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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. |
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Reaping the Rewards An interview with Ohio Casualty Group's CTO on how his cutting-edge PARIS (Policy Administration, Rating and Issuance System) policy administration system exemplifies how to build an insurance architecture that can serve as the basis for future technology development. |
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John Kellington Moves to ACORD as SVP of Standards In the newly created position, Kellington says he will oversee the development of standards for life and annuity, property/casualty and surety, and reinsurance and large commercial. |
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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. |
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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. |
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ACORD's John Kellington Drives New Standards Approach The former Ohio Casualty CTO and IBM consultant has faith that the best-practice and project management disciplines that served him in his former roles will likewise inform his contributions as ACORD's senior vice president in charge of standards. |
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Where to Buy Insurance An agent might be your best bet, but there are other options. |
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November 28, 2005
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Higher-Tech Agents Leading experts in agent technology answer critical questions about the relationship between agents and technology. |
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Ethical Dilemma No. 4: First Quote or Ink Wins? Policies for preventing quoting conflicts between competing agents working with the same master agent. |
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May 18, 2004
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September 16, 2009
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Agents Identify 7 Best Practices for Channel Managers Agents share their points of view on what can be done on a daily basis to ensure the best possible customer experience. |
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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. |
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August 7, 2008
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Happy Agents, Happy Customers Increased agent productivity leads to increased satisfaction. |
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Information Support Bankers Life seeks to grow business by offering a new Web portal as a single point of information access to its captive agent sales force. |
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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. |
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Channel 101 -- PHONE+ Fact Book 2010 An updated primer of telecom industry basics. |
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Web-Based Solutions Deliver on Agents' Tech Expectations Insurers can leverage agent portals and systems integration technology to streamline agents' workflow and improve efficiencies. |
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Do Agents Have a Chance Fighting Mass Terminations from Carriers? Telecom experts off their opinions on how agents might be able to deal with carrier downsizing. |
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Michael Murphy |
Surviving Carrier Consolidation Consolidation definitely has its pros and cons. Your willingness to prepare yourself, diversify within the industry and maintain strong client and vendor relationships will help you succeed no matter how the landscape changes. |
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Back Office: What Do You Need to Run an Agency? To be able to concentrate on selling to current customers and generating relationships that will hopefully create new customers, agents must be cognizant of everything that needs to happen smoothly behind the scenes. |
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Holes in the Net? Insurers' woes are mounting -- and your company's coverage may be at risk. |
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Michael Hirsch |
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P&C Insurance Feeling the Squeeze It appears competition is starting to heat up in the property and casualty insurance sector, which may change the low pricing many of these companies have enjoyed. |
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Insurance Agents Enjoy Secure, Solid Careers If you enjoy working with others and can empathize with their problems and concerns, you can build a fulfilling, lucrative career in the insurance industry. You'll be helping people protect their families, their homes and their personal belongings. |
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Jason Compton |
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Emil Lee |
Three Low-P/E Insurance Stocks Surveying the insurance industry for investment bargains. |
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Selena Maranjian |
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Shadowing Your Customer ADP fixes confusing software by tracking the customer's every move. |
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July 21, 2011 |
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