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By Staff Writer |
May 25, 2012
The Innovation Group, a provider of business process services and software solutions to the insurance industry, releases a new version of Insurer Conversion, the conversion component for the Innovation Insurer suite.
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By Staff Writer |
May 23, 2012
Informatica, a provider of data integration software, announces the availability of two data integration capabilities for the insurance industry: XMap and HParser. Working alone or in concert, the improved capabilities enable insurers to address the opportunities and challenges around ACORD insurancestandards and big data.
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By Frank Cacchione |
May 22, 2012
Overall, the insurance industry lags considerably behind other financial services in sorting through the mounds of information they possess to make insightful decisions. The industry should receive an “A” for aspiration, finally embracing the value of analytics and beginning to invest significant resources to the process. At the...
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By Staff Writer |
May 21, 2012
Verisk Insurance Solutions, a unit of Verisk Analytics announces it has incorporated a new desktop inspection feature into its 360Value software. Based on aerial imagery, 360Virtual Inspection lets insurers confirm property location and examine many exterior building characteristics during the underwriting process.
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By Bonnie Cavanaugh |
May 21, 2012
Finding the right insurance carrier to help a company mitigate its Workers’ Comp costs is key, says Mary Beth Pittinger, vice president and executive underwriter of Workers’ Comp for the Chubb Group of Insurance Cos.
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By Bonnie Cavanaugh |
May 21, 2012
Controlling Workers’ Compensation costs is a process that needs to start at the very top: Those in the C-suite need to commit themselves to creating a zero-injury culture at their organizations, says Calvin Beyer, head of manufacturing for Zurich North America Commercial’s customer industry segments.
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By Bonnie Cavanaugh |
May 21, 2012
Creating best practices in Workers’ Comp for many insurers now means going beyond the basics, digging deep into their claims history, and “making manufacturing better at manufacturing Workers’ Comp.”
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May 21, 2012
Two effective Workers’ Compensation cost-control strategies involve the carrot and the stick.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 11, 2012
The Risk Management Solutions Version 11 catastrophe model is shifting rates higher, and causing some risks to move from the admitted market back to excess and surplus lines carriers, but a leader of a managing general agent group cited concerns with the model’s impact on how insurers underwrite risks.
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By Stuart Rose |
May 11, 2012
Big data seems to be all the rage these days, but just having “big data” is not enough. If the data isn’t helping your organization be nimble, it’s time to start learning about high-performance analytics.