Latest InsurTech Headlines
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Agents to Help Shape Future Automation and
Jan 4 2002 // The ACORD — User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE) has launched its Agents’ Survey, a collaborative industry effort to determine what agents want out of their automation system and company partners...
EQECAT Sponsors Innovations in Catastrophe Management Conference
Dec 5 2001 // EQECAT, a catastrophe modeler and consultant to the insurance and financial services industry, will sponsor a conference titled “Innovations in Catastrophe Management” in Ft. Myers, Fla., on March 3-6, 2002....
Insurance Technology Solutions Purchases Assets from Star Solutions
Nov 29 2001 // California-based Insurance Technology Solutions Inc., an e-policy provider of web-based insurance technology, purchased through a sister company certain assets of Star Solutions Inc., a provider of client/server property...
The View from Up There-Insurers Embrace Space Age Technologies
Nov 12 2001 // The key witness in a recent crop fraud case turned out to be a camera. In June 2001, a U.S. District judge in Arkansas ruled against several farmers accused of filing false crop insurance claims totaling approximately...
ACT Releases Comprehensive Technology Study
Nov 5 2001 // A groundbreaking and indispensable insurance technology study was recently released at the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) Hawaii InfoXchange by the Agents Council of Technology (ACT), announced ACT...
Agency Management Systems Evolve, Expand Opportunities for Agents
Oct 22 2001 // I’m amazed and astounded that in today’s marketplace there are still some holdouts out there that have no automation system whatsoever or are using automation systems, not necessarily complete agency management...
Agency Management Systems Evolve, Expand Opportunities for Agents
Oct 15 2001 // How “high-tech” is your agency? The range of difference between agencies with regard to level of automation is still fairly wide. While many agents bought their first agency management systems years ago, others...
Agency Management Systems Evolve, Expand Opportunities for Agents
Oct 15 2001 // I’m amazed and astounded that in today’s marketplace there are still some holdouts out there that have no automation system whatsoever or are using automation systems, not necessarily complete agency management...
ASCNET’s 16th Annual Education Conference Slated for Orlando Oct. 24-27
Oct 1 2001 // The Applied Systems Client Network (ASCnet), the user group for Applied Systems agency technology, will hold its 16th Annual Education Conference, designed for principals, owners and system managers, on Oct. 24-27 at...
New SAFECO CIO Focused on Innovation in Technology
Sep 6 2001 // SAFECO named Yom Senegor, a leader in developing technology solutions for the insurance industry, as its new CIO. Senegor, 43, joins SAFECO from Accenture (formerly known as Andersen Consulting), where he was one of the...
New SAFECO CIO Focused on Innovation in Technology
Sep 6 2001 // SAFECO named Yom Senegor, a leader in developing technology solutions for the insurance industry, as its new CIO. Senegor, 43, joins SAFECO from Accenture (formerly known as Andersen Consulting), where he was one of the...
Microsoft’s ‘Virtual Team’ Takes Insurance to the Fast Track
Aug 20 2001 // It’s the twelfth round, and the technology industry has been badly battered—but it’s still in the ring and on its feet. Participants in the new economy that have held on thus far are forging ahead, priorities...
1,800+ Independent Agents Using Travelers’ Web-based Automation System
Aug 14 2001 // Travelers’ announced that in just a few months since its inception, more than 1,800 agents are using ATLAS3, Travelers’ Internet-based automation system. About 165 agents were piloting the system when ATLAS3...
Microsoft’s ‘Virtual Team’ Takes Insurance to the Fast Track
Aug 13 2001 // It’s the twelfth round, and the technology industry has been badly battered—but it’s still in the ring and on its feet. Participants in the new economy that have held on thus far are forging ahead, priorities...
e-Business Moving Slowly but Steadily in Wholesale Marketplace
Aug 13 2001 // The insurance industry is beginning to utilize technology to more efficiently conduct business, but that integration is a long, slow process, according to a panel of wholesalers and market leaders. Shand Morahan &...
Cumberland Technologies and AMS Services Announce Integration of Bond-Pro® with AMS Sagitta Browser
May 30 2001 // Cumberland Technologies Inc., surety automation vendor and owner of Cumberland Casualty & Surety Company, and AMS Services, Inc., a developer of agency management systems, announced the integration of the Bond-Pro®...
ACORD Honors InsureHiTech, Royal & SunAlliance USA at Tech Conference
May 25 2001 // InsureHiTech, an eBusiness property/casualty insurance portal designed for mid-sized technology clients, and Royal & SunAlliance USA received the ACORD XML Implementation Champions Award for Property & Casualty...
AMS Users’ Group Hits the Right Key at Annual Conference
May 21 2001 // Three major forms of American music are deeply rooted in the rolling green landscape of Tennessee—blues, rock ‘n’ roll and, in the grand old city of Nashville, country. It’s no wonder then that the...
IIAA Names Jeffrey Yates as ACT Executive Director
May 21 2001 // Jeffrey M. Yates is the new executive director of the Agents Council for Tech-nology (ACT), announces Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) Chief Exec-utive Officer Robert A. Rusbuldt. Yates, who will begin his...
IIAA Names Jeffrey Yates ACT Executive Director
May 14 2001 // Jeffrey M. Yates is the new executive director of the Agents Council for Technology (ACT), announces Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) Chief Exec-utive Officer Robert A. Rusbuldt. Yates, who will begin his new...
