Insurity, a ChoicePoint company, has launched InsuranceDecisions, a suite of new business-process-improvement products andservices for the property/casualty insurance industry. The suiteincorporates Insurity's processing applications onto one Webservices platform and provides decision-support to all partiesworking in areas from risk selection to loss mitigation. There arethree components on one platform: policy decisions, claimsdecisions, and reporting decisions.

"The launch of Insurance Decisions reflects our continuingcommitment to protect insurers from underwriting risks, claimsfraud, noncompliance issues, escalating expenses and premiums, andunfavorable ratios," says David Pedersen, Insurity's senior vicepresident. "Insurance Decisions includes comprehensivefunctionality for both commercial and personal lines, for allstates, on one platform."

Insurity offers Insurance Decisions as a traditional deployedapplication or as an ASP, fully hosted and managed by Insurity. Thesuite supplies:

?Secure access for policyholders, agents, customer service reps,MGAs, and others;

?Customizable screen configurations and workflows that supportthe needs of different types of users without duplication of rules,logic, or code;

?Scalability that accommodates increasing traffic and processingdemands, enabling carriers to distribute more functionality andunderwriting authority to their agents and brokers;

?Real-time transactions that give policyholders, agents, servicereps, adjusters, and others up-to-date status at every moment;

?Improved access to and control of data, enabling faster andmore efficient decision-making.