Ark Syndicate Management, a Lloyd's-based underwriting agency,has entered into an agreement with Risk Management Solutions (RMS),a provider of products and services for catastrophe riskmanagement. Ark will license the RiskLink catastrophe modelingplatform and the RMS peril models to understand catastrophe risksand accumulations and to report its exposures as it develops aportfolio of insured risks.

Austin Mutual Insurance Company has signed a licensing agreementwith ISO for workers' compensation information services solutionsfor the carrier's expansion into the workers' compensation market.Utica Mutual Insurance Company also has signed an agreement withISO to provide workers' compensation information services to thecarrier.

Prudential has renewed a contract with Antares ManagementSolutions in which Antares will deliver full business processoutsourcing services for Prudential's individual health insurancebusiness through 2017. Antares will continue to assume alladministration duties, including claims processing, customerservice, premium administration, benefit and policy administration,financial administration and reporting, imaging, and compliancemanagement.

Constitutional Casualty Company has selected Web-based servicesto quote and process homeowners and personal auto business fromFirst Internet Solution. The hosted applications include pricing,rating, rules-based underwriting, policy processing, and FISPrintand imaging.

Universal Group, an insurance firm headquartered in Puerto Rico,has chosen OnBase from Hyland Software as its enterprisewidecontent management solution.

White Horse, the insurance subsidiary of the My Travel Group,has gone live with the claims system from FINEOS Corporation. WhiteHorse will use FINEOS Claims as its travel claims management andpayments system.

Church Mutual Insurance Company has purchased ProductAuthorityfrom Camilion Solutions. As part of Church's enterpriseservice-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy, the carrier willexternalize product data and rules in ProductAuthority's centralrepository, where the data will be configured as a productspecification document.

Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company has opted for TalentManagement Suite from Cornerstone OnDemand to support the carrier'sorganizational learning, performance, succession, and complianceinitiatives.

Desjardins Financial Security has acquired a license to VistaClaims/Benefit Management Business Requirements reference modelfrom NewLink to support Desjardins' claims process improvement andbusiness requirements projects.

New Mexico Mutual, a workers' compensation carrier, has selectedBillingCenter from Guidewire Software as its new billingsystem.

The Assurity Life Insurance Company has chosen COSS Developmentto supply an integrated Web-based work site enrollment system,including quoting capabilities for critical illness, cancer,hospital indemnity, disability, UL, and term life.

Kaiser Permanente has selected SunGard iWORKS EPS, an investmentmanagement solution for insurance companies and other financialinstitutions. The system supplies accounting, reporting, anddecision-support capabilities for companies of all sizes. ParamountHealth Care will implement SunGard's EXP MACESS as itsenterprisewide solution for document workflow, service forms,capture, and storage technology. Liberty Life, a South Africanfinancial services group, has completed phase one of itssingle-platform project with SunGard's iWORKS COMPASS, a group andindividual insurance, pension, and investment productadministration system.

Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE) has pickedOneShield technology solutions to support the administration ofPURE's new insurance products. PURE deployed OneShield's Dragonplatform to manage the end-to-end policy administration of itspersonal lines product offerings.

Achmea, the Netherlands' largest insurer and pensionadministrator, has implemented Dialogue enterprise documentautomation software from Exstream Software across 16 business unitsto streamline document creation processes and deliver value-addedcommunications for its customers.

Arbella Insurance Group has increased the efficiency of theonline processing of submissions after implementation of prebuiltACORD applications from AgencyPort Insurance Services.

Pioneer State Mutual Insurance Company has signed a contractwith Connective Technologies to use Connective's TEAM-UP Downloadproduct, which provides once-and-done processing in anindustry-compliant, data-secure environment for agencies'downloads.

Esurance, a direct-to-consumer auto insurance company, haspicked ClaimCapture software application from Innovation FirstNotice as its next-generation claim reporting platform.

ImageRight, a provider of insurance-focused content managementand workflow solutions, announced it has signed several new clientsduring the first quarter of 2007 including: Argonaut Group,Integrity Insurance, Mid-Continent Insurance, New Jersey InsuranceUnderwriting Association, Strongwood Insurance Holdings, TexasProperty and Casualty Insurance Guarantee Association, and UnitedEquitable Group.

ING Canada Inc. has selected Jacada Ltd. to integrate a numberof its legacy applications to deliver a more unified datapresentation for the carrier's distribution channels.

Humana, one of the largest health benefits companies in theU.S., has chosen IStream Communicator from Whitehill Technologiesto improve correspondence with its health plan members. AmeritasGroup is using software from Whitehill to generate policies,certificates, and ID cards for its group customers.

Pacific Life Insurance Company has licensed Automated WorkDistributor (AWD) from Computer Sciences Corporation to eliminatemanual tracking systems and paper-based processes. The AWD softwarewill help Pacific Life improve service, reduce processing times,and make more information available in real time to supportcustomer service representatives. CSC also announced it has signeda five-year business process outsourcing contract withBermuda-based Northstar Financial Services to support Northstar'sexpansion strategy.

Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services has begunan implementation of the Field Administration Support and Trackingsystem (FASAT) from DSPA Software to provide distributionmanagement services to the carrier's sales force.

Fidelity Life Association has decided on Insurance Data Exchange(IDX) from Skywire Software to automate application upload for newlife insurance business and communicate pending case status forFidelity's Rapid Decision Term product.

Great American Financial Resources has upgraded the ProfessionalData Management Again LifePRO Insurance Administration System tothe Microsoft SQL 2005 server-based version of LifePRO. Thesolution is Great American's strategic platform for processingfixed, indexed and variable annuity, life, and supplementalinsurance contracts.

Heritage Underwriting Agency, a London-based Lloyd's insurerfocused on underwriting worldwide property and non-U.S. liabilityrisks, has licensed catastrophe risk management systems from AIRWorldwide.