Tech Decisions August 2006
Cover Story
Blowing in the Wind
The answers to serious underwriting questions involving catastrophe coverage are not guaranteed to be found solely by using risk models. However, the accumulated data and ever more sophisticated views
Features
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The Path to Success
Or the road to ruin? Sometimes the difference between the two is more subtle than we'd like to think. Insurers are looking at data transparency, regulatory compliance, and, especially, enterprise risk
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Stop, Thief!
In recent years, most discussions on technologies used to fight claims fraud in the property/casualty industry have tended to focus on the detection end: using data mining, predictive modeling, patter
Columns Editor's Note
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Pleasant Dreams?
I remember when I was 9 or 10, trying to stay awake well past the hour when the lights were turned out so I could switch on (without getting caught) one of those late-night ghoul-type TV programs that
Columns Inside Track
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Model of Efficiency
A widely held notion in the industry today stipulates the use of advanced analytics allows for better claims decision-making and any results need to be automated if bottom-line improvements are to be
Columns Stats Watch
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Going to Market
Core claims systems haven't quite caught up with the pace of sales for policy administration systems in the insurance market, but the move is on, thanks in part to vendors and insurers embracing new t
Departments Industry Intelligence
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Progressive Completes New Facility in Colorado
The Progressive Group of Insurance Companies has completed construction of its data center and document production facility in Colorado Springs, Colo. Over the coming months, Progressive will install
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Who's Using What
Kingsway Financial Services has expanded its relationship with Skywire Software to include InsBridge, Skywire's Web-based rating, rules, and underwriting system, for all lines of business. Kingsway al
Departments Business Solutions
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Professional Image
For Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance employees, the everyday job of retrieving data from paper documents and then refiling them was a nightmare. "We had a department whose sole job was refiling docum
Departments Top Tech
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Grange Insurance Group's Ralph Carlile
Grange Insurance Group is in the midst of a major systems migration project, moving its policy, claims, and billing systems from two mainframes to a client/server architecture. At the same time, the r
News
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EdNote_Aug06
I remember when I was 9 or 10, trying to stay awake well past the hour when the lights were turned out so I could switch on (without getting caught) one of those late-night ghoul-type TV programs
