Latest InsurTech Headlines
All the headlines from our InsurTech Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tracking Commercial Autos
Nov 21 2005 // Before you can finish saying “Beam me up, Scotty,” chances are a tiny transmitter is bouncing a signal off a satellite somewhere in space, indicating that your insured’s taxi is stowed in the hold of a...
Tracking
Nov 20 2005 // Autos Hi-Tech Gadgets Help Curb Losses Vendors of these types of high tech products strive to convince the insurance industry, and businesses that purchase commercial auto insurance for a wide variety of vehicles, that...
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...
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...
AI Risk Introduces Admitted Architects & Engineers Policy
Oct 26 2005 // The AI Risk division of Risk Specialists Companies Inc., a member company of American International Group Inc., has introduced an Architects & Engineers Professional Liability Insurance on an admitted basis. Brokers...
Best Practices Report Outlines Tips for Effective Use of Agency Technology
Oct 25 2005 // The Agents Council for Technology (ACT) has compiled a series of best practices to help carriers, vendors, user groups and agent associations convince independent agencies and brokers to implement new workflows and...
Bonding Co. Sides with Contractor in Sewer Plant Dispute
Sep 6 2005 // A bonding company claims Phoenix didn’t have a proper basis to terminate a California firm that was building a $105 million sewer plant. That assessment could be a multimillion-dollar blow to Phoenix and four other...
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...
Westfield Group Names Largent New Chief Tech Officer
Aug 31 2005 // Westfield Group, Westfield Center, Ohio, recently named Edward Largent as chief technology officer in charge of the company’s information technology team. Throughout his 19-year career, Largent has held various...
MJM Investigations Names Halliday as Tech VP
Aug 19 2005 // North Carolina-based MJM Investigations Inc., an international insurance investigations firm providing investigative solutions to the insurance industry, announced the appointment of John Halliday as vice president of...
U.S. CSB Issues Urgent Safety Recommendation to BP Global Board in Wake of Accidents at Texas Facilities
Aug 18 2005 // The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, (CSB) recently issued an urgent recommendation calling on the BP Global Executive Board of Directors to commission an independent panel that would review a range of...
Texas Tech Law School Releases ‘Legislative Intent Roadmap’ on 2003 Lawsuit Reforms
Aug 1 2005 // Texas Tech Law Review has issued a comprehensive overview of lawsuit reform measures passed in 2003. According to an announcement released by the Texas Alliance for Patient Access, the 357-page article, the culmination of...
Internet Basic Liability Protection Policy for Certain Tech Businesses
Jul 18 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: St. Paul Travelers launched a basic Internet liability policy aimed at small to mid-size technology. Internet basic liability protection is designed for technology businesses or firms with between $5...
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...
Target Markets Aims to Win
Jul 4 2005 // Nearly five years ago, a group of program specialists gathered in Tempe, Ariz., for the first summit meeting of a budding industry organization called the Target Markets Program Administrators Association. The brainchild...
GE to Open Business Service and Tech Center in Romania
Jun 27 2005 // Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu announced that GE will locate its next Business Services & Technology Solutions Center in Bucharest, the second such center in Europe. The new center will handle...
Bringing It All Together: Q&A on Microsoft’s ‘experience Insurance’ Initiative
Jun 20 2005 // At last month’s ACORD LOMA Insurance Systems Forum in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Microsoft announced its new “experience Insurance” Initiative, designed to help insurance companies differentiate their brand,...
Storms Led FEMA to Online Innovations
Jun 15 2005 // Working in cooperation with the State of Florida, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) used technological innovations to help meet some of the challenges brought by...
