Who's Using What

Prudential Life Insurance launched e-submission functionality to electronically submit completed applications to Prudential through the iGO e-App from iPipeline. Gerber Life Insurance has selected iGO e-App to support point-of-sale activities for its life products.

The Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has selected 360Value from Xactware to estimate replacement costs for "Main Street homes" in California. Farmers has been using 360Value for "high-value" properties since 2008.

Insurance Noodle, part of Willis North America, is now in production with the SeaPass Hub and SeaPass Insurance Portal, which allows Insurance Noodle member agents to submit and quote business online for BOP, workers' compensation, umbrella, commercial auto, professional liability, and excess and surplus lines of business.

Texas Mutual Insurance Company has selected Guidewire Software's ClaimCenter as its next generation claims management system. Jewelers Mutual has extended its Guidewire InsuranceSuite implementation to include Guidewire Reinsurance Management to manage its ceded reinsurance processes.

Manufacturers Life Insurance (Manulife) has awarded a seven-year services agreement to IBM. Under this agreement, IBM will advance Manulife infrastructure services for mainframe, midrange server and storage, desktop services, business continuity, disaster recovery, and security.

Swiss Re has selected CSC as its strategic p&c processing platform to support its North American corporate solutions business. CSC will host and manage POINT IN, an insurance administration system; AWD business process management (BPM) software; Advanced Claims, claims management software; and Agency Link, a Web portal for agents. Erie Insurance has licensed CSC's Agency Link as the internal corporate front-end for its property and casualty (P&C) policy administration system.

AIPSO selected CGI's policy and billing administration system, CGI Edge, to start writing commercial auto insurance for three states beginning in 2012. The contract with AIPSO also includes services and maintenance.

Trillium Mutual Insurance has gone live with their independent broker download initiative for brokers using the PowerBroker agency management system from iter8.

KAI Advantage Auto, has rolled out Insuresoft's ASP Diamond System for their policy administration system.

Madison National Life Insurance will implement FastTrack Return-to-Work solutions from GettingHired to optimize its return-to-work programs from both the employer and claimant perspectives and improve its claim triage through internal operational efficiencies.

The Thornton Group, one of Ireland's largest loss adjuster firms, has gone live with FINEOS Claims for all its lines of business.

21st Century Insurance is partnering with Drive iQ to provide consumers with important information on how their vehicle is being driven—including how many miles, how fast, and where—throughout the day.

ICW Group has put DecisionMaker Rating Enterprise from software provider DRC into production to replace a legacy rating engine which had become difficult to update.

Raymond James Insurance acted as a development partner with CapitalRock and assisted CapitalRock personnel in designing and configuring the RightBRIDGE Annuity Wizard.