This Month:

Starting here, insurance pundit and networker extraordinaire Barry Klein talks each month to the CIOs, CTOs, and other top techs at carriers around the country. He’ll get a bit of insight into what the companies are up to, and the people behind the process.

Roger Buss, Unitrin Property & Casualty

Unitrin Property and Casualty is the main operating company in the Trinity Universal group of companies, writing about $600 million of standard and preferred multi-line business through about 2,000 independent agents in 27 states. Roger Buss is the vice-president of information technology for Unitrin P&C-its top tech.

Buss has had to deal with the consolidation and conversion of the IT operations of two significant purchases Unitrin has made. Buss joined Unitrin (coming from Peoria-based RLI) in 1997, not long after it had bought the Milwaukee Insurance Group in 1995. Then it purchased the Oregon-based Valley Insurance Group in 1999.