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Vertafore Releases Version 4.0 of AMS360 Agency Management System
Nov 3 2009 // Insurance industry software provider Vertafore has released version 4.0 of its AMS360 management system with advancements that promise to simplify marketing and sales tasks for the more than 2,800 agencies currently using...
How Software-As-Service Helps Agents Do More With Less
Oct 28 2009 // Today, it’s all about doing more with less. But how do insurance agencies increase productivity while decreasing expenses? For many agencies, technology solutions are critical. If the focus in the first half of the...
Takata Joins CNA’s Technology Unit
Oct 22 2009 // Lloyd Takata has joined the Technology Commercial segment of CNA as consulting director. In this role, he has primary responsible for developing industry leading coverage forms for the Technology industry as well as...
Marsh: UK Communication, Tech Firms Continue to Secure ‘Price Reductions’
Oct 15 2009 // According to Marsh, the UK’s largest communication and technology firms are continuing to enjoy price reductions on their professional indemnity (PI) insurance during the recession, due to aggressive competition...
Now Is Time to Re-Evaluate Agency Systems to Do More With Less
Oct 5 2009 // Hosted, or Saas-Based, Solutions Allow Access to Core Technologies Without Heavy IT Investment Today, it’s all about doing more with less. But how do insurance agencies increase productivity while decreasing...
London: International Insurance Center
Oct 5 2009 // Systems Changes, Technology, Talent Pool Position London Market for the Future London’s insurance market comprises general carriers, specialty carriers, reinsurers, brokers, underwriters, claims handlers, lawyers,...
London: International Insurance Center
Oct 5 2009 // Systems Changes, Technology, Talent Pool Position London Market for the Future London’s insurance market comprises general carriers, specialty carriers, reinsurers, brokers, underwriters, claims handlers, lawyers,...
P/C Insurers’ Technology Spending Up 1.6%
Sep 30 2009 // Planned information technology (IT) spending by property/casualty insurance companies increased 1.6 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to researchers. The planned increase in spending from 2009 to 2010 will only be...
High Tech May Pinpoint Antarctica, Greenland Sea Level Rise Risks
Sep 28 2009 // Dismayed by ice and storms, British explorer Captain James Cook had no regrets when he abandoned a voyage searching for a fabled southern continent in 1773. Finding only icebergs after he was the first to cross the...
What to Know About Red Flags, Notification Laws and the Hi Tech Act
Sep 21 2009 // Data breaches have hit an all time high and with that have been a dramatic increase in new data security and privacy laws and regulations. Both state and federal regulations have been in place for several years with...
Electronic Placing
Sep 21 2009 // Small Step or Giant Leap? For this market to completely open up globally, the business must ultimately be able to take place between people who cannot see each other over a desk or meet over a coffee to sew up the...
US Pharmacy Tech Sues Employer over Mock Holdup
Sep 15 2009 // A Pennsylvania pharmacy technician who says she was traumatized when a masked gunman burst into her store demanding the painkiller OxyContin is suing her employers for arranging the mock holdup. Babette Perry says in a...
E&S Brokers Look for Rays of Light at the End of the Tunnel
Sep 7 2009 // Flat Economy, Persistent Soft Markets Have Forced Leaner Business Models, More Automation A poor economy, natural catastrophes and an extended soft market have all combined to nip growth in the excess and surplus lines...
Tread Carefully with Biosynth Technology, Warns Lloyd’s Report
Jul 14 2009 // A new report from Lloyd’s warns that, although “synthetic biology has been hailed as a potential solution to looming global threats,” it requires careful handling. “Governments and interest groups...
State Auto: How a Regional Carrier Weathers the Storms
Jul 6 2009 // CEO Restrepo Talks Cat Losses, Premium Growth and Independent Agents Regional property/casualty insurance companies don’t make headlines like the large institutions. They simply go about their business serving...
Marsh: Europe’s Communications, Media, Tech Firms Focus on Risks
Jun 25 2009 // A new report from Marsh concludes that the senior management at “85 percent of Europe’s leading communications, media and technology (CMT) companies have indicated they are placing increased importance on risk...
State Auto: How a Regional Carrier Weathers the Storms
Jun 1 2009 // Super Regional CEO Restrepo Talks Catastrophe Losses, Premium Growth and Independent Agents How are regional insurance companies faring in today’s climate — financial and catastrophe? What challenges do they face?...
Fireman’s Fund: Focusing on Agents
Jun 1 2009 // CEO LaRocco, Exec Barnard Outline Insurer’s Renewed Strategy to Re-Engage Agents and Deliver Greater Value Weathering today’s economic storm has not been easy for insurance companies. Consumers are more...
State Auto: How a Regional Carrier Weathers the Storms
Jun 1 2009 // CEO Restrepo Talks Cat Losses, Premium Growth and Independent Agents Regional property/casualty insurance companies don’t make headlines like the large institutions. They simply go about their business serving...
Every Agency Can Measure and Maximize Its Performance
May 18 2009 // Clear Roles, Documentation, Communication Among Lessons Shared By Consultants for High-Performing Agencies Use your agency management system to the max. Measure your productivity. Communicate consistently and effectively...
