Web Seminars

Upcoming Web Seminars

• Insurance-to-Value: Optimizing Your Underwriting Strategy and Rate Sophistication in a Changing Commercial Market

  June 19, 2012 2:00 pm ET

  As the commercial insurance market hardens, whether you’re an insurer, reinsurer, broker or risk manager, gaining a comprehensive understanding of your commercial property and contents exposure has never been more valuable. Proper valuation and business intelligence, allows you to gain a competitive advantage with a more sophisticated rating and underwriting strategy, optimizing profitability across your entire book of business.

• Social Media: Is the buzz now turning into real business value?

  June 27, 2012 12:00 pm ET

  Social media was a center stage topic in 2011 – it was all the buzz! In 2012, SMA is observing a significant shift in adoption. Insurers are moving beyond the hype and experimentation and rolling out dynamic interactions and comprehensive, value-driven projects. In this webinar, SMA will provide insights and share research about social media progress. Topics to be discussed will include social interactions, collaboration activities, customer analytics, and the state of what’s happening in insurance.

Archived Web Seminars

• Paying Claims Electronically: Lessons from the Field

  May 23, 2012 2:00 pm ET

  Are you a Property and Casualty claims executive with responsibilities for auto physical damage claims operations? Are you looking to significantly reduce a component of your claim expenses? Would you be even more interested in an opportunity to turn a payment expense into a revenue generator? If so then you and your CFO will be interested in attending this webinar on improving the claims payment process to auto repair facilities. You may also find that you can quickly fit it into your active project list as the opportunity uses proven technology which interfaces with your existing claims and accounting systems.

• The Analytics “Gold Rush”: Mountains of Data, Hidden Profits

  March 28, 2012 2:00 pm ET

  Economic conditions for 2012 do not look particularly promising, challenging companies to find ways to reduce expenses while generating sustainable profitability. Yet despite the pressure on earnings, opportunities await in the volumes of data spread across the silos of administration, claims, experience, agents’ production, and marketing systems. Market leadership requires intimate knowledge of markets, products, buyers, and distributors. Strategic meaning can be mined from fragmented data using an enterprise-wide umbrella of applied analytics,. Success awaits those who leverage the millions of seemingly random data points into profitable and uniquely differentiated offerings. During this webinar you will learn new areas analytics are adding to sustainable profitability; results from a recent senior executive survey on how their companies are using analytics; examples of what carriers are doing and practical lessons learned; and tactics used to generate a measurable ROI in a unique manner.

• Pinpointing Wildfire Risk Exposure – A New Model for Better Underwriting

  February 23, 2012 2:00 pm ET

  Join us for this informative webinar as Mark Breading, partner with SMA, Lamont Norman, Product Director with Pitney Bowes Software, and Chris White, co-founder of Anchor Point Group, discuss the importance of wildfire risk data in today’s changing landscape and explain how insurance carriers can utilize new wildfire risk models to more accurately identify, assess and mitigate risk exposure from these catastrophic events. In particular, you’ll learn how this model can: locate properties that are in or near wildland areas but have low risk, define nationwide risk scores by coupling wildfire loss data and wildfire risk, and calibrate wildfire risk with historical loss data to predict portfolio exposure. Using state-of-the art information-gathering and verification for fuels, elevation, aspect, weather and probability of ignition, this wildfire model will help carriers underwrite in high value areas where their competition cannot.

• Marshall & Swift/Boeckh and Symbility - Teaming Up to Create the Industry’s Finest Claims Solutions

  February 02, 2012 2:00 pm ET

  By joining forces, Marshall & Swift/Boeckh and Symbility are offering the P&C Industry comprehensive claims solutions that will provide unrivaled property data, building intelligence and technological advances. To explain this new combination and outline what it means for the future of the property claims sector, Marshall & Swift/Boeckh CEO Chris Cartwright and Symbility CEO James Swayze will be hosting an informational webinar on February 2.

