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Insurance & Technology
November 28, 2005
Maria Woehr |
Online Rate Comparisons Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Co., The Hartford and Protective Life have joined forces to launch the Insurance Online Network, a free, Web-based platform that provides brokers, dealers and bankers with online term life insurance quotes.   |
Insurance & Technology
February 21, 2005
Wendy Toth |
Easing Connectivity SeaPass Solutions developed a connectivity solution for insurance agents and carriers that has been implemented by The Hartford Financial Services Group |
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. |
Insurance & Technology
July 11, 2008
Akhil Tripathi |
Web-Based Solutions Deliver on Agents' Tech Expectations Insurers can leverage agent portals and systems integration technology to streamline agents' workflow and improve efficiencies. |
Insurance & Technology
March 18, 2005
Wendy Toth |
Whose Side Are You On? The shift in the business model, the study reports, creates an opportunity for insurers to connect with buyers directly. |
Insurance & Technology
December 23, 2005 |
Alliances & Partnerships Fiserv Buys Xcipio... The Hartford, ChoicePoint Team... Symantec Acquires BindView... MostChoice.com, AgentSecure Deal... Syntellect/Apropos... |
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
July 11, 2008
Karen Pauli |
Integrated Agency Management Systems Key to Improving Agent Performance and Efficiency Agents want fully integrated systems that offer a single entry of data, a single view of the customer, and mobile and real-time functionalities. |
Insurance & Technology
December 23, 2005
Maria Woehr |
No Place Like Home To streamline work processes and improve ease of doing business, The Hartford redesigned its Electronic Business Center (EBC) agent portal home page. |
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
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. |
CFO
March 1, 2010
David M. Katz |
Is Your Broker Mediocre? It may be a buyer's market, but choosing the best broker is far from easy. |
Insurance & Technology
July 1, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Hartford's ExpressWay Speeds Small Commercial Business The Hartford Financial Services Group has begun to rollout ExpressWay for Small Business, a tool that enables agents to place business owner's policy, auto and workers' comp business without rekeying information already entered. |
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
November 28, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Higher-Tech Agents Leading experts in agent technology answer critical questions about the relationship between agents and technology. |
Managed Care
July 2004
John Carroll |
Going for Brokers: Spitzer Rides Again The noted and newsworthy attorney general of New York is taking aim at some of the biggest middlemen in the insurance business. |
Insurance & Technology
January 11, 2008
Nathan Conz |
Mobile Sales Force Automation Growing In Demand High-speed wireless Internet access, recent improvements in devices such as tablet PCs and PDAs, and an insurance industry-wide shift in focus toward customer satisfaction have all but forced insurers to develop mobile claims capabilities. |
The Motley Fool
August 5, 2005 |
A Buyer Broker Can Help You Not all real estate brokers have your best interest at heart -- be choosy. |
The Motley Fool
March 5, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
What Stockbrokers Really Do Brokers are agents who take and fill your orders to buy and sell stocks and other securities. A former broker revealed to us how he was trained and under what conditions brokers often work. |
National Real Estate Investor
July 1, 2004
Gallagher, Kelpe & Kerckhoff |
Lone Cowboys Fade Away There's a subtle shift occurring in the real estate brokerage industry. While a majority of brokers are still going it alone, many brokers are forming teams to meet the growing needs of their clients. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2015
Mike Newhouse |
Splitting Fees It's agent vs. agent when it comes to commission disputes. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2010 |
One Way to Profit From Higher Interest Rates The good news for brokers is that many have been adding new accounts throughout the recession, which means that once interest rates rise again, they could be bringing in even more interest income than before. |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
Tools to Make You a Better Investor Brokers have been hurting, and you can take advantage. With brokers focusing on getting your business, you'll find them developing and expanding on tools that could help you invest more easily. |
Insurance & Technology
July 17, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Andrade Will Head The Hartford's P&C Company Juan Andrade will continue to report to the carrier's chairman and CEO Ramani Ayer and will serve as a member of the Office of the Chairman. |
Insurance & Technology
October 22, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Hartford Life Names Brian O'Connell CIO The insurer can benefit from greater technology unity, according to O'Connell. |
CRM
January 2010
Lauren McKay |
Insurance -- Pursuing a New Policy The insurance industry is slowly shifting from traditional to trendy. |
Insurance & Technology
March 16, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Hartford Gets Claim Components The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. has licensed the full suite of Accenture's .NET version of its Claim Components solution. |
Inc.
June 1, 2000
Jill Andresky Fraser |
Company for Sale by Owner -- or Maybe Not Business 101: Who should sell your company? You? A business broker? An investment banker? How to make the call... |
Insurance & Technology
January 9, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
The Hartford Forms Distribution Partnership with Intuit Intuit will market The Hartford's XactPAY Web premium payment platform, and the carrier will in turn market Intuit's payroll solution to its small business commercial agents. |
Managed Care
May 2000
John Carroll |
Like Stock Brokers, Are Health Care's Middlemen Losing Influence? Those who make deals between buyers and insurers are used to perks and tidy commissions. The Internet and defined contributions may threaten that. |
BusinessWeek
April 18, 2005
Timothy J. Mullaney |
Real Estate's Turf War Heats Up How old-line real estate agents are undermining advances by online discount brokers. |
The Motley Fool
March 22, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
This Will Make You a Smarter Investor There's more to smart money management than just picking great stocks. Increasingly, it's becoming just as important to find the right discount broker to give you the best and least expensive access to the investments you want. |
Investment Advisor
March 2007
Marlene Y. Satter |
High-Level Security Advisors who cater to the ultra-high-net-worth now have a new resource for client life insurance coverage. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2004
Roxanna Guilford-Blake |
Star Search Some commercial real estate companies have the magic touch: They attract and retain the best and brightest brokers. Others aren't so fortunate. |
Insurance & Technology
May 3, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Plotkin Drives Innovation All chief technology officers must concern themselves with meeting not just current but also future enterprise technology needs. The Hartford's CTO Gary Plotkin is one of the few executives who has made this a priority. |
CRM
September 1, 2004
Lior Arussy |
Stop Wasting Everyone's Time Give agents timely access to relevant data, and watch sales and satisfaction soar. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Rowley & Dawson |
Japan: Where Financial Security Is One Sexy Beast Hartford pioneered Japan's annuity market. Nobody's laughing at it any more. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Bonus Bait Morgan Stanley is planning to offer bonuses to brokers who expand their production in 2006. |
The Motley Fool
April 7, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Tough Times for Real Estate Agents The housing market is still booming, but all isn't rosy for agents. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
Mindy Diamond |
Packing the Parachute Success in the brokerage industry can be as much about mindset as anything else, so it comes as little surprise that advisors avoid negative thoughts, such as the potential necessity of a quick exit from their practice. |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Who You Trade With Does Matter It's easy to think that one broker fits all, but nothing could be further from the truth. Take the time to get to know your brokerage options. Only then will you have the knowledge base to make your best choice. |
