Fineos Corporation will be supplying Fortis with a 500-seatallocation of its multi-channel intake and claims managementsystem, Fineos Disability. Its designed to enable Fortis to migrateits claims management process to new, customer-focused workflowsystem, automating relationship, contact, and workflow managementwithin the Fortis Disability claims environment including contactby fax, phone, snail mail, or e-mail.

InsureZone formed a strategic relationship with National CityInsurance Group. Under the agreement, InsureZone will provideaccess to insurance products designed for small businesses, socustomers interested in coverage can contact a National Citysmall-business banking officer or a member of the NCIG sales force.The companies have contemplated that this referral program will befollowed later this year by the launch of a private-label Web siteto which small business customers can link through National CitysWeb site, according to InsureZone.
Commercial-insurance marketplace Acordia has entered into anagreement with ConfirmNet to provide the latters CertificatesNowservice to branches and commercial clients. This will allow Acordiato offer its business clients a way of streamlining certificateworkflows in an application service provider environment.

Guaranteed Quotes has become the first brokerage firm to usee-Nables Insurance e-Nable to speed the life-insurance, disability,and long-term care underwriting process. DataLifewhich has astrategic alliance with e-Nablewill provide the company with aWeb-based system for submitting, tracking and storinginformation.

Nevada General Insurance Company selected Applied SystemsDiamond System to handle its real-time rating, underwriting,issuance, and billing.

Things have been busy at Genelco Software Solutions (a divisionof Liberty Insurance Services). Universal Life Insurance Companylicensed Genelcos Health Benefit Management System (HBMS) toprocess claims and administer coverage for individual and grouphealth insurance for 500 customer groups covered by Universal Life.North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company licensed the companysBenefit Administration Plus (BAR), a billing- andcollection-administration software for individual and group healthinsurance plans. And Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company (FDL)licensed the companys GroupWeb, which will allow FDL customers toview and service their accounts via the Internet.

Swiss Re has contracted to use eReinsure.coms online platformfor reinsurance negotiation. The carrier expects to moreeffectively manage the reinsurance process so that we can betterserve our clients.

Scully to Keynote ACORD
Former Apple and Pepsi CEO to speak on changing the ground rules ofmarketing

Technology and marketing visionary John Sculley has been tappedto deliver the keynote at this years ACORD conference (May 19-21inOrlando; www.acordconference.org).

Sculley will speak about the value of standards and technologyfor business, and discuss marketing inflection points in theinsurance and financial services industriesplaces where there is anopportunity to become number one in the industry.