Web Seminars

Underwriting on the Move: How Mobility Can Streamline the Underwriting Process

Original Broadcast Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Time: 2:00pm ET | 11:00am PT
Cost: Free

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Mobility and wireless solutions play a valuable role in many areas of the insurance business – from smart phone applications that help consumers become safer drivers, to wireless-enabled laptops that support claims adjusters in the field. But what can mobility do to improve underwriting?

A whole lot, as it turns out – thanks to mobility’s unique combination of capabilities that include location-awareness (thanks to GPS), the ability for mobile devices to instantly capture and transmit data, photographs, and video, and the availability, flexibility, and affordability of wireless broadband infrastructure. Mobility applications and wireless-enabled technologies are rapidly emerging as powerful enablers of a more effective and streamlined underwriting process. These advances range from improved communications between agents, underwriters, and prospective insureds, to improved accuracy and reduced fraud associated with evaluation of properties.

Join our outstanding lineup of speakers who combine expert perspectives with hands-on experience using mobility to streamline the underwriting process. Attendees of this highly informative and thought-provoking PropertyCasualty360 web seminar will learn how mobility can support these and aspects of the underwriting process, leading to:

• Better utilization of expert resources – for instance, mobile real-time video can allow insureds or less experienced field staff to conduct property site evaluations under the guidance of the senior underwriting experts in the home office;
• More effective and efficient communications among agents, brokers and their insurance carriers thanks to wireless infrastructure, devices, and applications;
• An enhanced customer experience and improved customer service to insureds due to innovative applications that educate insureds and guide them through the underwriting process

Mark Breading
Partner
Strategy Meets Action

Mark Breading offers provocative thought leadership concerning insurance industry challenges, opportunities, and technology options. He has exceptional knowledge and experience in all aspects of Customer Centricity—CCM, CRM, customer insights, ECM, data and analytics, and more. Both insurers and IT solution providers look to Mark for everything from future vision to strategic key account marketing. Mark has over 25 years of insurance and information technology experience in a variety of leadership roles. He has held both technical and business roles in sales, consulting, marketing, and business strategy, including roles as IBM’s Global Insurance Strategist, Global Insurance Marketing Leader, and Director of Global Executive Conferences for insurance and banking. In these roles, he has advised C-level executives around the world. Mark is a graduate of Bucknell University with a BSBA in Accounting and a graduate of IBM’s Systems Research Institute with a major in Software Systems.

David Miner
Business Solutions Group
Marketing Manager
Verizon Wireless

As manager Business Solutions Group: Strategy for the Financial Services Industry at Verizon Wireless, David Miner champions the company's solution development and marketing activities within the fi nancial services industry. Miner's background includes a unique combination of 18 years in banking and 15 years in software development, sales and marketing. His expertise includes helping organizations assess their IT risk, understand and mitigate ever-expanding fraud realities, and transform their current business practices leveraging wireless technology to enhance customer experience and launch customer-centric solutions that drive sustained performance. Before joining Verizon Wireless, Miner spent fi ve years as senior director financial services industry marketing at Symantec and nine years as director of the financial services industry solutions marketing at Oracle Corporation. Miner also served as vice president for the retail banking division and as operations manager for Sanwa Bank California.