, 2007
Dan Carmichael |
Ohio Casualty CEO Dan Carmichael Says Company's Technology Is Just How It Should Be Ohio Casualty's CEO talks about the company's technology advancements. |
Insurance & Technology
September 16, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Hanover Recognized by ACORD for Outstanding Agent and Company Transactions ACORD's Round Trip award recognizes Hanover for efficiently and effectively automated the life cycle of data with independent agents. |
PHONE+
August 27, 2009
Cara Sievers |
Telarus Discusses Implications of GeoQuote Patent The patent covers technology that powers Telarus' public-facing lead-generation sites as well as its password-protected agent back-office sites. |
Insurance & Technology
May 3, 2006
Deena M. Amato-McCoy |
Service-Oriented Change Heterogeneous systems are at the core of many insurance carriers' IT infrastructures. Yet, companies still struggle with how to seamlessly integrate these often disparate systems across their enterprise. Now, a rapidly evolving architectural strategy is quickly changing the landscape. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2006
Phil Britt |
A Web of Support There has been an upturn in insurers' investments in Web-based tools that enable agents to work more efficiently and, through those efficiencies, sell more, increase commissions and make more money for the companies they represent. |
Insurance & Technology
July 11, 2008
Carolyn "Cal" J. Durland |
Carriers Must Focus on Consistency, Timeliness and Flow With services such as upload, download and real-time functionality, supported by ACORD standards, insurers can offer agents greatly enhanced efficiency and accessibility. |
Insurance & Technology
May 18, 2007
Katherine Burger |
Insurance Industry Still Unclear As To How To Proceed With Legacy Systems It's time for the insurance industry to do something about legacy systems. But, not surprisingly in this industry, what it is that carriers should be doing is not always so clear. |
Insurance & Technology
July 19, 2004 |
Alliances & Partnerships Castek goes global... Docucorp, epic team... Dralasoft/xythos deal... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
March 31, 2009
Nathan Conz |
Lloyd's of London, IBM Look to Connect London Insurance Market Lloyd's of London has partnered with IBM to deliver to the London insurance market a centralized messaging hub utilizing ACORD standards. |
Insurance & Technology
October 7, 2005
Charles Babcock |
IBM/ACORD Deal Eyes SOA Insurance industry standards body ACORD will expand its standards framework to include business processes, owing to a contribution by IBM of elements of the vendor's Insurance Application Architecture that define common industry business process services. |
Insurance & Technology
May 16, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
ACORD LOMA Show Preview: Mastering the Growth Imperative The 2005 conference is focused on providing a clear understanding of the issues insurance carriers are confronting, including: increasing revenue, managing expenses, ensuring data integrity, meeting project requirements and deadlines and protecting the business. |
Insurance & Technology
July 21, 2010
Nathan Golia |
ACORD Adopts DTCC File Formats The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation's formats is part of ACORD's move toward industry-wide data exchange standards, the organization says. |
Insurance & Technology
April 4, 2007 |
Contract News SUA Insurance, a subsidiary of Specialty Underwriters' Alliance, selected Guidewire's ClaimCenter system... Workers' compensation insurer MEMIC will use Whitehill Technologies' Whitehill Transport... etc. |
PHONE+
February 23, 2010
Henderson & Sievers |
Betting on Transformation -- What's the Payoff? There is no doubt that the communications marketplace is ripe with opportunities, but it also makes the task of figuring out how to grow your communications agency, VAR, integrator or dealership that much harder. |
Insurance & Technology
June 14, 2005
Wendy Toth |
A Leading Role The IT department's mission at Assumption Life is to be an industry model for IT solutions while staying in line with the corporate strategic plan. |
Insurance & Technology
January 5, 2007 |
Techwatch Mobile Computing... Predictive Analytics... Underwriting... Document Management... Risk Management... Business Intelligence Petach-Tikva, Israel... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
February 5, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
IVANS: P&C Insurers Prioritize Retention, Compliance and Operational Transformation in 2010 IT Spend Facing a negative outlook, insurance carriers are investing in IT to shore up their customer base, prepare for an evolving regulatory compliance regime, find customer retention, and find new sources of efficiency. |
CIO
May 15, 2001
Scott Berinato |
The Hype Stuff Will XML be the ultimate platform? Or will it be the next EDI? |
Insurance & Technology
April 19, 2005 |
Alliances & Partnerships Vertafore Buys CIS... BenefitPoint offers Web-services integration... Whitehill combines data translation with ImageRight's document management... etc. |
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
April 2, 2004
Peggy Bresnick-Kendler |
Virtual Roundtable Strategic claims management is essential for insurers to keep customers happy and ease the burden of servicing claims. Technology plays a key role in meeting the challenge. |
Insurance & Technology
August 14, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Australian Insurance Industry Adopts ACORD Messaging Library The first standardized AML message being implemented will be for professional indemnity content that includes quote, bind, and close transactions for new business. |
Insurance & Technology
July 29, 2005 |
Techwatch Rating: Decision Research Corp. introduced RateMaker Analyzer... Print Optimization: Exstream Software introduced AFP Compare, the newest product in the Exstream AFP Studio suite... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
February 9, 2004
Greg MacSweeney |
2004 Top Insurance Business/Technology Issues This special report takes a look at some of the top business issues that insurance carriers will face this year and how technology can help make their challenges easier. |
Insurance & Technology
June 8, 2009
Nathan Conz |
Gilman Leaves ACORD Rick Gilman, VP of corporate communications at ACORD has left the organization after his position was eliminated. |
Insurance & Technology
February 9, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Associations' Priorities Run the Gamut Insurance industry associations will seek to influence public policy and enforce technological efficiency in 2004. |
PHONE+
November 24, 2009 |
Ethical Dilemmas in the Channel Josh Anderson, CEO of Telephony Partners presents ethical dilemmas that have happened in the indirect sales channel. Suppliers and partners provide their input on how to handle the dilemmas. |
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The Cost of Termination for Convenience Clauses The pitfalls of non-disclosure agreements and how to avoid them. |
Insurance & Technology
September 16, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Web Services Connection A Q&A with insurance technology specialists on the adoption and implementation of Web services. |
