technology side

• What’s in a Name?

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 1, 2012

  For organizations such as AUGIE and the user groups it represents, password management and real time are two issues being focused upon to make the three legs of the insurance-distribution stool sturdier.

• Window of Opportunity

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 6, 2011

  The outlook for commercial lines carriers often is cloudier than for their personal lines brethren. A commitment to change—and the mantra ease of business—is clearing things greatly for carriers and agents alike.

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  Overcoming Carrier/Agency Technology Challenges

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 19, 2011

  How can carriers and agents help each other overcome issues that challenge their business? We asked five experts to chime in with their opinions.

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  Carrier/Agency Technology: Producers Seek Efficiencies

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 5, 2011

  Brower Insurance puts a premium on technology and has traditionally spent additional funds on the technology side to help its staff be more efficient, according to Dan Driskell, a principal for Brower, a regional agency in southwest Ohio.

• CIO to CFO: BFF?

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 10, 2011

  The IT and the financial sides of the enterprise can’t afford to treat each other like characters from a cartoon, pulling the ball away at the last minute while the other kicks at an empty space. There’s too much of importance going on inside today’s carrier to jeopardize their joint...

• Finding Common Ground

  By Michael Condon  |  June 2, 2010

  Several years ago, a study was funded by a collision repair group and several industry suppliers. They sought to identify and quantify repairers' perspectives on one of the most hotly debated claim programs of our time: DRP.

• Policyholders Are Leading the Way to Direct Channel

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 25, 2010

  There once was a time when independent agents felt insurance carriers were looking at ways to squeeze agents out of the distribution process through the use of the Internet.

• The BI and Analytics Treadmill

  By John Lucker  |  March 16, 2010

  Although a continuous "work in progress," these decision-enabling solutions do provide rock-solid basics.