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Time to reflect on hurricane lessons learned
Feb 5 2006 // There is no doubt that 2005’s unprecedented hurricane season stretched the human resources of the entire claims industry. Qualified, experienced adjusters were in high demand and short supply. While there are still...
Lloyd’s disconnects troubled Kinnect technology
Feb 5 2006 // Ultimately “all the King’s horses and all the King’s men” couldn’t put Kinnect together again. The King’s men in this case being the management of Lloyd’s, who have finally thrown...
Why independent agents like backyard brokers
Jan 23 2006 // In today’s business world, it’s rare to hear a live voice on the other end of a phone call. Most companies, small and large, have succumbed to answering customer calls via electronic means. Customers,...
Technology Related Services
Jan 23 2006 // Nuts & Bolts: SIU LLC is offering new general liability and property products for technology-related service entities, including: computer consultants or programming; computer programming services; staff augmenters/IT...
People
Jan 22 2006 // Michael J. Roche, senior vice president of Protection Technology and Administration for Allstate Insurance Company, recently was named to IDG’s Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award Program. Roche was selected...
Excess, Surplus & Specialty
Jan 22 2006 // Main Street E&S: Why independent agents like backyard brokers In today’s business world, it’s rare to hear a live voice on the other end of a phone call. Most companies, small and large, have succumbed to...
Technology Bits
Jan 22 2006 // Insurance Journal has launched IJ Broadcasting, an enhanced section on its Web site for multimedia content that will include video and audio interviews, current news and features, educational workshops and other...
AUGIE Launches Agency Survey
Jan 20 2006 // The ACORD-User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE) reported its benchmark Agency Technology Survey is now available to complete and encourages independent insurance agents and brokers to participate. The Florida...
Peak Performance Acquires PolicyPointe to Expand Product Line
Jan 19 2006 // Strategic acquisition is a key component of company’s goal to offer the industry’s most complete end-to-end insurance technology solutions Hoboken, NJ: Peak Performance, a leading provider of insurance...
ACE Cites Increased Risks in Outsourcing IT Systems
Jan 9 2006 // ACE European Group Limited has issued a warning to organizations who outsource their IT systems, which indicates they “are increasing their potential vulnerability to security breaches causing possible long term...
Allstate’s Michael J. Roche Honored as 2006 100 IT Leader
Jan 3 2006 // Michael J. Roche, senior vice president of Protection Technology and Administration for Allstate Insurance Company, Northbrook, Ill., was named in December to IDG’s Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award...
Technology Can Enhance Agent-Carrier Relations
Dec 18 2005 // Technology, often derided as harmful to human relations in business, may actually hold the key to the insurance industry remaining a “people business,” including helping improve relationships between carriers...
Superior Access Names Chief Technology Officer
Dec 14 2005 // Superior Access Insurance Services, Inc. has recently hired Sunil Padiyar as chief technology officer, responsible for all technology and information systems. Padiyar has a long and distinguished history as a development...
New Market for Technology Related Services in Calif.
Dec 13 2005 // SIU LLC, Glendale, Calif., has a new market for general liability and property of Technology Related Services in California. No professional liability is required to be in force. Policy limits are $1 million/$2 million....
Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market
Dec 5 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Healthy Competition, Safety Technology Drive Commercial Auto Market
Dec 4 2005 // According to conventional wisdom, 2004 was the first year in the past 16 where insurers finally broke through and made an underwriting profit on commercial lines auto. The breakthrough came after a year, 2003, which saw...
Tracking Commercial Autos
Nov 21 2005 // Before you can finish saying “Beam me up, Scotty,” chances are a tiny transmitter is bouncing a signal off a satellite somewhere in space, indicating that your insured’s taxi is stowed in the hold of a...
Tracking
Nov 20 2005 // Autos Hi-Tech Gadgets Help Curb Losses Vendors of these types of high tech products strive to convince the insurance industry, and businesses that purchase commercial auto insurance for a wide variety of vehicles, that...
Like A Virus
Nov 7 2005 // Technology and Information Risk Infect Traditional Businesses Following the “burst” of the dot-com bubble in 2001, business consumers of information technology have become more demanding of the technology...
Litigation as Corporate Reality
Nov 7 2005 // Key findings in the Fulbright & Jaworski 2005 Litigation Trends Survey: 1) Litigation Dockets — Eighty-seven percent of U.S. companies are engaged in some form of litigation in the U.S. Twenty percent had one to...