• Cyber Risk in 2012: Is Your Head in the Cloud?

  January 25, 2012 1:00 pm ET

  Technologies continue their relentless pace of disruptive innovation and breathtaking proliferation. So it’s no surprise that cyber security ranks among the top concerns of insurers, leaders, and risk managers heading into 2012. On top of continually expanding use of tablets and other mobile devices, business data and applications are now being moved aggressively into the cloud. These trends add new concerns to an already daunting list of cyber security-related risk factors that range from data breaches, cyber-crime, lost laptops, and improper disposal of sensitive information to viruses, malware, violations of privacy regulations, and personal injury arising out of online content. There’s no question that today's information security and privacy threats and exposures should be perceived with the same level of concern as traditional property and casualty exposures. Kicking off with an overview from nationally recognized cyber-crime and IT security expert Hemanshu Nigam of SSP Blue, PropertyCasualty360’s panel of leading experts not only will highlight the latest emerging risks that insureds face, but also outline the steps needed to protect valuable data and mitigate risks of financial and other losses.

• Business Case: Managing the Enterprise to Meet Business’ Agility and Speed to Market Needs

  December 15, 2011 2:00 pm ET

  When hasn't “Faster, better, less cost.” been driving IT? While legacy replacement has been a constant buzz word for years, replacement strategies often stop at that first layer of administration systems without realizing the benefits afforded to addressing a business agility strategy. What would it mean to your business to have a comprehensive yet simple and cost effective enterprise approach to quickly supporting not just entries into new markets, but also M&A, new distribution channels and channel partners, and system consolidation while delivering better decision making and planning opportunities? What if you could get there without replacing everything you already have and at a pace you set? You might think it was just crazy talk, but there are new solutions available that help carriers to achieve business agility while operating multiple systems and technologies. During this webinar, you’ll hear about some strategies, features and solutions that can help carriers get there.

• Strategic Advantages Enabled by Modern Billing Technologies

  December 13, 2011 2:00 pm ET

  This web seminar will allow attendees to gain insight on what billing and collection issues are impacting the P&C insurance sector and how insurers are differentiating themselves from competitors by implementing modern billing solutions. Attendees will engage with leading analysts from Celent, Novarica and Strategy Meets Action to learn what’s happening in the billing market place today and how to overcome both business and service challenges with modern technologies.

• Controlling Workers’ Comp Costs at Manufacturing Facilities

  December 07, 2011 11:00 am ET

  Industry-leading experts in managing workers’ compensation programs at global manufacturers will share their most successful strategies for controlling costs. Topics to be covered include: * developing a corporate culture of safety; * using cutting-edge technology to reduce risks and incidents; * claims-management tips; * effective return-to-work tactics; * issues to be aware of when temporary workers (a rising trend at many manufacturers) make WC claims; pricing trends; and more.

• Reducing Paper in the Digital Age: New Competitive Advantages for Insurers

  November 17, 2011 12:00 pm ET

  Transitioning from paper to digital is creating a competitive advantage for insurers – not just in cost savings, but improved speed to market and enhanced customer communications – resulting in a direct impact on growth and profit. Join us for a webinar to learn where the opportunities are, what insurers’ plans are, and how you can create new advantages by reducing paper, improving workflows, and enhancing communications. SMA research reveals that there is a shift in spending as insurers focus on the business value of digitizing documents and correspondence, and increasing e-delivery. Strategy Meets Action will reveal the results of a new research study, based on a survey of Tech Decisions insurance industry subscribers including insurers, agents, and MGAs in North America.

• Advantages of the Programs and Captives Models: Recognizing Opportunities In Your Business

  November 10, 2011 1:00 pm ET

  If an opportunity to expand your business presented itself, would you take it? If it came in the form of a Program or Captive, would you recognize it? Join this web seminar to gain new perspective on Programs Insurance and Captives Solutions, and how these two models can completely transform your business. Zurich Insurance specialists will demystify these two models.