Latest ACORD Headlines
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ACORD Solutions Group Launches ADEPT Bermuda Regional Hub for Digital Messaging
Mar 13 2025 // ACORD Solutions Group, a provider of digital solutions for the global insurance industry, announced the launch of the ADEPT Bermuda Regional Hub. As part of the data exchange hub’s launch, ACORD Solutions Group will...
ACORD Releases Data Messaging Standard to Support London-Market Modernization
Sep 7 2023 // ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, announced the publication of the ACORD GRLC Contract, Risk, and Pre-Accounting (CRP) Implementation Toolkit, a new data messaging standard to facilitate...
ACORD Study Highlights Drivers of High Performance Among Top U.S. Insurers
Dec 22 2022 // ACORD recently conducted the U.S. Value Creators Study focused on the 100 largest property/casualty insurance groups in the U.S., representing nearly 90% of premiums written and almost 100% of the industry’s market...
ACORD Releases Re/Insurance Data Standards for Electronic Placing
Sep 29 2021 // ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, announced the expansion of its Global Reinsurance & Large Commercial (GRLC) Data Standards, to include new standards for electronic...
On-demand, Online ACORD Forms Training Now Offered from The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research
Mar 17 2021 // March 17, 2021, Austin, TX – The National Alliance released a new online, self-paced ACORD form training as part of a new insurance bootcamp series. The new ACORD Bootcamp trains insurance agents on how to properly...
ACORD’s Innovation Tools Experiencing Soaring Reinsurance Demand
Sep 10 2020 // ACORD, the standard setting body for the global insurance industry, is experiencing a massive jump in global reinsurance and other industry interest in its digital products and services, CEO Bill Pieroni said. The increase...
How ‘Intelligent’ Insurers Grow and Create Value: ACORD Study
Dec 2 2019 // Some insurance carriers grow but do not create value. Others shrink but still create value. Some fail at both. Then there are the “intelligent growers” — those that succeed at both, not only growing but...
Why E&S Carriers Aren’t Winners Over the Long Term
Nov 25 2019 // ACORD’s recent study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes,” reveals that E&S/specialty companies don’t fare well over the long term. Here, CEO Bill Pieroni suggests possible reasons...
Confessions of a Diehard Insurance Data Fan: Part 2
Nov 25 2019 // After Bill Pieroni, the CEO of ACORD, delivered a presentation about ACORD’s latest study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes,” he sat down with Wells Media’s Andrew Simpson to talk...
ACORD Study Results: Loser Lessons
Nov 24 2019 // More from ACORD’s recent study, “Intelligent Growth: Intent, Decisions, Outcomes.” Of the 200 carriers, 73 were called waning carriers. These are carriers that have inferior combined ratios or return on...
How ‘Intelligent’ Insurers Grow and Create Value: ACORD Study
Nov 24 2019 // Some insurance carriers grow but do not create value. Others shrink but still create value. Some fail at both. Then there are the “intelligent growers”—those that succeed at both, not only growing but also...
Confessions of a Diehard Fan of Insurance Data: Part 1
Nov 24 2019 // If Bill Pieroni were a Major League Baseball executive, he would be one of those sabermetric types like Oakland’s Billy Beane, heralded by the book “Moneyball.” His team’s manager would have...
Electronic Marketplace AkinovA Donates Data Assets to ACORD for Industry Standards
Sep 16 2019 // AkinovA, the independent electronic marketplace for the transfer and trading of re/insurance risk, has donated key insurance linked security (ILS) data assets to ACORD, the global standards-setting body for the...
ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge’s European Winner Is Riskbook
Jun 17 2019 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has announced that Riskbook was the winner of the London semi-final round of the ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge (AIIC), with RITA and Optimiz.Claims named...
ACORD Launches Data Toolkit for London Market Reinsurance, Big Commercial Risks
Aug 17 2018 // ACORD, the global standards body for the insurance industry, has launched an Adoption Toolkit to support the application of data standards for global reinsurance and large commercial risks in the London market. “The...
Workers’ Comp Superior Performers
Jun 4 2018 // The best workers’ compensation insurers have similar characteristics. A new study released by ACORD identified a few of those similarities, including that they pay their agency partners more than their rivals do as a...
Marsh Develops Commercial Blockchain Solution for Proof of Insurance
Apr 16 2018 // Marsh announced it is collaborating with IBM, ACORD and its client, ISN, to develop a commercial blockchain solution for proof of insurance. By using blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, Marsh said the certificate...
ACORD Names Maine’s The MEMIC Group Top Workers’ Comp Company in U.S.
Jan 25 2018 // The MEMIC Group, a Portland, Maine-headquartered workers’ compensation carrier, has been ranked the top workers’ compensation company in the U.S. by the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and...
ACORD CEO Pieroni on the Industry’s Digital Transformation
Dec 5 2016 // Bill Pieroni, CEO of ACORD, is on a mission — not to “push” the industry toward digital transformation but rather to marshal its inherent strengths and enable carriers, agents and brokers to implement...
J.M. Wilson’s Mandwee Promoted; Dodd Receives ACORD Scholarship
Nov 17 2016 // Managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker, J.M. Wilson Corp., has promoted Adam Mandwee to fleet underwriter in its Portage, Michigan, office. Mandwee is responsible for quoting new and renewal fleet...
