King of the Hill, Top of the Heap
In the October 2001 Technology Decisions, Ben Rosenfield wrote about Independent Witness, which purported to be the first provider of technology to objectively correlate force with injury potential.
Injury Sciences has been providing objective, engineering-based knowledge to claims professionals in the areas of accident causation, accident severity, and injury causation since October 1998. (Technology Decisions has written about Injury Sciences and our WrExpert product three times since November 1999.) We are confident that we are not only the first, but also the most established technology that correlates accident forces with injury potential.
WrExpert is the only technology product for the claims professional that can take advantage of a vehicles OEM event data recorderthe black boxto help evaluate accident and injury causation. It uses the physical damage repair estimate data and photographs in conjunction with details on the individual claimant to evaluate the severity and causation of a given accident. It contains a database describing the characteristics and crash test performance of over 26,000 vehicles and the results of the known body of human subject testing in low velocity collisionsit evaluates claims one by one, and does not use historical claims information for identifying suspicious relationships.
Thank you for your consistently excellent coverage of claims technology. We continue to enjoy reading Technology Decisions on a monthly basis.
MATTHEW RICEVICE PRESIDENT OF SALES, EASTERN REGIONINJURY SCIENCES
And We Thought No One Read The Editors Note
I wanted to commend you on your editorial regarding Tampa and our privacy rights (Tampa ber Alles, November 2001 TD). I agree with your opinions and was pleased to see such a strong stand taken.
BONNIE WASGATT VICE PRESIDENT, SALES AND MARKETINGDATA LIFE ASSOCIATES
Giants Fan
I just read your article The Iron Giants (December 2001 TD). [Author] Michael Voelker took an outstanding approach to this article. Too many times articles will look at a topic solely from an insurers, an industry analysts, or a consultants perspective. This article was unique in that it allowed us to appreciate this topic from a number of perspectives.
As a solutions provider, its helpful for me to see things from a variety of viewpointsbeing able to see the elephant from all sides, so to speakespecially when the article is on a topic that is at the forefront of many of my clients technology strategies.
Keep up the good work and I look forward to more articles like this one.
JAMES MANDARAKASMANAGING DIRECTORINSURANCE SOLUTIONS DIVISIONPINKERTON COMPUTER CONSULTANTS
Clarification
The good folks at NaviSys contacted us about the information we included about the companys products in our TechConnect 2002 Directory, and wanted to clarify its listings.
NaviSys Front Office was incorrectly listed under the category Policy Administration, and not included under a few categories to which it belongs, including sales illustration, underwriting, and online quoting and rating.
According to the company, NaviSys Front Office simplifies desktop and electronic illustrations, quotation, point-of-sale underwriting, reproposals, application development and entry and form generation. It enhances call center support and task management while supporting CRM tools and facilitating 24/7/365 customer access.
NaviSys described its Home Office as a comprehensive suite of solutions for the administration of life and annuity products. It is designed to improve policy administration, decrease time to market, and support fixed and variable product payouts.
In a few instances, we did not have information on the products server compatibility. According to NaviSys, all its products are platform-independent and can operate on virtually any server.
Finally, Jacqueline Zeiman, manager of the companys marketing communications, wrote, Because our companys mission is to ensure leading life insurers profit from technology, it is important the readers of Technology Decisions clearly understand the value of the pre-built and customized solutions and strategic counsel NaviSys delivers.
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