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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...
Revolution or Evolution’ The Internet Goes Mainstream
Mar 11 2002 // The insurance industry is notoriously reluctant to change. So it was little surprise that the Internet—a tool that has the power to introduce cost-saving efficiencies into the insurance process for carriers and agents...
Revolution or Evolution’ The Internet Goes Mainstream
Mar 11 2002 // At last, the gap between potential and reality is shrinking as agents explore their online options. The insurance industry is notoriously reluctant to change. So it was little surprise that the Internet—a tool that has...
ASP-hosted Technology-Trend or Fad’
Mar 11 2002 // Many vendors now offer agency management systems via ASP (Application Service Provider). The ASP model moves the agency database and management system software from the agency to a data center, and agency personnel access...
Revolution or Evolution’ The Internet Goes Mainstream
Mar 11 2002 // At last, the gap between potential and reality is shrinking as agents explore their online options. The insurance industry is notoriously reluctant to change. So it was little surprise that the Internet—a tool that has...
ASP-hosted Technology-Trend or Fad’
Mar 11 2002 // Many vendors now offer agency management systems via ASP (Application Service Provider). The ASP model moves the agency database and management system software from the agency to a data center, and agency personnel access...
The St. Paul Companies Launches New Tool for Small Commercial Products
Mar 6 2002 // The St. Paul Companies announced the launch of a new web-based tool to assist agents with obtaining single entry, real-time quotes for small commercial products. The tool was developed to be compatible with the quoting...
Analysts and CEOs See Eye-to-Eye at P/C Joint Industry Forum
Feb 25 2002 // Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the...
Analysts and CEOs See Eye-to-Eye at P/C Joint Industry Forum
Feb 25 2002 // Analysts and insurance company CEOs who recently addressed the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum in New York City presented remarkably consistent predictions about the future of the insurance industry in the...
Docucorp, Insurance Technology Solutions Team up on Compatible Interface
Feb 6 2002 // Docucorp® International, a provider of enterprise information solutions, announced that Insurance Technology Solutions, Inc. (ITS), an ePolicy company that provides Web-based insurance technology, has developed a...
Farber Discusses Importance of Identifying and Minimizing E-Risk
Feb 4 2002 // Jon Farber, assistant vice president of Global Technology Underwriting for The St. Paul Companies, commented during a meeting of insurance professionals and risk managers at the Insuring E-Business Summit in San Francisco...
Acordia Uses CoverageConnect Technology to Connect with AIG
Jan 28 2002 // Chicago-based insurance broker Acordia Inc. has announced the installation of a real-time link with AIG using CoverageConnect web-based insurance diagnostic, quoting and binding application software. Acordia has been...
ACT Technology Seminar Now Available Online
Jan 28 2002 // An informative Agents Council for Technology (ACT) seminar on new and innovative agency technology is now available on the Independent Insurance Agents of America’s (IIAA) web site. The online offering is a...
On-line Technology Helps NYSID Battle Fraud
Jan 11 2002 // The New York State Insurance Department’s embrace of on-line technology has enabled it to step up the battle against fraudulent claims, and to handle a record number of cases last year. “The past 12-18 months...
Insurers See Mixed Results for New Technology Investments, Survey Says
Jan 8 2002 // According to a just-released Tillinghast-Towers Perrin survey, insurers using traditional business measures are discovering spotty evidence of success for their new technology investments. Yet, even in the aftermath of the...
Nekema, InsurePoint.com Finalize Merger
Dec 24 2001 // New Jersey-based Nekema Inc. and Ohio-based Insure-Point.com Inc. finished up plans to merge before the end of the year. Company officials recently announced that the newly combined company will operate under the Nekema...
InsuranceNoodle Begins Licensing Web-Based Solution
Dec 12 2001 // InsuranceNoodle announced it has begun licensing its web-based NoodleASP(TM) technology solution to regional/national brokers, P&C carriers, managing general agents (MGA), and managing general underwriters (MGU). The...
2001 IIAA STUDY SEES MORE TECHNOLOGY
Dec 10 2001 // The 2001 Best Practices Study, released recently by the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA), finds that technology is playing an ever-expanding and critical role in the success of Best Practices agencies and...
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...
AUGIE Aids in Survey to Determine Needs of Agents
Nov 27 2001 // The ACORD User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE) has been working with insurance companies, vendors and the national agency management system user groups to develop a comprehensive survey in an effort to determine what...