Modern Woodmen of America has licensed FAST Insurance Components toserve as its policy administration and new business system for lifeinsurance and annuities. The solution will be implemented as partof a multi-phased initiative and will allow Modern Woodmen tocontinue to offer a high-level of service to itsmembers. 

Accenture and Berkshire HathawaySpecialty Insurance (BHSI) have partnered to deploy theAccenture Duck Creek Suite through a Softwareas a Service model to support the BHSI's policy, claims and billingfunctions. The integrated system is hosted by the Accenture CloudPlatform, allowing BHSI to consolidate and streamline businessprocesses on a single hosted platform. 

Merchants Insurance Group of Buffalo, N.Y. hasselected IVANS Insurance Solutions todeliver policy and commission information to its independent agentnetwork. With IVANS Download, Merchants' indpendent agents will beable to receive policy and direct bill comission information forhome, auto (personal and commercial), business owner policy andworkers' compensation lines, as well as bill commission statementinformation through one agency mailbox. 

Promutuel Insurance selectedGuidewire Software Inc.'s PolicyCenter as its new underwriting and policyadministration solution for its commercial and farm lines ofbusiness. Promutuel has additionally selected Guidewire Rating andGuidewire Reinsurance Management. Guidewire PartnerConnectAffiliate member, V-NEO, will lead the implementation project,working closely with Guidewire Software in thecollaboration. 

Tech Development

Xuber, the insurance software business ofXchanging  launched built-in,market-specific configuration packs that address U.S. market andcustomer needs and streamline data entry for specialty,non-admitted lines of business. The announcement comes exactly oneyear after the re-launching of Xuber in the U.S.