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IIAA Recognizes Presidential Citation Recipients, Young Agents, State Associations and Individual In

Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) President William F. Hofmann III, bestowed special IIAA Presidential Citations awards to several deserving individuals for their outstanding contributions on behalf of the independent agency system on Oct. 27. IIAA’s Hawaii InfoXchange, themed “Grow …

Insurance Auto Auctions Retains Firm to Standardize Business Processes

Insurance Auto Auctions Inc., a provider of automotive salvage and claims processing services headquartered in Schaumburg, Ill., announced that it has retained Synergetics Installations Worldwide Inc., a New Hampshire-based consulting firm with expertise in creating and implementing efficient operating standards …

Opening the Library Door

When I was a child, visiting the library was a thrilling experience. The tall shelves of books, the sunlight streaming in long windows onto wooden tables, and that smell of paper secrets buried between covers. The childrens’ reading room with …

SURVEY FINDS INSURERS USING WEB

Insurance companies are finally hitting their stride in finding practical uses for Internet technologies, according to a recent “Emerging Strategies in Insurance & Technology” survey sponsored by IVANS Inc. Executive level IT professionals at 80 insurers took part in the …

Four Companies Join Trusted Choice Branding Initiative as Founding Partners

Four leading insurance carriers have signed on as founding sponsors of Trusted Choice, the new consumer marketing brand created by the Independent Insurance Agents of America (IIAA) and independent agency insurance companies, IIAA CEO Robert A. Rusbuldt announced. “These companies …

ConfirmNet Releases Interface with ebix’s Infinity for Online Certificates

ConfirmNet Corporation announced the release of a new seamless interface between CertificatesNow, a web-based certificate of insurance process, and Infinity, ebix.com’s agency management system. Developed jointly with Agency Information Management Services Inc. (AIM), a company supporting current Infinity customers on …

Agency Management Systems Evolve, Expand Opportunities for Agents

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 systems,” said Pam Parry, executive vice president at Golseth …

ACORD Unveils New JV XML 2001.1 Standards

ACORD announced a new release (version 2001.1) of the Joint Venture (JV) XML Standards for Reinsurance and Large Commercial Insurance. This new version is based on extensive pilot testing of the earlier version 1.0, released in June 2000, by a …

IVANS Survey Finds Insurers Just Hitting Their Stride with Web

Even as “new economy” hype is receding into memory, insurance companies are finally hitting their stride in finding practical uses for Internet technologies, according to a recent “Emerging Strategies in Insurance & Technology’” survey sponsored by IVANS Inc. Executive level …

Aon & Marsh Families to Receive Donations

OpenFLEX Inc. will provide its Advanced Insurance Management Systems to five insurers in order to raise $500,000 to help the families of fallen colleagues at Aon and Marsh. OpenFLEX Inc. announced it will donate an *AIMS-I Policy Management Processing System …