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MI-Assistant: On the Brink

Jul 20 2004 // From the brink of the dustbin to the brink of a bright future, it’s been a bumpy ride recently for MI-Assistant, the Eleva, Wis.-based agency solutions provider. In the cutthroat world of competitive rating and...

MI-Assistant: Midwest Solutions Provider is On the Brink

Jul 19 2004 // From the brink of the dustbin to the brink of a bright future, it’s been a bumpy ride recently for MI-Assistant, the Eleva, Wis.-based agency solutions provider. In the cutthroat world of comparative rating and...

AMS Says Real-Time Comparative Rater is Only Months Away

Jun 2 2004 // Leading agency automation provider AMS says it is just months away from completing a real-time comparative rater that will satisfy independent agents’ need for a single-entry, multiple carrier interface, also known...

AMS Says Real-Time Comparative Rater is Only Months Away

May 17 2004 // Leading agency automation provider AMS says it is just months away from completing a real-time comparative rater that will satisfy independent agents’ need for a single-entry, multiple carrier interface, also known...

AMS Says Real-Time Comparative Rater is Only Months Away

May 17 2004 // Could SETWrite Be the Single Entry Ideal Agents Have Sought for Decades? Leading agency automation provider AMS says it is just months away from completing a real-time comparative rater that will satisfy independent...

AMS to Roll Out Quote-and-Issue Capability at Users’ Group Conference

Apr 22 2004 // Leading agency-management software maker AMS will announce that it has added quoting new business into the workflow of its year-old TransactNow Web bridge product at its 28th national users’ group conference this...

AMERICAN MEDICAL SECURITY GROUP COMPLETES ALABAMA CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT:

Apr 5 2004 // American Medical Security Group Inc. (AMS) and plaintiffs’ representatives have reportedly reached an agreement of understanding to certify and settle a class-action lawsuit, Gadson v. AMS, pending in the Circuit...

American Medical Security Group Completes Ala. Class-Action Lawsuit

Mar 12 2004 // American Medical Security Group Inc. (AMS) and plaintiffs’ representatives have reportedly reached an agreement of understanding to certify and settle a class-action lawsuit, Gadson v. AMS, pending in the Circuit...

CIS Notes Availability of Two-Way Integration Between AIM and AMS-Rackley PolicyRater

Mar 12 2004 // Custom Insurance Solutions (CIS) announced the availability of integration between Agency Information Manager and AMS-Rackley PolicyRater for all 50 states. The two-way integration seamlessly transfers policy, risk,...

People and Places

Mar 8 2004 // Vincent Donnelly PMA Capital Corp. has appointed Vincent T. Donnelly as its new president and chief executive officer. He has headed the PMA Insurance Group as its president for the last seven years and will retain that...

Salil Donde Named President of AMS-Rackley

Feb 27 2004 // Salil Donde immediately assumes the new role of president, AMS-Rackley, reporting directly to Euan Menzies, CEO, AMS Group. AMS acquired Rackley Systems in October 2003 to allow delivery of their innovative rating products...

AMS Users’ Group Accepting Nominations for 2004 Wade S. Dunbar, Jr. Award

Jan 22 2004 // The AMS Users’ Group recently began accepting nominations for the Wade S. Dunbar, Jr. Award. This honor was created in 1988, in remembrance of a vibrant North Carolina agency principal whose lifelong dream was...

The Hartford Adds Endorsement Requests for Agents Utilizing AMS Agency Management Systems

Jan 13 2004 // Submitting endorsements to insurance policies from The Hartford reportedly just got faster and easier for the thousands of insurance agents that use an AMS agency management system. The Hartford, which has long been a...

Ohio Casualty Group Implements AMS’s TransactNOW

Nov 20 2003 // Fairfield, Ohio-based Ohio Casualty Group (OCG) has announced that real-time billing and claim inquiries are now available to its independent agencies through TransactNOW from AMS Services Inc. TransactNOW was introduced...

AMS Group Acquires Rackley Systems

Oct 27 2003 // The Connecticut-based AMS Group announced that it has acquired Rackley Systems, Inc., a leading provider of Commercial Lines and Personal Lines rating products and services to the independent agent, insurance carrier and...

AMS Responds to Customer Wants with PS4 Plus Version 2.5

Oct 20 2003 // Responding to a wish list of customer wants, AMS Services Inc. released Version 2.5 of PS4 Plus, chock full of new features to make agent’s lives a little bit easier. PS4 Plus is a commercial point of sales process...

Travelers Implements Automated Sign-On to Web Site for AMS System Users

Oct 9 2003 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. reported that it is one of the first carriers to participate with AMS Services, Inc. in the implementation of Carrier Passport, an expansion of TransactNOW that provides automated sign-on...

Higginbotham’s Yarborough to Head AMS Southern Users Group

Sep 25 2003 // Marsha Yarbrough of Fort Worth-based Higginbotham & Associates, one of the nation’s 100 largest insurance and financial services brokers, was named president of the Southern Sagitta Users Group, a local chapter...

AMS to Provide Employee Benefits Automation

Sep 5 2003 // AMS Services Inc. is introducing two new products, AMS Benefits Workflow and AMS Benefits Administration, both of which are the primary offerings of a new AMS business unit called AMS Benefits. The creation of these new...

AMS Adds State Auto to List of TransactNOW Clients

Sep 3 2003 // AMS Services, Inc. announced that State Auto Insurance Companies, which services 26 states, has joined TransactNOW(TM), becoming the 17th carrier to participate. Introduced this past March at the AMS National Users’...