HNC Software hopes acquiring electronic data interchange vendorClaimPort will boost P&C industry presence for its HNCInsurance Solutions.

Insurance industry e-business integration consultancyBusinessEdge has formed strategic alliances with SherwoodInternational, Vitria, Brokat Technologies, CIC and InterlinkElectronics to branch out into Web-based solutions, e-signaturetech, and rules management.

E-business solution developer SilverStream Software has formedan alliance with Duck Creek Technologies to leverage the latter'sdistributed insurance rating functionality. The companies havelaunched an insurance Web portal to provide policy productmanagement and carrier support tools.

MediConnect.net, an online medical record retrieval service,teamed up with systems integration firm Data ExecutivesInternational to provide DEI customers with dynamic and securemethods for ordering and retrieving client medical records andattending physician statements through the Internet.MediConnect.net also partnered with SceneAccess.net, a site used byadjusters to build claim scene reports.

Riskclick, a collaborative computing software developer for therisk and insurance industry, has formed a business alliance withInternational Risk Management Institute to integrate IRMI contentinto Riskclick's online industry services.

Lexis-Nexis has allied its LexisONE resource for small law firmswith MediConnect.net to provide instant access to online medicalrecord retrieval services to attorneys via lexisone.com.

“Forbes Favorites” QuickQuote.com and StockHouse.com have“dot-combined” in a partnership to provide insurance-relatedproducts and services to StockHouse.com's financial networkclients.

Prelicensing and securities CE training and certificationprovider Dearborn wants to expand its horizons by joining up withVerticalNet, an online marketplace for people in P&C. As partof the agreement, VerticalNet will feature Dearborn's products andservices at PropertyandCasualty.com.

Efficient claims filing via the Internet is the modus operandifor the agreement between healthcare claims processor M.D. On-Lineand health plan provider Oxford Health Plans. M.D. On-Line enablesOxford's 52,000-member provider network to submit claimselectronically.

Vigilante, a provider of automated security assurance, finalizeda strategic alliance with AIG E-business Risk Solutions-a divisionof the American International Companies and a provider of Internetrisk and network security insurance-to extend Vigilante'sSecureScan automated security assessment service to eligible AIGnetAdvantage Suite insured.

Cyber Dialogue, a provider of technology and services formarketing optimization, partnered with AIT USA, a global e-CRMsolution provider for financial services organizations, to offer acustomer intelligence solution for the financial services industry.The companies said they will combine their operational andanalytical CRM capabilities to enable financial servicesorganizations to interact more intelligently and profitably atevery customer touch point.

Content and health management tool provider HealthGate Datafinalized an agreement with MedSeek Internet, developer of Web sitearchitecture for hospitals and healthcare systems. HealthGateprovides interactive, managed content through its Choice 3.0E-health Platform to hospitals, healthcare insurers, andpharmaceutical companies. MedSeek has built Web sites for more than300 institutions across the United States using its proprietarySiteMaker development tool.

Megasure, an insurance resource for tech companies, haspartnered with insurance transaction tech developer SingleentrySolutions to launch Megasure Internet Insurance Solutions, poweredby Singleentry Solutions. The alliance will allow onlineinteraction between Megasure's Internet insurance brokerage and itshigh tech clients.

Data quality specialist DataFlux and YellowBrick Solutions, areal-time, multi-channel marketing campaign solutions developer,have established a strategic alliance to cross-sell their real-timecustomer data and data cleansing solutions.

The Prudential Insurance Company of America has acquiredGibraltar Life Insurance Company, which is the renamed andreorganized Kyoei Life Insurance. Prudential also bought a buildingin central Tokyo to serve as Gibraltar's first headquarters.

Quotesmith.com has entered a term life insurance distributionpact with American Life Insurance Company of New York to provideinsurance shoppers with low premiums, immediate coverage capabilityand an entirely paperless process using electronic signatures.

Witness Systems, a provider of customer interaction recording,analysis and e-learning software that enables companies to optimizetheir customer relationships, finalized a software integration andpartnership with PeopleSoft to offer an integrated and certifiedCRM solution.