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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
January 25, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Underwriting Updated How are insurers making the underwriting process more efficient to improve profits?... What emerging technologies can help insurers improve the underwriting process?... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
February 6, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurers Seek Competitive Edge Through Underwriting Analytics Underwriters have come to appreciate technology much the way agents have. |
Insurance & Technology
February 10, 2009
Anthony O'Donnell |
Business Intelligence Makes Insurers More-Competitive Risk Managers For most insurers, business intelligence means point solutions at best. But those carriers that weave analytics into the fabric of their organizations are equipped to drive more precision in pricing and greater profitability to the bottom line. |
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
May 14, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Rethinking Policy Admin Here, industry experts discuss how legacy systems can hamper insurers' abilities to grow and be flexible and how next-generation policy administration systems can deliver increased efficiency and improved customer service. |
Insurance & Technology
August 22, 2007
David West |
Analytics Make Doing Business Easier By improving the speed and consistency of decisions, analytics opens the possibility of self-service applications for producers and the insured, including claimants. The result will be a dramatic improvement in the ease of doing business with the carrier. |
Insurance & Technology
December 20, 2004
Anthony O'Donnell |
Back To Business NFS Speeds Applications... Glatfelter Selects Insurity... Claims Integration... Preparing for The Worst... Full Support... |
Insurance & Technology
December 13, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
Location, Location, Location Insurers' capability to respond quickly to catastrophes - on whatever scale - is extremely relevant to their mission. |
Insurance & Technology
November 28, 2005
Maria Woehr |
Underwriting Opportunities Most insurers are only moderately proactive in investing in long-term training, new technologies and refinement to pricing models for underwriting, according to a recent survey. |
Insurance & Technology
May 19, 2009
Kaytes & Josefowicz |
Technology and the Science of Customer Retention Data accessibility, analytics, rules-driven workflow, and process visibility can supply the capabilities insurers need to retain profitable customers. |
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
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
September 10, 2007
Anne Rawland Gabriel |
York Fire & Casualty Insurance Adopts iter8 Solution York Fire & Casualty Insurance maintains a competitive edge by adopting iter8's exception-based underwriting technology. |
Insurance & Technology
March 9, 2007
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
The Reinsurance Industry Looks Beyond Transaction Processing to Innovative Automation and Better Risk Management Here, experts discuss how the reinsurance industry is looking to automate information to improve risk management, business intelligence, workflow, claims and service. |
Insurance & Technology
August 12, 2005
Phil Britt |
Where the Dollars Are Going Insurance companies will spend most of their IT dollars in the next year to enhance performance/predictive analytics and purchase systems to improve management of business processes. |
Insurance & Technology
February 1, 2006
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Claims to Tame Experts weigh-in -- Q: What are the biggest challenges insurers currently face in the area of claims management?... Q: How does business intelligence affect claims handling?... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
August 27, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
ICW to Launch Improved Web 2.0 Agent New Business Platform Improvements to the Web-based tool, which enables distributors to automatically upload from their agency management systems, will include straight-through processing of small commercial business on a non-exception basis. |
Insurance & Technology
November 17, 2004
Steve Forte |
Hitting the Wall As existing policy administration systems impede effective reengineering of business process improvements, leading insurers have begun to recognize the strategic importance that policy platforms play in critical process improvements. |
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
January 25, 2005 |
Deja Vu All Over Again Many of the major areas of focus for senior insurance technology executives in the coming year will be familiar ones that have become even more pressing. Insurers will boost their offshore outsourcing activities and increasingly dip a toe into business process outsourcing (BPO). |
Insurance & Technology
January 17, 2006
Cynthia Saccocia |
Managing in the Best and Worst of Times The insurance industry leaders - from megaglobal insurers to small regional or niche carriers - are achieving excellence by concentrating on profitable growth and competitive advantage. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Karen Pauli |
Slaying The Hydra One Head At A Time For many insurers, knowledge of the customer is not individualized. However, creating value and discernible difference in the delivery of products and services now is a driving force in insurance. |
Insurance & Technology
August 10, 2006
Lori Widmer |
Taming Paper Tigers Following an assessment of the underwriting process by Software AG in May 2005, the vendor recommended that ACMIC implement business process management to automate new-business application processing. |
Insurance & Technology
May 5, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Beacon Mutual To Implement FirstBest Agent Portal FirstBest Agent will be an integral part of Beacon Mutual's BEACONNECT site, providing upload, supplemental questions, STP quoting, and real-time collaboration and visibility into the submission process for its 400 agents, according to the vendor. |
Insurance & Technology
January 10, 2008
Katherine Burger |
What Could Prevent the Property/Casualty Industry from Continuing Its Strong Performance? Here is why the property/casualty insurance industry's current underwriting prowess might not be long-lasting. |
Insurance & Technology
February 2, 2007
Anthony O'Donnell |
