Looking to reduce nursing home medical professional liability rates by preventing accidents and injuries that lead to claims, Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor adopted a “best practices” plan that would apply to both nonprofit and privately-run facilities. The best practices …
Aon Corporation announced the launch of Aon Management Consulting, an organization established to help companies achieve improvements in productivity, efficiency, bottom-line growth and organizational leadership. Aon Management Consulting is part of Aon Consulting Worldwide. Aon Management Consulting will deliver the …
PDA Software Services Inc., headquartered in Overland Park, Kan., announced the launch of an all-lines property and casualty claims management system, ClaimConnect, at Unitrin Direct Insurance Company located in Vista, Calif. Unitrin Direct, which writes personal automobile insurance, has implemented …
Illinois-based Zurich North America announced the availability of comprehensive travel assistance services through Zurich Travel Assistsm, a global travel assistance program of Zurich North America. Based in Toronto, Canada, World Travel Protection, the administrator of Zurich Travel Assist, provides service …
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 brokerages, according to Madelyn H. Flannagan, IIAA …
AMS Services, which provides software and automation services to insurance agents, brokers, carriers, banks, MGAs and other distributors of insurance and financial services, entered into an agreement with IVANS Inc. to use IVANS Transformation Station™, a data exchange for real-time …
Chicago-based e-broker InsuranceNoodle recently signed its 650th “NoodleNetwork” insurance agency partner to quote and bind small commercial insurance business using the e-broker’s proprietary web-based agency technology. In a statement, InsuranceNoodle CEO Don Urbanciz said the company has built its “NoodleNetwork …
Advanced Risk Technologies (ART) Insurance Services, a leader in providing risk management services including loss control, first aid claims administration, and claims management services, announced a new third party administrator (TPA) service for workers’ compensation claims for risk managers and …
Financial Keyosk, a growing online financial services solution providing assistance to agents, has come on the scene with the goal of helping agents obtain carrier markets, expand products and make their businesses run more smoothly. Established last year, Chicago-based Financial …
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 agents want out of their automation system …
