All the headlines from our ACORD Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 13 2001 // It’s the twelfth round, and the technology industry has been badly battered—but it’s still in the ring and on its feet. Participants in the new economy that have held on thus far are forging ahead, priorities...
Jun 25 2001 // ACORD and WISe, key standards bodies within the global insurance industry, announced they are merging their standards-development activities, clearing the way for a globally-owned, non-profit industry association to create...
May 31 2001 // Riskclick Inc., a provider of collaborative computing software for the risk and insurance industry, announced that it had received 2001 ACORD XML Implementation Champions Awards for its industry leading implementation of...
May 25 2001 // InsureHiTech, an eBusiness property/casualty insurance portal designed for mid-sized technology clients, and Royal & SunAlliance USA received the ACORD XML Implementation Champions Award for Property & Casualty...
May 24 2001 // The Hartford Financial Services Group was honored with the AL3 Upload Company of the Year award for total agent implementations and an XML Implementation Champion award presented during a ceremony at the ACORD Technology...
May 22 2001 // IBM today announced it had joined the insurance industry’s nonprofit standards organization ACORD (the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development).In joining ACORD, IBM brings its brings global...
May 14 2001 // A persistent problem in delivering the insurance product quickly and accurately to the consumer is that there is no uniform way for all the players behind the scenes to communicate. There are way too many human touches and...
May 13 2001 // Agents have faced the problem ever since insurance companies first introduced applications. Each company had its own form, so the agent who wanted to submit the same account to several underwriters had to write the same...
May 7 2001 // A persistent problem in delivering the insurance product quickly and accurately to the consumer is that there is no uniform way for all the players behind the scenes to communicate. There are way too many human touches and...
May 2 2001 // The AMS Users Groups meet with company and vender partners to discuss the future of technology and how to work together. Last week, the ACORD-User Groups Information Exchange (AUGIE) held the first meeting in conjunction...
Dec 11 2000 // Nonprofit standards developer ACORD just got a big boost with the addition of international insurance giant American International Group Inc. AIG is the largest underwriter of commercial and industrial insurance in the...
Sep 8 2000 // Gregory A. Maciag, president and CEO of ACORD, and Klaas Westera, president and CEO of the Centre for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO), jointly announced that discussions are underway between CSIO and ACORD to...
Sep 4 2000 // In an effort to take advantage of the Internet and all it has to offer, ACORD and the Insurance Data Management Association (IDMA) have exchanged memberships. According to ACORD President and CEO Gregory A. Maciag, the...
Aug 23 2000 // ACORD and the Insurance Data Management Association have exchanged memberships according to ACORD President and CEO Gregory A. Maciag. This alignment of memberships furthers ACORD’s commitment to collaborate with...
Jul 28 2000 // ACORD bestowed an Early Adopter Award on online insurance provider InsWeb for its efforts to develop the XML (Extensible Markup Language) standard for p/c insurance transactions.According to Gregory A. Maciag, president...
Jul 10 2000 // The exhibit hall at the ACORD Technology Conference in Orlando in May would have made your head spin. On the one hand, technology is increasingly complex and sophisticated. On the other, it becomes easier when you keep the...
Jun 12 2000 // The exhibit hall at the ACORD Technology Conference in Orlando last month would have made your head spin. On the one hand, technology is increasingly complex and sophisticated. On the other, it becomes easier when you keep...
May 15 2000 // In 1981, IBM introduced its personal computer (PC) for use in the home, office and schools. Prior to that time, there had been several MS-DOS compatible personal computers that ran DOS programs. As computers became more...
May 15 2000 // Sure, independent agencies offer a choice of markets. That’s a nice benefit. But it also means you must key in customer information more than once in different formats and screens to accommodate the various...
May 15 2000 // Evolve, Emerge, E-magine” will be the theme of the ACORD Technology Conference 2000, to be held at the Contemporary Resort Hotel at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., May 21-24.Rick Gilman, vice president-communications...