Deconstructing the Business Business process management software and process discipline are providing the means to introduce new levels of efficiency and transparency of operations. But while interest in BPM began with cost-cutting, it has become a weapon of strategic opportunism. |
Insurance & Technology
January 29, 2009
Craig Bedell |
Overcoming Barriers to Integrated Risk Management In a market environment where competition, globalization, market volatility and structural change are increasing, insurance companies need to manage their risks and service even better and with greater transparency. |
Insurance & Technology
November 16, 2009
Katherine Burger |
News from ISOTech 2009: Guidewire Software Introduces Guidewire PolicyCenter 4.0 New version of underwriting and policy administration system provides enhanced ability for P&C insurers to tailor products and improve collaboration with agents and brokers. |
Insurance & Technology
July 27, 2005
Peggy Bresnick Kendler |
Investing Wisely Q: What are the key issues insurers face in terms of portfolio/investment management, and how are carriers addressing those issues?... Q: How can portfolio management systems and related technologies help insurers better manage, track and report on investments and financial performance?... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
March 18, 2005
Lori Widmer |
Speeding the Cycle It isn't often that a company is able to find solutions to its processing problems in one place. |
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
February 9, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Carrier Confidential: Selective Plans Right, Builds Right and Runs Right Selective Insurance Group's IT organization supports the carrier's high-tech/high-touch approach to distributor relationships with judicious planning and a focus on execution. |
Insurance & Technology
February 8, 2004
Jamie Bisker |
Core Systems: Journey to the Center of Insurance An analysis of the state of core systems, and how to create renewable systems, in the insurance industry |
The Motley Fool
December 12, 2006
Emil Lee |
Insurance Industry Basics: Combined Ratio Investors who buy insurance companies with low long-term combined ratios should eventually be rewarded with superior investment returns. Just ask Warren Buffett. |
Insurance & Technology
December 16, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
Priorities Will Shift, But Insurers' 2009 IT Spending Remains Healthy Given the ravages the financial crisis has wrought in the insurance industry, greater cost consciousness will return to insurance IT organizations. |
Insurance & Technology
May 2, 2008
Nathan Conz |
Managed Competition in Massachusetts Leads to Technology Challenges April 1st marked the beginning of the Massachusetts' new and less-regulated automobile insurance system, known as managed competition. The switch will be a huge change - particularly from an operations and technology standpoint. |
Insurance & Technology
August 30, 2010
Anthony O'Donnell |
Insurers Expand Views On What Can Be Sourced Externally Economic pressures, evolving technology and increasing comfort with partner management are combining to force insurance executives to expand their views of what can be sourced externally. |
Insurance & Technology
January 14, 2009
Matthew Josefowicz |
Insurers Challenged to Adopt Business Intelligence Data inconsistencies and cultural resistance impede insurers' ability to optimize use of business intelligence. |
Insurance & Technology
January 25, 2005
Cynthia Saccocia |
Did You Say Controlled Tech Spending? Aw, Not Again! Insurance is an industry that reacts decisively to its business cycles and urgently to intrusions of reality such as catastrophic claims, economic issues and regulation. |
Insurance & Technology
February 8, 2004
Greg MacSweeney |
Compliance, Web Services And XML Star in 2004 Insurers will begin to roll out effective Web services initiatives, while striving to comply with a myriad of regulations, industry experts predict. |
CRM
August 19, 2011
McNally & Walheim |
Call Centers Support Insurance in Multichannel Environment Customer experience continues to be a key differentiator in insurance |
Insurance & Technology
November 10, 2008
Anthony O'Donnell |
IT Will Power Insurance Industry Response to Crisis Technology spending will be a critical factor for insurers wishing to both take advantage of opportunities provided by the current crisis and address heightened compliance and risk management concerns. |
Insurance & Technology
November 23, 2009
Katherine Burger |
Unirisx and IDP Form Strategic Alliance To Create Unirisx Integrated Solution Combined technology features policy administration with billing, claims and bureau reporting components; IDP clients Security Mutual and AFI commit to new solution. |
Insurance & Technology
November 26, 2003
Cynthia Saccocia |
Placing Your Bets Technology Will insurers ante up on technology investments in front-office or back-office systems in 2004, or hold back? In this exclusive preview, TowerGroup assesses the field. |
Insurance & Technology
November 17, 2004
Wendy Toth |
Back To Business Arbitration Forums introduces Web-based subrogation system... RMS releases new risk tools... California passes general security standard... Society Insurance goes with AQS... Aviva Life Insurance Co. simplifies insurance application and submission process for banks... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
December 23, 2005
Maria Woehr |
NaviSys Supports TIAA-CREF The enterprise platform based on J2EE standards enables insurers to add and reuse complex new insurance concepts utilizing upgraded configuration tools. |
Insurance & Technology
July 12, 2006
Anthony O'Donnell |
In With The New New offerings based on advanced technologies, as well as intensifying competitive pressures, make a strong argument for P&C legacy systems replacement. And while the case for life/health legacy replacement is not as strong, it is growing more persuasive with time. |
Insurance & Technology
January 26, 2005
Anthony O'Donnell |
Engineering Underwriting Gary Kaplan, chief underwriting officer and head of the Technical Center strategic service unit for Zurich Financial Services subsidiary Zurich North America's commercial business division brings a more methodical and technology-driven approach to the company. |
Insurance & Technology
November 28, 2005
Maria Woehr |
A Good EXAMPLE To manage and process policies for a Web-based quoting and submission system, Farmers Mutual Protective Association of Texas has deployed Duck Creek's EXAMPLE Platform. |
