Latest Automation Optimization Headlines
All the headlines from our Automation Optimization Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Agents push for a technological sea change
Mar 6 2006 // Tides continue to turn on the automation frontier and agents and brokers riding the waves may be pushing a sea change in the way they communicate with insurance carriers, according to the results of a recent survey of...
Take Insurance Journal’s Agency Automation Survey
Dec 29 2005 // Insurance Journal is working with Kinetic Information LLC to study how independent insurance agents and brokers are approaching agency automation. The results will appear as an exclusive article in Insurance Journal early...
Safeco Automates Sales for Mid-Market Commercial Accounts
Nov 18 2005 // Seattle-based Safeco has announced it has fully automated the sale of commercial insurance packages to more than 800 classes of small- and mid-sized businesses. In 16 states and the District of Columbia, independent agents...
IJ, Kinetic Information Team Up for Agency Automation Survey
Nov 10 2005 // Insurance Journal is working with Kinetic Information LLC on a special study of how insurance agencies and brokers are being affected by technology, both in their internal operations and their relationships with insurance...
Safeco Automating Sales Process for Mid-Market Commercial
Nov 8 2005 // Safeco announced it is one of the first insurance companies to fully automate the sale of commercial insurance packages to more than 800 classes of small- and mid-sized businesses. In 16 states and the District of...
Like A Virus
Nov 7 2005 // Technology and Information Risk Infect Traditional Businesses Following the “burst” of the dot-com bubble in 2001, business consumers of information technology have become more demanding of the technology...
Like A Virus
Nov 6 2005 // Following the “burst” of the dot-com bubble in 2001, business consumers of information technology have become more demanding of the technology resources, services and products they use. Information management,...
BPG: Industry Can Reduce Costs by as Much as 30% in Implementing Business Process Automation Technology
Nov 2 2005 // BearingPoint Inc., a global management and technology consulting firm, announced the results of a global research study showing that insurance companies that implement key automation technology can reduce costs by as much...
CaseRev, Inc. Announces Pilot Program with Crawford & Company
Sep 28 2005 // Internet Based Litigation Management Application Will Allow Enforcement of Client Specific Litigation Handling Guidelines, Collection of Data and Performance Analysis San Diego, CA, September 1, 2005 – CaseRev, Inc....
Automated Program Evaluates, Upgrades Poe Financial Policies
Sep 21 2005 // An automated computer program that enables an insurance policy to be evaluated, based on the actual value of a home and to establish adequate insurance-to-value is now being used by Poe Financial Group of Tampa,...
Early Registration Deadline Sept. 23: FAIA Announces Management and Automation Training Seminar Topics
Sep 1 2005 // A line-up of expert management and technology speakers have been announced by the Florida Association of Insurance Agent’s Management and Automation Training Seminar, “MATS 2005,” taking place Oct. 16 to...
FAIA Management, Automation Training Seminar Participants to Discuss Agency Concerns, Workflow
Jul 18 2005 // Automation workflow, practical leadership, technical agency valuation, automation management, incentive compensation, recruiting, sales management and a wide range of other agency concerns will be discussed by some of the...
ePolicy Solutions Reports Findings of Online Industry Systems Open Forum
May 24 2004 // At the ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum on Monday, ePolicy Solutions Inc. (www.epolicysolutions.com) revealed the findings of an online open forum on Web-based insurance systems that it conducted with senior business and...
New RMS Tool Automates Preparation for Exposure Data in Standard ACORD Format
May 17 2004 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, has released a new data formatting tool called the RMS Data Wizard. The tool is designed to help clean up and...
The Two Faces of Automation
Apr 5 2004 // An interesting event happened at a recent strategic planning session with a client. Action items for each department were being discussed. What stood out was that the majority of the action items had a heavy reliance for...
Controlling Medical Costs in Workers’ Compensation
Mar 22 2004 // Rising healthcare costs are recognized as a key problem in the workers’ compensation industry. Medical costs once constituted 30 percent of the total workers’ comp claims expenses; today, however, they...
Amica Announces Move to XDimensional Technologies’ Nexsure for Branch Office Automation
Feb 18 2004 // For over twenty five years, Kevin Cotter has been on the information technology fast-track, ensuring that Amica Insurance’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems stay in step with changing consumer demands. His...
Secrets to Improving Employee Productivity
Feb 9 2004 // Among all the things that an insurance agency owner or manager needs to pay attention to, employee productivity is often considered, but not properly addressed. This is curious because maximizing employee productivity has...
Automated Filing System Saves Time for Surplus Lines Brokers
Feb 6 2004 // Surplus lines brokers in California now have the opportunity to ensure timely and accurate payment of surplus line taxes without needing to reconcile data and prepare reports. Los Angeles-based E.L.M. Insurance Brokers...
Controlling Medical Costs in Workers’ Compensation
Jan 26 2004 // Rising healthcare costs are recognized as a key problem in the workers’ compensation industry. Medical costs once constituted 30 percent of the total workers’ comp claims expenses; today, however, they...
