Latest ACORD Headlines
All the headlines from our ACORD Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ruschlikon Expands Global Reach in 2015; Use of ACORD Standards Rises 20%
Apr 21 2016 // Ruschlikon, the global community of insurers, brokers and reinsurers with a mission to optimize industry administrative costs and enhance client services, announced achieved several important milestones in 2015 — a...
March 31: Deadline for Early Registration for Global Insurance Symposium
Mar 28 2016 // The early bird registration deadline for the third annual Global Insurance Symposium is Thursday, March 31. The Global Insurance Symposium will be held on April 26-28, 2016 in Downtown Des Moines, Iowa. It is hosted by the...
Willis Launches Electronic Platform for Faster Premiums, Claims Payments
Nov 18 2015 // Willis Group Holdings has launched Willis Accounting, a new global electronic accounting platform designed to speed up cash flow and settle claims more quickly with carriers and clients. Following a successful pilot,...
A Conversation on Innovation and the Industry’s Future with ACORD’s Hartnett
Nov 9 2015 // There are not many insurance executives who will quote inventor Thomas Edison, Microsoft’s Steve Baumer, futurist Alvin Toffler, Moore’s Law and philosophers Aristotle and Plato. There are also not many people...
ACORD Names 2 Insurance Innovation Challenge Winners: Livegenic, Insurity
Nov 5 2015 // A technology that gives claimants more control of the claims process and another that makes data conversion easier for insurers have been named winners of the 2015 ACORD Insurance Innovation Challenge. ACORD, the insurance...
Former Microsoft Executive Hartnett Named ACORD Innovation Chief
Sep 17 2015 // The insurance industry’s standards organization, ACORD, announced that Bill Hartnett, former financial services and insurance head at Microsoft, has been named its head of innovation, charged with bringing new ways...
AAIS, ACORD Partner on Standards for Insurers
Mar 17 2015 // Two major organizations that supply standard forms, rating information and policies to the property/casualty insurance industry have agreed to work more closely together. The American Association of Insurance Services...
People – Southeast
Dec 15 2014 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named Hilary Segura and Logan McFaddin to its state government relations team. Segura and McFaddin assume regional staff duties overseeing states in the...
People – East
Dec 15 2014 // Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Leonardi has stepped down from his post to join a New York-based global investment banking advisory firm. Leonardi, who led the Connecticut Insurance Department for nearly four...
ACORD CEO Maciag to Retire in 2016
Dec 4 2014 // Gregory Maciag, president and CEO of ACORD, said he plans to retire in one year on January 15, 2016 after nearly 40 years with the international insurance data and forms standards-setting organization. The ACORD board of...
Game Changer: Agency Download with the Leader in CRM
Jun 10 2013 // Westerville, OH, 6/10/13 – Revolution Group, a Silver Salesforce.com Cloud Alliance Partner and leading technology integration provider specializing in the property/casualty segment of the insurance industry, is...
50 Top Apps for Independent Agents
May 14 2013 // Mobility technology is changing the way the insurance industry operates. But when it comes to working on the go, nothing is as important as mobile device applications. But what apps do independent agents use most? What...
50 Top Apps For Independent Agents
Apr 22 2013 // Mobility technology is changing the way the insurance industry operates. And when it comes to working on the go, nothing is as important as mobile device applications. But what apps do independent agents use most? What...
Business Moves – East
Jan 28 2013 // ACORD, DISA ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development), the nonprofit global data standards organization for the insurance industry, and DISA (Data Interchange Standards Association), the...
Standards Organizations ACORD, DISA to Merge
Jan 18 2013 // ACORD, the nonprofit global data standards organization for the insurance industry, and DISA, the organization for development of healthcare and cross-industry e-commerce business interchange standards, said that the two...
Russian Insurance Community Works on Implementing ACORD Standards
Aug 31 2012 // Global standards development organization ACORD announced that a coalition of major Russian insurers, including subsidiaries of Allianz and Zurich, have agreed to work together to implement its standards. “When...
WEBCETERA® Integrates Editable ACORD® forms within EZLynx®
Jul 25 2012 // Flower Mound, TX, 07/25/12 – WEBCETERA®, the leading provider of insurance industry software solutions and creator of EZLynx®, today announced the integration of fully editable ACORD® forms into the EZLynx product....
Oklahoma to Adopt ACORD Form for Loss Reporting
Mar 13 2012 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak announced from the 2012 National Tornado Preparedness Summit his intent to standardize Oklahoma’s insurance industry by utilizing ACORD’s 1 – Property Loss...
ACORD Launches Standards Development Pilot in So. Africa
May 26 2011 // Insurers and brokers are beginning a pilot of ACORD Standards in South Africa. “Piloting is the stage after development efforts where participants utilize the Standards in real-world situations to ensure all needs...
2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory
Jan 10 2011 // Welcome to Insurance Journal’s 2011 Insurance Industry Meetings and Conventions Directory. The information in this directory is taken from a larger database containing additional information on these and other...
