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Insurance & Technology
December 6, 2007
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Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company Revamps its Business Continuity Plan, Constructs Disaster Recovery Facility As part of its business continuity initiative, Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. has built a new dedicated facility in Iowa.   |
Insurance & Technology
October 8, 2008
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Grinnel Mutual Reinsurance's Mehmen Expands Focus on Business Partnerships Dennis Mehmen, Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company's CIO, believes the biggest technological development in the past 10 years is the collaboration of business and IT. |
Insurance & Technology
August 12, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Ohio Mutual Claims Gains The regional P&C carrier reports significant gains in the wake of its implementation of CSC's POINT IN Policy Administration and Advanced Claims solution components. |
Insurance & Technology
April 20, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Negotiating Success Bitter experience and restricted budgets have made insurance technology purchasers more disciplined, and a buyers' market has encouraged them to drive hard bargains. |
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
October 28, 2003
Anthony O'Donnell |
AIG Opens Texas Data Center New York-based carrier intends to improve risk management picture. |
Insurance & Technology
June 1, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Implementing Advantage Penn National Insurance is overhauling systems and driving IT initiatives to achieve straight-through processing -- and boost competitiveness. |
Insurance & Technology
October 8, 2007 |
Rick Roy Draws Lessons from CUNA Mutual's Transformation Initiative The insurance company's former CIO and current SVP reflects on the lessons learned from the carrier's initiative to transform customer operations. |
Insurance & Technology
October 6, 2008
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Mutual of Omaha Made Most of Hanson's Experience Before He Moved On Before leaving Mutual of Omaha, Jim Hanson was involved in a critical ongoing initiative: implementing a service-oriented architecture and developing services that can be assembled and reused to speed the development of business applications. |
Insurance & Technology
February 18, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Connected Claims Perhaps the best way to understand the value of the "connected enterprise" is to reflect on the costs - in money, time and customer satisfaction - of the disconnections that continue to plague the insurance enterprise. |
CIO
January 15, 2002
Lorraine Cosgrove Ware |
Disaster Recovery Becomes Life and Death An October 2001 online survey asked CIOs, vice presidents and directors of IT how their organizations had prepared for disaster, and how their IT contingency and recovery plans would change after the events of Sept. 11... |
Insurance & Technology
September 5, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Straight-Through Service With more insurance carriers offering agents electronic business submission capabilities and moving toward straight-through processing, Wooster, Ohio-based Western Reserve Group decided to expand the Web capabilities for agents of its legacy mainframe systems throughout a four-year process. |
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
March 16, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
TOWER Powers West Bend Combined workflow and imaging solution saves P&C carrier from expanding staff and facilities. |
Insurance & Technology
September 5, 2006
Maria Woehr |
Main Street Gains N'Site The Main Street America Group purchased N'Site Solutions' Web-based software application NSolutionsv4.Net to enhance the claims turnaround time. |
Insurance & Technology
October 6, 2008
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Morris Leads Technology Initiatives at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Holly Morris, SVP and CIO for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, continues to demonstrate innovation, by harnessing the Internet and Web services technologies to enable the company to interact and serve members and field force in new ways. |
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. |
CIO
June 15, 2005
Michael Schrage |
Buttressing the Business CIOs should stop trying to achieve buy-in for IT initiatives and start helping business colleagues sell the projects themselves. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 13, 2005
Jonathan Byrnes |
New CIO Role: Change Warrior Effective CIOs can move the rest of the company to do things differently. |
Insurance & Technology
October 6, 2008
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Web Now More of a Focus for Allstate's Brune Like many of her peers, Allstate SVP and CIO Catherine Brune's responsibilities get broader every day. |
Insurance & Technology
October 8, 2008
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Boxer Transitions to Academia 2007 Elite 8 honoree Mark Boxer left his position as president and CEO of operations at WellPoint earlier this year to pursue a Ph.D., with an eye toward a teaching career. |
Insurance & Technology
November 26, 2003
Julie Gallagher |
Keep Them Coming Back for More Now more than ever, carriers need to focus on keeping today's skeptical customer satisfied. |
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. |
CIO
March 15, 2003
Chris Lofgren |
The Importance of Being Influential Schneider National's CEO says IT is too important to business today for the CIO to be seen but not heard. |
