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        "summary": "Carriers have good reason to be enthusiastic about agency-oriented Web sites. They have the potential to reduce expenses associated with servicing agents as well as ...",
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        "prettyDate": "June 30, 2002",
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        "summary": "On a recent flight to Phoenix, I sat next to a veteran of a four-year implementation process for a client/server policy administration system. He and ...",
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        "prettyDate": "May 31, 2002",
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        "summary": "Lets say your business strategy demands that you implement a new policy administration system. The current system wont fill the bill because it wasnt designed ...",
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        "prettyDate": "April 30, 2002",
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        "summary": "Although carriers as a group might not agree on their business and technology strategies, many are now pursuing the same goal: Web-based rating. Marketing, competitive ...",
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        "prettyDate": "January 31, 2002",
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        "summary": "More than a year before the supposed Y2K meltdown, carrier policy system sales plummeted. Although 1999 was disappointing, vendors believed carrier inaction was the result ...",
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        "uri": "/2001/12/31/oh-canada-a-shared-portal-in-the-great-white-north/",
        "title": "Oh, Canada: A Shared Portal in the Great White North",
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        "prettyDate": "December 31, 2001",
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        "summary": "Over the last year, Ive had a chance to talk a number of times with Klaas Westera, president of CSIO, a Canadian broker/carrier association, about ...",
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        "title": "Oh, Canada: A Shared Portal in the Great White North",
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        "prettyDate": "December 31, 2001",
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        "summary": "Over the last year, Ive had a chance to talk a number of times with Klaas Westera, president of CSIO, a Canadian broker/carrier association, about ...",
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        "uri": "/2001/11/30/how-the-internet-is-damaging-the-insurance-industry/",
        "title": "How the Internet Is Damaging the Insurance Industry",
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        "prettyDate": "November 30, 2001",
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        "summary": "Theres no doubt that the Internet is a wonderful technology. Over the last five years or so weve heard about the ways it will impact ...",
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        "uri": "/2001/10/31/carrier-web-strategies-what-will-and-wont-work-and-why/",
        "title": "Carrier Web Strategies: What Will and Won't Work and Why",
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        "prettyDate": "October 31, 2001",
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        "summary": "Independent-agency carriers are not likely to succeed by selling direct through the Internet. If they abandon their agency sales force they will see premium fall ...",
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        "uri": "/2001/09/30/carrier-web-sites/",
        "title": "Carrier Web Sites:",
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        "prettyDate": "September 30, 2001",
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        "summary": "Carriers that rank high on the Gomez insurance Web site index probably congratulate themselves on their good luck-the result, of course, of hard work, creativity, ...",
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