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AUGIE Agency Survey Offers Up Numbers
May 21 2002 // Orlando – “The thing that surprised me the most was just how much of the survey wasn’t that surprising,” ACORD vice president Rick Gilman commented. According to Gilman, the result of the AUGIE...
Harleysville Named in Top 100 for Info Tech Employees
May 14 2002 // Information Technology employees appreciate working for Pennsylvania’s Harleysville Insurance, one of the country’s top ranked small commercial lines underwriters. It’s been named by IDG’s...
Open Ideas “Trends in Technology”: Series of Online Events will use Interactive Web Conference Technology
May 13 2002 // Dúnedain Multimedia has announced the first event in their new “Open Ideas Series.” The live online conference is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Tuesday, May 14. The series of events will bring...
Technology Bites
May 13 2002 // About the time we were heavily into the production cycle for the current issue of Insurance Journal-Texas/South Central, with its focus on technology issues, technology took a bite out of our offices. We were attacked by...
XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI
May 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
Technology: Do Agents Really Need to be Involved’
May 13 2002 // Today, the independent agency system is faced with new challenges and opportunities, many of which are fostered by the development of new technologies, not the least of which is the growth of eCommerce through the...
Technology: Do Agents Really Need to be Involved’
May 13 2002 // Today, the independent agency system is faced with new challenges and opportunities, many of which are fostered by the development of new technologies, not the least of which is the growth of eCommerce through the...
XML Provides the Missing Link for SEMCI
May 13 2002 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
FM Global Unveils New Technology Center
May 2 2002 // FM Global has developed a new US$70 million-plus world-class scientific research and product-testing complex to meet its customers’ increasingly sophisticated property protection needs, expand its capabilities,...
Safeonline, ACE Global Markets Note Publication to Aid Senior Business Decision Makers
Apr 25 2002 // Digital risk insurance specialist Safeonline™ and technology insurance underwriter ACE Global Markets, have announced publication of a white paper to help senior business decision makers identify the steps they need to...
Sintech Software Discontinues Online Agency Management System
Apr 24 2002 // Sintech Software LLC, an application service provider (ASP) of web-based property and casualty and life and health agency management systems, has discontinued its online property and casualty agency management system,...
PIFC Claims Higher Costs and Disruption in Homeowners Costs if SB 1763 Passes
Apr 17 2002 // Diane Colborn, vice president of the Personal Insurance Federation of California (PIFC) remarked that SB 1763, a bill authored by Senator Deborah Ortiz requiring all property and liability insurance policies to cover mold...
Converium Adopts eReinsure.com Negotiation Platform
Apr 16 2002 // eReinsure.com, Inc., which provides e-commerce technology to the insurance and reinsurance industries, announced that Converium Holding Ltd. will use the eReinsure online negotiation platform to negotiate and manage...
Using Technology and Understanding Technology are 2 Different Things
Apr 15 2002 // Have you read an article or brochure lately about insurance technology and came away overwhelmed by the fact that you don’t understand XML, SPX, .NET and SOAP? Don’t let it bother you. As an agent, you should...
AMS’ Parsons Sees Small Agencies as theFinal Frontier
Apr 15 2002 // Loren Parsons, president and CEO of agency management systems provider AMS Inc., thinks the small insurance agency market has yet to be tapped by companies that provide automation services to the insurance industry. In a...
Using Technology and Understanding Technology are 2 Different Things
Apr 15 2002 // Have you read an article or brochure lately about insurance technology and came away overwhelmed by the fact that you don’t understand XML, SPX, .NET and SOAP? Don’t let it bother you. As an agent, you should...
PwC Consulting Launches Solution to Meet Technology Challenges
Apr 11 2002 // PwC Consulting™, a business of PricewaterhouseCoopers, has introduced the Integrated Financial Services Solution for Insurance (iFS Solution), the first component-based solution designed for the industry. The iFS...
Sierra Software Technology Corp. now InsuraTek Corp.
Apr 10 2002 // As part of an overall growth and diversification strategy, Indiana-based Sierra Software Technology Corporation has changed its name to InsuraTek Corporation. The company has also unveiled a new Web site at...
What Policyholders Don’t Know Can Hurt Them
Mar 25 2002 // The things businesses do not know about their potential liability for what employees do in cyberspace have the potential to become a serious problem. Recent surveys indicate that many businesses do not realize that simply...
Using Technology and Understanding Technology are 2 Different Things
Mar 25 2002 // Have you read an article or brochure lately about insurance technology and came away overwhelmed by the fact that you don’t understand XML, SPX, .NET and SOAP? Don’t let it bother you. As an agent, you should...
