All the headlines from our Automation Optimization Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 17 2004 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, has released a new data formatting tool called the RMS Data Wizard.The tool is designed to help clean up and...
Apr 5 2004 // An interesting event happened at a recent strategic planning session with a client. Action items for each department were being discussed. What stood out was that the majority of the action items had a heavy reliance for...
Mar 22 2004 // Rising healthcare costs are recognized as a key problem in the workers’ compensation industry. Medical costs once constituted 30 percent of the total workers’ comp claims expenses; today, however, they...
Feb 18 2004 // For over twenty five years, Kevin Cotter has been on the information technology fast-track, ensuring that Amica Insurance’s ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems stay in step with changing consumer demands. His...
Feb 9 2004 // Among all the things that an insurance agency owner or manager needs to pay attention to, employee productivity is often considered, but not properly addressed. This is curious because maximizing employee productivity has...
Feb 6 2004 // Surplus lines brokers in California now have the opportunity to ensure timely and accurate payment of surplus line taxes without needing to reconcile data and prepare reports. Los Angeles-based E.L.M. Insurance Brokers...
Jan 26 2004 // Rising healthcare costs are recognized as a key problem in the workers’ compensation industry. Medical costs once constituted 30 percent of the total workers’ comp claims expenses; today, however, they...
Jan 22 2004 // The AMS Users’ Group recently began accepting nominations for the Wade S. Dunbar, Jr. Award. This honor was created in 1988, in remembrance of a vibrant North Carolina agency principal whose lifelong dream was...
Dec 12 2003 // Plans are coming together for the Florida Association of Insurance Agents’ Management and Automation Training Seminar (MATS) 2004, set for Feb. 8-10, 2004, at the Adam’s Mark in Orlando. MATS offers a focused,...
Oct 10 2003 // In a major enhancement to its point-of-sale automation, Seattle-based Safeco has unveiled plans for a single, unified web-based technology platform that will reportedly make it faster and easier for independent...
Oct 9 2003 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. reported that it is one of the first carriers to participate with AMS Services, Inc. in the implementation of Carrier Passport, an expansion of TransactNOW that provides automated sign-on...
Sep 8 2003 // The evolution of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software during the past 10 years has truly revolutionized the way businesses conduct business. From the collection of key demographic data during the prospecting...
Sep 5 2003 // AMS Services Inc. is introducing two new products, AMS Benefits Workflow and AMS Benefits Administration, both of which are the primary offerings of a new AMS business unit called AMS Benefits. The creation of these new...
Aug 4 2003 // SupportSoft Inc. announced that Assurant Group has purchased the Company’s software to support customers benefiting from Assurant’s extended service contracts. Assurant is a global provider of risk management...
Jul 28 2003 // Profitable performance of its Auto and Group stop-loss medical insurance lines drove Safeco’s second-quarter results as the company reported net income of $111.9 million, or $0.81 per diluted share. This compares...
Jul 7 2003 // The commercial property/casualty industry is on the threshold of an “adapt or perish” decision when it comes to underwriting automation, according to a study from Conning Research & Consulting Inc. The...
Jun 12 2003 // The commercial property/casualty industry is on the threshold of an “adapt or perish” decision when it comes to underwriting automation, according to a study from Conning Research & Consulting, Inc.The...
May 19 2003 // Exigen Group announced at the 2003 Annual ACORD Conference Monday in Orlando, the Exigen Insurance Process Backbone, which extends its current insurance product offerings.The only ACORD standard-based product on the market...
Apr 7 2003 // The 27th Annual AMS Users’ Group Conference met March 13-16 in Orlando, Fla. The conference had a show of more than 2,600 agents, CSRs and company representatives with more than 50 exhibitors. The conference featured...
Apr 7 2003 // The 27th Annual AMS Users’ Group Conference met March 13-16 in Orlando, Fla. The conference had a show of more than 2,600 agents, CSRs and company representatives with more than 50 exhibitors. The conference featured...